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HIS MAJESTY PARDONS PRISONERS His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Supreme Commander, has issued a Royal pardon to a number of prisoners convicted of different cases. They include 99 Omani prisoners and 89 prisoners of different nationalities. His Majesty’s Royal pardon coincides with the advent of Eid Al Adha 1434 AH. -ONA

MONDAY, October 14, 2013 / 9 DHUL HIJJA 1434 AH

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MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received cables of greetings from Majlis Al Shura Chairman Khalid bin Hilal bin Nasser Al Ma’awali, State Council Chairman Dr Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Mantheri, Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib Al Busaidi, and Inspector-General of Police and Customs Lt. Gen Hassan bin Mohsen Al Shraiqi on the occasion of the blessed Eid Al Adha. The Majlis Al Shura chairman and its members extended their heartfelt greetings to His Majesty the Sultan on Eid Al Adha. He prayed to Allah to protect His Majesty to remain always a leader of progress and prosperity march and to make Oman an oasis of security, stability and peace. He added: “Thanks to your Majesty’s sound vision, every Omani feels proud of the achievements made which will ensure happiness and prosperity for citizens.” The chairman thanked His

Holiday notice THERE will be no editions of Times of Oman from October 15 to October 17 on account of Eid Al Adha holidays. There will also be no issue of Thursday magazine and H! this week on account of the Eid holidays.

DEVASTATED: A man sits in front of his destroyed shop in Go-

palpur, Orissa yesterday. -AFP

Evacuation minimises cyclone casualties

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NEW DELHI: Twenty-one people were killed as Cyclone Phailin lashed India’s east coast on Saturday and left a trail of destruction, after the biggest evacuation in the country’s history helped minimise casualties. As emergency teams began assessing damage from the country’s biggest cyclone in 14 years, a massive relief effort went into full swing to distribute food to an estimated one million evacuees, clear roads and help the injured. Most of the local population spent the night huddled in shelters and public buildings as deafening winds flattened flimsy homes, uprooted trees, and sent glass and asbestos strips flying through the air. The worst affected area, around the town of Gopalpur in Orissa where the eye of Phailin

Two million pilgrims in Makkah as Haj begins

came ashore packing winds of 200 kilometres an hour, was still without power and communications were down. Roads strewn with fallen trees were at least open, as emergency services rushed to reach people living there. Raj Kishor Muduli, a delivery driver who lives just outside Orissa’s state capital Bhubaneswar, said the whole of his village had spent the night hunkering down in a communal shelter. “We were all afraid, the whole village was afraid, we didn’t know how strong the winds would be,” the 43-year-old said, when the winds had died down and heavy overnight rainfall had ceased. “Everyone was awake the whole night to see what the size of (the) storm would be and to be on guard.” -AFP See also >A6

OMAN

Oman calls for M-E free of N-weapons

Oman reiterated its support for initiatives aimed at making the M-E a zone free from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, aware of the hazards of these arms to the security of states. >A3

INDIA

Over 100 dead in MP stampede

A stampede at a bridge leading to a remote temple in central India killed at least 115 people and injured more than 100 people. Nearly 150,000 devotees had gathered to celebrate Dussehra. >A5

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Malala says she’s no Western puppet

Malala Yousafzai hit back at claims that she has become a ﬁgure of the West, insisting she was proud to be a Pakistani. Malala was shot by the Taleban for championing girls’ right. >A7

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HM receives Eid Al Adha greetings His Majesty received

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HM exchanges Eid greetings MUSCAT: On the occasion of Eid Al Adha, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said yesterday exchanged over phone, greetings and best wishes with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar. -ONA

Majesty for Majlis Al Shura, which stands as a lofty institution and a cultural landmark. He added that the Council of Oman building now, as per the directives of His Majesty, encompasses the State Council and the Shura, as well as their employees. The building, after its opening for the third annual session for this term, will host the sessions and the committee meetings. “At Majlis Al Shura, we are proud of this great ediﬁce which

will remain one of the major achievements of the Renaissance in the future too,” he added. “We take the pledge before your Majesty to do our best to ensure national integrity and enhance the relationship between Shura and other organisations to meet the interests of the State.” Dr Al Mantheri extended his greetings to His Majesty and those of the members of the State Council and its employees on this happy occasion. He prayed to Allah the Almighty for the return of this blessed occasion on His Majesty with good health, happiness and a long life, and bestow the Arab and Islamic nations further progress, security and stability. In his cable, Sayyid Badr extended his congratulations and those of the Armed Forces, Firaq Forces and Defence Ministry personnel to His Majesty the Sultan, on this happy occasion. He said that as the Armed Forces, Firaq Forces and Defence Ministry personnel mark this blessed occasion, they renew their loyalty, allegiance to His Majesty. In his cable, Lt. Gen Al Shraiqi said, “It gives me and Royal Oman Police personnel a great pleasure and honour to extend the sincere congratulations and many happy returns of Eid Al Adha while Your Majesty enjoying good health, welfare and Oman and its people enjoy progress and prosperity.” -ONA

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OMAN TECH WHIZKIDS

LEGAL COLUMN

Disconnection of tenant’s power, water supply is an act of criminal trespass

PHOTO FINISH: The turnout for the 4G LTE contest, which was

launched through Twitter and Instagram last June, has been very encouraging. –Supplied photograph

Omantel snapshot contest showcases 4G network quality Times News Service MUSCAT: Omantel handed over the winner’s award to Mahmoud Hilal Al Sulaimani, who got more than 10,000 “likes” for his snapshots captured for the 4G network that provides 24.16 MB speed. The turnout for the 4G LTE contest, which was launched through Twitter and Instagram last June, has been great, as evidenced by the large number of participations and tweets by subscribers. The speed of data downloading from mobile Internet amounted to 82.95 MB. Commenting on the contest, Huda bint Said Al Ghabshi, acting social media manager at Omantel, said, “The contest provided a good opportunity for subscribers to test the high speed provided by the first 4G LTE network in the Sultanate. By sharing the captured speeds through two social media platforms, the public to learnt about first-hand tests done by customers”. The captured images were shared on Twitter and Instagram and winners were divided into two categories, those with most “liked” and re-tweeted picture, and the second one with the highest speed captures. The first winner with the most

“liked” and re-tweeted picture bagged a fully-paid trip for two persons to the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix in November 2013, whereas those winning the next five positions, from second to the sixth, were awarded Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE smartphones. Mahmoud Al Sulaimani won a fully paid up trip for two persons to Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix in November 2013. Abdul Raheem bin Abdullah Al Balushi who received 5,904 “likes” on Instagram came second; Talal bin Abdullah Al Balushi, who captured 2,742 “likes” on Instagram, came third; Hawraa Salem Al Fahdi, who captured 1,829 “likes” on Instagram, came fourth; and Mohammed Ahmed Sameer, who captured 115 retweets, came fifth. They all received Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE smartphones. In the second category of those with highest speed captures, Abdullah Eisa Al Balushi came first with 82.95 MB downloading speed. He received Z LTE Sony Experia tablet. In the same competition, Ali Hassan Al Majini came second, Radhyah Khalfan Al Shamsi came third and Bashar Mohammed Al Baram came fourth. They were all presented with 4G MiFI modems.

I am an expatriate staying with my family in a rented flat for the past 12 years. My building is managed by a reputed estate agent company in Ruwi. I had approached them prior to my lease agreement’s expiry and requested them to renew it. I had consented to an increase of approximately 22% of my present rent. My flat’s Municipality lease agreement expired on August 31, 2013 and my estate agent is forcing me to vacate my flat and demands to increase rent by almost 100% per cent of my present rent. Is any help available to me for settling this dispute through the Municipality? My estate agent informed me that presently there is no law on annual rental increase and sky is his limit! Please help. Sudha K. Nair It is quite unfortunate that a tenant living in a flat for a continuous period of 12 years is put into a predicament wherein he has to write such a letter to this forum. It is a poor reflection on the conduct of many of the so called real estate management companies in the country. It is a matter of shame for such companies and the country as a whole. Due to some ambiguity and uncertainty prevailing after the latest amendments to some provisions of Royal Decree 6/89 defining the relationship between landlords and tenants, there are several complaints that some unscrupulous elements operating in the real estate sector and a few landlords are taking their tenants for a joy ride by making manifold increase in the rent. They have been forcing the tenants to vacate the premises in case they do not agree to such flexing of muscles by the landlords

Neither the landlord nor his employees or agents are entitled to enter any leased premises without the explicit permission of the tenants, and any unauthorised entry would amount to criminal trespass. Any dispute should be settled through the legal system

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or their agents. At a stage, when such complaints were brought to the attention of the concerned authorities, the Municipality, through media, had clariﬁed that it would be illegal on the part of the landlords to demand such exorbitant increase in rental values. No one, (including the government), is against reasonable increase in rental values, justiﬁable in prevailing market conditions, but that cannot be treated as a licence to loot hapless tenants. I hope that the authorities would address this issue on priority basis and close any gaps that are there in the implementing regulations with respect to increase in rental values. You may take up the issue with the concerned municipal authorities and seek their intervention to settle this matter. At the same time, from your letter it is not clear to me whether your estate agent has served you any proper notice for increase of the rent. As you mentioned that your agreement expired on August 31, 2013, you must have received such a notice by May 31, 2013. If you did not receive any such notice on this date, all the existing conditions in your expired lease will continue to prevail on you and the landlord, and there is no need for you to agree on any increase in the rent. This will not, how-

ever, be applicable if you have already consented in writing to the landlord that you are agreeable to an increase of 22 per cent over the present rental value. I would also like to call the attention of the readers to another common practice in the country wherein some landlords or their agents resort to disconnection of electricity, water or other utility services to force tenants to vacate the leased premises. This is a clear act of criminal trespass by the landlords or their agents and they should be dealt with the relevant provisions of Oman Penal Code in this respect. Any dispute between the tenant and the landlord should be settled through the legal system in the country. Neither the landlord nor his employees or agents are entitled to enter any leased

premises without the explicit permission of the tenants, and any unauthorised entry would amount to criminal trespass. If all the people take law into their hands and decide on the course of action, there is no need for any law enforcing mechanism in the country. Anyone affected by such uncivilised behaviour of real estate agents or landlords may approach the authorities including the Royal Oman Police to get their utility services reinstated on war footing. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this column are for general guidance purposes only. They are based on facts presented to us and are not substituted for expert legal advice. Readers are advised to seek legal assistance for speciﬁc legal issues. Times of Oman and Khalifa Al Hinai Advocates & Legal Consultancy do not assume any responsibility towards anyone on this matter.

GUtech’s rector aims at top slot Prof. Michael Modigell has just taken the lead

What we try to do is to cover the gap between the Omani tradition and the traditional European approach to education

at GUtech and hopes his experience with multiple universities and the industrial sector in Germany will help him steer the institution forward

Prof Michael Modigell GUtech’s new rector STAFF REPORTER MUSCAT: GUtech’s new rector brings with him energy, enthusiasm and a wealth of experience as he assumes the top post at what he hopes will soon be the best technical university in the GCC. Prof Michael Modigell left his position at GUtech’s parent university RWTH Aachen University in Germany, packed his bags, and came to Oman in the heat of high summer. Though he had other job offers to lead research work in Spain and Italy, it was the idea of a European-inﬂuenced technical university in the desert that intrigued him and he couldn’t resist the opportunity. “This is completely different from the things I have done in the past. Now I will be with a university as well, but in a different position. I can bring my experience gained while working with the industry. I spent 30 years in the industry. I can also bring my experience from my work with the university. I know the structure of a German university. I know how to ensure cooperation between a university and industry, which is something we want to apply here,” he told the Times of

Oman, sitting in his airy office at GUtech’s campus in Halban. Modigell is a physicist who has worked and carried out research in a number of ﬁelds including Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Material Sciences. He also has over 10 years of experience in the chemical industry in Germany. He hopes to bring his personal experience to GUtech and let the students beneﬁt from it. Students at the GUtech will have access to more expertise and hardware that is available in Germany, as well as the strength of the European education system, which is centuries old and has long ties to the industrial sector. In Europe, the universities and industries work very closely together to solve problems, make new discoveries and innovations, and offer practical training for students. This is the approach he would like to see developed even further at the GUtech, while at the same time adapting it to the best of Omani traditions. “What we try to do is to cover the gap between the Omani tradition and the traditional European

approach to education. At the end of this term, we can go to Germany and present our German colleagues with ideas we have developed in Oman which is something different than what is practiced in Europe now and better, such as their traditions and ways to approach life, including learning to be patient,” Modigell explains. Among his plans for the GUtech are new programmes including several part-time courses in railway engineering, which will be an asset for students interested in working in the new GCC railway, and a new Master’s programme in Urban Planning. Both of these have been launched this semester. “Our idea is to educate the students as broadly as possible so that they are able to cover a lot of job demands around the region, not just transportation,” he says. While he may be the new to the role of a rector at the GUtech, Modigell isn’t a complete stranger to the region. He worked at some desalination plants in the UAE about 30 years ago, but says this is ﬁrst time he will be truly living in a country that is so different from Germany.

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OMAN Software helps nab laptop thief HOW THE CULPRIT WAS ARRESTED The ROP, with the help

The private company executives tracked down the location and even provided a picture of the person who had logged in. With the help of the police, they tracked down the shop and retrieved two laptops

After the theft, the culprit sprinkled chilli powder in the office to keep away and dodge sniffer dogs

of IT experts, arrested a laptop thief in Ruwi

REJIMON K reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Four days after four laptops were stolen from his ofﬁce, the CEO managed to reclaim these at the Ruwi Police station yesterday, thanks to the combined force of a police investigation and an unusual sleuth — a clever computer application. An anti-theft software, which the CEO had installed in his office laptops, helped him track down and nab a woman thief, a member of his own company’s staff, who had allegedly stolen the four laptops from his office in Ruwi last Wednesday. “On Thursday morning, we realised that four laptops were missing. I registered a complaint with the police and activated the anti-theft software with a “missing” update. On Friday evening,

when I was at a meeting, I got the ﬁrst message that one of my missing laptops was online. “I tracked down the location and even a picture of the person taken by my laptop who had logged in. With the printout of the picture and other details, I rushed to the police station. “Then, with the help of the police, we tracked down the shop and retrieved two of my missing laptops,” the company CEO said. When the police grilled the shop owner who had bought the laptops and checked the visuals from the CCTV camera installed at the shop, they were able to identify the woman thief. “The police questioned the shop owner. With the help of de-

U N I T E D NAT I O N S M E E T

Oman calls for a nuclear-free Middle East NEW YORK: The Sultanate reiterated its support for initiatives aimed at making the Middle East a zone free from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, aware of the hazards that these weapons pose to the security and stability of states, the region and the world at large. In a speech at the UN General Assembly delivered by Plenipotentiary Minister Nujaim bin Sulaiman Al Abri, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Sultanate to the United Nations, the Sultanate also stressed the right of the states to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, adding that an end to the dispute in this area was not possible through any coercive policies and practices, such as sanctions and other measures, which have their limitations and can be weak when it comes to effectiveness, but through serious diplomacy that can help all the states to use nuclear energy towards peaceful purposes. The Sultanate expressed the hope that the international com-

munity, particularly the depositary governments of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons to other states in the Middle East to accede to the treaty and place their nuclear installations under comprehensive control system supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency. This may contribute towards making the treaty universally applicable and making the Middle East a zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, a goal that deserves all the support and backing of all the states, especially the major powers. The Sultanate also expressed regret at the failure of the International Conference on the Middle East in ensuring implementation of the resolution adopted by the Review Conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The lack of support from some parties to hold such a Conference underlines a lack of understanding of the conditions and goals and the aspirations of the people of the Middle East.–ONA

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flydubai launches business class Times News Service MUSCAT: Dubai-based flydubai has announced the launch of business class services, following feedback from its passengers, across its network of 60 destinations. flydubai currently offers 28 flights per week to Muscat, making it one of the airlines’ highest frequency routes. “We noticed a great demand for this service not only from those travelling for leisure or to visit friends and family, but also from business passengers. Offering frequent, affordable flights will make it easier for business passengers to travel between Muscat and Dubai within the course of a day,” a spokesperson for flydubai said. From the last week of May, flydubai began its flights to Salalah in the Sultanate of Oman, from Dubai. It currently operates three flights a week. “With Oman just next door to the UAE, there is a long history of tourism and trade between our countries. Through this new service, we hope to further enhance these ties and make it easier and more convenient to travel between Dubai and Salalah. I would like to

take this opportunity to thank all those involved in enabling us to fly to Salalah for the support and encouragement they have given flydubai,” Obaidalla, flydubai’s Chief Commercial Officer, said at the launch ceremony. Flight launch Passengers of flight FZ729 to Kiev’s Boryspil Airport, Ukraine were the first to experience the carrier’s new product offering, recently. According to travel agents, the airline will launch the business class on the Muscat to Dubai route in February 2014. While flydubai offers its Business Class passengers a variety of customised services, including a dedicated Business Team, priority check-in and a fast track through immigration, it is in the air that the experience can be fully appreciated. The new Business Class cabin comprises 12 spacious and comfortable reclining seats, made of Italian leather, and a seat pitch of 42 inches. A revolutionary in-flight entertainment system comes with a high definition touchscreen of 12.1 inches with a choice of 1,300 hours of non-stop entertainment.

tails he provided and after checking the CCTV visuals, we realised that the thief was one of my own staffers. “Later on, as per the police advice, I called her to my office yesterday. The police also arrived and took her into custody. After questioning her, we were able to trace the other two laptops also,” the CEO said. After the theft, the culprit sprinkled chilli powder in the ofﬁce to keep away and dodge sniffer dogs. Besides, she might have also used gloves since ﬁnger print experts were not able to gather any evidence. “Even though she proved to be a cunning one, she couldn’t cheat the unusual sleuth, my anti-theft software,” the CEO added.

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REGION Iran rejects demand to ship out N-material Tehran and world powers are meeting for talks in Geneva tomorrow

DUBAI/VIENNA: Iran yesterday rejected the West’s demand to send sensitive nuclear material out of the country but signalled flexibility on other aspects of its atomic activities that worry world powers, ahead of renewed negotiations this week. Talks about Iran’s nuclear programme, due to start in Geneva tomorrow, will be the first since the election of Iranian President Hassan Rowhani, who has tried to improve relations with the West to pave a way for lifting economic sanctions. Disappointing comments Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi’s comments yesterday may disappoint Western officials, who want Iran to ship out uranium enriched to a fissile concentration of 20 per cent, a short technical step away from weapons-grade material. However, Araqchi, who will join the talks in Switzerland, was less hardline about other areas of uranium enrichment, which Tehran says is for peaceful nuclear fuel purposes but the West fears may be aimed at developing nuclear weapons capability.

“Of course we will negotiate regarding the form, amount, and various levels of (uranium) enrichment, but the shipping of materials out of the country is our red line,” he was quoted as saying on state television’s website. In negotiations since early 2012, world powers have demanded that Iran suspend 20per cent enrichment, send some of its existing uranium stockpiles abroad and shutter the Fordow underground site, where most higher-grade enrichment is done. In return, they offered to lift sanctions on trade in gold, precious metals and petrochemicals but Iran, which wants oil and banking restrictions to be removed, has dismissed that offer. It says it needs 20-per cent uranium for a medical research reactor. However, Araqchi’s statement may be “the usual pre-negotiation posturing”, said Middle East specialist Shashank Joshi at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. “It is easy to imagine a compromise whereby Iran would ship out only some of its uranium, allowing the negotiating team to claim a victory. There are many potential compromises that will be explored,” Joshi said. Cliff Kupchan, a director and Middle East analyst at risk consultancy Eurasia Group, took a similar line, saying Iran was seeking to gain leverage ahead of negotiations. “Still, it is sobering that a lead Iranian negotiator is setting red lines so early. These are going to be tough talks.” — Reuters

SAUDI ARABIA

GRAND CONGREGATION: Pilgrims at the Holy City Makkah’s Grand Mosque as hundreds of thousands have poured into for the annual Haj

pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia has deployed more than 100,000 troops to ensure the safety of the pilgrims. – AFP

2m pilgrims in Makkah as Haj begins JEDDAH: Some two million people thronged Mina Valley from the Holy City of Makkah to start the Haj yesterday. Authorities announced at noon that all the pilgrims had reached Mina from nearby Makkah. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef said the number of pilgrims from outside the country totalled 1,379,531 million, down 21 per cent on last year’s 1.75 million. Around 1.29 million of them had ﬂown to Saudi Arabia from 188 countries, he said, without giving a ﬁgure for pilgrims residing in the kingdom whose number is believed to have been halved. The kingdom cut by 20 per cent the quotas for pilgrims allowed in

from abroad over fears of MERS and because of massive projects to expand the capacity of the Grand Mosque. Saudi Health Minister Abdullah Al Rabia told reporters late Saturday the authorities had so far detected no cases among the pilgrims of the MERS virus. Authorities have stepped up measures to curb illegal pilgrims who inﬁltrate into Makkah through desert roads. Legal permits Security officials have said that as many as 31,000 Saudi and expatriate pilgrims were turned back for not carrying legal permits, while around 12,600 others were arrested. The pilgrims moved to Mina by

road, by train or on foot. In Mina, a small site with 45,000 ﬁre-resistant tents that can accommodate two million people, they will pray and rest before moving on to Mount Arafat today. A newly-constructed electric railway transported around 400,000 of the pilgrims. Saudi Arabia has deployed more than 100,000 troops to ensure the safety of the pilgrims. Security forces are monitoring the holy sites in and around Makkah with 4,200 hi-tech cameras, some of which can cover a distance of 60 kilometres (37 miles). Authorities said more than 20,000 buses are ferrying the pilgrims to Mina, using 58 tunnels under Makkah’s mountains.

