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EYEING GLORY Fatma Al Nabbhani stormed d into the ﬁnal of the women’s singles to raise the expectations of Omani fans for their ﬁrst gold at the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Games in the South Sumatran an capital city yesterday. >A11

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No new licences to private varsities

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CURIOUS

The Council of Education has decided to stop giving licences to new private universities and colleges for a period of three years. This step was taken to enable the government to assess the current status of the private higher education institutions. >A3

The history of human fascination with the possibility of life on Mars is rich, encompassing myriad works of science ﬁction, Percival Lowell’s quixotic efforts to map what turned out to be imaginary canals, Orson Welles’ panic-inducing 1938 ‘Attack by Mars’ radio play, and of course Bugs Bunny’s nemesis Marvin the Martian.

Scientists have long thought that Mars, warm and wet in its early years, could have been hospitable for life, and the new ﬁndings do not mean that it was not. But that was about 3 1/2 billion years ago.

Mars is smaller than Earth and would have cooled off sooner after the formation of the solar system. Some scientists have even suggested all life on Earth could be descended from Martian microbes that were carried embedded within meteorites. As the surface of Mars turned cold and dry and most of the air dispersed to space, microbes could have migrated underground and persisted, the thinking goes.

Kim Stanley Robinson, a science ﬁction author, wrote three novels in the 1990s about the colonisation of Mars by people from Earth, which in his version of things starts happening in 2026. These days there are plans, on paper, to send humans to Mars in roughly Robinson’s time frame. One of them, a private effort called Mars One, which has yet to prove it has the technology to achieve its goals, has nevertheless attracted hundreds of thousands of people to apply for a one-way trip, which theoretically would arrive in 2023. Curiosity has already travelled more than a mile, taken more than 36,700 images and ﬁred 75,000 laser shots to analyse rocks and soil.

PAKISTAN

18 killed as bomb hits bus in Peshawar

A bomb tore through a bus carrying government workers in restive northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 18 people. Over 40 others were wounded on the bus which was hired by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to take staff home from work.>A7

WORLD

Mankind blamed for global warming

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a report said yesterday they were more certain than ever before that humans are the main culprits for climate change and predicted the impact from greenhouse gas emissions could linger for centuries. >A10 CRIPPLING ECONOMY

Rowhani ﬂays ‘illegal’ sanctions NEW YORK: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani yesterday slammed “illegal” sanctions crippling his country’s economy, saying they were just a means by some nations to pursue a “shortsighted” foreign policy. Addressing a gathering of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of nations, the new Iranian leader said all countries should be “guided by the rule of law ... to establish a just and lasting peace all over the world.” The 193 members of the United Nations had agreed to stand by “the principle of refraining in our international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations”, he said. Therefore, all states must avoid “applying any unilateral economic, ﬁnancial or trade measures contrary to international law and the UN Charter that impede the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries”. — AFP

MILES TO GO: Nasa’s Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which

were stitched together to create this full-colour self-portrait on October 31, 2012 and released on September 26 this year. – Reuters

that so far the planet’s atmosphere shows no signs of methane, a gas which on Earth is strongly tied to life. Plumes of methane had been detected over the past decade by Mars orbiters and groundbased telescopes. Methane, which should last about 200 years under Martian photochemistry, also can be produced by geologic events.

With the latest ﬁnding of water throwing up a big surprise for scientists, courtesy the Mars Curiosity rover, the search for life on Red Planet gets more complicated

LOS ANGELES: Analysis of Martian soil by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa) ongoing Mars Curiosity rover turned up a surprising amount of water, as well as a chemical that will make a search for life more complicated, scientists said late on Thursday. A scoop of ﬁne-grained sand collected by the rover shortly after its August 2012 touchdown showed the soil contains about 2

SEARCH FOR HABITATS: A scene situated in the Noctis Labyrin-

thus region of Mars, perched high on the Tharsis rise in the upper reaches of the Valles Marineris canyon system. Targeting the bright rimmed bedrock knobs, the image also captures the interaction of two distinct types of windblown sediments. Surrounding the bedrock knobs is a network of pale reddish ridges with a complex interlinked morphology. These pale ridges resemble the simpler ‘transverse aeolian ridges’ (called TARs) that are common in the equatorial regions of Mars. Dark sand dunes comprise the second type of windblown sediment visible in this image. – AFP

per cent of water by weight. “It was kind of a surprise to us,” said Curiosity scientist Laurie Leshin with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “If you take a cubic foot of that

soil you can basically get two pints of water out of it,” she said. “The soil on the surface is really a little like a sponge for sucking stuff out of the atmosphere.” Scientists announced last week

Heating a tiny bit of soil The water was found by heating a tiny bit of soil to 1,535 degrees Fahrenheit (835 degrees Celsius) inside Curiosity’s chemistry laboratory and analysing the resulting gas releases. Scientists found that in addition to water, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other materials, the sands of Mars also contain reactive chemicals known as perchlorates. Nasa’s now-defunct Phoenix lander had found perchlorate in the planet’s northern polar region, but scientists did not know until Curiosity’s analysis that the chemical apparently is widespread. “They seem to accumulate on the surface (of Mars), almost like snow,” said lead Curiosity scien-

tist John Grotzinger with the California Institute of Technology. That is important to know because looking for organic material on Mars may now require a new approach. “The tried-and-true technique on Earth is to heat the sample and take a look at the gases that are produced,” Grotzinger said. But the heat can cause perchlorate to break down, in the process degrading the organic compounds scientists are looking for, Grotzinger said. “We as a community will have to wrestle with understanding the behaviour of perchlorate,” he added. The presence of perchlorate in soil samples could explain why scientists have so far had a hard time finding organic material on Mars. Even if life never evolved on Mars, the planet should have organic carbon deposits left by crashing asteroids and meteors, scientists believe. The results of Curiosity’s first 100 days on Mars, published in the journal Science this week, also revealed the presence of a rock with a far more complicated chemical history than scientists expected to find on Mars. — Reuters

S H A R I F S TAT E M E N T

‘India-Pakistan arms race a massive waste’ UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan and India have wasted “massive resources” on a nuclear arms race, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said yesterday, ahead of a landmark meeting with his Indian counterpart. Break-the-ice meeting Pakistan prime minister and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are expected to hold a breakthe-ice meeting today on the side-

lines of the UN General Assembly. It will be the ﬁrst talks between leaders of the two nations for three years and Sharif said he was looking forward to the chance to launch “a new beginning”. “Our two countries have wasted massive resources in an arms race,” Sharif said in his speech to the assembly. Both countries have spent huge amounts on developing a nuclear bomb over the past three decades.

“We could have used those resources for the economic well-being of our people,” he added. “We still have that opportunity. Pakistan and India can prosper together; and the entire region would beneﬁt from our cooperation.” Re-engagement Sharif said: “We stand ready to reengage with India in a substantive and purposeful dialogue.” The Pakistan prime minister,

elected this year, said he was looking forward to the chance “to make a new beginning” and added “we have a solid basis to do that”. Sharif said Pakistan and India must build on a 1999 accord which called for the resolution of all differences through negotiations. “I am committed to working for a peaceful and economically prosperous region. This is what our people want and this is what I have long aspired for,” Sharif said. — AFP

Rocky splendour of Wadi Nakhar

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OMAN Govt regulations set to streamline fish export The ministerial order regulates the Sultanate’s ﬁsh marketing network and enhances its supply to the local market, apart from boosting exports

MUSCAT: Dr Fuad bin Ja'afar Al Sajwani, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, has issued a ministerial decision regulating the Sultanate’s fish exports and specifying their types. Article One: Imposes a ban on live fishing, including yellow fin tuna, kingfish, long tail tuna and rabbit fish, from Oct 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014. Article Two: The export of Job fish and Gropper, excluding Disco and Sea Bream and excluding Siyah, will be as follows: The fish transport and marketing truck owners, as well as those companies and establishments having licences to handle and market fisheries, should market equal

quantities of these fish at local markets approved by the ministry during the period from October 1, 2013 to December 14, 2013 and the period from February 16, 2014 to May 31, 2014. In return, they will be granted a licence to export a quantity that is equal to the quantity they have marketed at the local market. The export of fish indicated in Article (1) of this decision is banned during the period from December 15, 2013 to February 15, 2014. Article Three: The fish transport and marketing truck owners, as well as companies and establishments having licences to handle and market fisheries, should market equal quantities of these

ﬁsh (Emperor, Mullets and Large Jacks, including Qesharan, Jacks and Hamam) at local markets approved of by the ministry during the period stated in Article One. In return, they will be provided a licence to export an equal quantity to those marketed at the local market. Article Four: The ﬁsh transport and marketing truck owners, as well as companies and establishments having licences to han-

H I G H E R E D UC AT I O N

No new licences to private varsities for three years The government will assess the current status of private institutions and propose steps to enhance investments

MUSCAT: The Council of Education, at its meeting, decided to stop giving licences to new private universities and colleges for a period of three years. This step was taken to enable the government to assess the current status of the private higher education institutions and propose appropriate mechanisms for investment in it. The government will seek to identify academic programmes and disciplines that are consistent with the requirements of the labour market and the country’s development plans, as well as assessing government support of these programmes. The council, held its fourth meeting of the year under the chairmanship of Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, Chairman of the Council at the headquarters of the Diwan of Royal Court in Muscat. The chairman of the council welcomed the members of the council, and congratulated them on the new academic session and hoped to make it a year of prosperity in the education sector in the Sultanate. The council also discussed a number of issues included in the agenda, including the memorandum on the organisation of investment in the higher education sector. The council members discussed the commercial investment regulations on government land granted for private higher education institutions. The meeting also reviewed a number of conditions and principles for using parts of the land granted for commercial purposes related to the educational process and educational goals and consistent with the educational and cultural mission of these institutions. The council chose to address the parties in their regard. The council also discussed a number of issues raised by the various stakeholders in the education sector in the Sultanate and has taken appropriate decisions in their regard. – ONA

dle and market fish, should market 30% of the Indian Mackerel fish in their possession at the local market approved by the ministry during the period indicated in Article One. In return, they will be provided with a licence to export 70%. Article Five: The fish transport and marketing truck owners, as well as the companies and establishments indicated in Articles Two, Three and Four, should receive the approved certificate from the officer-in-charge of the local market, as per the form prepared by the ministry. The certificate should include the type of fish, the weight, the date and time of marketing, the vehicle number and the name of the vehicle owner. The certificate, which will be valid for a one-time use, will be submitted to the officerin-charge for the ministry at the export ports. Article Six: The fish that are canned are excluded from the provisions of Articles One, Two, Three and Four, subject that the exporter should have a licence and fish quality control certificate from the respective department at the ministry. - ONA

BRIEFS

Labour law violators held

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Manpower, in cooperation with the Public Prosecution, Royal Oman Police and other security agencies, arrested 315 violators of the Labour Law following an inspection campaign in Rustaq in South Batinah. Legal action has been initiated and those apprehended were referred to authorities for further investigation.

17-year-old drowns in Ibri MUSCAT: The General Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance has reported on its Facebook page that the water rescue team at Civil Defence in the wilayat of Ibri has recovered the body of a 17-year-old citizen, who drowned after falling into Wadi Dham. The ROP has urged citizens and residents not to venture close to wadis and avoid swimming in them.

Carpentry unit faces action MUSCAT: Judicial officers from the Department of Consumer Protection in South Batinah in Barka have closed a carpentry workshop because it was manufacturing furniture made from used wood. Information reached the Department of Consumer Protection in Barka that a carpentry workshop had been manufacturing wooden furniture from used wood. Judicial officers monitored the workshop and sent inspectors to visit the site disguised as consumers. As the workshop was using used wood, instead of new wood, to manufacture furniture, it was found in violation of commercial laws.

M U S I C A L E X T R AVA G A N Z A

LATIN TREAT AT ROHM The National Ballet of Uruguay, under the artistic direction of Argentine dancer Julio Bocca, offered a diverse programme that highlighted both its classical ballet training and its Latin roots, when it made its Omani debut at the Royal Opera House Muscat on Wednesday evening. The ﬁrst part of the show included two pieces of modern ballet and one more classical, while the second featured tango-inspired ballet. - TIMES OF OMAN

Youssou N’Dour to perform at ROHM Times News Service MUSCAT: The Royal Opera House Muscat will host one of Africa’s most celebrated and inﬂuential musicians, Senegal’s Youssou N’Dour, tomorrow. N’Dour has brought Senegalese music to the world with his unique blend of traditional rhythms, Cuban sambas, hip-hop, jazz and soul. The American music magazine, Rolling Stone, described him as “The most famous singer

alive in Senegal and a large part of Africa.” He is considered a cultural symbol in Senegal and throughout Africa, giving voice to social issues and promoting the arts in service to society, and even naming one of his albums after South African leader Nelson Mandela (1986). N’Dour, the former Minister of Culture and Tourism for Senegal, is a Grammy award winning artist and this year received the Polar Music Prize from Sweden for his exceptional achievements.

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OMAN

WADI NAKHAR’S ROCKY SPLENDOUR MPPH lensman Cio Datan captured the scenic view around the spectacular gorge cutting deep into the mountains in Wadi Nakhar, a spot en route to Jabal Shams. It is popularly known as Arabia’s Grand Canyon. The wadi has a stunning view including the huge limestone cliffs. This is a spot you ﬁnd people relaxing during the weekend. If you are lucky, you will ﬁnd waterfalls cascading from Jabal Shams.

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INDIA N E G AT I V E VO T I N G

Voter has right to reject the candidate, rules apex court NEW DELHI: If the Supreme Court verdict on negative voting is implemented, India will become the 14th country to adopt this practice. In a path-breaking judgement, the court yesterday held that voters have a right to reject all candidates contesting polls in a constituency by pressing a button for negative vote, saying this would compel political parties to ﬁeld ‘sound’ candidates who are known for their integrity. The court directed the Election Commission to make arrangements by introducing ‘None of the Above’ (NOTA) option in the Electronic Voting Machines at the

end of the column containing the names of the contestants. It listed the countries where negative voting is in vogue: France, Belgium, Brazil, Greece, Ukraine, Chile, Bangladesh, State of Nevada, Finland, the United States of America, Colombia, Spain and Sweden. It also said that the voting machines in the Parliament have “three buttons, namely, Yes, Noes, and Abstain”. “Therefore, it can be seen that an option has been given to the members to press the Abstain button. Similarly, the NOTA button being sought for by the petitioners is exactly similar to the Ab-

‘NONE OF THE ABOVE’ CHOICE If the Supreme Court verdict on negative voting is implemented, India will become the 14th country to adopt this practice. The court directed the Election Commission to make arrangements by introducing ‘None of the Above‘ option in the Electronic Voting Machines

stain button since by pressing the NOTA button the voter is in effect saying that he is abstaining from voting since he does not ﬁnd any of the candidates to be worthy of his vote,” a bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said.