But some pilgrims, like Egyptian Mustafa Abu El Wafa, decided to walk the 10-kilometre distance despite the heat and humidity. “I am so excited that I ﬁnally managed to perform the Haj,” Wafa said as he walked towards Mina. From Mina, pilgrims will head to nearby Mount Arafat, where they spend today in prayer until sunset. The kingdom has also mobilised huge medical and civil defence resources to ensure the smooth movement of the pilgrims. This year’s minor pilgrimage season, called the “umrah”, during the fasting month of Ramadan in July-August, passed off without peacefully even though millions of Muslims took part. — AFP

PUNITIVE ACT

Israel bans supply of building materials to Gaza Strip OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday froze shipments of building materials to the Gaza Strip after discovering an alleged “terror tunnel” into the Jewish state from the adjoining territory, a defence official said. “Due to security reasons, (the army) decided to stop for now the transfer of building materials into Gaza,” Guy Inbar said. Inbar, spokesman for the Israeli defence ministry unit responsible for civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories, did not say how long the ban would remain in force. Last month Israel permitted delivery of cement and steel for use by the private sector into the Gaza Strip for the ﬁrst time since 2007, when Israel banned their transfer

UNEARTHED: A view of a tunnel allegedly dug by Palestinians be-

neath the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. – AFP

fearing that Gaza’s Hamas rulers would use construction materials to fortify its positions and build tunnels for ﬁghters’ attacks on the Jewish state.

Israeli officials said that a sophisticated tunnel running 450 metres (yards) into Israel and intended as a springboard for ﬁghters’ attacks had been uncovered

by troops. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated the army “for exposing the Gaza tunnel” at a weekly cabinet meeting. “It is part of our offensive policy against terror, both in prevention and intelligence, proactive activity, reactive activity,” he said. The army did not immediately publish details of the tunnel, but the head of the Israeli local council where it was found said that he had been taken inside for an inspection. “This tunnel, which looks like the New York subway, is apparently intended to kidnap soldiers or for some other kind of attack,” Haim Yelin told army radio. “It is impressively executed, with concrete supports.”

Israeli news website Ynet said that the tunnel had railway tracks and lighting, and quoted chief military spokesman Yoav Mordechai as calling it “one of the most advanced terror tunnels to be uncovered in recent years”.

tive villages) in the area.” Israeli NGO Gisha, which lobbies for freedom of movement for Palestinians, urged Israel to lift the building material freeze, saying it would affect civilians and humanitarian projects in blockaded Gaza.

Denial Yelin denied media reports the tunnel was aimed at attacking an Israeli village or kibbutz or that it was to be used to set off explosives under a kindergarten. “This tunnel penetrates into the state of Israel 300-400 metres (yards) from the border with the Gaza Strip,” he said. “It is situated 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) from any of the kibbutzim and moshavim (collec-

Obligation “Israel has the authority and the obligation to take measures to protect the lives of its soldiers and citizens,” it said in a statement. “However, it is not clear how blocking the entrance of construction materials, including those intended for international projects, promotes that goal. The NGO said that the freeze “raises the specter of a punitive act”. — AFP

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INDIA Over 100 killed, 100 hurt in MP stampede

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India to raise fisherman’s killing issue with Pakistan NEW DELHI: India would strongly take up the “shoot-andscoot killing” of an Indian fisherman by Pakistan coastal security personnel, official sources said here yesterday. “India would strongly take up the shoot-and-scoot killing of a fisherman by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency,” an official source said. Indian fisherman Naran Bhai Sosa was killed in the incident. While fishermen and boats have been previously detained and boats apprehended, “the killing of unarmed fishermen is unusual”, the source added. Gujarati fisherman Sosa was killed and 30 others were allegedly kidnapped by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency Saturday off Jakhau coast in Gujarat. The fishermen were allegedly taken away in five boats, a member of the fishermen’s boat association said Saturday.

‘Anti-piracy’ ship owned by US security ﬁrm detained

TRAGEDY: People gather near the bridge on the Sindhu river leading to the Ratangarh temple in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh, after the stampede, yesterday. Up to 400,000 devotees were already inside or around the temple when the stampede happened. – Reuters

The stampede at the Ratangarh temple was triggered by rumours that the bridge might collapse after being struck by a heavy vehicle, said police and state government officials

DATIA (MP): A stampede on a bridge outside a Hindu temple killed 115 people and over 100 injured in Madhya Pradesh yesterday, with many of the victims leaping to their deaths in the water below. Police warned that the number could rise further as medics struggled to make their way through hordes of pilgrims to reach the scene of the tragedy — the latest in a string of disasters at religious festivals. While officials said the panic appeared to have been sparked by a false rumour, witnesses said that the situation escalated when police weighed in with batons. “The death toll has risen to 115 and 10 others are in a critical condition,” Deputy Police Inspector D.K. Arya said after the

tragedy in the Datia district of MP. Police and state government officials said the stampede at the Ratangarh temple was triggered by rumours the bridge might collapse after being struck by a heavy vehicle around lunchtime. “There were rumours that the bridge could collapse after the tractor hit it,” said Arya. “Many people are feared to have fallen into the river.” Other police sources said that some 20,000 people were on the bridge over the River Sindh when the stampede broke out. Large crowds Large crowds began converging on the site from early morning, according to witnesses, as Hindus celebrate the end of the Navaratri festival. Up to 400,000 devotees

were already inside or around the temple when the stampede took place. Witnesses said the situation was exacerbated by police charging at the crowds with heavy wooden sticks known as lathis. “Police lathi-charge during the panic run worsened the situation, forcing many to jump off the bridge,” 28-year-old Manoj Sharma, who lives in the nearby village of Bhander, told The Times of India’s website. However Arya insisted “there was no baton-charge” by the police. Uma Shankar Gupta, the state’s home minister, said authorities had not yet determined why the stampede had broken out, but downplayed suggestions that security to deal with the crowds was inadequate. “There were safety measures in place, this is an annual event,” he told reporters. “We don’t yet have information on how this happened, as our focus is on the rescue effort.” Ashok Argal, a federal lawmaker from the region, placed the blame on crowds trying to rush across the bridge. “It is wrong to say there were any administrative lapses. The administration had taken steps and made fool-proof arrange-

ments to avoid any untoward incident,” he said. “Sometimes there is little cooperation from people and people are always in a hurry, because of which this unfortunate incident occurred.” Rescue operation The Times of India reported that crowds could be seen pelting police with stones as frustration grew over the rescue operation. Efforts to reach the injured and ferry them to hospital were being hampered by the huge volume of traffic in the area. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday condoled the loss of lives in a stampede at a temple in Madhya Pradesh. “On this day of festivities, our hearts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” Singh said in his message to the families who have lost their kin in the stampede near the Durga temple at Ratangarh in Datia district. In her message, Sonia expressed “shock and deep anguish” over the tragic incident. She extended her condolences to the families who have lost their kin and expressed the hope that the injured are being attended to suitably. - PTI

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Naidu slams Congress over Andhra’s division NEW DELHI: Telugu Desam Party Chief Chandrababu Naidu, who was discharged from hospital after his nearly a week-long fast, yesterday hit out at the Congress for the manner in which division of Andhra Pradesh is being carried out and said that Seemandhra people are worried about the future of Hyderabad. “There is agitation in Andhra Pradesh. Seemandhra people are worried about education, employment, revenue sharing, water resources and the status of Hyderabad besides its future,” the TDP leader told reporters after emerging out of Ram Manohar HUNGER STRIKE: TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu being Lohia Hospital, where he was discharged from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi, admitted on the ﬁfth day of his yesterday. – PTI hunger strike on Friday against Telangana creation and forcibly Naidu took exception to what Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde administered intravenous ﬂuids he called non-involvement of were giving contradicting stateSaturday. He accused the ruling Con- leaders from the state in the bifur- ments on the bifurcation issue. Naidu also appealed to the gress of not following “proper cation process. “I am asking the Congress. Are national parties to put pressure procedures” in bifurcation of there no local leaders? Are there on Congress to provide “justice” Andhra Pradesh. for Telugu people. “The way in which the division no statesmen?,” he asked. “Congress party should hold The TDP leader alleged that process is being done is objectionable. They are not following any the Congress leaders like Digvijay talks with people from both sides to Singh, Veerappa Moily and Home resolve the issue amicably,” he said. system or procedure,” he said.

The way in which the division process is being done is objectionable. They are not following any system or procedure Chandrababu Naidu TDP chief

Meanwhile, RML hospital authorities said Naidu was discharged today as he was “stable” and the TDP leader wanted to visit Hyderabad. The aide, who accompanied Telugu Desam Party chief till New Delhi Airport, said that Naidu will be admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad. -PTI

CHENNAI: India has detained an armed ship operated by a US maritime security company and the 35 people on board for failing to produce papers authorizing it to carry weapons and ammunition in Indian waters, the coast guard said yesterday. Coast Guard Commandant Anand Kumar said the ship was stopped on Friday and was being held in the southern port of Tuticorin along with its 10 crew and 25 armed security guards until required documentation is submitted. The crew and security guards included British, Estonian, Indian and Ukrainian nationals, Kumar said. “At the moment the documents are still awaited,” Kumar said. “We have to see how valid are the documents that they do produce towards their entry into Indian waters and carrying arms and ammunitions.” The Sierra Leone-ﬂagged ship Seaman Guard Ohio belongs to Virginia-based AdvanFort, a maritime security ﬁrm that specializes in anti- piracy operations. AdvanFort and the US consulate in Chennai were not immediately available for comment. Kumar said the ship was approached and detained on Friday night.

Property dispute behind UP legislator wife’s murder NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh legislator Haji Aleem’s wife was killed here over a property dispute, allegedly by two of his sons from an earlier marriage, police said yesterday. Rehana, 40, wife of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Aleem, who represents Bulandshahr, was killed on October 9 at her New Jafrabad residence in Delhi. According to police, the legislator’s sons Danish and Anas murdered her with the help of their driver Nadeem, who has been arrested. It was all over a property dispute. Nadeem, 30, was arrested in Seemapuri here yesterday morning. He named the legislator’s two sons, who are absconding, said a police officer. Police said Aleem did not have a happy relationship with his ﬁrst wife Kehkasha and the two sons who lived in Bulandshahr. They had raised objections over the property owned by Rehana in Delhi.

Two electrocuted as puja pandal collapses in Burdwan KOLKATA: Two people were electrocuted when a puja pandal (marquee) collapsed following heavy rain in West Bengal’s Burdwan district, police said yesterday. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon in Parsia, Asansol subdivision of the district. “Following heavy rain and storm, a puja pandal caved in and two persons atop it were electrocuted,” a police officer said. - Agencies

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I am not a superman: RBI governor WASHINGTON: With a “little bit of euphoria” surrounding him with the arrest of the Indian rupee’s slide, RBI’s new governor, Raghuram Rajan, has sought to temper expectations saying “I am not a superman”. Portraying himself as a regular guy with “a wife and two kids,” he told a Washington audience on Saturday what the country’s central bank could do or not do. “Expectations are high. There is a little bit of euphoria in India,” said Rajan, a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and economic adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, at an event at the Institute of International Finance. But “clearly I am not a super-

Raghuram Rajan

man,” said Rajan, who has often been portrayed in the media as a “rock star” of ﬁnance. “We can do more than what a central bank in an industrial coun-

try can do. But we can in some ways do less,” he said. “On where we can do more, clearly there are a lot of low hanging fruit in the financial sector,” he said. Rajan, who was here to attend the just concluded annual FundWorld Bank annual meetings, said emerging market economies were less understood and financial sector reforms can be incredibly positive for growth going forward. “I think, with the financial sector reforms, coupled with the real sector reforms, the growth turn around should be on its way,” he said. He noted that the Indian government was doing a “fair amount of reform” which needs little bit of time for the results to show up. -IANS

Odisha toll rises to 21 as cyclone triggers flood

WORST IS OVER: Villagers affected by the Cyclone Phailin return to their villages at Chhatrapur after

the cyclone passed over the east coast yesterday. – AFP

Very heavy rains are expected in

China-bound merchant vessel feared sunk in seas

north Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, east UP, West Bengal and Sikkim over the next 48 hours, with cyclonic storm ‘Phailin’ now closer to ChattisgarhOdisha border

BHUBANESWAR: The death toll in Odisha yesterday mounted to 21 after 14 more people perished while one was missing in four districts of the state in the aftermath of Cyclone Phailin that also triggered a ﬂood in some areas. Most of the casualties were caused by wall collapse, uprooted trees and in ﬂoods, while a large number of people were injured, official sources said. Two bodies each were found in Berhampur town, Purushottampur, Ganjam town and Rangelilunda areas of Ganjam district where the high-velocity cyclone left a trail of devastation after making landfall in Gopalpur area on Saturday. Bodies of a woman and a 13-year-old boy were found in Khantapada and Soro areas in Balasore district. Death of a woman and a boy were reported from Mayurbhanj district while another boy and a woman died in Bhadrak district where a boy was missing, the sources said. Seven people were killed Sat-

KOLKATA: A China-bound merchant vessel which set sail from Haldia port in West Bengal was feared to have sunk in rough seas following the cyclonic storm Phailin which swept coastal Odisha Saturday night, the Coast Guard said yesterday. MV Bingo’s 18-member crew, comprising mostly Chinese nationals, were believed to have left the ship on a lifeboat and are yet to be located. Rescue aircraft have been pressed into service to trace the sailors. “In all likelihood the ship must have sunk otherwise it would have been located by

urday at Polasara and Khalikote areas of Ganjam district. The cyclone led to ﬂoods in the two districts of Bhadrak and Mayurbhanj where near half of Baripada town was submerged. Precautionary measures Meanwhile, very heavy rains are expected in north Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Sikkim in the next 48 hours, with cyclonic storm ‘Phailin’ now closer to Chattisgarh-Odisha border, National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA) said yesterday. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) officials said the wind system is expected to move towards Nepal with heavy rains creating a threat of ﬂoods in river Kosi. Precautionary measures have been taken and rescue teams deployed in the areas that could

now. Search operations are still on and we are looking for the crew which it seems must have been picked up by any other vessel,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said. The ship carrying iron ore, left the Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) Saturday and was last located 25 nautical miles south-southwest of Sagar Island, about 100km from Kolkata. Cyclonic storm Phailin Saturday night slammed India’s east coast near Gopalpur in Odisha, triggering heavy rains and strong winds with speed reaching up to 200km an hour. -IANS

be hit by cyclone, NDMA Vice Chairman M Shashidhar Reddy said here. NDRF Director General Krishna Chaudhary said 29 relief and rescue teams are presently working in Odisha, three teams in Bihar and two in Jharkhand. Two teams have been kept as back up in Bihar. 19 teams have also been deployed in Andhra Pradesh, he said. Relief work “We have been able to rescue 1,018 people today from Andhra Pradesh, information provided by the meteorological department helped us to carry out rescue operations in time,” Chaudhary said. The NDMA said relief work is being carried out by NDRF teams and 685 km of roads have already been cleared. 1,073 relief camps are working in Odisha at present and 135 in Andhra Pradesh. - PTI

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PAKISTAN P R O U D PA K I S TA N I

BRIDAL WEEK Models present creations by designer Nomi Ansari during the Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) Bridal Week in Lahore, on Saturday. Held at the beautiful Faletti’s hotel, the designers set the ramp ablaze with traditional and contemporary bridal looks. The feminine demeanour of the models complemented the overall soft and dainty tone of the event. — AFP

Malala says she’s no Western puppet LONDON: Malala Yousafzai hit back at claims that she has become a ﬁgure of the West, insisting she was proud to be a Pakistani. Malala, who was shot by the Taleban for championing girls’ right to an education, claimed she retained the support of people in her homeland, and reiterated her desire to enter Pakistani politics. Asked in a BBC television interview broadcast yesterday about some people in Pakistan thinking she was a “ﬁgure of the West” and “a Westerner now”, she said: “My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western. Education is education: it’s the right of everyone. “The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don’t think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani. “On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of ‘I am Malala’. They did not say ‘I am Taleban’. “They support me and they are

Imran backs Taleban demand to stop drones streets,” Imran said, adding that the electoral system could not be changed without bringing electoral reforms.

The PTI chief said Taleban are ready for

Justice has become very costly for a common man and if the courts fail to give justice then people will come to the streets

ceaseﬁre for which the government has to take steps to stop drone attacks largely targeting civilians in the tribal areas

Imran Khan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said the Taleban’s demand to stop the drone strikes was a legitimate one and should be supported by all. Addressing a press conference at PTI’s central secretariat after the party’s core committee meeting on Saturday, Imran said the Taleban were ready to call a truce. “The Taleban are ready for ceaseﬁre for which the government has to take steps to stop the lethal drone attacks in the tribal areas,” he said. ELECTRICITY CRISIS

Solar park to generate 1,000MW BHAWALPUR: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the government had made the biggest ever investment in south Punjab’s history in the form of Quaid-iAzam Solar Energy Project. He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Rs200 billion power project at Noor Sar village near Bahawalpur. The CM said the solar park had the capacity to generate 1,000MW electricity. In its ﬁrst phase (starting in the ﬁrst quarter of 2014) he said it would produce 100MW. This is the biggest project in Bahawalpur’s history. - Express Tribune

PTI chairman

He said everyone was demanding that the predator strikes be called off, adding that the US should be made to stop the drones, which were largely targeting civilians. Action plan “It is the ﬁrst time that any elected government is going to the tribal areas to negotiate with Taleban,” he added. The PTI chief said his party would take to the streets if

the courts failed to provide justice on applications regarding poll rigging, which had been proved after the veriﬁcation by the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra). Imran said elements responsible for rigging at the polls should be held accountable. “Justice has become very costly for a common man and if the courts fail to give justice then people will come to the

Price hike and inflation The PTI chief also criticised the government for not giving relief to the people as there was no end to price hike and inflation. “Those elected by fraud are not interested in the people or in bringing an end to corruption,” he said. He said the PTI had accepted the election results only because of the country’s situation. Imran said those responsible for the tampering with the sanctity of the ballot should be exposed and punished within a fixed timeframe. He said in both the National Assembly constituencies of NA 256 and NA 258, the Nadra verification had revealed systemic rigging and electoral fraud. “We believe that this has happened in the majority of constituencies of Pakistan and should be verified at large scale,” he demanded. He said the PTI requested the Supreme Court that similar evaluation might be ordered for four other constituencies “so as to expose the entire electoral fraud”. - In exclusive arrangement with The Express Tribune

INSPIRING: Malala Yousafzai

encouraging me to move forward and to continue my campaign for girls’ education.” “We will start from Pakistan and Afghanistan and Syria now, especially because they are suffering the most and they are on the top that need our help. “Later on in my life I want to do politics and I want to become a leader and to bring the change in Pakistan. I want to be a politician in Pakistan because I don’t want to be a politician in a country which is already developed.” - AFP

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aiti’s cholera epidemic, now entering its fourth year, has killed more than 8,300 people and sickened more than 650,000. It is a calamity, though one fundamentally different from the earthquake, hurricanes and floods that have beset the fragile country since 2010. It is, instead, a man-made disaster, advocates for Haitian victims contend, asserting the epidemic is a direct result of the negligence of United Nations peacekeepers who failed to keep their contaminated sewage out of a river from which thousands of Haitians drink. The United Nations has refused to accept blame, though the evidence of its peacekeepers’ recklessness is overwhelming. Haiti had been free of cholera for a century until October 2010, when the outbreak began near a peacekeepers’ base that had been leaking human waste through broken pipes into a tributary of the Artibonite River; the peacekeepers were from Nepal, and so was the cholera strain. A lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan last week by an advocacy group seeks financial reparations from the United Nations on behalf of thousands of sickened Haitians. The United Nations’ response — as it has been the last three years — was to claim immunity from litigation while expressing sympathy for the dead and infected, and promising to keep working to eradicate the epidemic. The lawsuit’s chances of success are unclear, given the United Nations’ strong claims to diplomatic immunity, a principle embedded in its founding documents to enable the work it does across the globe. But even a body immune to legal claims cannot shed accountability. As researchers from Yale Law School laid out in July in an examination of the cholera fiasco, the United Nations’ immunity does not confer absolute impunity. In the agreement it signed with the Haitian government when it established a peacekeeping force there long before the 2010 quake, the United Nations promised to create a commission to review claims related to complaints about its troops. Such a commission has never been established, the Yale report noted, calling it a clear violation of the United Nations’ contractual obligations to Haiti, but also of its responsibilities under international human rights law. Beyond that, the report concluded, the body “risks losing its moral ground by refusing to comply with the very law it demands states and other international actors respect.” There is no denying that the United Nations has failed to face up to its role in a continuing tragedy. It should acknowledge responsibility, apologize to Haitians and give the victims the means to file claims against it for the harm they say has been done them. It can also redouble its faltering, underfinanced response to the epidemic, which threatens to kill and sicken thousands more in the coming decade. - The New York Times News Service

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Terror lives on

hile the strategy to tackle the terrorist threat continues to be clouded by a marked degree of confusion on the part of the government — it is clear the militants suffer from no such doubts. Even as politicians dither on about talks with the Taliban, or other measures to combat terrorism, the bombers in our midst seem to know exactly what to do. They demonstrated this on October 10, as bomb blasts hit all four of our provincial capitals. It is uncertain if the strikes were coordinated, but they certainly made a powerful impact. Of the 12 people killed in the attacks, the highest toll came in Quetta, where eight people were killed after an improvised explosive device attached to a motorbike detonated in the heart of the busy Liaquat Bazaar, apparently targeting a police station. A vehicle of the Balochistan Constabulary was destroyed by the blast. In Karachi, three men, apparently terrorists, were killed while apparently transporting a bomb in Orangi Town. In Lahore, one person died in a blast in Anarkali and in Peshawar, three police volunteers were injured when a bomb struck their vehicle. Whether or not these attacks were coordinated, they have driven home a message. They show that the killers we have bred have grown into a monster we can simply not tame. But we cannot allow it to run riot through our country either. Something needs to be done urgently against the militants, who demonstrate no desire to end their killing run. They have shown that they are capable of striking as and when they choose and we obviously need to determine how to deal with these criminals who have already unleashed havoc and who threaten to unleash more. There is simply no more time to lose; a plan needs to be devised and acted on quickly, given that our country simply cannot bear the weight of more death and more destruction. The awful suffering this extracts must be brought to an end and we, as citizens, told how this is to be done by our leaders. - The Express Tribune