“Democracy is all about choices and voters will be empowered by this right of negative voting,” he said, ruling on a petition by the non-proﬁt People’s Union for Civil Liberties. “Negative voting will send a clear signal to political par-

Rahul slams ordinance on convicted politicians Manmohan to consider

Congress vicepresident called a

issues raised by Rahul

news conference to lambast — terming it ‘complete nonsense’ —the ordinance passed by a government dogged for years by corruption scandals

NEW DELHI: India’s NehruGandhi dynasty scion Rahul Gandhi yesterday slammed a cabinet move to protect politicians found guilty of crimes, embarrassing the government led by his own party just months from a general election. About 30 per cent of lawmakers across federal and state assemblies have criminal charges against them. The government has come under ﬁre since it passed an order this week that could allow convicted lawmakers to continue to hold office and stand in elections. Critics say the move was designed to shield allies that Rahul’s Congress party may need to form a ruling coalition after elections due by next May. A contender for prime minister if Congress returns to power, the normally publicity-shy Rahul called a news conference to lambast the ordinance passed on Tuesday by a government that has been dogged for years by corruption scandals. “My opinion on the ordinance is that it’s complete nonsense and it should be torn up and thrown out,” he said. “I feel, personally feel, that what our government has done as far as this ordinance is concerned is wrong.” Rahul’s rare public utterances mean that there is huge interest in what he says when he does speak. Little is known about what the 43-year-old thinks about important issues of the day and what he would do if he were to become prime minister.

LOUD AND CLEAR: Rahul Gandhi speaking at a ‘Meet the Press’

programme at Press Club in New Delhi, yesterday. Critics say the move was designed to shield allies that Congress party may need to form a ruling coalition after elections due by next May. – PTI

His father, grandmother and great-grandfather were prime ministers and his mother, Sonia Gandhi, who is head of the Congress party, is arguably India’s most powerful politician. The Congress party appointed him as its vice-president this year to boost his proﬁle. But he has been eclipsed by Narendra Modi, a charismatic pro-business leader who is now the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Bhratiya Janata Party. Opposition attack Commentators on Indian TV news channels said Rahul Gandhi may have stepped into the convicted politicians debate to distance himself from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his corruption-tainted cabinet ahead of the election. Following a Supreme Court order in July, many lawmakers, including Congress party allies, faced the prospect of losing their seats.

Congress had already moved a parliamentary bill to partially reverse the decision of the court that any lawmaker found guilty of a crime could no longer hold or run for elected office. By pushing that change through in an executive order this week, opposition parties said it appeared to be trying to bypass parliament to save the political skin of its allies. The government had already faced criticism over the move from within its own ranks. Milind Deora, a junior minister, tweeted on Thursday that it could ‘endanger already-eroding public faith in democracy’. The country’s president, himself a Congress party stalwart, also sought a clariﬁcation on the ordinance that he would have to sign into law. Before July’s Supreme Court order, convicted lawmakers took advantage of a loophole by ﬁling appeals within three months of a guilty verdict to stay in office. - Reuters

WASHINGRON: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday the issues raised by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi about a controversial ordinance sent to the president would be considered on his return to India. “The issues raised will be considered on my return to India after due deliberations in the cabinet,” said a statement issued by the prime minister after Rahul said the ordinance that seeks to protect convicted lawmakers was ‘nonsense’ and, in his personal opinion, “should be torn up and thrown away”. The prime minister who is in the United States where he is to hold a bilateral summit meeting with US President Barack Obama, said that Rahul Gandhi had written to him on the issue and also made a statement earlier. “The ordinance cleared by the cabinet pertaining to the Representation of the People Act has been a matter of much public debate. The Congress vicepresident has also written to me on the issue and also made a statement. The government is seized of all these developments. The issues raised will be considered on my return to India after due deliberations in the cabinet,” the statement said. The NDTV news channel, citing sources, reported that it would now be withdrawn in what would be a blow to the authority of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. - IANS

ties and candidates as to what the voters think about them.” Until now, voters had no right to reject candidates despite demands from activists to create such a provision. Message to parties “This is a positive message from the court. It sends a message to political parties to pick only clean candidates,” lawyer Sanjay Parikh told reporters outside the Supreme Court yesterday. Activists have also been pushing for authorities to hold new elections if over 50 percent of voters reject all candidates. Veteran anti-graft activist Anna

Hazare has been a vocal campaigner for recognising the right to reject candidates as well as the right to recall an elected representative on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance. However, the national Congress government argues elections are meant to elect and not reject candidates, saying offering such choices will only confuse voters. - Agencies

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BRIEFS

No plan to raise retirement age to 62 years, says govt NEW DELHI: The federal government yesterday made it ‘very clear’ that there is no plan to raise retirement age of government employees to 62 years from the existing 60. “At present, there is no thinking in the government for increasing the retirement age. That I would like to make it very clear,” Minister of State for Personnel V. Narayanasamy told reporters here during a press conference. There are about 5 million central government employees in various departments across the country. Recent media reports had claimed that the ministry was working on a proposal to increase the age of service by two years.

‘Hugging saint’ celebrates 60th birthday — with hugs AMRITAPURI: India’s ‘hugging saint’, who has hugged more than 32 million people around the world, celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday in the company of disciples from around the globe. The celebrations for the charismatic spiritual leader, known as Amma or ‘mother’ to her millions of devotees, have stretched over three days at her ashram complex in Amritapuri, on a stretch of coastline in southern India’s Kerala state. The guru, formal name Mata Amritanandamayi, hugs people in her globe-trotting crusade to spread “selﬂess love and compassion”, according to her website.

‘Doctors from India face promotion bias in Britain’ LONDON: Doctors from Indian and other ethnic minority communities in Britain are less likely to be promoted to senior hospital jobs, a latest medical investigation found. The BMJ Careers journal found that in 2012, 13.8 per cent of white applicants to senior hospital doctor jobs in England were successful in securing the role they applied for, compared to just 4.8 per cent of doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds. Black doctors were the least likely to secure consultant, specialist or other senior doctor roles, with a success rate of only 2.7 per cent.

Young workforce under heart disease risk: Study MUMBAI: The risk of heart diseases is high among young work force in India, especially those in the age group of 30-44 years, due to stressful work conditions and compromised diet, says a study. A total of 73 per cent males in the age group of 30-34 years and 76 per cent in 35-39 age group are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and 85 per cent of males in the age group of 40-44 years are at risk, it said. Around 60 per cent of females in their 30s and 40s are shown to be at high risk, the ‘Saffola Life Study 2013’, conducted by Merico Industries across 12 cities and covering more than 1,86,00 people across 30-100 age group, said.