It may be time to rewrite history of our civilisation This refers to the letter, Civilisations prove Sahara was green at one time (October 13). The writer of the letter mentions a staggering truth, little known by many but explosive enough to rewrite the history of our civilisation. The text books of history, therefore, ought to be rewritten. The cultural software and chemical signatures that the two civilisations left behind in the Saharan desert have revealed astounding facts about the ways of life of our ancestors thousands of years ago. Their lives were peaceful and were largely free from any major conﬂicts like war, or even ﬁghts between individuals. And yet, they were strong, ate healthy food including a good deal of protein, and shared a strenuous lifestyle

but in consistence with nature. These facts notwithstanding, the Kiffian and Tenerian civilisations still remain deeply shrouded in mystery. Historians and archaeologists have not been able to solve the puzzles that shroud the two civilisations. Aaloke Dasgupta Al Ghubra

Ever since miraculously waking up from the dead in Britain she has been on the road, motivating the world to actively support the inalienable right of every child to education, especially girls

READERS’ FORUM “Insure with New India and be secure”

MIB activities have always remained conﬁned to US The concept of Men in Black or MIB is closely connected to myriads of UFO conspiracy theories in which men dressed in black suits, wearing black sun glasses, black tie and travelling in black cars, primarily black Cadillac, but wearing white shirts, harass or threaten self-claimed UFO witnesses to remain silent. Most of

t is difficult not to feel a certain affection for Malala Yousafzai. While it would be wellnigh impossible to fully configure her potential, the nearest anyone came to immortalising her universal avatar was a banner in Nepal that read: Every child’s sister, every parent’s daughter. While this may be an emotional call even if well earned, what is not is her incredible courage, defiance against the forces of obscurantism and the unbreakable spirit to fight for the right of children when she herself appears to be a child. The Friday shocker that saw the Nobel committee overlook her candidature for this year’s peace prize is hard to fathom although, to be sure, it is not the first time that an award has left the world agape. The unexpected benevolence for President Obama for what essentially was little more than a statement of good intent when he was still getting used to the Oval office trappings is but just one sampler. The expectation around the globe was that Malala would become the youngest Nobel laureate at 16 — half the age of Yemeni peace activist Tawakal Karman in 2011. However, the Nobel committee plumped instead for the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons currently involved in dismantling stockpiles in Syria. While the efforts of OPCW are not in doubt, they have been in the business long enough and only doing what is expected of them. The fact is that a decision of this nature — working to eliminate chemical weapons — cannot proceed without active international support at the highest level of leadership. Technically speaking, submissions for nominations are closed by February 1 every year, and thereafter, the five-member Nobel committee can declare an out-ofthe-box winner, but they are expected to have a solid reason for tearing the script. If the judges were so serious to honour — and possibly, encourage — the dismantling of the Syrian stockpile of chemical weapons — then perhaps, the rightful owner of the much coveted Nobel Peace Prize Circa 2013 should have been Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose intervention at the proverbial eleventh hour potentially, saved the world from a possible disastrous war. If not for Putin playing the peacemaker, and prevailing upon close ally Syria, there is no knowing where a new war would have taken the region, in particular, and the world, in general. However, neither the OPCW nor Putin fell in the calendar, strictly speaking. The only candidate whose pitch reached a crescendo in the lead-up to the coveted prize was Malala Yousafzai. Ever since miraculously waking up from the dead in Britain — thanks to a major reconstruction surgery and continuing therapies — she has been on the road, motivating the world to actively support the inalien-

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain KAHLIL GIBRAN

able right of every child to education, especially girls. Last winter while in Pakistan, I persuaded the thenfederal education minister to push with President Asif Zardari for setting up a fund in Malala’s name for this purpose. We already had the support of Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister and UN Special Envoy on Education. Within days, the idea germinated with President Zardari proceeding to Paris for a multilateral meeting under the UN aegis and announcing the seed money for the fund. Only the other day, the World Bank announced a $200 million donation for the fund. Who — no prizes for guessing though—has made this possible? The Nobel should have gone to Malala not because her very strong candidacy fell in the calendar, but because sometimes the right pick is about timing, especially one whose idea has come. One would have thought the Nobel committee would just seize the moment when it clearly knew she has been a game-changer — as has been proved over the course of a year or so in how Malala, belying her tender years, has led the world. There has never been a more compelling 16-yearold who the world listens to with such rapt attention. She imbibes a universal message, driven by an awe inspiring mien. Pertinently, it comes from someone, who has literally taken a bullet to advance the cause. We’re talking of millions of children out of school here. A Nobel ticket would have acted as a catalyst to turbo charge the cause. Unfortunately, the Nobel committee wasted a terrific opportunity given to them on a platter, so-to-speak. It is not Malala’s loss — she is a young woman (not a child in the sense it is being suggested by well-meaning folks), who will continue to fly high — but it is the world’s misfortune, especially those out-of-school kids, who could have benefited enormously from the potential of a Nobel-prized campaign. Much hype has been created over Malala’s age and ability to cope with the trappings of a Nobel. Frankly, she has already lost — or to be more contextual — put her childhood behind her. She is not being given the credit that is her due in a lot of ways, and one of which is that she has strongly allayed concerns surrounding any vulnerability about age and the ability to cope with the resultant fame and responsibility that an honour like the Nobel could have fetched. Haven’t we all seen how she has been handling it all since waking up from the dead and trotting on the world stage like a (child) leader possessed? The fact is she was already headed for greatness even if the Taliban murderers hadn’t come for her that fateful day when her legend assumed a new halo. The writer is a senior journalist based in Islamabad. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of Times of Oman.

these men pose to be US government agents. Strangely, never ever have people outside the US claiming to have sighted UFOs reported to have met any MIB! Many in Britain and Japan claimed to have sighted UFOs. Strangely, this phenomenon makes the activities of MIB limited only within the US. Why? Reports of people being harassed and threatened by MIBs were frequent during the 1960s and early 70s. Kaveri Ckakladar Azaiba

Our ability to forget is a divine blessing indeed To forget is divine and it’s perhaps the biggest purgation that divinity has bestowed upon mankind. We often say that time is the best healer. Indeed it is, for, with time

we forget our pains, sorrows and agonies. It is our forgetfulness that gives us the impetus to start afresh and look ahead. Minu Dutta Muttrah

Sachin’s retirement will do good to Indian cricket At last Sachin Tendulkar has read the writing on the wall and decided to hang up his boots. While his iconic status in the Indian cricket is undeniable, his recent performances have resembled a lame horse or a product well past its expiry date. His retirement will now pave the way for next generation Indian cricketing talents to showcase their worth and make it count. K.R. Nayak Ruwi

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American ends life in Egyptian prison cell CAIRO: An American detained in Egypt for more than a month was found hanged in his prison cell yesterday after committing suicide, security officials said. They said the body of James Henry, 55, who told authorities he was a “retired officer”, was found at noon at Ismailiya Awal police station. The US embassy in Cairo conﬁrmed “that a US citizen prisoner in Ismailiya died from an apparent suicide”. “The embassy is in contact with authorities regarding the case and continues to provide all consular services,” an embassy official said. A report from the prosecutor’s office, forwarded to journalists by the foreign ministry, said Henry had hanged himself with a shoelace and a belt. He had been arrested during curfew with “a map of Egypt and a modern electronic device currently being examined”, the report said. Egyptian officials had said on August 28 that police arrested

Henry in the possession of “maps of the borders in Sinai” and “historical documents”. They said he was detained for violating a curfew imposed because of the latest wave of political unrest sweeping the country. Henry was stopped on the road between El Arish and Rafah in North Sinai and told authorities he was on his way to the neighbouring Gaza Strip. Officials said that a US embassy delegation had visited Henry in his cell last week. His death comes a day after he was told that authorities were extending his preventative detention by another 30 days. Henry was the second known foreigner to die in an Egyptian prison since a popular military coup overthrew president Mohamed Mursi in July, leading to a state of emergency and a curfew to deal with a hardliners backlash. In September, a French citizen was beaten to death by cellmates in a Cairo jail. —AFP

Eiffel Tower evacuated after scare PARIS: The Eiffel Tower was completely evacuated yesterday afternoon following a threatening phone call, a police official said. The 324-metre-high (1,062-foot) iron tower was evacuated around 3pm (1300 GMT) and had not reopened to tourists by 5.30pm. The sector around it was fully cleared, the police official said. He could give no further details. Built in 1889 and one of the world’s most recognisable monuments, the Eiffel Tower sees some 7 million visitors each year and up to 30,000 a day in the peak summer season. It is regularly subject to bomb scares which are usually quickly found to be hoaxes and only cause full evacuations a couple of times a year. — Reuters

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AJMAL WANTS TO BE BEST AGAINST THE BEST ABU DHABI: Proliﬁc Pakistani off-spinner Saeed Ajmal yesterday vowed to regain the title of world’s best Test bowler by punishing South Africa in the two-Test series starting here from today. “I will try my best and want to be the number one Test bowler,” said Ajmal, who wrecked the then top Test team England with 24 wickets here last year but has a decidedly less glorious track record against South Africa — now the world’s best team. — Reuters

All-round Australia thrash lifeless India

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SCOREBOARD

The visitors piled HERO OF THE MATCH: Sohag Gazi, centre, holds up the ball after tak-

ing six wickets, including a hat-trick as teammates applauds. – AFP

Gazi’s hat-trick as Test drawn

up a mammoth 304 for eight relying on captain George Bailey’s 85 and Aaron Finch’s 72 and then shot India out for

CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh’s Sohag Gazi followed a maiden Test century with a hat-trick to light up the final stages of the first Test against New Zealand, which ended in a draw in Chittagong yesterday. The 22-year-old offspinner had Corey Anderson leg-before, Bradley-John Watling caught behind and Doug Bracewell caught in the slips off successive balls at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium. Gazi’s hat-trick, which gave him his sixth wicket in the innings, saw the Black Caps slump from 260-4 to 260-7 in their second knock after lunch on the final day. The tourists declared the innings closed at 287-7, leaving Bangladesh a target of 256 runs in a minimum of 45 overs to win. The hosts showed no appetite to chase the stiff target and ended play on 173-3 in the 49th over, with Shakib Al Hasan unbeaten on 50 and newcomer Mominul Haque on 22. Gazi, who hit an unbeaten 101 batting at number eight on Satur-

day, joined Alok Kapali as only the second Bangladesh bowler to claim a Test hat-trick. Kapali had achieved the feat against Pakistan in Peshawar in 2003 when he dismissed tailenders Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria and Umar Gul in three consecutive deliveries. “This was obviously a very good Test match for me, it has made me believe I belong to this level,” said Gazi. “I will go into the next match with a lot of self-confidence.” Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said his team, ranked at the bottom of the table at number 10, dominated a major part of the match. “We were hungry to prove ourselves since we do not get many opportunities to play Tests,” he said. “Our batting effort in the first innings was excellent. “Mominul’s century on debut was very heartening, and one just can’t praise Gazi enough. A hundred and a hat-trick in the same game is something one can only dream about.” — AFP

SCOREBOARD

New Zealand 1st innings: 469 Bangladesh 1st innings: 501 New Zealand 2nd innings P. Fulton lbw b Gazi 59 H. Rutherford lbw b Nasir 32 K. Williamson c Anamul b Gazi 74 R. Taylor not out 54 B. McCullum b Gazi 22 C. Anderson lbw b Gazi 8 BJ Watling c Rahim b Gazi 0 D. Bracewell c Shakib b Gazi 0 I. Sodhi not out 22 Extras: (b-11, lb-4, nb-1) 16 Total (for 7 wkts decl, 90 overs) 287 Fall of wickets: 1-48 (Rutherford), 2-149 (Fulton), 3-200 (Williamson), 4-250 (McCullum), 5-260 (Anderson), 6-260 (Watling), 7-260 (Bracewell). Bowling: Razzak 32-5-116-0, Rubel

6-0-21-0 (nb1), Gazi 26-4-77-6, Shakib 9-1-19-0, Nasir 9-4-20-1, Robiul 4-1-9-0, Mominul 4-0-10-0 Bangladesh 2nd innings: Tamim Iqbal c Williamson b Martin 46 Anamul Haque c Anderson b Martin 18 Marshall Ayub lbw b Sodhi 31 Mominul Haque not out 22 Shakib Al Hasan not out 50 Extras: (b-2, nb-4) 6 Total (for three wickets, 48.2 overs) 173 Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Anamul), 2-99 (Tamim), 3-101 (Ayub). Bowling: Boult 4-1-9-0, Bracewell 5-0-14-0, Anderson 2-2-0-0, Williamson 10-3-24-0, Martin 16-4-62-2 (nb4), Sodhi 10.2-1-57-1, Taylor 1-0-5-0 Umpires: Bruce Oxenford and S. Ravi TV umpire: Enamul Haque (BAN) Match referee: Javagal Srinath (IND)

232 in 49.4 overs to take 1-0 lead

PUNE: Australia rode on a dominating all-round display to thrash a lacklustre India by 72 runs in the first cricket One-dayer here yesterday. Electing to bat, the visitors piled up a mammoth 304 for eight relying on captain George Bailey’s 85 and Aaron Finch’s 72 and then shot India out for 232 in 49.4 overs to take 1-0 lead in the seven-match ODI series. The Indian run chase under lights at the MCA Stadium never got going against the sustained and aggressive Australian bowling attack. The visiting side, who were handed a four-wicket defeat in the one-off T20 International at Rajkot on October 10, bowled a disciplined line and length and choked the Indian batsmen in the middle overs. Chasing 305 for a win, India needed to fire on the top of the order but they failed to do so, losing both the openers Shikhar Dhawan (7) and Rohit Sharma (42) for 66 on board in the 14th over. Virat Kohli top-scored with 61 from 85 balls with six fours, while Suresh Raina contributed a 45-ball 39. Ravindra Jadeja (11) and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (19) could not pull the team around after India slumped to 166 for five by the 35th over just before the power play and their dismissals in successive overs effectively ended the match. For Australia, James Faulkner grabbed three wickets for while Clint McKay and Shane Watson chipped in with two wickets apiece. Mitchell Johnson, Aaron Finch and Adam Voges got a wicket each. Australia had lost

AGGRESSIVE: Australian batsman George Bailey plays a shot

Australia P Hughes c Raina b Jadeja 47 A Finch c Kohli b Yuvraj 72 S Watson c Jadeja b Yuvraj 2 G Bailey c Raina b Ashwin 85 A Voges run out 7 G Maxwell c R Sharma b V Kumar 31 B Haddin lbw Ashwin 10 J Faulkner c V Kumar b I Sharma 27 M Johnson not out 9 C McKay not out 11 Extras (lb- 3) 3 Total (8 wkts; 50 overs) 304 Fall of wickets: 1-110, 2-113, 3-146, 4-172, 5-214, 6-231, 7-264, 8-293. Bowling: B Kumar 7-2-41-0; R Vinay Kumar 9-1-68-1; I Sharma 7-0-56-1; R Ashwin 10-0-55-2; R Jadeja 10-0-35-1; V Kohli 1-0-12-0; Yuvraj Singh 6-0-34-2. India S Dhawan c Haddin b Faulkner 7 R Sharma c Hughes b Watson 42 V Kohli lbw Watson 61 S Raina c Doherty b Faulkner 39 Yuvraj c Hughes b Johnson 7 M S Dhoni b McKay 19 R Jadeja c Bailey b Faulkner 11 R Ashwin c Watson b McKay 5 B Kumar c Voges b Finch 18 Vinay Kumar b Voges 11 I Sharma (not out) 1 Extras (b-2, lb-4, w-5) 11 Total (all out; 49.4 overs) 232 Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-66, 3-137, 4-147, 5-166, 6-192, 7-196, 8-200, 9-230. Bowling: M Johnson 10-0-38-1 (w-1); C McKay 10-0-36-2 (w-1); J Faulkner 8-047-3 (w-1); X Doherty 10-1-54-0 (w-1); S Watson 8-0-31-2 (w-1); A Voges 3-0-18-1; A Finch 0.4-0-2-1.

against India during their ﬁrst ODI match in Pune. – PTI

by four wickets in the opening game of their short tour, the oneoff T20 International at Rajkot on October 10. The two sides now move to Jaipur for the second ODI on October 16. Earlier, India began the stiff run chase on a cautious note against some very accurate and aggressive bowling in the initial power play overs by left-arm pacer Johnson, who was rested for the Twenty20 game, and right-arm pacer McKay. Dhawan and Rohit were tested with some three quarter length balls interspersed with short rising ones and the latter was lucky to edge one just short of wicketkeeper Brad Haddin off McKay. The opening stand was broken by young left-arm pacer Faulkner who lured Dhawan with a ball that swung away a bit for the batsman

to edge to stumper Haddin. The stumper, however, got hurt while celebrating the fall of the wicket and had to hand over the wicket keeping duties to Phil Hughes to take treatment in the dressing room. Rohit slowly grew in conﬁdence and struck Faulkner for three fours in the ninth over to pep up the run rate. The second wicket duo of Rohit and Kohli had added 40 runs with the former looking in good touch before he threw away his wicket by top-edging in an attempted slash to stop-gap wicketkeeper Hughes who took a good catch. The Mumbai batsman hit six fours in his 47-ball knock. Rohit’s dismissal brought in Raina together with Kohli, but the run-rate dipped. It needed some aggressive bat-

ting from the young duo and Kohli set the tone by striking successive fours off part-time spinner Voges while Raina, who scratched around till then, stepped out and lofted Doherty over the straight field for his first six. The duo’s half century stand brought India back on track in the run-chase. But the dismissals in quick succession of Raina and Yuvraj Singh (7) for the addition of just five runs pushed India on the backfoot again. Kohli, who reached his fifty in 64 balls, was trapped leg before at the team score of 166 by Watson. After a brief partnership of 26 runs for the sixth wicket, Jadeja was caught brilliantly at mid on by Australian skipper Bailey. Then Dhoni lost his off stump to McKay in the 41st over at 196 to signal the end. — PTI

TENNIS

Djokovic masters Del Potro in Shanghai title defence SHANGHAI: World number two Novak Djokovic produced a magical display to overcome the ferocious hitting of Argentine Juan Martin del Potro and successfully defend the Shanghai Masters title yesterday. The Serbian triumphed 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (3) to complete a brilliant fortnight on the Chinese hard courts after he defended his China Open in Beijing last week. It was the 26-year-old’s 20th consecutive win in China. After Del Potro defeated world number one Rafa Nadal in on Saturday’s semifinals with some powerful hitting, Djokovic was eager to avoid giving the Argentine any room to find his rhythm in the early stages. The Serbian took command of the centre of the court, moving his taller opponent from side to side by taking the ball early and pressuring the Argentine’s serve with some crisp, deep returns. SO SWEET: Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates with the winners trophy after defeating Juan Martin Djokovic broke twice to race Del Potro of Argentina during their men’s singles final at the Shanghai Masters 1000 tournament. – AFP into a 5-0 lead before sixth seed Del Potro finally held for the first time Del Potro had break point on the points at 6-5 only for Del Potro’s to register a game. The Argentine’s ners as he opened up a 3-0 lead first serve per centage dropping to with an improved serve also pro- Djokovic serve at 2-2 only for the forehand to once again dig him out Serb to come up with a huge ace of a hole as he somehow hung on to 56 per cent as the pressure from viding cheap points. Djokovic, though, had three and hold before it was the turn of his serve and forced the tiebreaker. Djokovic’s brilliant returning told. But the Serbian’s renowned athDjokovic quickly wrapped up chances to break back at 2-4 but the Argentine to feel the heat. More pressure hitting from letic steel finally came through the set in 34 minutes but a rejuve- the Argentine’s monstrous forenated Del Potro fought back game- hand offered some clean winners Djokovic fashioned two break though as Del Potro, who won last ly in the second, turning the tables as he crucially held before serving point chances in the next game but week in Japan, finally appeared Del Potro came up with more fore- to tire. A careless forehand was on the Serbian with some power- out for the set in the next game. Neither man gave an inch at the hand winners to hold as the crowd pushed wide setting up match point ful hitting of his own. The 2009 US Open champion start of a tense third set where the rose in appreciation at the display which Djokovic took on the first scored a crucial break early in the hitting intensified as Del Potro of the two ATP Tour World final- with a backhand winner down the ists. Djokovic then had two match line to seal his 15th Masters title. set thanks to some booming win- sensed his first Masters title.