West Bengal police officer moves court against Mamata KOLKATA: Alleging police inaction, senior IPS officer Nazrul Islam yesterday ﬁled a petition before a city court seeking investigations against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and three government officials on a complaint he ﬁled last month. Islam, an additional director general-rank officer, in his August 17 complaint accused them of criminal intimidation, causing mental agony, denying him promotion, disallowing leave, bugging communication lines and criminal intimidation of his family members. - Agencies

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REGION

Car bomb kills 30 in Damascus province The chemical weapons deal is the biggest diplomatic achievement on Syria after more than two years of a bitter civil war that the UN says has killed more than 100,000 people

A video of the aftermath of the blast showed a large cloud of black smoke and ﬂames rising from a site next to a mosque; ‘a dispute over the division of weapons and ammunition’ was cited reason for attack DAMASCUS: A car bomb killed at least 30 people yesterday in the town of Rankus north of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Meanwhile, the Observatory said 11 people were killed in a regime air raid in northern Aleppo province. “At least 30 people were killed and dozens more injured in a car bomb blast that targeted worshippers at the Khalid Bin Walid mosque in Rankus,” the Observatory said. It added that regime forces shelled the area afterwards. Rankus, some 30km north of Damascus, is a town that backs the opposition to the government of President Bashar Al Assad. Fear of attacks Local activists called on residents to avoid gathering for fear of additional attacks in the town, which has regularly been the scene of ﬁghting between rebels and regime forces. State news agency SANA reported the blast. Without elaborating, it said the explosion was the result of “a dispute between terrorist groups over the division of

DEVASTATION: Smoke rises from buildings after what activists say was an air strike by forces loyal to

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in Homs. – Reuters

weapons and ammunition.” A video of the aftermath of the blast, filmed from a distance, showed a large cloud of black smoke and flames rising from a site next to a mosque. In Aleppo province, the Observatory reported nine rebel fighters, a woman and a child were killed in a regime air raid on the village of Hadir. Meanwhile, International inspectors will get to work eradicating Syria’s chemical arsenal by next week, once the world’s chemical weapons watchdog approves a US-Russian roadmap drawn up to avert military strikes. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) Executive Council will meet at 2000 GMT in The Hague to discuss the draft, which will be incorporated in a UN Security Council resolution expected to be passed swiftly afterwards. The chemical weapons deal is the biggest diplomatic achievement on Syria after more than two years of a bitter civil war that the UN says has killed more than 100,000 people.

Despite the diplomatic headway, the opposition to President Bashar Al Assad’s regime remains divided. The head of the key opposition National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, denounced extremists he said were trying to “steal our revolution”, and blamed the regime for supporting them. “The phenomenon of extremism appeared with the support and planning of the regime, which has gambled on the transformation of a revolution for freedom into a civil and sectarian war,” he told representatives from the Friends of Syria in New York. “Other groups have come across the borders to steal our revolution.” Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons as part of a US-Russian agreement struck earlier this month, worked out as Washington threatened military action in response to an August 21 chemical weapons attack outside Damascus it blamed on President Bashar Al Assad’s regime. The 41-member OPCW Executive Council usually takes decisions by consensus, or they require a two-thirds majority vote to pass. Council members

are mainly national ambassadors posted to The Hague. Chemical weapons Besides weapons locations declared by Damascus as part of the RussiaUS deal, inspectors will also be able to visit “any other site identiﬁed by a State Party as having been involved in the Syrian chemical weapons programme,” says the draft document seen by AFP. It also says the OPCW will start inspections no later than October 1. Syria is reported to have around 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including 300 metric tons of sulphur mustard. In case of non-compliance with the plan, which sees all Syrian chemical weapons and facilities destroyed by mid-2014, the OPCW will discuss the allegation and then take it to the UN Security Council and General Assembly. Setting ‘destruction milestones’ The OPCW Executive Council is to decide on “intermediate destruction milestones” by November 15, it says, calling also on Syria to provide “immediate and unfettered right to inspect any and all sites.” - Agencies

BRIEFS

Iran, IAEA to meet again after ‘constructive’ talks VIENNA: Iran and the UN nuclear agency held “constructive” talks yesterday and made plans to meet again in one month, adding to momentum for a negotiated end to a standoff that could otherwise potentially ﬂare into war. The discussions in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), took place as new President Hassan Rowhani was telling world powers in New York he wanted a deal within months to end the long - running dispute. The IAEA talks are distinct from Iran’s meetings with world powers, but both diplomatic tracks centre on suspicions that Iran may be seeking the capability to assemble nuclear bombs behind the facade of a civilian atomic energy programme. Israel and the United States have threatened possible pre - emptive strikes on Iran if diplomacy fails. Iran says its nuclear programme is a peaceful bid to generate electricity, and not aimed at building weapons.

Thousands protest in Bahrain after clashes MANAMA: Thousands took to the streets in Bahrain yesterday to condemn the arrest of a prominent opposition figure hours after clashes between protestors and police, officials and witnesses said. Demonstrations had been called to protest the arrest of ex-MP Khalil Marzooq on charges of inciting terrorism.. Yesterday’s demonstration west of the capital — in which protestors waved flags and chanted “Revolution until victory” and “We will not forget the martyrs” — was peaceful, but came hours after protestors and police clashed in a nearby village. “Police were the target of a terrorist act of Molotov cocktails being thrown and partly setting on fire a vehicle of law enforcement officers in Shaharkhan village” west of Manama, the Interior Ministry said. Also police used tear gas to disperse small groups of protestors who tried to approach Pearl Square, the epicentre of the 2011 protests. -Agencies

PROTEST: Palestinians carry a wounded protestor after

Israeli troops ﬁred tear gas canisters during clashes after a protest in solidarity with Al Aqsa mosque near the border with Israel, east of Gaza Strip, yesterday. Police threw stun grenades to disperse crowds of youths outside occupied Jerusalem’s medieval walls, and dozens marched on a crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip before being driven back by volleys of tear gas. – Reuters

SUBSIDY CUTS

50 dead in Sudan oil protests KHARTOUM: Rights groups yesterday slammed Sudan for killing protestors demonstrating against fuel subsidy cuts, saying 50 people were shot dead in the country’s worst riots since 1989. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies and Londonbased Amnesty International said 50 people were killed after being shot in the head or chest on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Local sources and activists have put the ﬁgure much higher, in excess of 100,” the groups said in a joint statement. They also expressed “deep concern” about reports of hundreds being detained and urged the authorities “to ensure that they are protected from torture and other ill-treatment”. “Shooting to kill — including by aiming at protestors’ chests and heads — is a blatant violation of the right to life,” said Lucy Freeman, Africa Deputy Director at Amnesty. Largest demonstration Reports from Khartoum on Thursday said at least 29 people were killed since rioting erupted on Monday in the largest protests since President Omar Al Bashir seized power 24 years ago. Police conﬁrmed the 29 fatalities without giving details, but hospital and other sources said most had been shot dead. “At least 50 people have been

TARGET OF ATTACK: Workers wait at a burnt gas station during

protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Khartoum. – Reuters

killed and 100 injured since the protests began, according to sources interviewed by the organisations,” the rights groups said. The statement said the dead included a 14-year-old Khartoum boy. Sudanese poured into the streets after Friday prayers in a ﬁfth day of demonstrations against fuel price hikes that have seen dozens shot dead and calls for the government’s overthrow. Activists had called for steppedup protests after weekly prayers, and security forces responded with a massive deployment on the streets of the capital and elsewhere. Around 2,000 protestors marched in Omdurman, the capi-

tal’s twin city, chanting anti-army slogans and calling for a halt to fuel price hikes, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said. Police deployed in large numbers and watched from a distance as the demonstrators marched down a main thoroughfare chanting “Down to the army’s power” and “No to price hikes.” Meanwhile, soldiers stood guard outside Khartoum petrol stations as long lines of cars waited to ﬁll up after several stations were torched or shut down in recent days. Internet access was cut for the second time this week, schools have been ordered closed until Monday and most shops remain

shuttered, deepening the sense of crisis and sending residents scrambling to stock up on supplies. “I want my family to have what we need because we don’t know where this is all going,” said Ahmad Hassan, 50, as he stocked up on canned goods. Sudan closed the bureau of Al Arabiya television station after complaining about its coverage of anti-government protests. Authorities earlier summoned the Sudan correspondent to protest about its reports on recent unrest, the Dubai- based Al Arabiya said on its website. A source at the station said security agents had come to the Khartoum office and asked staff to leave. Sudanese officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Authorities also seized or blocked publication of three newspapers earlier yesterday, even though the outlets are considered pro-government, journalists said. The Al Sudani and Al Majhar Al- Siassi dailies were seized at the printing press, they said, while Al Watan was ordered not to print after covering the unrest in its Thursday edition. - Agencies

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PAKISTAN NAT U R A L D I S A S T E R R

Life among the ruins of country’s deadliest earthquake GAJJAR: Once a town of 7,000 inhabitants, Gajjar is now little more than a moonscape of dusty ruins, its mud houses reduced to rubble by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan. The death toll from the 7.7-magnitude quake which hit the vast, impoverished province of Balochistan stands at 515 and even after three days the government is struggling to reach survivors. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) says it has dispatched 25,000 tents and 6,000 blankets to the affected areas, as more than 100,000 people made homeless by the quake face a third day in scorching heat. Infrastructure in the rugged, arid province is minimal and the army and paramilitary forces have been heavily involved in the relief effort. But in Gajjar, as in many places, survivors say they have seen little in the way of aid from the government. Nothing to eat Baloch separatist rebels have set up the town’s only relief camp, but locals say they are relying on river water, scavenged dates and the charity of friends to survive. “We don’t have anything to eat except dates. We send our family members to the nearby river to fetch water,” local Khalil Ahmad said. “We still hope for government’s assistance, which does not seem

to be in sight.” The vast majority of buildings in Gajjar were made of mud bricks and collapsed easily when the tremors began. Even the town’s few concrete buildings — government offices, a high school and a religious seminary suffered major damage. Naseer Ahmad Mir Wari, a senior official with the local government, said they had handed out just 300 tents, leaving thousands cobble together makeshift shelters from sticks and rags to get respite from the blazing sun. The town’s hospital— which had 12 beds — has been left unusable, with huge cracks in the walls. Gajjar lies in the Mashkey area of Arawan district, where the epicentre of the quake was located, and is a stronghold of Baloch separatist rebels waging a decade-long insurgency against the Pakistani state. On Thursday a helicopter carrying the head of the NDMA came under rocket ﬁre while ﬂying in Arawan district, highlighting the dangers facing the relief effort. Noone was hurt and no damage done. The sheer scale of the territory involved is daunting — the population of Awaran is scattered over more than 21,000 square kilometres (8,000 square miles) — and infrastructure is extremely limited, with few medical facilities or even roads. The quake is Pakistan’s deadli-

Insurgents hamper aid efforts as toll crosses 500

HELPLESS: Earthquake survivors gather outside the tents near their collapsed mud houses in the

Dhall Bedi Peerander area of the earthquake-devastated district of Awaran, yesterday. – AFP

est since the devastating Kashmir tremor of 2005 which killed 73,000. The toll is expected to rise further as rescue teams dig through the rubble of countless ﬂattened mud-brick homes. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar told parliament on Thursday a “huge activity” was under way to

Bus blast kills 18 in Peshawar

WRECKAGE: Rescue workers check the wreckage of a bus carrying government employees which

was destroyed in a bomb blast. – PTI/AP

More than 40 people were injured in the attack on the bus hired by the provincial government to take staff home from work

PESHAWAR: A powerful bomb tore through a bus carrying government workers in restive northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 18 people, officials said. More than 40 others were wounded in the attack on the bus hired by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government to take staff home from work. The blast came on the edge of provincial capital Peshawar, which has long been a ﬂashpoint

for a local Taleban insurgency targeting government officials, security forces and ordinary civilians. A double suicide bombing on a church in the city on Sunday killed 82 people, an attack that horriﬁed even a nation used to a daily diet of blasts and shootings, and cast doubt on proposed talks with the Pakistani Taleban. Remote-controlled bomb Nasir Durrani, the police chief of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told reporters the remote-controlled bomb was planted at the back of the bus, which was reduced to a tangled mess of twisted metal by the force of the blast. Another police officer, Najeebur Rehman, said 18 people had been killed. Shah Farman, provincial minister of information, conﬁrmed the toll and said there were 44 wounded. An eyewitness speaking on GEO news channel said the blast was so powerful it threw victims’ bodies clear of the vehicle and onto the roadside. The target was government employees, Sahibzada Moham-

mad Anis, the commissioner of Peshawar, said. The bus was heading to the town of Charsadda when the bomb went off. Peshawar runs into the semiautonomous tribal belt that US officials consider a safe haven for Al Qaeda and insurgents ﬁghting both in Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan. The umbrella Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) faction has led a bloody campaign against the Pakistani state in recent years, carrying out hundreds of attacks on security forces and government targets. Two weeks ago, Pakistan’s main political parties backed the idea of peace talks with the militants, ﬂoated several times by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. But a series of attacks since then, including the killing of a senior army commander, have led many to question the strategy. Pakistan is on the frontline of the US-led war on Al Qaeda and since July 2007 has been gripped by a local Taleban-led insurgency, concentrated largely in the northwest. -AFP

help those affected but he admitted teams were struggling to reach some areas. Moments of hope Amid the dust and wreckage of Gajjar, there have been some moments of hope — three children, the youngest just three years

old were found alive in the ruins of a house. Moments of solidarity too — the grocer who handed out rice, biscuits, potato chips and ﬂour to the hungry, and the pharmacist who dug through the rubble of his shop to get medicines for those who needed them. - AFP

ARAWAN: The death toll from an earthquake in southwestern Pakistan has reached 515, a provincial official said yesterday, as insurgent attacks threaten relief efforts. Babar Yaqoob, the chief secretary of Balochistan, gave the updated death toll as he toured Awaran, where the 7.7 magnitude quake struck on Tuesday. Bodies were still being discovered in houses whose mud walls and wooden roof beams had collapsed. “My daughter was killed when my house collapsed - I was also inside my house but manage to run out,” said 70-year-old Gul Jan. “We are sitting under the scorching sun and need shelter.” - AFP

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INDIA BRIEFS

Eight former army chiefs junk V. K. Singh’s claims NEW DELHI: Eight former army chiefs yesterday rejected Gen (retd) V. K. Singh’s statement that army has been paying money to certain ministers in Jammu and Kashmir since Independence to bring in stability there. “No funds were ever provided by the army, to any politicians, political party or any NGO in their tenures and nor would they have allowed that,” the former army chiefs said in a joint statement issued here. They are Generals O. P. Malhotra, S .F. Rodrigues, Shankar Roychowdhury, Ved Prakash Malik, S. Padamanabhan, N.C. Vij, J.J. Singh and Deepak Kapoor.