Stosur wins Japan Open OSAKA: Former US Open champion Samantha Stosur fought back from a first set loss to claim victory yesterday against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the Japan Women’s Open final. The 29-year-old Australian fired two aces in the first set and another in the second at the Utsubo Tennis Center in western Osaka. But she managed to defend only two of eight break points, while 19-year-old Bouchard aced once and saved eight of 15 break points. The victory in the 2-hour-and-13-minute match was the second title this year for third-seeded Stosur, who previously won the Osaka tournament in 2009. Stosur won in her only other trip to a final this year. She beat then world number

“The whole third set was give and take. I was break points down, he was break points down. Just in the important moments I managed to play some better shots than he did, I was fortunate and I

CHAMPION: Samantha

Stosur holds the trophy. – AFP

three Victoria Azarenka in Carlsbad in early August. The 35th-ranked Bouchard and Stosur, ranked 20th, faced each other for the ﬁrst and only time last April in Charleston, where the Canadian came out with a win when Stosur retired due to injury while trailing 6-1, 2-0. — AFP

am just really glad to win the title,” Djokovic said. Del Potro added: “I am very proud of myself. I did everything, I fought every single point but he is so good and I think he deserved to win.” — Reuters

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SPORTS

Vettel leads Red Bull one-two at Japan GP MOTOGP

Pedrosa wins in Sepang, Marquez on brink of title

Vettel’s Australian teammate Mark Webber ﬁnished 7.1 seconds behind in a Red Bull one-two with Frenchman Romain Grosjean taking third place for Lotus

SUZUKA: Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix yesterday but was made to wait for his fourth successive Formula One title after Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso finished fourth. The 26-year-old German’s fourth win at Suzuka in the last five years left him with a lead of 90 points over Alonso with four races, and a maximum 100 points, remaining. The next up is India on October 27. Vettel’s Australian teammate Mark Webber, who had started on pole position, finished 7.1 seconds behind in a Red Bull one-two with Frenchman Romain Grosjean taking third place for Lotus on a sunny afternoon at the Honda-owned track. “Ichiban (first), Ichiban,” Vettel shouted in Japanese over the team radio, whooping in delight after taking the chequered flag at the end of a race that hinged on his ability to do two stops to Webber’s three. “Great job, thanks a lot for bringing the car back, unbelievable. You’re the best team in the world. Thank you very much boys, I love you.” It was Vettel’s fifth win in a row, ninth in 15 races this season and 35th of his career.

FANTASTIC COMEBACK: Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, centre, ﬂanked by teammate Mark Webber, left,

and Lotus’ Romain Grosjean, celebrates after winning the Japanese GP yesterday. – Reuters

Asked on the podium about the championship, with the passionate crowd roaring in approval, he added: “Obviously we have a very good gap but we still keep pushing... it looks very good at this stage but it’s not over until its over.” Alonso, who became Formula One’s leading all-time points scorer, had no illusions about his chances. “Even if Vettel doesn’t ﬁnish all of the races I need to win nearly all (of them), so it’s a matter of time,” said the Spaniard. Storming start Webber always knew he was going to have a battle on his hands with his teammate but it was Grosjean who seized the lead with a storming start from fourth while both Red Bull drivers were slow to react. Vettel made contact with Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes, with the Briton ﬁrst suffering a puncture that sent him to the back of the

field and then retiring. “The floor was destroyed... I was a second and a half to two seconds off the pace and the car was pulling to the right. It’s a good job they pulled me in,” said the 2008 world champion. The Red Bull emerged unscathed, with the team reassuring a concerned Vettel, and the German settled into third place at the end of the opening lap. “A horrible start and then a fantastic comeback,” declared the beaming Vettel, who took the lead for the first time on lap 13 after Grosjean and Webber had pitted. The lead changed between the three over the race according to pitstops with Webber making his final stop 11 laps before the finish. The Australian had hoped to claw back the deficit but could not get past Grosjean until the penultimate lap, by which time Vettel was nine seconds clear and out of reach.

“Mark was going through the tyres a bit quicker and getting into trouble earlier,” said Red Bull principal Christian Horner. “It made a huge amount of pressure on the two-stop and would have been very difficult to beat Grosjean so we switched from two to three. “Unfortunately we lost too much time at the end there behind Grosjean for him to have a crack at Sebastian but he (Vettel) just made the tyres last extremely well.” Kimi Raikkonen was ﬁfth for Lotus with Nico Hulkenberg sixth in the Sauber. Sauber’s Mexican Esteban Gutierrez became the ﬁrst rookie driver to score a point this season with seventh place for Sauber. Nico Rosberg put some points on the board for Mercedes, who slipped further behind Ferrari in third place in the championship, with Britain’s Jenson Button ninth for McLaren. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was 10th. - Reuters

SEPANG: Spain’s Dani Pedrosa won the Malaysian Grand Prix for the second year in a row yesterday but his compatriot Marc Marquez finished second to move to the brink of clinching the MotoGP title in his rookie season. Pedrosa, nursing a badly injured hip from a crash he blamed on a collision with Marquez that ended his race in Aragon two weeks ago, made a point to his Honda team mate with a dominant ride to claim his third victory of the season. Marquez, though, prevailed in a fierce battle with his closest title rival, world champion Jorge Lorenzo, and passed the Yamaha rider with 11 laps remaining to claim the 20 points awarded for second place. Victory for Marquez next week at Phillip Island in Australia combined with anything worse than second place for Lorenzo, who finished third ahead of Valentino Rossi, would hand the 20-year-old the world title with two races to spare. Marquez said claiming the points for the championship race at the sweeping Sepang International Circuit had been more important than pushing for a seventh victory of the season. “We had a great battle with Jorge and Dani opened up this gap,” he said. “And when I overtook Jorge, I tried to close this gap but it was too much risk. So I said, ‘Okay, I will finish second, I will lead with 43 points and that

is enough after the Malaysian Grand Prix’.” Stronger Hondas With three rounds to go and a maximum of 75 points up for grabs, Marquez leads the riders’ standings on 298 points with Lorenzo second on 255 and Pedrosa third with 244. Marquez was handed a third penalty point of the season for his part in the Aragon collision but Pedrosa still clearly felt he had something to prove and raced off the second row past the pole sitter at the start. Lorenzo, aware that he would become less competitive against his compatriots on the Hondas as the race progressed, made an even better start and led until he was overtaken by Pedrosa on lap ﬁve. Marquez almost followed his teammate through but Lorenzo held his ground in a ding-dong battle until lap nine, when the championship leader came storming up the inside. By this time, though, Pedrosa had already established a strong lead and he crossed the line an impressive 2.757 seconds ahead of the ﬁeld. “Great feeling to be back and to win this race after the huge crash, physically it was very hard,” said the 28-year-old. “It was not an easy week, I wasn’t really able to get out of bed but came back strong to win this one for my fans and for my team.” - Reuters

CRICKET

ISC post ﬁve-wicket victory

D DIVISION: Fairtrade after their victory over Muscat Electronics. – Supplied photos

MUSCAT: Indian Social Club (ISC) recorded a ﬁve-wicket win against Al Saigh in a high-scoring Khimji Ramdas-sponsored ‘B’ Division 30 overs-a-side match on Friday. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Al Saigh were precariously placed but Chetan Sharma (52, 26b, 4x6 and 4x4) and Ahmad Jamil (64, 38b, 4x6 and 4x4) put on 82 runs for the 8th wicket and help the score to 227 for the loss of 9 wickets in 30 overs. In reply, ISC scored 231 for 4 wickets in 28 overs with openers Pranav Mehta (70) and Nishit Punja (55) setting the platform with a 89-run partnership. Brief scores: Al Saigh 227 for 9 in 30 overs (Ahmad Jamil 64, Chetan Sharma 52, Sanjit Kanojia 24; Druvin Shetty 3/32 and Mohan Kannan 3/38) lost to ISC 231 for 4 in 28 overs (Pranav Mehta 70, Nishit Punja 55, Ansar Raza Ansari 39 n.o.; Pratik Shettigar 25; Puneet Singh 2/38). Points: ISC - 4 pts (3 games, 9 pts), Al Saigh - Nil (2 games, Nil).

Easy for Fairtrade Opening batsman Pradeep Nair scored a brilliant 111 (60b, 6x6 and 10x4) whilst Sanoj Abdu returned with ﬁgures of 6 for 20 to help Fairtrade register a 36-run

win against Muscat Electronics in a Raha Poly Products-sponsored ‘D’ Division T20 match. Brief scores: Fairtrade 189 for 4 in 20 overs (Pradeep Nair 111, Ibrahim Kutty 41) bt Muscat Electronics 153 all out in 18 overs (Krishna Chaitanya 63, Sajith Pillai 25; Sanoj Abdu 6/20, Pradeep Nair 2/23). Points: Fairtrade - 2 pts (3 games, 4 pts), Muscat Electronics - Nil (3 games, 4 pts).

Renaissance down PDORC In an Al Ansari Group of Companies-sponsored ‘C’ Division T20 match, Renaissance defeated PDORC by five wickets. Opting to bat first, PDORC managed to reach 162 for 7 wickets in 20 overs with a top score of 51 from Mazhar Javed. In reply, Renaissance reached 165 for five in 19.1 overs. Brief scores: PDORC 162 for 7 in 20 overs (Mazhar Javed 51, Naveed Majeed 39 and Syed Taha 22; Chadith Lakmal 3/25) lost to Renaissance 165 for 5 in 19.1 overs (Imran 41 n.o., Rana Zeeshan 37 n.o., Sajeed Ahmed 34, Abdul Qudoos 29; Mohammed Riyaz 2/30). Points: Renaissance - 2 pts, PDORC - Nil.

L&T edge Arrow Overseas Larsen & Toubro (L&T) registered a one wicket win against

C DIVISION: Renaissance celebrate their win over PDORC.

Arrow Overseas in a low scoring ‘D’ Division T20 match. After deciding to bat ﬁrst, Arrow Overseas were bowled out for 123 off 17.4 overs. L&T reached 125 for the loss of 9 wickets. Brief scores: Arrow Overseas 123 all out in 17.4 overs (Abin Plavilayil 47; Sarath K.V. 3/19, Sunil Chauhan 2/6 and Manu Mohanan 2/11) lost to L&T 125 for 9 in 19.1 overs (Sunil Chauhan 36, Althaf P.K. 30 and Arul Mozhi 22 n.o.; Vijay Madhav 3/15, Mansoor Ali 3/26, Tenson A. 2/32). Points: L&T - 2 pts (4 games, 2 pts), Arrow Overseas – Nil (3 games, 2 pts).

Mott MacDonald win In an Enhance-sponsored ‘E’ Division T20 match, Mott MacDonald defeated Times of Oman by 15 runs. Electing to bat ﬁrst, Mott MacDonald scored 176 for the loss of 8 wickets at the end of the 20th over. Times of Oman playing with 10 men were restricted to 161 for 6. Brief scores: Mott MacDonald 176 for 8 in 20 overs (Javed Tanasha 39 and Shubra Talapatra 24; Ovais Khan 2/21 and Jay Girish Makwana 2/38) bt Times of Oman 161 for 6 in 20 overs (Waqaz Mansoor Hussain 40 n.o., Mohammed Ayaz 34 n.o.; Ganpat Gawas 2/23 and Ritesh Lad 2/28). Points: Mott MacDonald 2 pts (3 games, 4 pts), Times of Oman - Nil.

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IMF RELAXES LOAN TARGET FOR JORDAN The ﬂood of Syrian refugees into Jordan has prompted the IMF to relax some of the targets linked to a $2 billion loan programme to the country, said a fund official. >B2

PUBLIC DEBT

UK COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION SLOWS Commercial office buildings, from left, the Heron Tower, 30 St Mary Axe, also known as ‘the Gherkin’, the Leadenhall building, also known as the ‘Cheesegrater,’ Tower 42 and 20 Fenchurch Street, also known as the ‘Walkie-Talkie,’ standing in London. UK construction output declined in August as a drop in infrastructure, public work and maintenance offset a surge in homebuilding to its highest level for at least three years. -Bloomberg News

BankDhofar proﬁt swells to OMR49m IN FIGURES The bank’s phenomenal 70.8% growth in

Net earnings from conventional banking showed a robust growth of 75.32% to OMR50.37m

Islamic banking incurred a loss of OMR1.31m during the nine-month period

Operating income stood higher at OMR67.02m from OMR63.32m

Operating expenses soared by 24.04% to OMR33.52m

net proﬁt for the ﬁrst nine months of 2013 at OMR49.06m is due to OMR26.1m the bank received earlier from primary court

Times News Service MUSCAT: BankDhofar yesterday announced a phenomenal 70.8 per cent growth in net profit for the first nine months of 2013 at OMR49.06 million, thanks to OMR26.1 million the bank received from primary court earlier this year after the country’s appeal court overturned a judgment relating to a 2011 case. The profit is against OMR28.73 million posted by the bank for the same period of last year. BankDhofar said net earnings from its conventional banking showed a robust growth of 75.32

per cent to OMR50.37 million, while Islamic banking incurred a loss of OMR1.31 million during the nine- month period. The bank’s operating income stood higher at OMR67.02 million from OMR63.32 million, while operating expenses soared by 24.04 per cent to OMR33.52 million during the period. EFG Hermes in a research note said that the bank reported a net proﬁt of OMR8.3 million for the third quarter of 2013 (1.3 per cent fall on quarter on quarter basis and 10.9 per cent decline on year on year basis) which was in line with its estimate.

The year-on-year decline in net proﬁt for the third quarter is mainly attributable to increased cost from Islamic banking and higher provisions. “Revenue growth, however, was relatively weak quarter on quarter, while compared to loan growth, which could be due to

OIL PRODUCTION

Opec crude output adequate to market, says UAE minister DAEGU (South Korea): Opec’s current crude production is “adequate to the market” and there is no talk of the group changing its output target of 30 million barrels per day (bpd) when it meets in December, the UAE’s energy minister, Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazroui, said. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps more than a third of the world’s oil, meets on December 4 in Vienna to decide whether to adjust its output target, said a news report. “There is no sign or something that we can tell you today to say we are increasing or decreasing the quota,” Mazroui told a news agency in an interview. “But what is certain is we will ensure the market is wellsupplied,” he said on Sunday in the city of Daegu, about 300 km southeast of the South Korean capital and the venue of this week’s World Energy Congress. The UAE produced 2.7 million to 2.8 million bpd of crude

last month, Mazroui said, but he declined to reveal this month’s production level. September output falls Opec’s September output was the lowest since October 2011, when the group pumped 29.81 million bpd, according to surveys, and leaves supply a mere 70,000 bpd above its output target of 30 million bpd. Opec again lowered the forecast demand for its crude in the fourth quarter and 2014 in a monthly report on Thursday, saying its production remained

higher than next year’s demand for its oil despite a plunge in Iraqi and Libyan output. Asked about the current level of oil prices, Mazroui said around $100 a barrel was “fair and sustainable” for producers, and it did not harm the market. Brent crude rose above $117 in August on the disruption of Libyan supply and the prospect of US military action against Syria. In the past four weeks it has ranged between $107 and $112 a barrel. Meanwhile, China’s daily oil imports rose to a record in September as the world’s secondlargest economy expanded and demand for energy grew. China imported a net 25.61 million metric tonnes of crude oil last month, according to ﬁgures on the website of the General Administration of Customs yesterday. That’s equivalent to an average 6.26 million barrels a day, 25 percent more than in August and 2 per cent greater than the previous record of 6.13 million barrels a day in July, data show. -Agencies

lower non-interest income and higher deposit cost mix.” “Operating costs stabilised during the quarter while provisioning surprised negatively as it went up 10 per cent on quarter on quarter basis,” added EFG Hermes. EFG Hermes also noted that there has been a strong deposit growth. Net loans and advances of BankDhofar also rose by 13.73 per cent to OMR1,886.05 million from OMR1,658.29 million. Customer deposits also showed a robust growth of 19.28 per cent to OMR1,906.14 million from OMR1,598.08 million. Total assets of the bank was up 17.66 per cent to OMR2,488.88 million from OMR2,115.34 million. These initial results are unaudited and have not yet been presented to the bank’s board of directors for their approval.

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US Senate to meet as path out of fiscal impasse still elusive WASHINGTON: The Senate was scheduled to hold a rare session yesterday as United States politicians grapple with how to reopen the shuttered government and avoid a potentially calamitous failure to pay the country’s debt obligations. With Republicans in the House of Representatives blaming US President Barack Obama for the collapse of talks on extending US borrowing authority, the Senate’s Republican and Democratic leaders scrambled to piece together a bipartisan exit strategy. The top senators showed an intensifying desire to end the twoweek government shutdown and ease the threat of default with just three working days next week before the US Treasury’s October 17 deadline for raising the debt ceiling. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Obama’s top wingman in Congress, said he held ‘extremely cordial but very preliminary’ talks yesterday with top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell. “Nothing conclusive” emerged from the pair’s first face-to-face discussion about the twin crises, Reid told reporters, downplaying hopes of a quick fix. McConnell suggested a bipartisan offer spearheaded by moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins as a workable template, but Reid rejected it. The measure would extend borrowing authority into 2014 and fund the government for six months, but it would also repeal a medical device tax introduced under Obama’s health care law. Democratic leaders were most concerned, however, with the proposal to keep the existing automatic spending cuts, a move that would put agency spending at $70 billion below what Democrats have proposed for fiscal 2014. World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim urged policymakers to avert the crisis. “If this comes to pass, it could be a disastrous event for the developing world, and that in turn will greatly hurt the developed economies as well,” Kim said at the close of the annual World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington yesterday. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde compared the effects of failing to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government to the 2008 global financial meltdown. “The standing of the US economy would, again, be at risk,” Lagarde said on NBC’s Sunday show ‘Meet the Press’. “If there is that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the US signature, it would mean massive disruption the world over. And we would be at

Barack Obama. – Reuters

risk of tipping, yet again, into recession,” she said, according to an advance transcript of the show. With negotiations with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in tatters, Obama called a snap meeting at the White House with the Senate’s Democratic leadership to regroup. “Their conclusion was that while Democrats remain united, Republicans have yet to coalesce behind a clear negotiating position,” a Senate Democratic leadership aide said after yesterday’s talks. “Democrats are willing to negotiate on anything Republicans want to discuss as soon as we reopen the government and pay our bills.” Obama on Saturday made clear that he wanted a long-term deal, rejecting a proposal floated by House Speaker John Boehner suggesting a six-week extension to US borrowing authority. “It wouldn’t be wise, as some suggest, to just kick the debt ceiling can down the road for a couple of months, and flirt with a first-ever intentional default right in the middle of the holiday shopping season,” Obama said in his weekly broadcast address. House Republicans fumed over the change of heart. “They felt they were duped,” Congressman John Fleming said of the House leadership as he exited from a Republican caucus meeting. “They were led to believe that the president did want to negotiate in good faith and now they find out that that was never in the cards.” - AFP

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MARKET Inﬂux of refugees prompts IMF to relax Jordan’s loan The fund will cut one percentage point from next year’s target for the central government’s deﬁcit combined with losses of the national electricity company, originally set at 7.2% of economic output

DUBAI: The flood of Syrian refugees into Jordan has prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to relax some of the targets linked to a $2 billion loan programme to the Arab country, said a fund official. The IMF agreed to cut one percentage point from next year’s target for the central government’s deficit combined with losses of the national electricity company, originally set at 7.2 per cent of economic output, said Kristina Kostial, the fund’s Jordan mission chief on Saturday. She spoke after Jordan and the IMF reached a staff-level agreement that would pave the way for the third tranche of the loan programme, or about $258 million. While the government will continue to raise electricity tariffs next year, the increases “are less ambitious than we had envisaged in the programme, so we are relaxing that,” Kostial told reporters in a briefing in Washington. Jordan’s economy, the smallest in the Middle East after Bahrain, has been hurt by the burden of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the civil war in neighbouring Syria. The government sought IMF assistance after repeated disruptions of natural gas supplies from Egypt and a slowdown in economic growth hurt public finances. Jordan depends on imports to meet almost all of its energy needs.

Galfar lists rights shares on MSM MUSCAT: Galfar Engineering and Contracting Company said its rights issue shares have been listed on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) yesterday. The increase in the number of shares was 47,468,761, subscribed as rights issue. The increase in number of shares is divided by 14,850,000 preferential voting rights shares and 32,618,761 ordinary shares, a company statement posted on MSM website said. The total number of shares offered on rights basis was 49.5 million and the subscribed portion was 47.469 million.

A’saffa Foods proﬁt soars

As part of the programme, the government started to lift energy subsidies. Aid from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, has helped boost foreigncurrency reserves to $10.7 billion.

MUSCAT: A’saffa Foods said its consolidated sales for the nine month period of 2013 soared 17.4 per cent to OMR21.48 million from OMR18.3 million for the same period of last year. The consolidated net proﬁt of OMR5.04 million has been achieved for the nine months of 2013, registering an increase of 47.27 per cent.