13 killed in Mumbai building collapse The building, which housed around 21

Dilip Kumar leaves hospital

families, suddenly

MUMBAI: Legendary actor Dilip Kumar has been discharged from a city hospital in Mumbai after being admitted there following a heart attack some days ago. He was recuperating at the Lilavati Hospital here, was discharged yesterday following improvement in his condition, hospital sources said.

collapsed around 5.45

20 killed as bus falls in gorge SHIMLA: A minibus swerved off a mountain road into a deep gorge in northern India killing 20 passengers yesterday, police said. A 12-year-old boy was the lone survivor, after the bus rolled down into the 500-foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh, a senior police officer said. “The bodies of 20 people have been found. There is just one survivor,” police said. - Agencies

am, catching majority of the sleeping residents unawares

MUMBAI: Thirteen persons were killed and 25 others injured when a four-storeyed building collapsed in a south Mumbai locality yesterday, officials said. While 20 persons were rescued without injuries from the debris, search operations were underway yesterday evening on a war footing to trace 10 more people feared trapped under the rubble, an ofﬁcial of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Disaster Control unit said. Among the injured, the condition of some was reported to be serious, raising the possibility of more fatalities. Dilapidated building Situated near the Dockyard Road in south Mumbai, the around 33-yearold building was civic employees’ staff quarters, an official of the chief minister’s office said. The building, which housed around 21 families, suddenly col-

RESCUE WORK: Rescue workers use a stretcher to carry a woman who was rescued from the rubble

at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai, yesterday. – Reuters

lapsed around 5.45am, catching majority of the sleeping residents unawares, the official added. A few years ago, the 28-ﬂat building, of which seven were unoccupied, and a ground ﬂoor warehouse, were declared “extremely dilapidated”. Last month, it was surveyed by a BMC team which recommended urgent repairs after shifting the families living there. “The bureaucratic delays in shifting out the residents to transit camps and carrying out necessary repairs led to the avoidable

tragedy,” Suresh Jadhav, a former municipal corporator from the area, said after the collapse. Mumbai Mayor Sunil Prabhu, who supervised the relief operations with top BMC and ﬁre brigade officials, said the priority was to rescue those trapped under the debris and efforts were continuing on a war footing. Prabhu also announced a compensation of Rs200,000 to the families of each of the deceased and free treatment of the injured in civic hospitals. Chief Minister Prithviraj

Chavan summoned an emergency meeting of departments concerned and ordered top priority to rescue and relief operations besides giving proper treatment to the injured. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar spoke to top civic and health officials, including Sir J.J. Hospital dean T.P. Lahane, and directed them to render the best possible treatment and care to the injured. This is the seventh major building collapse in Mumbai metropolitan and neighbouring areas in the past six months. - IANS

M U Z A F FA R NA G A R R I O T S

Mayawati demands president’s rule in UP NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati yesterday met President Pranab Mukherjee and urged him to impose President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh following the Muzaffarnagar communal violence that claimed 48 lives. “We requested the president to impose Article 356 of the constitution in Uttar Pradesh as the law and order situation in the state has gone out of hand,” Maywawti told reporters after the meeting.

The meeting focused on the communal violence in the Muzaffarnagar district that also injured hundreds and displaced thousands. “SP (Samajwadi Party) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were hand-in-glove in disturbing peace and communal harmony in the state. I request the people to reject their communal agenda,” she said.She alleged that SP was playing politics over the riots. “SP has failed in controlling the

riots, and also in the rehabilitation process,” she added. “If they would have paid attention on controlling the situation when the communal tension started, situation would not have deteriorated,” she said. The BSP leader also welcomed the Supreme Court decision on the negative voting. “We welcome the decision, Babasaheb Ambedkar was always in favour of this,” Mayawati said. -IANS

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WORLD

Half of British pilots fall asleep 56%

Pilot exhaustion grabbed the headlines

of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the ﬂight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to ﬁnd their co-pilot also asleep

in the United Kingdom when a report said two pilots on a British

84%

long-haul ﬂight fell asleep in the cockpit, leaving the

of pilots believed their abilities had been compromised over the last six months by tiredness with almost half saying pilot exhaustion was the biggest threat to ﬂight safety

packed jet travelling unsupervised on autopilot

LONDON: More than half of British airline pilots say they have fallen asleep in the cockpit, a survey said, ahead of an EU vote on flying hours which a pilots’ association said could compromise flight safety. According to the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA), 56 per cent of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the flight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to find their co-pilot also asleep.

Pilot exhaustion grabbed the headlines this week when a newspaper reported two pilots on a British long-haul ﬂight fell asleep in the cockpit, leaving the packed jet travelling unsupervised on autopilot. Britain’s Sun newspaper reported on Thursday that two pilots on a British airliner on a long haul ﬂight fell asleep in the cockpit, leaving the packed jet travelling unsupervised on autopilot. One of the pilots on board the

Airbus 330 ﬂight to Britain — the name of the airline was not disclosed — eventually woke up and roused his colleague, but neither knew how long they had been asleep, the paper said. Voicing concern The survey, released by BALPA, came ahead of a vote in the European Parliament on Monday on new rules which could replace British regulations. BALPA, a trade union for pilots,

voiced concerns that these proposed changes would water down British safety standards. The rule changes would mean that pilots could work a maximum of 110 hours in a two-week period, more than the 95-hour limit under British regulations, and at night could be expected to ﬂy for up to 11 hours, against a current 10-hour limit. “Tiredness is already a major challenge for pilots who are deeply concerned that unscientiﬁc new

L AT E S T F I N D I N G S

NSA employees spied on ‘significant others’ WASHINGTON: At least a dozen US National Security Agency (NSA) employees have abused secret surveillance programmes in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency’s internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA InspectorGeneral George Ellard outlined 12 instances of “intentional misuse” of the agency’s intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. Grassley had asked the NSA internal watchdog to report on “intentional and willful” abuse of the NSA surveillance authority. Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the reported

INTENTIONAL ABUSE

A military member queried six email addresses of a former girlfriend, an American, on the ﬁrst day of having access to the data collection system in 2005. An NSA civilian employee abused NSA databases from 1998 to 2003 to snoop on nine phone numbers of foreign women and twice collected communications of an American.

incidents of NSA employees’ violations of the law are likely “the tip of the iceberg” of lax data safeguards. “If you only focus on instances in which the NSA violated those laws, you’re missing the forest for the trees,” he said.