US guarantees Jordan’s gross domestic product expanded 2.8 per cent in the ﬁrst half of this year and is set to accelerate between 3 per cent and 3.5 per cent through the end of 2014, the IMF said. The yield on Jordan’s $750 million bonds due in 2015 has plunged about 1 percentage point this year to 3.97 per cent on October 11, according to data. The kingdom hired JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and HSBC Holdings to manage the sale of $1.25 billion in US-guaranteed Eurobonds. The sale has been delayed because of the US budget impasse, Kostial said. “This is the only thing which is holding this off, otherwise this could have happened already,” she said. Jordanian and American ofﬁcials have discussed the possibility of a second US guarantee next year. - Bloomberg News

Beijing Engg. plans $1.3b Manchester business hub

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CONCESSION: Jordan’s economy, the smallest in the Middle East after Bahrain, has been hurt by the

burden of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees ﬂeeing the civil war in neighbouring Syria. The government sought IMF assistance after repeated disruptions of natural gas supplies from Egypt and a slowdown in economic growth hurt public ﬁnances. – Bloomberg News

BEIJING: Beijing Construction Engineering formed a venture with Manchester Airports Group and other partners to build an international business district in the UK’s secondbiggest city. The buildings on the 150-acre (61-hectare) site in the north of England will be worth about £800 million ($1.3 billion) when they’re completed and fully leased, the partners said in a statement today. Carillion and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund are also part of the project, known as Airport City. It will create as many as 16,000 jobs and the development will be managed by Argent, the group said. - Agencies

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Walmart-Bharti break-up exposes pitfalls of business in India NEW DELHI: The divorce between United States giant Walmart and its Indian partner, the latest in a string of foreign corporate alliances to founder, will have a further ‘chill effect’ on vitally needed foreign investment, analysts say. Citing restrictive foreign investment rules, the world’s biggest retailer scrapped a partnership last week with Indian telecom heavyweight Bharti Enterprises and suspended plans to open supermarkets which could have tapped a potential market of 1.2 billion shoppers. Foreign investors are already spooked by worries over a number of issues — pervasive corruption, red tape, stop-start efforts to open up Asia’s third-largest economy, tax battles, decade-low growth and

a weak currency, analysts say. Strict regulations for outside firms include a requirement to source 30 per cent of goods from small industry — a deal-breaker for Walmart, which said the goal was impossible to meet. “This will have more of a chill effect,” Saloni Nangia, president of management consultancy firm Technopak, said. “From a destination perspective, foreign firms want to be in India. But from a policy and doingbusiness perspective, it’s different,” she said. Multi-brand retail “The government needs to make this country investment-friendly. So far it’s been pure posturing.” The Walmart-Bharti break-up is one of a long saga of unhappy end-

WHAT WENT WRONG? Walmart’s woes in India go beyond sourcing troubles, with Indian authorities probing whether a loan by the retailer to Bharti broke foreign investment rules. Both ﬁrms deny wrongdoing. Walmart is also under US scrutiny over its overseas operations amid bribery allegations — which it rejects — in Mexico, Brazil, China and India

ings to marriages between foreign and Indian partners, Nangia noted. “It can be mismatched expectations to blame, disappointing returns, government vacillation on implementing policies, legal and regulatory concerns, ambiguities about what can be achieved — sometimes a mix of elements,” she said. Walmart president Scott Price

said the company would “continue to advocate for investment conditions” that would allow it to invest in multi-brand retail while it focused on its wholesale operations in India. Many foreign ﬁrms had high hopes of India’s liberalisation drive and voiced strong interest in entering the country. But those plans have soured in the face of failure to im-

prove infrastructure, long approval delays, bureaucratic hurdles and graft — which has its tentacles in all sectors of the economy. “No company can operate without greasing a palm here or shelling out unaccounted amounts there,” said The Economic Times in an editorial. Corruption That issue has become increasingly crucial, especially in the United States, where laws like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act are making it tougher for India to absorb foreign direct investment (FDI). “Corruption is one of the most signiﬁcant challenges adversely affecting the Indian economy,” Toby Latta, head of Control Risks in Asia-Paciﬁc, said.

Walmart’s woes in India go beyond sourcing troubles, with Indian authorities probing whether a loan by the retailer to Bharti broke foreign investment rules. Both ﬁrms deny wrongdoing. Walmart is also under US scrutiny over its overseas operations amid bribery allegations — which it rejects — in Mexico, Brazil, China and India. “This scrutiny by their home countries is a big deal for foreign companies,” Alina Arora, a partner at Luthra and Luthra Law Offices, said. Alleged corruption led to Norway’s phone giant Telenor snapping ties last year with Indian partner Unitech after India’s Supreme Court revoked 122 mobile licences following charges they were illegally issued. - AFP

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MARKET Biggest banks can be dismantled, say regulators from US and UK thority hasn’t yet been tested, nor have the regulators ﬁnished telling banks how it will work. “We are prepared,” Murton said, adding that the agency is still trying to work out the difficult crossborder issues and will be even more ready in another year.

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act empowered the FDIC to seize a firm and dismantle it if regulators think it can’t pass through bankruptcy without posing a significant threat to financial system

WASHINGTON: Even one of the largest global banks could be taken apart safely by the United States government authorities if it were to fail today, according to banking regulators from the US and UK. A US plan for seizing and liquidating a major bank would work if necessary, although it would be messy, according to Art Murton, a senior Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) official in-charge of planning how to dis-

mantle complex firms, and Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker. They spoke on Saturday at an Institute of International Finance event in Washington. “I think US authorities could do it today — and I mean today,” said Tucker, who has worked with US regulators on cross-border hurdles to taking down an international firm. “A global financial system will not survive if we don’t crack this problem.”

Paul Tucker – Bloomberg News

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act empowered the FDIC to seize a firm and dismantle it if regulators think it can’t pass through bankruptcy without posing a significant threat to the financial system. This so-called resolution au-

GERMANY’S VIEW

Global growth risk shifts from Europe to emerging markets WASHINGTON: Germany’s top finance officials said risks to global growth are shifting away from Europe and towards emerging economies, while they expressed confidence that United States policymakers will overcome their divide over the budget. The euro region has left its recession behind and is no longer at the centre of attention of crisis-fixing efforts, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann told reporters in Washington yesterday. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, after holding talks with his US counterpart Jacob J. Lew, said he hopes that the budget standoff in the US will be solved in coming days. “We’re no longer the main worry for the world economy, at least not in the short run,” Schaeuble said after the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund )IMF) and the World Bank. “Risks have shifted somewhat in the direction of emerging countries, where growth has slowed.” Emerging market bonds and currencies fell earlier this year as US Federal Reserve officials signalled they may soon start to taper their $85 billion asset-purchase programme. The IMF’s steering committee today said volatility in capital flows and financial markets has created ‘new challenges’ for some emerging market economies. “There’s been a broad consensus here in deliberations that we have to look more closely at the interests and problems of the emerging countries because at the moment they represent a bigger potential risk,” Schaeuble said. The IMF cut its global growth forecast for this year and next last

We’re no longer the main worry for the world economy, at least not in the short run. Risks have shifted somewhat in the direction of emerging countries, where growth has slowed Wolfgang Schaeuble Finance minister, Germany

week and predicted developing economies will grow 4.5 per cent in 2013, compared to a July prediction of 5 per cent. Emergingmarket stocks fell the most in a week October 11. Banking union Weidmann said the interest in Europe during the meetings centered mostly on institutional changes, especially progress on building the region’s banking union, the conduct of asset quality checks and stress tests for lenders, as well as the removal of ‘legacy burdens’ in the banking sector that has to be completed before

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supervision by the European Central Bank can start. Schaeuble has repeated the German government’s stance that the European Commission’s bank resolution proposal is on shaky legal ground and could endanger national control of budgets. European Union ﬁnance ministers will have another chance to discuss the plan next week in Luxembourg. “We will continue work on the Single Resolution Mechanism,” Schaeuble told reporters late yesterday, noting that IMF proposals for institutional changes in Europe sometimes lack knowledge of the union’s treaty foundations. “We need an agency solution on the basis of Article 114, with cooperation between national institutions. There won’t be a European backstop, but national backstops.” Next government Schaeuble has said the next German government, probably led by Chancellor Angela Merkel for a third time, won’t stray from the path of reforms in the EU, suggesting there’ll be continuity in Germany’s Europe policies irrespective of whether Merkel will rule with the Social Democrats or the Greens. Merkel’s bloc will meet SPD negotiators on October 14 and will convene again with the Greens on October 15, CDU secretarygeneral Hermann Groehe said. Schaeuble said yesterday the new government could be ready by mid-November, which contrasts with concerns among some negotiators that talks could drag on until the start of 2014. In the US, Senate Republicans yesetrday blocked Democrats’ plan to suspend the debt ceiling through 2014. - Bloomberg News

Written description The FDIC is poised to release a written description of how it would liquidate such a ﬁrm, using what’s known as a single-entry approach to take over its holding company, impose losses on shareholders and let healthy subsidiaries stay open. Government officials and bankers alike have called for a process that will assure markets that the largest banks won’t need future bailouts and are no longer too big to fail. “People are not going to trust banks if they feel that we continue to socialize our losses and

walk away when things blow up,” Deutsche Bank co-chief executive Anshu Jain said. “Too big to fail has to be addressed, and that cannot be done by banks alone. We need regulators. We need countries to sit down and work out the very complex legal framework.” Tucker, who is leaving the Bank of England, repeated an earlier statement that the UK is prepared to step aside if the US starts resolving a big domestic bank with a UK presence. “We, the UK, need a reciprocal agreement from United States authorities,” he said, adding that he understands the UK approach should be further settled before it can expect “that reciprocal statement of principal.” While US regulators hammer out this last-resort scenario for handling bank failures, the law says the global banks have to ﬁgure out how to go bankrupt safely. Dodd-Frank required banks to ﬁle so-called living

wills, which are meant to describe how a major bank could undergo bankruptcy without damaging the financial system. If the FDIC and Federal Reserve aren’t satisfied that the big banks are prepared for their own safe demise, the companies could be forced by the regulators to restructure or sell off pieces. The biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, filed a second round of the plans earlier this month. The first round last year fell short of what regulators need to see, according to Jim Wigand, who stepped down this year as the FDIC official. -Bloomberg News

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A lonely planet ﬂoating through space without a companion star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers who said that it is the ﬁrst planet to be found without a sun. >B8

of the Dell. The LED lasts 30,000 hours, the company says. A good package over all.

he world is discovering LED lights, and for good reason. They last 25 times as long as regular bulbs, they use a fraction of the power, they don’t get as hot and they’re very rugged. They’re cropping up everywhere: in homes, flashlights, car headlights, flat-panel TV screens, movie lights and Christmas lights. And now, finally, projectors. Projectors are amazing these days — the ones in corporate boardrooms, the ones in home theaters and the ones that fulfill both functions. But most still have a regular old light bulb inside. A very, very bright one that gets very, very hot and costs very, very much to replace — maybe $300 or $400. And that’s after about 2,000 hours of use. If you could replace that hot, expensive bulb with LED lights, you’d use half as much power, so you’d be polluting less. Because it would need less cooling, your projector could be much smaller and lighter. Features Above all, you’d never have to replace the bulb. The LED projectors in this roundup are rated at 20,000 hours or more - at least 10 times the life of a regular bulb. That’s long enough for you to watch a different movie every night for 27 years, or the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy twice. I tried out seven LED projectors priced at $1,000 or less. Each comes with carrying case and remote control. Each offers every conceivable input — VGA so you can plug in your laptop, HDMI for Blu-ray players and game consoles, USB and memory-card slots. All produce a 1,280-by-800-pixel image. A few, with the purchase of a Wi-Fi adapter, can

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display videos and slides wirelessly from a phone, tablet or laptop. These LED projectors tend to fall into two categories, mobile projectors and business projectors. Here’s what stands out among the mobile LED projectors: Dell M115 ($520) At about 4 inches square and 13 ounces, this 450-lumen model is the smallest and lightest projector in the roundup. You could cover it up with a hamburger. And yet this tiny, black plastic Dell is among the best mobile projectors. The picture is bright and the colors are true, especially in the dark. The buttons on the projector light

up when you touch them, which is useful, but their labels are dark gray on black, and therefore pretty much impossible to read. The slot accommodates only Micro SD cards, not standard ones. And a remote is $25 extra (booooo!). Aaxa Showtime 3D ($450) This 450-lumen projector offers cheap black plastic, inscrutable no-words menu system, no card slot, orangy skin tones and bursts of blotch in fast scene changes. Not impressed. InFocus IN1144 ($540) It’s another small black box - very small - this time offering 500 lumens and a good picture. At 1.8 pounds, it’s got more than twice the heft

Elmo Boxi ($630) Elmo (no relation to the red Muppet) is best known for its overhead projectors and cameras, like the ones from biology class in 1975. This attractive, white 300-lumen projector is a super short-thrower. You can put it very close to the wall or screen (3 feet) and get a surprisingly big image (50 inches). Remarkably, Wi-Fi is built in; once you install the free iPhone or Android app, or Windows program, you can project images and Office files wirelessly. If you can figure it out, that is; the documentation and user interface are horrible. The second category, LED business projectors, gives you more of everything — weight, cost and size. You won’t fit one of these in your pocket unless you live at the top of a beanstalk in the sky. But you also get more brightness, image quality and polish. All three offer automatic keystone adjustment, where a built-in level sensor tells the projector how to make the image perfectly rectangular automatically. Optoma ML1000 ($1,000) A thousand bucks for a thousand lumens. It’s a standard rectangular box, but its cool design makes it look like a wedge. Weirdly, there are no buttons on the projector, only a laptopstyle trackpad. You point and click your way through the menus. It works. The image is excellent. Like several of these projectors, this one is ‘3-D compatible’, which means very little; you’d have to buy both 3-D glasses and a “quad-buffered graphics card” for your PC. And then find

something to watch in 3-D. Viewsonic PLED-W500 ($600) This puppy looks almost exactly like a laptop. It feels infinitely more businesslike and well designed than its mobile-projector rivals, right down to the super-convenient laser pointer that’s built into the remote. The buttons on the projector light up, there’s one gigabyte of built-in storage and there’s no power brick on the cord. An Eco mode is available. It dims the image by 20 per cent, but extends the LED life by 50 per cent. This model and the Casio, next, offer fantastic features like Zoom (makes the picture bigger or smaller without having to move the projector) and buttons that blank the screen or freeze the frame. Casio XJ-A141 ($1,000) There’s something fishy going on here. This projector creates a truly cinematic 2,500-lumen image, ridiculously bright and clear and true, even when the lights are on. How could this one model be so much better than all of its rivals? Casio says that it uses a hybrid laser/LED system that nobody else has, but you still get the longevity, energy, heat and reliability benefits of LED. Well, whatever. This baby rocks. It’s loaded with features — Eco mode, automatic keystone correction, password protection, auto-on when you plug it in — and it looks slim and fantastic. The Casio’s the clear winner among the pro models; the InFocus strikes the best image/size ratio; the Dell is a mighty mini. LED has always been a bright idea. It’s about time that lovely light reaches the big screen. - DAVID POGUE/ The New York Times News Service

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A disaster resistant backup drive THE SIMPLE ARGUMENT FOR cloud backup services is that if your house burns down, all your physical backup drives burn with it. The argument against cloud backup services is that they are expensive and slow — it can take days to upload the contents of a modest computer. The ioSafe N2 backup drive aims to provide more speed and lower cost than cloud services, while being just as disaster-proof. And to a degree, it succeeds. The N2 is a 28-pound tank of an external drive, built to protect up to four terabytes of data from ﬁre (or at least 1,550-degree heat) and water (or at least 10 feet of it for up to 72 hours). It puts two drives in a waterproof case that is wrapped in a chemical ﬁre retardant and packed inside a fan-cooled steel case. A black box about 12 inches by 9 inches by 6 inches, it’s not exactly a stylish desk accessory. The backup contains two drives, and

each copies the same data, providing another layer of safety. The drives range from one to four terabytes. The N2 plugs into a Wi-Fi router and takes data over the wireless network. That allows remote access to the data. And that is where the N2 may not appeal to people who worry about hackers compromising their cloud accounts. Putting the backup on your network makes it vulnerable to attack. But ioSafe makes another waterproof and ﬁreproof backup called the Solo, which wires directly to a computer without using a network. I was able to load 260 gigabytes of ﬁles in just under six hours, far less time than it has taken me to test cloud services in the past. But setup required help from the company’s tech assistance, as did gaining access to it from another computer. Whether it is a good deal compared to a cloud service is contingent on the particular service and the amount of data to be stored. The N2, depending on the size of the drives and extras, like extended insurance, can cost $900 to $3,750. By comparison, Carbonite cloud service costs $1,100 a year for a business subscription with 1 terabyte of storage. If the worst happens and your N2 is burned or drowned, ioSafe includes up to $2,500 worth of data recovery services in its one-year guarantee.

App to create your movie-star photo ONE REASON CELEBRITIES LOOK polished in photos is that there are Photoshop artists to smooth every wrinkle, minimise every pore and erase every blemish. The rest of us? We have to live with

A little monster in need of a hug WHEN TICKLE ME ELMO WAS WH

poorly lighted mobile phone selfies. An app called Facetune helps you look k your Hollywood best, even in photos takken on mobile phones. The app, available le on the iPad and iPhone, has taken the he tools most commonly used by Photoshop p experts and made them simple to use. e. Touch the button for ‘Whiten’, rub your ur finger over your subject’s teeth, and voilà! à! A Julia Roberts-quality smile. Other tools let you to remove blemmishes, diminish dark circles, smooth skin n and create many effects that normally take ke considerable Photoshop training to master. r. Familiarity with Photoshop will probably ly help you understand Facetune — you’ll allready know what buttons like ‘Patch Tool’ ol’ do, for example. But even if you don’t have ve that knowledge, you will be fine. When you u select a tool, you get simple instructions on n how to use it. If that is not enough, there are re links to videos with step-by-step instrucctions on how to how to use the tools and d achieve different effects. In addition to basic primps, there are re filters that imitate different combinaations of film and photographic paper er as well as filters that add lighting efffects, so you can make a picture intoo a 1950s-style black and white glamour ur shot, for instance. With just a few minutes and some basic ic touch-ups I was able to vastly improve a sample photo that Facetune provides for or practice. Now there is no excuse not too look your best, even on Facebook.

relea released in 1996, demand for the toy created creat such hysteria that its name became insider shorthand for a hot holiday seller. selle Every year, analysts guess which toy w will be ‘the next Elmo’. Hasbro has been making Sesame Street-licenced toys like Elmo through its Playskool unit since 2011. And this year, Hasbro went big, releasing Big Hugs Elmo. But Hasbro also a returned to the innocence that made mad Tickle Me Elmo special. True to his name, nam Big Hugs Elmo hugs when you hold him close. The Th new Elmo also loves to pretend. Press Pres his left foot, and he invites you to join him in an imagination activity, like pretending to be an astronaut, a frog, a prete horse hors or a rabbit. Cradle him when he’s tired, tired and he will sing a lullaby and go to sl sleep. The toy is $60 and available on Hasbro’s e-commerce site and at retailers Hasb nationwide. natio Big Bi Hugs Elmo is intended for children age 118 months to 4 years, but does the furry little monster still have the allure among amo preschoolers that it did 17 years ago? Fortunately, a colleague invited me to he her daughter’s birthday party, so I had a chance to ﬁnd out. cha When I arrived, I found her apartment W ﬁlled with children ages 1 to 4, the perfect range. After Elmo was removed from the rang box, the children immediately perked up when they heard him talking. Parents held Elmo and introduced him to their child: some were fascinated by his anichild matronic mouth, some were delighted by matr with them, but some just his interaction i wanted a hug. want

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SUPERSTITION It is not an omen, it is probably a psychological perception

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SUPERSTITIOUS people do all sorts of puzzling things. But it’s not just the superstitious who knock on wood. From time to time, we all rap our knuckles on a nearby table if we happen to let fate-tempting words slip out. “The cancer is in remission, knock on wood,” we might say. In fact, it’s so common we often don’t think about it. But it’s worth asking: Why do people who do not believe that knocking on wood has an effect on the world often do it anyway? Because it works. No, knocking on wood won’t change what happens. The cancer is no more likely to stay in remission one way or the other. But knocking on wood does affect our beliefs, and that’s almost as important. Research finds that people, superstitious or not, tend to believe that negative outcomes are more likely after they “jinx” themselves. Boast that you’ve been driving for 20 years without an accident, and your concern about your drive home that evening rises. The superstitious may tell you that your concern is well-founded because the universe is bound to punish your hubris. Psychological research has a less magical explanation: Boasting about being accidentfree makes the thought of getting into an accident jump to mind and, once there, that thought makes you worry. That makes sense intuitively. What’s less intuitive is how a simple physical act, like knocking on wood, can alleviate that concern. In one study, to be published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General one of us, Jane L. Risen, and her colleagues Yan Zhang and Christine Hosey, induced college students to jinx themselves by asking half of them to say out loud that they would definitely not get into a car accident this winter. Compared with those who did not jinx themselves, these students, when asked about it later, thought it was more likely that they would get into an accident. After the “jinx,” in the guise of clearing their minds, we invited some of these students to knock on the wooden table in front of them. Those who knocked on the table were no more likely to think that they would get into an accident than students who hadn’t jinxed themselves in the first place. They had reversed the effects of the jinx. Knocking on wood may not be magical, but superstition proved helpful in understanding why the ritual was effective. Across cultures, superstitions intended to reverse bad luck, like throwing salt or spitting, often share a common ingredient. In one way or another, they involve an avoidant action, one that exerts force away from oneself, as if pushing something away. This pushing action turns out to be important, because people’s beliefs are often influenced by bodily feelings and movements. For example, other research shows that people tend to agree with the same arguments more when they hear them while they are nodding their head up and down (as if they were saying “yes”) rather than shaking it from side to side (as if they were saying “no”). Because people generally push bad things away, we suggest that they may have built up an association between pushing actions and avoiding harm or danger. This led us to speculate that when people knock on wood, or throw salt, or spit, the ritual may help calm the mind, because such avoidant actions lead people to simulate the feelings, thoughts and sensations they experience when they avoid something bad. To test this, in our knockingon-wood experiment we asked some people to knock down on the table and away from themselves, while we had others knock up on the underside of the table, toward themselves. Those who knocked up engaged in an approach action, not an avoidant one. Despite knocking on wood, people who knocked up failed to reverse the perceived jinx; if anything, their concerns were made worse compared with people who did not knock at all. Next we tested whether avoidant movements would have the same effect in situations free from the baggage of superstition. Instead of having participants knock down on wood after jinxing themselves, we had them throw a ball (also an avoidant action, but not one associated with a superstition). We conducted two studies, one in Chicago and another in Singapore. We found that the act of throwing a ball also reduces people’s concerns following a jinx, in either culture. Even pretending to throw a ball has the same effect as actually throwing it. While almost any behaviour can be turned into a superstitious ritual, perhaps the ones that are most likely to survive are those that happen to be effective at changing how we feel. We can seek to rid ourselves of superstitions in the name of enlightenment and progress, but we are likely to find that some may be hard to shake because, although they may be superficially irrational, they may not be unreasonable. Superstitious rituals can really work - but it’s not magic, it’s psychology. —Jane L.Risen/The New York Times News Service