“The bigger concern is not with willful violations of the law but rather with what the law itself allows, ” h added. The NSA inspector general, in the letter dated September 11, detailed 12 investigations that found the NSA’s civilian and military

employees used the agency’s spying tools to search for email addresses or try to snoop on phone calls of current or former lovers, spouses and relatives, both foreign and American. In one instance, a military member queried six email addresses of a former girlfriend, an American, on the ﬁrst day of having access to the data collection system in 2005. In another instance, a US government-employed foreign woman suspected an NSA civilian employee, who was her lover, of listening to her phone calls. An investigation found the man abused NSA databases from 1998 to 2003 to snoop on nine phone numbers of foreign women and twice collected communications of an American. — Reuters

EU rules will cut UK standards and lead to increased levels of tiredness, which has been shown to be a major contributory factor in air accidents,” BALPA General-Secretary Jim McAuslan said in a statement. The proposals, devised by the European Aviation Safety Agency to harmonise the rules regarding pilots’ hours across the European Union, would also mean they could be called to work at any time on their days off. Currently, restric-

tions are in place to help them plan their rest on days off. The survey of pilots, by pollster ComRes, found 84 per cent of respondents believed their abilities had been compromised over the last six months by tiredness with almost half saying pilot exhaustion was the biggest threat to flight safety. New European rules British lawmakers, in a report published earlier this month, expressed concern that the new European rules set the limit for the flight duty period at night too high. But the Association of European Airlines, which represents 31 European airlines, urged support for the proposals, saying they would ensure all airlines followed the same rules. “The new ... rules would ensure that Europe will continue to have one of the strictest rules in the world, even stricter than today,” the body’s acting SecretaryGeneral Athar Husain Khan said in a statement. The Civil Aviation Agency, Britain’s aviation regulator, dismissed worries about the new rules. “We think the new European flight time limitation regulations maintain the UK’s current high safety levels, and will actually increase safety for UK passengers travelling on some other European airlines,” it said in a statement. — Reuters

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Challenges that await Angela Merkel now

THE INDEPENDENT

ngela Merkel’s resounding re-election in Germany is a personal triumph, but it still leaves unanswered questions about the direction she will lead Germany and the European Union over the next four years. Under her leadership, Germany has been an oasis of relative prosperity in the slumping euro zone, and voters rewarded her for it. Although her Christian Democrats, and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, came close to winning a majority in Parliament, she will need to find a new coalition partner. Her previous partner, the pro-business Free Democrats, was a major casualty of the vote, falling below the minimum five per cent threshold for entering Parliament. Merkel’s most likely partner is the Social Democratic Party, despite its relatively poor showing Sunday. The two parties shared power during Merkel’s first term, from 2005 to 2009. The Social Democrats are more firmly committed to strengthening the European Union than the Free Democrats. They are more open to easing austerity conditions for struggling debtor nations and favour measures that could usefully raise consumer demand at home, like setting a national minimum wage. Reviving the euro-zone economy will not be easy. Although the severe recessions in Greece and elsewhere seem to be bottoming out and deficit projections are starting to improve, unemployment rates of more than 25 per cent in Greece and Spain (and twice that for young people) are disastrous. A generation is losing its future, social tensions are rising and neo-fascist movements like Greece’s Golden Dawn are growing bolder in their extremist talk. There is blame to go around for the euro zone’s economic contraction. Greece fudged its fiscal accounts. Spain and Ireland failed to restrain speculative housing bubbles. No country kept close enough watch over the banks. The European Central Bank was never granted adequate lending powers. But the current agonies of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus owe much to the rigid austerity measures Merkel insisted on in exchange for support programs that have kept payments flowing from debtor governments to their creditors. Those measures have stymied growth and forced those governments to shred social services for their poorest citizens. Germany’s competitive export-driven economy has stayed largely immune to the recession that has gripped the rest of Europe. (While the unemployment rate in the euro zone is now 12.1 per cent, in Germany it is 5.3 per cent.) For Europe to prosper, Germany must boost consumer demand at home, agree to easier bailout terms for debtcrisis countries and accept a more powerful European banking union. Despite Merkel’s disappointing remarks on Monday that German policies on Europe would not change, she has softened her tone recently on austerity-related issues, suggesting that she has begun to understand the need for a more enlightened German approach. Her challenge now is to put together a government wise enough to make the necessary changes and strong enough to sell them to the German people. - The New York Times News Service

BAGGAGE OF WOES

Perils foreign aid poses for poor, weak states

I ANGUS DEATON

Desperate trouble

ew can doubt that the Pakistan International Airways (PIA) is in desperate trouble and has been for many years. Many hark back to a golden past, the days when PIA provided the seedcorn which enabled the startup of the now hugely successful Emirates airline in 1985. The days when PIA’s service was an airline industry benchmark. Golden pasts are rarely regained, sick airlines have a global tendency to fail and PIA has been hemorrhaging money at a rate which virtually guarantees a massive restructuring. The government of Nawaz Sharif inherited the PIA albatross from its predecessor, which had done little to alleviate the systemic problems of chronic over-manning, indifferent or inept management and a questionable maintenance record. The government plans to sell off 26 per cent of the troubled carrier in a partial privatisation, but the 16,600 employees are hoping that their current management are going to protect their jobs with a plan unveiled on September 23. The managing director appeared confident that by adding profitable routes it would be possible to increase revenues and possibly breakeven within a year. This would be a startling turnaround if achieved. He claimed that the salary bill was not the biggest of his problems and that staffing would drop to 12-13,000 over the next five years — which would still leave PIA with the highest manning level per aircraft in the world. The airline has 26 operational aircraft out of a fleet of 38 and needs new aircraft — which it cannot afford. Pakistan cannot afford a national carrier that eats three billion rupees a month and although the PIA management appears to be taking an upbeat position, the reality is that the surgery of privatisation is fundamental to the airlines continued existence. There may be pride in having a national airline but pride does not pay the bills, profit does. - The Express Tribune

Green Sahara saw two ﬂourishing civilisations This refers to the letter, Even Sahara was a lush green savannah once (September 26). Much like the rich civilisation that developed in the Indus Valley, Green Sahara too became the cradle of two rich civilisations— Kiffian and Tenerian, which grew and developed by the side of a massive natural lake between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago exactly where the dreaded Ténéré desert of Sahara stands today. But mystery still shrouds over the Kiffians and Tenerians: where did they come from and what happened to them? Did they arrive here from the Mediterranean coast, central African jungles, or Nile Valley? Were they nomads, or did they stake out territories and build settlements? Did they trade with

each other and intermarry, or did they wage war, or both? These are some of the incisive questions raised by Peter Gwin and other scholars. With answers to these questions yet to be received, the biggest mystery concerns the fact that the two civilisations, though they grew up in the same location, they were separated by at least a thousand years — with the Kiffian civilisation being the older of the two. S. K. Rajan Mumtaz