M O N DAY, O CTO B E R 14 , 2 0 1 3

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMA SCHEDULE

BAHJA CINEMA Machete Kills (15+)- 3:00, 11:45 pm Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) (PG)-1:30, 3:15, 5:15 pm Badges of Fury (12+)-3:00, 7:15, 11.30 pm Escape Plan (12+) -9:15, 11:45 pm Diana -5:15 pm Rush -7:30 pm Man Of Tai Chi -9:45 pm; CP No:881 Runner Runner -5:00pm About -7:00 pm Qalb Al Assad (PG) (Arabic) 9:15 pm (From Eid day) Gravity 3D -11:30 am, 1:30, 3:30, 7:30, 9:30, 11:30pm Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:15, 5:30 pm Diana -5:15pm Rush (12+)-7:30pm Man Of Tai -9:45 pm Machete - 11:45 pm Escape 12:30, 9:15, 11:45 pm Badges of Fury 3:00, 7:15 pm About Time (15+) 5:00 pm

Escape Plan (Action) (12+) 6:00pm; CP No:915 Badges of Fury (12+) 2:00, 4:00pm; CP No:933 Rush (15+) 8:30pm; CP No:869 Machete Kills(15+) 11:00pm; CP No:912

3:00, 6:15, 9:00, 11:45pm PLAZA 3 Besharam 3:15, 6:00 pm Boss (Hindi) Cast: Akshay Kumar, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Hydari 8:45, 11:30 pm

Badges of Fury(12+) 11.30am,5:00, 9.30 pm; CP No:933 Escape Plan 2:30, 7:00, 11:30pm; CP No:915 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) (PG) 11:30 am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 pm; Diana -7:15pm; CP No:927 Qalb Al Assad (Action)(PG) 9:30pm: CP No:921 Man Of Tai Chi -11:45pm; CP No:881 (From Eid day) Gravity 3D -12:30, 2:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm Badges of Fury-4:30 pm Boss (Action /Drama) 6:30 pm PLAZA 2 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) (Animation ) (PG) 11:15, 1:15, 3:15 pm Diana (Drama)(PG) 5:00 pm Escape Plan -9:30, 11:45 pm PLAZA 3 (Gold Class) Badges of Fury, 2:00 pm Machete Kills 4:00 pm Rush -6:00 pm Boss -8:30 pm Gravity 3D -11:15pm

Naiyaandi -9:00 pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus -6:30 pm Runner Runner -2:30 pm Boss -4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (PG) CP No:929; 3:15, 5:15pm Escape Plan (12+) CP No:917 5:00, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 pm Art Of Submission (12+) CP No:892 3:00, 11:30pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus (Malyalam) (12+) CP No:939 3:00, 7:00, 9:30 pm Qalb Al Assad (PG) 5:15, 9:15, 7:30 pm; CP No:923 Insidious: Chapter 2 (15+) 11:45 pm; CP No:860 (From EID Day) Gravity 3D-3:15, 5:00, 9:00, 11:45 pm Escape Plan (12+) 3:00, 5:15, 6:45, 11:45pm Boss (Hindi) 6:30, 9:00, 10:45 pm Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D)3:00, 4:45 pm Qalb Al Assad (PG)-7:30 pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus (Mal) 9:30pm

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) -3:15, 5:15 pm Escape Plan -7:15, 9:30, 11:45 pm Badges of Fury -3:00, 9:30, 11:30pm Qalb Al Assad -5:00, 7:15pm Runner Runner -2:30pm Naiyaandi 4:15, 10:30pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus 7:00pm Machete Kills 9:30, 11:45pm Man Of Tai Chi 3:30, 5:30pm Besharam 7:30pm

PLAZA 1 Besharam (3:30, 6:30, 9:30 pm) PLAZA 2 Chennai Express (PG) Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone 3:30, 6:30, 9:30pm; CP No: 692 PLAZA 3 Grand Masti (Comedy) (18+) Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 pm; CP No: 815 (From Eid day) PLAZA 1 Boss (Hindi) 3:00, 6:00, 8:45, 11:45 pm PLAZA 2 Boss (Hindi)

(From Eid day) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D 3:30, 5:30pm Gravity 3D 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm Machete Kills 3:00, 11:45pm Qalb Al Assad (Action)(PG) 5:00, 7:15pm Badges of Fury -9:30 pm Rush -11:30pm Besharam -3:30pm

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) -3:00, 5:00 pm Qalb Al Assad (Arabic) 3:30, 6:45 pm Escape Plan-6:00, 8:00, 9:00 pm Besharam -11:15 pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus

(Malyalam-10:30pm (From Eid day) Gravity 3D -3:00, 5:00, 9:30pm Boss (Action -Hindi) 6:45, 11:15pm Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) (PG) 3:30, 5:15 pm Qalb Al Assad Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus (Malyalam) (Action)-9:30pm Escape Plan -11:45pm

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) -11:30am, 1:30, 3:30 pm Escape Plan -3:15, 5:30pm Badges of Fury -7:45, 9:30, 11:30pm Qalb Al Assad (Arabic) 5:15pm Man Of Tai Chi- 7:30 pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus (Malyalam) -9:30pm Machete Kills -11:45pm (From Eid) Gravity 3D 11:30, 1:30, 7:30, 9:30, 11:15 pm Machete Kills 3:30, 11:45pm Man Of Tai Chi (Action) (12+) 5:30 pm Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) 11:30am, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45 pm Badges of Fury -10:00, 11:45 pm Qalb Al Assad (Arabic) 7:45pm Escape Plan -11:30am, 1:45 pm Boss (Hindi) 3:45, 9:00 pm Dhaivathinte Swantham Cleetus (Malyalam) -6:30 pm

Machete Kills 4.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.55pm CP No: 1175 (15+) Escape Plan 3.00, 7.30, 9.45 & 11.55pm; CP No: 1174 (12+) About Time-1.00 & 6.00pm; CP No: 1130 (15+) Man of Tai- 2.00pm; P No: 1129 (15+) Qalb al Assad-5:15pm; CP No: 1129 (15+) (From Eid day) Gravity-12.00, 4.00, 6.00, 8.00,10.00 & 11.55pm ; CP No: 1174 (12+) Escape Plan -2.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.55pm ;CP No: 1174 (12+) Machete Kills-2.00pm; CP No: 1175 (15+) About Time-12.00pm; CP No: 1177 (15+) Switch (III) -6.00pm;CP No: 1182 (12+) Qalb al Assad-4.00pm; CP No: 1181 (PG)

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ACES ON BRIDGE

The one-two punch gives extra power

SUDOKU

5 8 7 2 3 4 8 9 7 2 5 6 8 5 2 1 9 7 6 2 2 9 7 6 3 6 8 1 9 7 4 3 8 8 9

HOW TO PLAY Fill the empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area. — Seven Galaxies

4 2 7 5 8 9

8 5 1 4 3 6

9 6 3 7 1 2

1 3 8 2 9 7

7 4 5 1 6 3

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5 1 6 9 7 8

2 7 9 3 4 5

3 9 4 6 8 7 2 1 5 1 7 8 5 2 3 4 6 9 6 2 5 4 9 1 3 8 7 Previous puzzle Solution

MARMADUKE

CROSSWORD

B I G NAT E

ACROSS 1 Not even one 6 Drained of enthusiasm 11 Kind of pancake 12 Reﬂections 14 Call it — — 15 River or mountain spirit 17 “10” actress 18 Goose egg 19 911 responder 20 Many millennia 21 Speaker’s platform 23 Whichever 24 — Karenina 25 Honda models 27 Type of vinegar 28 August kid, maybe 29 CD predecessors 30 New growth 33 University of Colorado site 37 Like the Sahara 38 Co. honcho 39 Bronte governess 40 Part of an ear 41 — Majesty 42 Apprehend 43 Memory amt.

44 46 47 49 51 52

No rocket scientist Diamond corner Exacting Tooth coating Ventures Unfounded report

DOWN 1 Gemini’s locale 2 Slanted print 3 Make a bet 4 N.Y. neighbor 5 Term of endearment 6 Pry open with a crowbar 7 Roadie gear 8 Telegraph syllable 9 For example (abbr.) 10 Prepare for stew, say 11 Black-and-white animal 13 Treasure hunter’s aid 16 Urges 20 Conclusion 22 Financially sound 23 Bustling

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commotion Ticket info Avg. size PC “brain” London lav Loose dresses Investigated Corduroy ridge She preceded Mamie

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Real go-getter Sketcher’s need Buck the system Movies Dog-owner’s shout “The,” to Wolfgang Poetic adverb Comic-book thud Ky. neighbour Greek “N”

Answer to previous puzzle

THAT well-known wit, A.N. Other, said, “The young man who stands on his own two feet has probably failed his driving test.” A bridge player of whatever age who failed to make a contract perhaps used only one line when two were available. In this example, South is in four hearts. West leads the spade queen. The defenders keep plugging away at that suit. After declarer ruffs the third round and draws trumps in three rounds, how should he continue? North, even though his diamonds are stronger than his clubs, was right to bid one club. Open one diamond with three cards in the suit only with exactly 4-4-3-2 distribution. South will lose two spades and one club, and might also concede a diamond. He has only nine top tricks: five hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. So, at first glance, it looks as though declarer needs the diamond finesse to win. And many players would drive down that road, failing with this layout. A better chauffeur first plays three rounds of clubs, giving the opponents the lead. If West takes the club trick, he is endplayed, forced either to lead a diamond into South’s tenace or to concede a ruff-and-sluff. So let’s assume East overtakes West’s jack with his queen and shifts to a diamond. Declarer plays low. Here, West must put up his queen, so the contract is home. But if West could produce the 10, South still has the finesse of his jack available. He is home when East has either diamond honor. — By Phillip Alder

3 8 4 6 2 1

BORN LOSER

WITH LOVE

EVA SUSAN ROY

DIGVIJAY SHUKLA

YASHMITH SHETTY

SHREEHARI G.

October 14, 2012

October 15

SAANVI SURESH

SARVESH SURESH

JOHN PAUL

SIDDHARTH ANAND

October 16, 2006

October 16, 2010

October 17, 2008

October 13, 2008

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H E A LT H C A P S U L E

M O N DAY, O CTO B E R 14 , 2 01 3

PRAYER TIMINGS

Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Isha Fajr (Tomorrow)

Y O U R B I R T H D AY

BORN today, you are a principled, highly intelligent individual for whom the ideas of right and wrong are not merely theoretical notions, but hard-and-fast, inflexible absolutes to which you bind yourself on a daily basis and which help you navigate through life in a productive, confident, morally sound way. You are always able to avoid the kinds of confusion that so many others are susceptible to when it comes to such things, and you cannot seem to understand why others may have trouble knowing where the line exists. As far as you are concerned, a person need only listen to his or her heart to know to know if he or she is in the right. You are a hard worker, and you will always see a project through to its completion even though it is difficult and may require a certain degree of sacrifice in the process. There is something rather oldfashioned about your work ethic, which doesn’t acknowledge the possibility of failure or of falling short of a goal. Also born on this date are: Lillian Gish, actress; Dwight D. Eisenhower, US military leader and president; Ralph Lauren, fashion designer; William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania; e.e. cummings, poet.

11.58pm 3.18pm 5.47pm 6.58pm 4.48am

Sunset Sunrise (Tomorrow)

5.43pm 6.04am

High tide Low tide

5.32am 11.36am

3.58pm 10.40am

FIND-IT-ALL

W E AT H E R

AIRLINES

lear to partly cloudy skies over Musandam governorate with chance of isolated rain, convective clouds developments with thundershower over Al-Hajar mountain and adjoining areas associated with fresh downdraft wind during afternoon, and early morning low level clouds along the coastal areas of southeastern coast. Mainly clear skies over the rest of the Sultanate. EXPECTED WIND: Along the coastal areas of Oman sea wind will be northeasterly light to moderate during day becoming variable light at night. Northeasterly to easterly light to moderate along the coastal areas of southeastern coast, and northwesterly light to moderate over the rest of

the Sultanate. SEA STATE: Slight over the most of Oman’s coasts with maximum wave height of 1.25 metres. HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY: Good over most of the Sultanate and poor during thundershower. THE NEXT 48 HOURS OUTLOOK: Convective clouds developments with thundershower over Al-Hajar mountain and adjoining areas during afternoon. Clear to partly cloudy skies over Musandam governorate with chance of isolated rain. Chance of early morning low level clouds along the coastal areas of southeastern coast.

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OMAN

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LIBRA L

Max 33 Min 29

[[SEPT. [S S 23-OCT. 22] A rival tests you. Give yourself over to the desires of a loved one, and you can make the most out of your evening hours.

Max 37 Min 28

Max 33 Min 25

Max 25 Min 14

Max 30 Min 25 Max 20 Min 9

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SCORPIO S A teammate is getting better and better at the game, but you can remain one step ahead of him and offer a few surprises as well.

SAGITTARIUS S [[NOV. 22-DEC. 21] Your personal affairs will inform your professional activities more than usual. You can indeed combine business and pleasure.

CAPRICORN [DEC. 22-JAN 19] Your expectations may be so weighty that it is virtually impossible for you to be completely satisﬁed. Little pleasures do count!

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI) QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (Route 36) Dept Destination Arrival Time Time 15:00 Quriyat 16:30 15:00 Sur 18:00 15:00 Jaalan 19:30

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WORLD Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Boston Cairo Colombo Frankfurt Hong Kong Istanbul Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur Lisbon Paris Perth Singapore Tokyo Toronto

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TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41) 06:30 Sohar 06:30 Buraimi 08:00 Buraimi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Buraimi 16.00 Sohar 16.00 Buraimi TO SINAW (Route 52) 17:30 Sinaw

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FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (Route 36) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily 05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily 05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily

08:50 11:00 14:30 15:45 17:40 18.35 20:20

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TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41) 07:00 Sohar 07:00 Ruwi 13:30 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 17:00 Ruwi TO SINAW (Route 52) 07:00 Ruwi

08:55 11:40 20:20 14:55 17:40 19:20 22:15

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To Yanqul (Route 54) 14:30 Nizwa 14:30 Yanqul

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To Yanqul (Route 54) 06:00 Nizwa 06:00 Ruwi

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54) 08:00 Nizwa 08:00 Al Araqi

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TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54) 15:40 Nizwa 15:40 Ruwi

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TO SUR (Route 55) 06:00 Ruwi 14:30 Ruwi

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TO MARMUL-SALALAH (Route 100) 07:00 Salalah 20:00 10:00 Marmul 20:30 10:00 Salalah 23:30 19:00 Salalah 07:40

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TO SALALAH -MARMUL (Route 100) 07:00 Ruwi 19:50 10:00 Marmul 13:15 10:00 Ruwi 22:30 19:00 Ruwi 07:30

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TO MARMUL (Route 101) 06:00 Marmul

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TO MARMUL (Route 101) 06:00 Marmul

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DUBAI TO SALALAH (Route 102) 15:00 Salalah 07:00

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AQUARIUS [JAN. 20-FEB. 18] You’ll be able to chart most of your day in a clear, organised fashion — but one episode later on deﬁes any sort of anticipation.

PISCES [Feb. 19-March 20] You are not wholly suited to the task that lies before you, but a friend can give you some pointers and you can acquit yourself well.

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SALALAH TO DUBAI (Route 102) 15:00 Dubai 07:00

ARIES [March 21-APRIL 19] It’s up to you to determine just what the true results of a given endeavour will be. Enjoy being in charge for a while!

TAURUS [APRIL 20-MAY 20] You are likely to be reminded of what is most important, though you may not be reunited with it for another day or two.

GEMINI [MAY 21-JUNE 20] Home is where the heart is, so fret not if you ﬁnd yourself far aﬁeld. You can maintain a strong bond with those who really matter.

CANCER [JUNE 21-JULY 22] You have your priorities in proper order, but there may be a few difficulties that result from an unexpected lapse in your thinking.

LEO [JULY 23-AUG. 22] You may have to pretend to be someone else in order to get around certain obstacles that are placed in your way by a rival.

VIRGO [AUG. 23-SEPT. 22] In your case, practice can indeed make perfect, or at least make it possible for you to score very high, indeed.

TO DUBAI (Route 201) 06:00 Sohar 06:00 Dubai 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Dubai 15:00 Sohar 15:00 Dubai

08:30 11:30 15:30 18:30 17:35 20:55

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TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily 07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily 07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily

TO DUBAI (Route 201) 07:30 Sohar 07:30 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Ruwi 15:30 Sohar 15:30 Ruwi

10:50 13:40 16:15 19:10 18:45 21:35

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FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily 16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily 16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily

LISTINGS

PHARMACIES Round the clock Al Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24783334; Appolo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24782666; Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24702542, Salalah: 23291635; Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra: 24503585; Ruwi 24811715 Muscat Region Apollo, Al Hamriya. Tel: 24787766 Muscat, A Seeb Market. Tel: 24421691 Muscat, Al Khuwair. Tel: 24485740 Muscat, Al Hail South. Tel: 4537080 Dhofar Region Muscat, Al Nahdha Road, Salalah. Tel: 23291635 HOSPITALS Al Amal Medical & Health Care Centre: 24485052 Atlas Hospital: Ruwi: 24811743/ Ghubra: 24504000 Al Musaﬁr Specialised Medical Clinic: 24706453 Hatat Polyclinic LLC, Ruwi: 24563641, Azaiba: 24499269, Sohar: 2683006 Al Raffah Hospital: 24618900/1/2 Al Massaraat Clinic & Laboratory: 24566435 Al Makook Medical Coordinance Centre: 24499434 Apollo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24787766, 24787780 Capital Polyclinic: 24707549 Badr Al Samaa Polyclinic, Ruwi: 24799760/1/2 Capital Clinic, Seeb: 24420740 Ceregem National Raak: 24485633 Dr Harub’s Clinic: 24563217 Elixir Health Centre: 24565802 Emirates Medical Centre: 24604540 1st Chiropractic Centre: 24472274 Hamdan Hospital: 23212340 International Medical Centre LLC: 24794501/2/3/4/5 Kims Oman Hospital: 24760100

24 Hrs Emergency: 24760123 Lama Polyclinic, Sohar: 26751128, MBD: 24799077, Al Khuwair: 24478818 Magrabi Eye and Ear Hospital: 24568870 Muscat Private Hospital: 24583600 Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Al Khuwair: 24477666 Al-Hayat Polyclinc LLC: 22004000 ROYAL OMAN POLICE Emergencies and inquiries: 9999 General Directorate of Passport and Residence: 24569603 Directorate General of Customs: 24521109 Traffic violations inquiries: 24510228 Public Relations Admin: 24560099 ACCOMMODATION Al Bahjah Hotel: 24424400 Al Bustan Palace: 24764000 Al Khuwair Hotel Apartments: 24478171 Al Madina Holiday Inn: 24596400 Al Maha International Hotel: 24494949 Al Fanar Hotel: 24712385 Al Falaj Hotel: 24702311 Al Qurum Resort: 24605945 Azaiba Hotel Apartments: 24490979 Beach Hotel: 24696601 Bowshar Hotel: 24491105 Coral Hotel Muscat: 24692121 Crowne Plaza Muscat: 24660660 Crystal Suites: 24826100 Golden Tulip Seeb: 24510300 Grand Hyatt Muscat: 24641234 Haffa House Hotel: 24707207 Hotel Muscat Holiday: 24487123 InterContinental Muscat: 24680000 Majan Continental Hotel: 24592900 Marina Hotel: 24711711 Midan Hotel Suites: 24499565 Mina Hotel: 24711828 Muttrah Hotel: 24798401

Nuzha Hotel Apartments: 24789199 Oman Dive Centre: 24824240 Park Inn: 24507888 Qurum Beach House Hotel: 24564070 Radisson Blu Hotel: 24487777 Ramee Dream Resort Seeb: 24453399 Ramee Guestline Hotel: 24564443 Ruwi Hotel: 24704244 Safeer Hotel Suites: 24691200 Sheraton Oman Hotel: 24772772 Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa: 24776666 The Chedi Muscat: 24524400 The Treasurebox Muscat Hotel: 24502570 AIRLINE OFFICES Muscat Airport Flight information (24 hours): 24519456/24519223 Aeroﬂot: 24704455, Air Arabia: 24700828, Air France: 24562153, Air India: 24799801, Air New Zealand: 24700732, Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 24701128, British Airways: 24568777, Cathay Paciﬁc: 24789818, Egypt Air: 24794113, Emirates Air: 24404400, Ethiopian Airlines: 24660313, Gulf Air: 80072424, Indian: 24791914, Iran Air: 24787423, Japan Airlines: 24704455, Jazeera Airways: 23294848, Jet Airways: 24787248, Kenya Airways: 24660300, KML Royal Dutch Airlines: 24566737, Kuwait Airways: 24701262, LOT Polish Airlines: 24796387, Lufthansa: 24796692, Malaysian Airlines: 24560796, Middle East Airlines: 24796680, Oman Air: 24531111, Pakistan International Airlines: 24792471, Qatar Airways: 24771900, Qantas: 24559941, Royal Jordanian: 24796693, Saudi Arabian Airlines: 24789485, Singapore Airlines: 24791233, Shaheen Air: 24816565, SriLankan Airlines:

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24784545, Swiss International Airlines: 24796692, Thai Airways: 24705934, Turkish Airlines: 24703033 MUSEUMS Bait Al Baranda: Corniche (seafront opp ﬁsh market), Open from Saturday to Thursday 9am to 1pm and 4 to 6pm Natural History Museum: Al Khuwair, Tel: 24604957, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm; Thursday: 9am to 1pm Museum of Omani Heritage: (former Omani Museum), Madinat Al Alam, Sat-Wed 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday 9am to 1pm, Tel: 24600946 Armed Forces Museum: Bait Al Falaj, Tel: 24312651, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm; Thurs 9-12pm and 3-6pm; Fri 9-11am and 3-6pm. Al Hoota Caves 24498258; Turtle Beach 96550606/96550707 Children’s Science Museum: Shatti Al Qurum, Tel: 24605368, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pm Oman-French Museum: near Muscat Police Station, Tel: 24736613, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thurs: 9am to 1pm Bait Al Zubair, Muscat: Tel: 24736688, Al Saidiya St., Muscat museum@baitalzubairmuseum.com Open from Sat to Thurs: 9:30am to 6pm. National Museum Ruwi: Tel: 24701289, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pm Sohar Fort Museum: Tel: 26844758, Open from Saturday to Wed: 8 to 1:30pm Thurs: 9am to 1pm Muscat Gate Museum: at Al Bahri Road, Muscat open from Sat to Wed 8am to 2pm

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EXTRA Scientists discover loneliest planet without a companion sun The free-ﬂoating planet is estimated to be around 80 light years away from Earth

lonely planet floating through space without a companion star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers who said that it is the first planet to be found without a sun. The cold, dark planet is about six times the mass of Jupiter — a “gas giant” planet — and is estimated to have formed just 12 million years ago, making it a mere infant in astronomical terms. Known by its code name, PSO J318.5-22, it was discovered about 80 light years away from Earth by scientists analysing data from the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope sited on top of the Haleakala volcanic mountain on the island of Maui in Hawaii. “We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this. It has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but it is drifting out there all alone. I had often wondered if such solitary objects exist, and now we know they do,” said Michael Liu of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who led the team. Since the mid-1990s, hundreds of “exoplanets” beyond our

own Solar System have been discovered using sophisticated techniques that usually involve detecting the decreased transmission of light as a planet passes in front of its sun. The lonely planet was found by a different method during a search for failed stars known as brown dwarfs, which are very faint objects due to their cool temperatures and have colours at the red end of the light spectrum. Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, and a co-author of the study, said: “Planets found by direct imaging are incredibly hard to study, since they are right next to their much brighter host stars. PSO J318.5-22 is not orbiting a star so it will be much easier for us to study. It is going to provide a wonderful view into the inner workings of gas-giant planets like Jupiter shortly after their birth.” Other telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii followed up the initial discovery with further observations in the infrared part of the spectrum. This conﬁrmed that PSO J318.5-22 was not a brown dwarf, but a young planet. — Steve Connor/The Independent

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Fully furnished apartments for Rent in Al-Khuwair and Ghubra. Contact 95113252 or 91138757

2 & 3 BHK ﬂat near Srilanka School in Wadi kaber 230 & 270 RO. Contact 92222922 Villa for rent at Amerat 5/1, 5bed rooms + Majlis, hall, 7 bathrooms, kitchen (with spilt units A/CS) for families. Contact 99203458 Luxurious 2 bedroom ﬂats available for rent in Mumtaz area.Way no 3358, building no -3940. Contact 24564460 / 61. Flat for rent at AL Khoud opposite pizza Muscat, 2 rooms, 2 toilets with kitchen all with split unit A/C. Contact 99356678

Store CBD Basement 285 SQM. Contact 99024730 Luxury shops spaces for rent at Al Khoudh Market area and Shop for rent at Wadi Adi area. Contact 93994401 / 93994402/ 93994403/ 24834644 Free Wi-Fi CBD area furnished room for non cooking bachelor, advance deposit. Contact - 99078540 Room for rent available in a ﬂat for executive bachelor at Azaiba behind Safeer Hypermarket with separate bath with cot & ac, rent RO 175 per month inclusive of water and electricity. Contact 96404166

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Available 2 bedroom ﬂat & 160 m warehouse & 1 showroom for rent at Honda Road. Contact 99316402 4 Villa in Aziba with sitting room & hall & 4 bad room & 6 toilets with AC 800 RO. Contact 99548999 1 and 2 BR Brand New Flats in Azaiba. Contact: 96793675 Deluxe Villa Al Khuwair 25, 6 Bedroom. Contact 98914157 1 and 2 BR Brand New Flats in Azaiba. Contact: 96793675

FOR SALE An Electrical Tools Shop in Al M’abeela Industrial area is for investment or sale. It has different stuff like fans, Lights and sockets. The shop has 2 new Labour clearances. # 98949690 / 92365667

FOR SALE

Oil paintings For sale. #99737812 For rent Flat at Al Hail North 3 rooms, 1 kitchen, 2 bathrooms. Contact 99353433 4 Villas in Azaiba sitting room, hall, kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 6 toilets with AC 750 RO. Contact 99548999 2 B/R Flat for rent at Al Khuwair Behind Sagar Polyclinic monthly rent OMR 300/-. Contact 97048700 Fully furnished apartment on rent at Al Khuwair OMR. 425/- per month, near Radisson Blu. Contact 99279300 / 92406715

Running Spare-Parts Shop for Sale in Wadi Kabir prime location. Contact: 93883482 Land for sale- 4000 Sq mtrs with 2500 Sqmtrs Builtup Area in two Story Building with Store and Staff quarters good for Hypermarket/ Marriage Hall etc at Wadi LawamiSeeb. Serious Buyers Only to Contact 99061408 Ready to function, restaurant for lease/sale in Barka at main high way for more than 200 persons capacity. Contact: 92912353

3 BHK Rex Road. Contact92144045 New villa at Al Khuwair 33, 6 bed rooms RO950/-Monthly. Contact 99443834 Flats, shops, basement location Ruwi area to MBD area, Honda road Hamriya.Contact 92433127 / 97293708 Flat in Wadikabir, Opp. Kuwaiti Mosque. Contact 93355300 Available 5 bedroom ﬂat with 5 toilets & kitchen for rent in Ruwi. Contact 99316402 Office space 136m in Ruwi. Contact 99316402

Steel Scrap, Old tyres, empty oil drums & batteries for sale at our Shanfari Readymix & Crushers LLC yard, at Azaiba. Interested parties may visit our site ( Sunday to Thursday ) and forward quotations in a sealed envelope, together with a deposit of RO 50/- & marked “ Head Finance (RMC) ”, P.O.Box 1099, PC 111, within 7 days. For details contact person : Mr. Shamsuddin – 99274321. (Office hours only). Auto parts shop Wadi Kabir for sale. Contact 95345345 Shop for sale at Ruwi, furnished for cosmetics and Electronics. Contact 99555021 / 96747880

Fully furnished residential ﬂat and fully furnished office with brand new office equipments for sale in Sohar. Contact 96948208 Cranes, 30 tones for sale. Contact 99209427 Excavator 35tons for sale. Contact 99209427 Well running Pakistani restaurant in Mabelah for sale. Contact 97204581 Coffee shop for sale with 8 clearances in Bidaya roadside-94369535/92174429 Generator for sale 890 kva Cummins Engine 350 kva Cummins Engine. Contact 95191258 Email: info@ibnzakwani.com

Office furniture for sale. Contact 93826090

Shop for sale in Ghala. Contact 96653000

2 running Shops, Al Hail South Electronics and Plumbing, A/C, Building maintenance buy one shop or both with or without clearance. Contact 94261767 / 97207440

Camp for sale Including Porta cabin, kitchen & Dining facilities with RO plant. For more information. Contact Nasser 99808067

Company for sale with 10 construction working available in Muscat. Contact 99555021 / 96747880 Beauty Parlour for sale Al Mawalh, with license. Contact 95020852 Barber Shop for sale Al Mawalh, with license. Contact 95020852 New A/C for sale. Contact 98255854 Shop for sale in Al Khuwair. Contact 97666421

Successfully running Gents Barber shop for immediate sale at Al Ghubra Contact 99728289

Shop for sale in Wadi Kabir two shutters. Contact 96607448

Shop with Bldg. materials at Al Amerat near Bank Dhofar. Contact 99011383

Twin villa for sale luxury twin villa for sale located in Mawaleh behind Carrefour. Contact 95729272

Shop in Al Hail South All type of Electronic sale & services, dish installation with or without clearance. #94261767 / 93853738

King size bed, good condition RO 40/-, sofa set (3+2+1), excellent condition, RO 150. Contact 96963167

Electrical, building material shop, behind Bank Sohar Ruwi. Contact 99359698 / 92139418 Industrial Land 5000 SQT. Contact 99323957 / 95490842 Well furnished building material shop for sale with out Materials at Honda Road Ruwi. Contact 99282007 / 24791313 Porta cabin and Container for sale. Contact 99373256 Industrial Land 5000 SQT with an Empty space in front of (opposite to Mountain). Contact 99323957/ 95490842

LOST Gangadharan Vijayakumar has lost Indian Passport No. K 7835393. Finder please handover to ROP

BUYING/SELLING We Buy all types of Wooden Scraps. mail- ahastco123@yahoo.com , Ph: 24458759/ 98539316/ 99318152 Portable A.C microwave oven etc. Contact 95213828 Good Quality Wooden Kicking blocks available 1.2 mtr & 2.6 mtr length. Contact ahastco123@yahoo. com , Ph: 99318152

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461 Fax: 24812624

SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT

GOOD NEWS

Party special decorative banners of any size (on foam sheet) for birthday – marriage& festivals (available only by advance booking) Haridas Nensey Supermarket –Ruwi. Contact 24750784

Toyota Camry 2009 model, Automatic. Contact 98523301 Mitsubishi Pajero 2009 model, Automatic. Contact 99467005 Daihatsu - Granmaz Van-Good condition. Contact: 99545895 / 95451313 Brand new 2013 Model Nissan Altima 2.5 S unregistered Raffle Car for sale. Contact 99817925 Mitsubishi Outlander, 51,000kms, 2010, lady driven, 3.0L, R.O. 8500. Contact: 96915042 2007 model Nissan pickup 5seater manual. Contact 24687132 / 94277208 Toyota Camry 2003 model1 year Mulkiya. Contact 93806625

2010 model White 1.8 L Corolla driven by Expat lady done 100000 km for immediate sale. Contact 99268075 / 96779185 Subaru legacy, 2006 Contact 99328414 Accent 1.6, 2007, Reg 4/2014, km 162000, central lock Airbag new tyres RO 1650/-. Contact 99630574 Mazda 6 sports 2004-model /300000 km, well maintained. Contact 96774668 Well maintained Suzuki Desire car for sale. Contact 96140131 Lexus ES -300 premium 2006, single Expat ownership, special number plate serious buyers please Contact 95213828

ACC. AVAILABLE Furnished single room for executive bachelor near Safeer hypermarket, Azaiba. Gsm 99761216 Big room AC + bath sharing kitchen for working ladies Wadi Hatat-2. Contact 95613189 Available sharing Accommodation for vegetarian small Indian family or Exe bachelor 2 rooms separate bathroom, sharing kitchen Honda road Junction RO 140/- Including E & W. Contact 99030692 Horizon gym building rent R.O 150/-with attached bath, Ruwi. Contact 92311039 Room with separate kitchen / Toilet Wadi adai. Contact 95166939 Oppo O.K. Centre. Single Room with separate Bathroom for Indian Noncooking Exe. Bachelor. RO.120/- incl. W&E. # 99502581 Oppo O.K. Centre. Single Bed space with attached Bathroom for Indian Non-cooking Exe. Bachelor. RO.75/incl. W&E. Contact 92605811 2 Bedroom for sharing fully furnished CBD area Ruwi, OMR 140. Contact 91081906 Fully furnished sharing accommodation for Executive bachelors at Wadikabir near Kuriya Muriya supermarket. Contact 96908303 Furnished room for non cooking Bachelor at Al Hail. # 92610769 Shared Bachelor accommodation available in villa at Rex road area, Ruwi Contact- 99013227 2 rooms, 2 toilets, 1 kitchen at Muttrah.Contact 92267370 / 92764487

ACC.WANTED Wanted – 1 BHK ( one bedroom , hall , kitchen in Al Khuwair area). Contact 99214058 / 99620307

Wattaya main road side, semi furnished one big room for working lady with internet & other facility. Contact 97700963 Non cooking bachelor or couple at Wadi Kabir. Contact 99014325 Single room for rent non cooking bachelor Rex road near Fathima rent 95 + W/E. Contact 95747799 Room available for Exe bachelor at Darsait (near Khimji). Contact 99096608 Sharing accommodation room with attached bathroom for small family or executive bachelor near Indian School Ghubrah. Contact 94478424 Furnished Bed Space available at Ruwi Mumtaz area. Contact 99189210 Room for Indian, Ruwi R/A. Contact 92581644 Fully furnished 1 BHK in Wadikabir is available for 3 months from December to February for family only. Contact 99748841 Room for rent in Ruwi. Contact 95372192 Sharing accommodation with attached bathroom, WIFI for a family in W/K. Contact 97167857 Ghubra furnished room + attached bath available. Contact 98267157

Festival special we accept orders for roses – marigold – lotus - jasmine mix colour flowers & Garlands made from Marigold flowers (available only by advance booking) Haridas Nensey Supermarket - Ruwi. Contact 24750784 FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know more about Islam, please call: 99425598, 96050000, 99353988, 99253818, 99341395, and 99379133. For ladies: 99415818, 99321360, 99730723 Orvisit: www.islamfact.com Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis, massage, steam bath, obesity, spondylitis etc. Ideal Care Ayurvedic clinic, Azaiba. Contact 99639695 Festival special fresh flowersdecorative deepaks - mitti pots (Garbas) – wooden & metal dandiya sticks - All pooja items-Idols- decoration Items& many more, available. Haridas Nensey SupermarketRuwi. Contact 24750784 Ayurvedic treatment for backache paralysis arthritis etc. & massage All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact 24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 Genuine Ayurvedic treatments &massage, ayuredic clinic AL Khuwair. Contact 24478618/ 97263637/ 97109295

MATRIMONIAL Nair Girl 32 years, Post Graduate, Anizham from Palakkad working at Muscat in a Private ﬁrm seeking suitable alliance. Contact 95046576 Kerala Nair Boy 40/175cm Divorced working as Manager post in a Business group Caste/ Religion no Bar. Contact 93563143 NAIR GIRL 24 years, Sudhajathakam from Palakkad, BA, B-Ed, born and brought up in Delhi working as Teacher in Delhi, looking for suitable proposal from the well educated Nair Boys. Call 99822803 38 years, unmarried male Keralite RCLC seeking alliance. Contact brother 99851123

NRI ONLY

Projects Administrator. A Telecom Support Services company is looking for a projects admin clerk. Candidates having office/projects coordination skills, good MS office knowledge and valid Oman Driving License, please send CV and Photograph to vacancies1@yahoo.com . Experience in HR/Accounts will be an added advantage. Job involves travelling within Muscat area. Gallery Administrator cum Marketing Assistant -1 female with experience for office management and good communication skills for newly open art gallery. Kindly forward your updated CV to ckabbott@stalgallery.com Wanted 1) Omani PRO- with English knowledge and experience, 2) DEBT Collector 3) Marketing Executive for TBR Tyre. Email CV to mohdautocentre@gmail.com or Call 24816774 Urgently required Filipino female with experience in Administrative function inducing accounts, clerical work & secretarial work. Email: hrdnff@mail.com

BEAUTY Required urgently Beauticians, prefer Gulf experience spoken English required. Contact 99321847 Beautician cum Hair Dresser. Contact: 99412085, 95204550, E-mail: muscathr@hotmail.com or upload to www.midastouchllc.com Beautician wanted Urgently for Beauty Parlour located at MBD area. Attractive Package offered. Contact 95194055

CATERING

Attached bedroom for family at Wadi Kabir. Contact 95345345

Urgently required the following position: - A person who have experienced in Restaurant Management, 1 experience Cook. #99364735 / 91214849, Fax 24712686 Email : silverworld2006@gmail.com

2 bedrooms, toilet. sharing kitchen, near star cinema. Contact 94136102 / 99263883 Furnished single room, attached bath in Mumtaz area. Call 99334770 1 bath attached room for executive bachelors or couple at Al Khuwair. Filipino preferred. Contact 99468015

ADMIN

Plot for sale Prime land of 15 cents for sale near Techno Park and the upcoming International Cricket Stadium, Trivandrum, Kerala. Contact 00968-92912353 Villa for sale brand new luxury villa for sale constructed by renowed builders 1600 SQ FT, 3 bedrooms with attached bathrooms near to Techno park, Trivandrum, Kerala. Contact 00968-92912353 Premium Luxury new Villas for sale at Ernakulam near by Choice Tower. Email northhailoman@gmail.com / northhailinternational@gmail.com / 99268075 / 96779185 3 BHK Flat 2400 Sq Ft, Ready to occupy,at K.R.Puram Bangalore. Contact 96568583

DOMESTIC HELP House maid(full time) Wanted Well settled Indian family looking for house maid. Visa & attractive salary provided for the right candidate. Call 99470969 for walk in interview Full time Housemaid wanted for Kerala family. Contact 99855203 Reqd urgently full time Indian maid for North Indian family in Al khuwair. Contact 92847702 Housemaid wanted for Dubai salary 1200 DHMS with food and Accommodation. Contact Iqbal 92372787 Wanted housemaid to work in Indian family, from 9 AM – 9 PM. Contact 96226787

*Classified Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject to space availability

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Required heavy driver, JCB & Excavator Operators with valid GCC license. Electrician’s ITI, Electrical Engineer & Diesel mechanic. Contact 99454425or Email: qamest@omantel.net.om

Required for a reputed medical center in Al Khuwair, Pharmacist, Assistant Pharmacist, X-ray Technician. Send CV to fax: 24488660 Email: bashayermedical@gmail.com

Urgently required experienced Driver. Contact 95396944

MOH licensed Indian/ B.D GP on RO1500/- (1000 + 400 + 100) and lab technician on RO400/- net for a clinic at Muttrah for immediate placement. Candidates who can join from 1st Nov contact immediately 92724345

Wanted Driver. Call - 24170076 / 98936716. Send resume: tthrteam@gmail.com.

EDUCATION Urgently required Female English Teacher for Omani girl, Location: Al Amerat. Interested candidates, contact: Email: aayip.bmd@gmail. com / 93211688. A Bilingual School in Muscat is looking for English Teachers Native speakers for primary section. Email jobsnelite@gmail.com Call 98462019

A licensed dentist is needed to rent a running dental clinic in Sohar (next to Sohar university). Contact 95603395

MISC Required ﬂoor tile ﬁxers in Sohar. Contact: 99853642 Required an Arabic spoken office boy from Kerala. Contact: 92345861

ENGINEERS/TECH SALES / MARKETING Urgently required Oman experienced Civil Foreman. Rush CV : to 24799791 or call 99860239 Mason, shuttering / furniture carpenters, steel ﬁxers, electricians, plumbers. Contact: 99412085, 95204550, E-mail: muscathr@hotmail.com or upload to www.midastouchllc.com Urgently required 11 KV Cable jointer with license with GCC experience. Send your CV : dsekar@gmail.com Urgently required Electrician cum Driver for Electrical company. Preferred Indians. Contact 94102728 mail: atlasllc11@gmail.com Urgently required Fire Alarm & Fire Fighting Technicians with 3-4 years experience, Contact: 98902333 Email fnstechjobs@gmail.com Urgently required Maintenance Engineer with minimum 5 years experience. Interested may Contact 99208506 / 92800809 Email: kevin@airmechoman.com Urgently required: Body-shop supervisor, Workshop Controller, Diploma in Automobiles experience 4 years. Contact: 97441929 / 97441935

Urgently required experience Key Account Salesman for food stuff, Household & Toys section. Contact Al Liusie Trading Est. Jafnain, near CCC. Contact 97138599 Email : info@alliusie.com Requires experienced Sr. Sales/ Marketing Executive experience in Construction/ Industrial & related materials preferred. Email digjaa@gmail.com Sales Executive with D/L for a reputed company in Oman (Fresh candidates, with D/L can also apply). Please send CV with photo to; emam@paramountmuscat.com Looking for Qualified Sales & Marketing Manager for handling Local and Export Market with Min. 8yrs experience in the field of Electrical & Building Material Products and should have valid GCC / Omani Driving License. Send CVs to vacancyinoman123@gmail.com Position vacant for Operations Manager and Sales Manager in a reputed landscaping company. Candidates with minimum 5 years experience in the related field and holding valid Omani D/L can apply with their CV + Photo to jobs.mgc13@gmail.com

SITUATION SIT. WANTED

MEDICAL Doctor with MOH license urgently needed, temporary or permanent, salary no bar. Contact 91197842 jmjmedicare@gmail.com Urgently need MOH License Doctor for a well reputed medical centre, Azaiba. Email sudheerrajan@gmail.com Wanted Staff Nurses (female) with or without MOH license for a polyclinic near Sohar, excellent Sohar Package. Contact 99006915, dxbclinic@yahoo.com Urgently required female G.P. Doctor, female Dentist, female Pharmacist, Gynecologist, male & female Ayurvedic Therapist, preferably with M.OH. License and local experience for a newly opened poly clinic in Mawaleh South. Send your C.V to ilhambc.llc@gmail.com or contact 97118121 / 99337991

Indian Male, B.Tech, 8 years Experience in Teaching & Admin, web developing ,c,c++,java,HTML,DHTML, programming,looking for suitable position. # 98290053,97068258 Email: vasanth.blessy@gmail.com Filipina, 29 years old nursing aide graduate with 2 years experience as hotel receptionist in oman and 7 yrs exp in Hospital administration.. contact number 97205586 Indian female, 24 yrs, having 3 yrs experience in Hospitality & HR. Presently working as Customer Care Executive in a reputed ﬁrm. Seeks suitable post. Contact no: 94288397, Email: rajeevrajan307@gmail.com Accountant 25 yrs male having bachelor degree, last 4 years experience in Pakistan of UAE base trading company, seeks suitable position of accountant. Contact 00923453285697

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Part time accounts / audit services. Gsm 99761216 Part time Accountant / Internal Auditor computerized and Manual Accounts, Driving own car. Accounts up to finalization. Contact Kumar 96414305 Accountant , Indian male B.com +7 years experience in Accounts, seeking suitable placement. Mob:93903458 , 93417249. Email:akkandyrijesh@gmail.com. Chartered Accountant from India, Post Qualification experience 21 years, working in Muscat since July 2011, at a Senior position in a group of SME’s, seeks suitable change. Contact 94201290 Email chakjain37@yahoo.com Seeking job with 2 years accounting experience in India, now in Oman on visit visa. Contact 97294281 Indian male 30 years Accountant, 5 years experience in Oman (Total 10) Tally ERP9, seeking suitable placement. Contact 99021031 Indian male 21, B.Com Graduate, knowledge in Accounts ( packages: Tally, Peachtree) seeking for a suitable post. Tel : +968-94123495, E-mail : zameelpv@gmail.com Indian male Accountant 29 yrs, 8 yrs experience, SAP Software 5 yrs Gulf experience (Oman) seeking suitable position. Contact 95619243 Indian male BBM Graduate, good in Tally & MS Office, seeking suitable opportunity in accounting, admin, store keeping. Contact 93018684 Email: jaideep1218mfc@gmail.com Indian male 15 years experience in Accounts and Admin, Looking for suitable placement. Contact 93867751 / 94213010 Indian male 22 yrs B.Com, 1 year exp with Diploma in logistic & supply chain management, 1 month visit visa, seeking suitable placement. Contact 95864519 Email binoypa@yahoo.com Part time Financing, Feasibility, business development/ restructure ERP, Costing ERP Finalization. Contact 98571309 Accountant Indian male 24 years B.Com, Tally, Peachtree 2 years experience in India. #93050561 Accounts part time / full time work, finalization works. Contact 96247295 Manager Accounts & HR MBA finance PGDHRM 10 yrs experience in India 14 yrs experience in Muscat Presently working in Construction/ Earth works co. in Muscat available to join immediately. Contact 91103856 Email newjobs13@yahoo.com Indian male Accountant 10 yrs exp in Oman with Driving license, seeks placement. Contact 91169487 Finance Accounts Indian male B.Com MBA 31 years, Exp 6 years. Contact 93257426 / 92365310, Email : sibigeorgep@gmail.com Indian male 13 years working in Oman as Senior Accountant with MBA in Finance seeking for suitable placement. Contact 95319707 Indian male 28 yrs CA, Intermediate 8 yrs experience in Accounts & Audit, seeking suitable placement. Contact 93455387 Accounts Manager, MBA Finance & PG Diploma in HR, total 24 yrs experience, working in Oman since 14 yrs now working in Oman forconstruction co. in Muscat, can join immediately. Contact 91387354, accounts242013@yahoo.com Male Accountant single MBA ICMPA (finalist) 6.5 years experience in finance accounting payroll audit, administration FRP,SAP,TALLY, seeking for good opportunity E-mail: faisalsaeedbana@hotmail.com Faisal Saeed : 97268088 Senior Accountant with 18 years experience in Oman having knowledge up to finalization with driving license. # 93769860 / 99609864 MBA (Finance) 3 years exp, Looking for accounts job. Contact 00968 94452163 Jordanian Senior Accountant 11 Years Experience, Worked In Constructions, Tourism Company and Poly Clinic, Experience in Tally Erp9. Contact 96470036

Accountant Indian male 28, B.Com, having 7 yrs experience in Finance, Accounting Audit & admin with good knowledge in Tally ERP 9 & Ms office, Currently in Muscat, Ready to join immediately. Contact 99101380 Email ravikris84@gmail.com Indian female 26 yrs MBA Finance/ HR, seeking suitable position on family joining visa. Contact 98511612 Email kichuthenu@yahoo.co.in Indian male 25 yrs MBA, Finance having one year experience in India, currently working in Oman as an Accountant seeking suitable position. Contact 91217825 Indian female B.Com, 6 yrs experience (3 yrs Gulf) experience as Office Assistant, Arabic speaking. Contact 94376201 Indian female- Post Graduate 12 yrs experience in Finance, Accounts with the knowledge of Tally, ERP 9 DCA, KGTE, MS Office, (working in Oman), seeking for suitable placement. Can join immediately. Contact 96694201 Email aswathiveni@gmail.com Indian male Accountant,B.Com with 6 yrs experience in Oman, seeks suitable placement. Contact 91057862. e_mail umct777@ gmail.com Indian male 31, B.Com, CMA-INTER, 11 years experience, very good exposure in ERP /ﬁnancial reporting and analysis, seeking suitable placement. Contact 93438100

ADMIN/HR Operations Manager Indian female M.Phil M.Sc university topper having 6+years experience in Healthcare sector (Apollo Hospitals), seeking job in operations/ Administration/ Public relation jobs. Contact 91387047 Female with 12 yrs experience looking for an opening in Administrative job. Contact 96393628

DOMESTIC HELP 25 yrs, male looking for office boy or House keeping job. Contact 97858190

DRAUGHTSMAN Autocad D/man, 5 yrs gulf experienced in Civil, Arch, MEP Survey PH : 92678819 AutoCAD Draughtsman 7 years experience in G.C.C, 5 years experience in India, seeking suitable placement. Contact 97332301 Email anilcharuvil@gmail.com AutoCAD Draftsman 4 yrs experience in darting & designing urgently seeking suitable placement NOC available. Contact 95208203 Email: anvarkhan848@gmail.com

DESIGNER Graphic Designer diploma holder – Coral draw, Illustrator, Photo shop, 3D Max, Flash with Oman D/L. Contact 98543702 / 99431708

DRIVERS Driver having 9 years experience in UAE, Oman seeks job. Contact 95687572 Bangladeshi Light duty Driver, looking for job 10 years experience. Contact 93170473 Light Driver seek job 1 year, experience in Oman. Contact 93141681 / 95808769 Office driver with car. Contact 95615642 Light Driver. Contact 98077981 / 98946925 4 yrs Experienced Indian Driver looking for job as driver. 93079087

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ENGG. / TECHNICAL

INFORMATION TECH

Pakistani female M.SC (Master) Biology having 15 years of experience of teaching biology & chemistry to grades IX to XII seeking for part time job .Contact 91280346

Civil Quantity Surveryor, Diploma in Civil Engineering, 2 years QS and site experience in building projects, looking for suitable post in Oman. Contact: 91378212/92959092. Email: mohamednishil@gmail.com

Female 23 Indian Graduate in Computer application and Diploma in Java technology, seeking for a suitable placement in IT sector currently on visit visa. Contact 99809810 / 92105790

Mechanical Eng, young, Graduate, exp in steel fab, good comp, knowledge, Contact : 98905956

ERP/DBA IT Professional Indian Female having 6+ Years experience looking for immediate position GSM: 97384660.

Special Education Teacher (Mental Retardation & Autisum) Indian female 24 yrs good experience, looking for suitable job. Contact 95128634 Email thomassabu35@gmail.com English teacher Lecturer, Indian female M.A.B.ED 2 years seeking suitable placement, well knowledge in computer application and ﬂuency in English. Contact 93431588

ENGG. / TECHNICAL 25 years Indian male, B.E Aeronautical, 2 Years experience on Maintenance repair and overhaul. Hands on experience on Gas turbine engine and Autocad 2007. Contact 00919739656833 Email: midhu4u@gmail.com Indian Female 23 years old, Aeronautical Engineering graduate with 1 year 6 months experience, expert in MS Office tools, Technical documentation, reports and excellent communication skill. mail: sandhyamenon057@gmail.com B.Tech Mechanical, 26yr Indian male having 4 yr experience in plant construction,structural fabrication & erection in India. # 0091 9546418417 E-mailmail2umesh89@gmail.com Mechanical Engineer with 5+ years experience in project management and estimation of oil and gas projects. Looking for suitable change. Contact: 95974435 Indian Male, B.Tech, 8 years Experience in Teaching & Admin, web developing ,c,c++,java,HTML,DHTM L,programming,looking for suitable position 98290053, 97068258 Email: vasanth.blessy@gmail.com Indian Civil Quantity Surveyor –Total Exp(15yrs) GCC(4yrs)Diploma, D/L, Looking placement: contact :khan.civilqs@gmail.com, 96608610 Indian female MCA (SQL Server 2008 Oracle 8i Database having experience in ASP.Net technologies, Accounts and knowledge in Quality control on visit, seeks suitable placement. Contact 98132215 Email raofpakkuvetty@gmail.com Elec Eng, 14 yrs gulf exp seeking a good position in a reputed ﬁrm. contact Ph 92624481 Pakistani male 25 years B.E in Civil Engineering having 2 years experience (1.5 year in Pakistan), seeking suitable placement. #99009024 Email mhn_bhatti100@yahoo.com Indian male 39 yrs, B.Tech (Mech) 16 yrs of experience in automobile industries in several positions past 6 yrs worked with a reputed automobile ﬁrm in Muscat with valid D/L, seeking a suitable placement available immediate. # 95574381 B .E Civil Engineer 10 years experience, with valid Oman D/L. Contact 99612163 BE (Electrical Engineer) Indian male, 29 yrs having 5 years experience in Oman & India having valid HEDC & driving license, seeks suitable placement. Contact 94054852 Electrical Engineer 7+ years experience in Construction MEP Side, seeking suitable placement with driving license. Contact 92138875 Indian Civil Diploma 4 years experience. Contact 94246322 Email : akollam0@gmail.com Indian female B.Tech Civil Engg, 3 years experience (6 months in Oman) in QS, estimation, cost control and planning, seeks suitable job. Contact 92047375 Email: vinujosephcm@gmail.com Indian male having BE, Chemical Engg with 1 year experience as Process Engineer in India looking for suitable position. Contact 98466650

Diploma in Automobile Engg 5 years experience Indian male 27 years seeking suitable job in automobile industry, visit visa. Contact 98453315 Email suniany1987@gmail.com B.Tech Civil Project Engineer 5 years experience with valid Oman driving license, seeks suitable placement. Contact 92536298 Electrical Engineer (BE Electrical & Electronics) 1+yr exp, looking for suitable placement. #95060377 33 years male Indian ITI holder 13 years experience in electrical & networking in India electrical work like LT, HT, Interior panel work, networking like CCTV, DATA, TEL public addressing system etc seeking for suitable job. #98061783 Pakistani male PDO permit holder/ applicant also have DAE Civil, 4 years Oman experience civil construction, Oil and Gas looking for suitable placement. #98949712 B.Tech Mechanical Indian male with 2.6 years experience as a Project Engineer and valid Omani driving license, seeking suitable placement. Contact 98211235 / 93324803 Email : safeery@yahoo.com Degree Civil Engineer, 7 years experience in UAE, having valid UAE driving licence,currently available in visit visa. Phone: 93321785 Planning Engineer having M Tech in Construction Management with 2 years experience. Currently employed for a reputed company construction company in Oman. Proﬁcient in Primavera P3 and P6. Mob; 98278801 / 99461643 e-mail id; asifkutiady@gmail.com Indian male: 25, Electrical Engineer having 3years experience in Oman seeks a suitable position. Presently in Oman on Visit Visa. Contact 93087043. Sri Lankan Quantity surveyor (male) with 7 years experience (including Gulf), looking for a suitable placement in Oman, available in Oman for personal interviews and discussions.Contact 91308391/ 96953676 Email msa.ifham@yahoo.com

INFORMATION TECH Information Technology Systems Engineer with 6+yrs of exp, seeking suitable opportunities Indian male 27 yrs on visit visa. Contact 91378150 / 92933523 Email manumonm@hotmail.com / manojp14@gmail.com IT Support IT Engineer Indian male 27 yrs 5 yrs Indian experience in Support Engineer IT service desk role in Senior technical support , on visit visa in Oman . Contact: 92933523, Email: manojp14@gmail.com Software Testing Engineer Indian male with more than 3 years of experience, currently on visit visa, seeking suitable position in IT. Contact 93460715 / 99037343 Email: asif314@gmail.com B.E Electronics Engineer with 6 years Retail ERP , POS and IT support experience from Bahrain and Oman looking for suitable IT position. Omani driving License available. Email : Riyad82@gmail.com 95694209 Indian Male holding PMP & ITIL V3 expert certiﬁcations and having extensive IT industry experience is seeking senior level assignments in Delivery Management/Project Management/ Service Delivery Management in IT Infrastructure Management domain , with an organization of high repute preferably in IT industry. Contact –96672109 / email id srikvrnm@gmail.com

Indian male, MCA, MBA-HR, B.Com with 9.5 yrs. Exp. looking for a suitable opportunity as IT Project Head & SAP HR Consultant (Multi tasking) presently come on visit visa in Oman, Contact GSM : +968 92801761 E-mail : rishhi@msn.com IT professional Indian Male ME in CSE, 12 years IT experience (6 months in Oman, 3 years in Dubai, Emirates Airlines/Project management, Software development in Dot Net, Training , Technical & Customer Support, Marketing) looking for suitable post, for immediate placement. Contact 96437794, email: ephin0204@gmail.com

MEDICAL Nursing caregiver, qualiﬁed & experienced Nurse & Assist Nurse seeks good placement at home / clinic. Contact 92989109 email: medicoport@gmail.com Pharmacist (female) holding MOH license with 3 years experience seeking for a job. Contact: 92609515 / 96079170 Indian female Nursing professional MOH License 4.5 years experience. Contact 93781265 Email neethuammucherian@gmail.com Female Dentist having MOH license having 4 years experience in India and D/L looking for suitable job in Muscat area. Contact 99411268 / 99128211 Indian female Pharmacist having MOH license 10 years experience in India and 7 months in Oman looking for suitable job in Muscat area. Contact 91271972 Male Nurse with MOH license valid GCC driving license. Contact 93217438 / 91226236

MANAGER/ SUPER 27 years of Experience in Oman as Resource Manager for Oilﬁeld Logistics & Transport Industry. Holder of Valid Omani Driving License seeking suitable placement urgently. Mob.96178659 Indian female with over 17 years of Gulf experience as Executive Secretary / Office Manager looking for suitable position. Contact 98587275

SALES / MARKETING Male Pharmacist 8 years experience in retail and marketing, release available. Contact 98645609 Indian, male, B.Sc having 16 years experience in marketing with valid Oman driving license seeks suitable placement. Contact 92722408 Indian male 30 yrs looking for a suitable job in Sales, having valid Omani D/L and 2 yrs experience in Oman and 6 yrs in India. Contact 93005916 Young dynamic MBA Marketing Graduate, seeking suitable post. Contact 98744427 / 96909495 Indian male 6 years experience in Marketing and Sales, Waiting for Opportunities, having D/L. Contact 93387195 Indian male BBM 5 years in Sales & Marketing on visit visa immediate joining. Contact 93080380 Email vijay.05reva@gmail.com Indian male 28 yrs qualiﬁcation MCA, 5 yrs experience have Oman Driving license, looking for Technical or Marketing jobs. Contact 91098618

SALES / MARKETING B.Com with 5 yrs experience in Sales Oman, valid Omani driving license. Contact 95330174 Male, 32 yrs, 10 years experience sales, events, administration, graphic designing seeking suitable job. Contact 93850612 Marketing Executive 10 years experience, 3 years in Oman, Oman D/L. Contact 99669137 India female, 26, MBA, experience in media marketing and market research, looking for suitable opportunities in Communication/PR/ Branding, Valid D/L. Contact details: greycentral86@gmail.com MBA (Marketing and HR) & B.Tech (Electronics and Biomedical Engineering) with 1.5 years experience in marketing and media ﬁeld. Contact 96175799 Email: aadil.azis@gmail.com Young Male Graduate BA Hons (Marketing)- United Kingdom with 2 years experience & driving licence seeks suitable placement in Business development/Brand management/Logistics. Call – 96402727

TOURS & TRAVEL B.Com, female, travel & tours, 4 yrs experience in tour operation & front office, Hotel in Industry from India, UAE seeks suitable placement & tour operations. Contact 95054319, rohinimathew@ymail.com B.Sc Indian male 5.5 yrs exp Airline / Travels, Diploma in Travels. Contact 97099386

PROJECT Omani with experience in Health and Safety, Arabic and English speaking. Contact 91141097

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male 24 yrs Diploma in air conditioning 3 yrs exp. Contact 91045627 Indian male 28 years with more than 6 years experience in sales requires a suitable placement as sales man in any field. #94015209. Email- babupezheril@yahoo.co.in Pakistani male, Graduation, experience in warehousing / storekeeping / logistics worked with international organization and skill with MS Office, currently here in Muscat with visit visa and seeking suitable post in Muscat / Oman, full time. Contact # 99547791 email malikrizwan2008@gmail.com India male 36 yrs, MBA with 12 yrs of experience in life and non life insurance field 3yrs in oman with motor and non motor field valid Oman D/L, seeks suitable position for same field or any sales and marketing. Contact +968 98159932. Male Graduate 12 years experience in Oman, seeks immediate placement as office coordinator or any suitable job. contact 93393769 Male, 27, MBA specialized in Marketing, looking for suitable position. Having valid oman driving license. Contact. 99590408 Indian Male, MBA Marketing, 41 yrs. Experience in trading, export and domestic sales and supply chain management. Industries handled : Marble & tyres, Seeks a suitable career. Release available. 99823003 Indian male, B. Com with TallyERP 9.0 and Maharastra state CIT looking for suitable job, call 95534746 Business Analyst and Business Development, 6+ years of experience across all areas of pricing, marketing, product development and sales in telecom industry seeking for job opportunities. MBA. Contact: 99359870, 99031408. Email: saikat_3@yahoo.com Indian, young, male, Pre-university educated looking for sales/stores or related job call 96914222

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Restaurant + coffee shop with seating capacity of 50 people and potential to make 90 (with mezzanine in running condition doing excellent business in a prime business location at Wattayah is available for purchase / investment. Interested parties may please call on 97414513 or 96344753 Looking for Omani partner for business development services. Contact 93194825 Email: edumass4@gmail.com CANADIAN company. for immigration & manpower is looking for a partner in Oman with license !For contact evro21@gmail.com 0097333054453

FOR HIRE A well running Civil contracting company LLC doing ministry work, looking for new sponsor and investor or partner. Contact 96726115 Well established Investor Company in Oman, registered with tender board as Grade 1 company and achieved electrical contractors license DCRP Grade “C” (11KV) wish to offer legal partnership to those who can invest for business development. Preference will be given to real estate investors in Oman, GCC countries & India. # 00968 99760596 (Arabic & English) or Email: npgpartner@gmail.com

Party & Wedding equipment rentals. Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. www.tunesoman. com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com Cranes and excavators available on hire. Contact 99209427 Crane Trailor Hiab. # 99354909

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TRANSPORTATION Graduate driver with car. Contact 98267157 Transportation. Contact 95199733 Transportation. Contact 96538078 Transportation. Contact 99508282

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Active Corner Computer specialist in repairing: Laptops, Printers, Tablets & Smart Phones, Al Ghubra North. Contact 92866876

CLASSES Learn Arabic in two months, spoken Arabic class for non Arabic speakers by Gulf experience post Graduate Teacher in Ruwi. Free introductory class. Satisfaction guaranteed. Contact 95244310 Learn Drawing & painting for children. (MBD area Ruwi)# 99737812

GULF INTERNATIONAL LLC all kind of pest control. Contact 92326955

Transportation. Contact 99664703 Transportation available. Contact 95068976 Transportation. Contact 93405941 Transportation. Contact98546606 For transport. Contact 92548219 Transportation Contact 95570429

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FOR LADIES Latest collection of Indian and Pakistani Casual & Party wear Shalwar Kamees, exhibition for ladies only on display from 10th OCT. Between 10 am to 9 pm. Contact 24491709 Special package for RO. 15/(Threading, facial, waxing, pedicure, manicure, hot oil treatment) . Contact 99722031

MANPOWER We Supply Mason, Carpenter, Steel ﬁxer, Electrician, Plumber, Driver, Labours, Enggs, operators etc, All Categories. Contact 94034550/ 95059766 Email rubinaokp@gmail.com

Fully equipped commercial kitchen with camp & storage facilities available at Ghala Industrial area. Interested Parties may Contact 99024519

SERVICES A/C service RO7/- , repairing & installation, painting, building all maintenance. # 95563858 / 99326786

SPLIT / WINDOW A/C servicing 5/10 RO. Contact 95084850

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. # 24793614/ 99314807 Split & Window AC Servicing & repairing. Contact 99557080 Split & Window A.C Servicing & repairing. Contact 99380307 GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998 Subcontractor solutions. Contact 97163496 A/ C maintenance, servicing & installation. Split A/C Servicing RO 10.000 Only. # 94217681 / 99210141 Marble polishing & crystallization building cleaning ﬂoor, ﬂoor polishing, carpet, sofa shampooing, pest control, anti termite, shifting, maintenance. Contact 99504275

Split & Window A.C Servicing & repairing. Contact 93769089 House shifting, packing and Transportation. Contact 99657644 / 98518013 Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles polishing, carpet shampooing, maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS99320217 /24788722 Electrical Plumbing Painting Contract and Maintenance. Contact #98456535 Water prooﬁng ABUQABASContact 99320217/24788722

Pest control water proof. Contact 99067923 Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & anti-termite treatment, general cleaning painting, Plumbing, Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. # 24810137, 99450130 Electrical Works, Maintenance, Building Gas Pipelines, Fire Alarm & Security systems. Contact Amjad Majees Trading & Contracting: 99467936 Catering and Other support Services anywhere in Oman for Companies. Staff / Labour Accomodation. available in Sohar, Barka and Nizwa. Telephone No.94104987, 97884967, 95740387, E-Mail : catering@gstoman.com

Door to Door Computers repair specialist laptop software Website cartridges.Contact 99199376

For all your maintenance needs including, Painting, Plumbing, Electricity, Laying of interlock tiles, marbles etc. Tel: 99383574 Mr Chandran

Carpet, sofa- cleaning, glue removing, shampooing, house cleaning, polishing & painting etc. Contact – 99542979 / 98855815

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