Throughout the developing world, children die because they are born in the wrong place — not of exotic, incurable diseases, but of the commonplace childhood illnesses that we have known how to treat for almost a century

n Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it. Imagine my surprise when, as a 19-year-old on my ﬁrst visit to the United States, I was met by a stream of obscenities from a New York City cop who was directing traffic in Times Square after I asked him for directions to the nearest post office. In my subsequent confusion, I inserted my employer’s urgent documents into a trash bin that, to me, looked a lot like a mailbox. Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans’ various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives. Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defence and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine. Certainly, not all of these services are as good as they might be, nor held in equal regard by everyone; but people mostly pay their taxes, and if the way that money is spent offends some, a lively public debate ensues, and regular elections allow people to change priorities. All of this is so obvious that it hardly needs saying — at least for those who live in rich countries with effective governments. But most of the world’s population does not. In much of Africa and Asia, states lack the capacity to raise taxes or deliver services. The contract between government and governed — imperfect in rich countries — is often altogether absent in poor countries. The New York cop was little more than impolite (and busy providing a service); in much of the world, police prey on the people they are supposed to protect, shaking them down for money or persecuting them on behalf of powerful patrons. Even in a middle-income country like India, public schools and public clinics face mass (unpunished) absenteeism. Private doctors give people what (they think) they want — injections, intravenous drips, and antibiotics — but the state does not regulate them, and many practitioners are entirely unqualiﬁed. Throughout the developing world, children die because they are born in the wrong place — not of exotic, incurable diseases, but of the commonplace childhood illnesses that we have known how to treat for almost a century. Without a state that is capable of delivering routine maternal and child health care, these children will continue to die. Likewise, without government capacity, regu-

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Harappan scripts are more than just pictograms A debate over one of the most crucial aspects of human civilisation has lately been resolved. The Harappan scripts, which were earlier dismissed by a sec-

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd ALLAN GOLDFEIN

lation and enforcement do not work properly, so businesses find it difficult to operate. Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas. The absence of state capacity — that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted — is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world. Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty. Unfortunately, the world’s rich countries currently are making things worse. Foreign aid — transfers from rich countries to poor countries — has much to its credit, particularly in terms of health care, with many people alive today who would otherwise be dead. But foreign aid also undermines the development of local state capacity. This is most obvious in countries — mostly in Africa — where the government receives aid directly and aid flows are large relative to fiscal expenditure (often more than half the total). Such governments need no contract with their citizens, no parliament, and no tax-collection system. If they are accountable to anyone, it is to the donors; but even this fails in practice, because the donors, under pressure from their own citizens (who rightly want to help the poor), need to disburse money just as much as poor-country governments need to receive it, if not more so. What about bypassing governments and giving aid directly to the poor? Certainly, the immediate effects are likely to be better, especially in countries where little government-to-government aid actually reaches the poor. And it would take an astonishingly small sum of money — about 15 US cents a day from each adult in the rich world — to bring everyone up to at least the destitution line of a dollar a day. Yet this is no solution. Poor people need government to lead better lives; taking government out of the loop might improve things in the short run, but it would leave unsolved the underlying problem. Poor countries cannot forever have their health services run from abroad. Aid undermines what poor people need most: an effective government that works with them for today and tomorrow. One thing that we can do is to agitate for our own governments to stop doing those things that make it harder for poor countries to stop being poor. Reducing aid is one, but so is limiting the arms trade, improving rich-country trade and subsidy policies, providing technical advice that is not tied to aid, and developing better drugs for diseases that do not affect rich people. We cannot help the poor by making their already-weak governments even weaker. - Project Syndicate

tion of Indus Valley scholars as mere pictograms, have lately and ﬁnally been proved to be full scale language showing the people in Harappa and Mohenjo Daro of Indus Valley Civilisation were literate. For 50 years, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and other scientists have been divided into two schools over whether man, in the dawn of human civilisation, was literate or not. Am overwhelming majority has been of the opinion that man was absolutely illiterate in the dawn of human civilisation. Lack of any proof helped this thought to prevail, at least until recently. A team of mathematicians and scientists, proved that the people of Indus Valley Civilisation were more than functionally literate. Smriti Jha Al Khuwair

Pace of climate change has gained dangerous speed The pace of climate change has clearly accelerated since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. New shipping channel has opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic and trillions of tons of ice sheets have melted in Greenland and Antarctica. In Europe, South America, Asia and Africa, mountain glaciers are shrinking faster than imagined. Ocean levels across the world have risen by an inch and half, and in tandem, recurrence of droughts and wildﬁres have become more frequent. Levels of carbon dioxide in the air have increased 6.5 per cent and carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have soared by 31 per cent. Sumit Chatterjee Qurum

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S P O R EYEING G OLDEN GLORY Omani athletes will be hoping to garner golden

glory at the Islamic Solidairty Games today with tennis star Fatma Al Nabhani and beach volleyball B team battling for top honours in their respective sports

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Suwaiq and Al Nahda record victories MUSCAT: Suwaiq and Al Nahda recorded their second victories when they defeated Al Arouba and Al Musannah in the Omantel Professional League (OPL) yesterday. In a match played at Sur Sports Complex, reigning domestic champions Suwaiq scored a solitary goal win over Al Arouba while Al Nahda, playing at home, routed Al Musannah 3-0. On Thursday, Fanja and were 1-0 winners over Majees and Al Nasr edged Sur 2-1. In a four-goal thriller, at the Seeb Stadium on the same day, Seeb and Sohar shared the spoils. For Fanja it was their second win in three outings while Al Nasr notched up their ﬁrst victory. Fana and Seeb are now on seven points each but the former lead the league table thanks to their better goal average. Dhofar occupy third place with six points from two games followed by Al Nahda, Suwaiq and Al Musannah, also on six points apiece but all played three games each. Today, Saham take on Dhofar at Sohar Sports Complex and Al Shabab and Al Ittihad clash at Seeb Stadium.

PALEMBANG: Fatma Al Nabbhani stormed into the final of the women’s singles to rise the expections of Omanis fans for their first gold at the ongoing 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games in this South Sumatran capital city yesterday. The Sultanate’s tennis sensation eased past Turkish lass Melis Bayraktarroglu for a straight sets 6-3, 6-1 semifinal victory. In today’s summit clash, the Omani is scheduled to take on another Turkey girl. Speaking to Times Sport, Fatma said that she is delighted with her campaign so far, especially the victory in the semifinals. “It’s a great feeling to be in the final and in contention for the gold medal. I am delight with my per-

formance so far. Despite the tough competition, I could reach the ﬁnal here,” she said. In the men’s sinlges, Fatma’s sibling Mohammed Al Nabhani had no such luck as he was handed a 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) defeat by Christropher Benjamin Rungkat of Indonesia. Fatma, who teamed up with Sarah Al Balushi, also failed to repeat her good performance in the eves’ doubles. The Omani girls were defeated in the quarterﬁnals by Turkish duo of Melis Bayraktarroglu and Unlugeng Hazal 7-5, 6-3. The Oman Tennis Association (OTA) officials are delighted with the performance of the players who have so far won a bronze medal. Third medal OTA official Said bin Mohammed Ali al Barmani, who is accompa-

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SHINING IN SAND: Oman beach volleyball teams will be aiming for

gold and bronze medals today. – Supplied photo

nying the delegation, expressed delight at the medal-winning performance of the team. “The boys and girls have been doing well both in the team and individual events. We are very happy with their performance, especially with the bronze medal,” he said referring to the third place won by Fatma and Sarah in the team doubles. It may be mentioned that Omani athletes have so far won three medals, including a silver and two bronze. Barakat bagged the silver in the 100m on Wednesday and Oman’s ﬁrst bronze was

won on the same day by Raghad Nabil Ghazi Al Zubaidi in the women’s discus throw. Meanwhile, the Omanis can expect two more medals, including gold, in beach volleyball today. Oman B team of Hassan Al Balushi and Badr Al Subhi are schedueld to square off against an Indonesian pair in the gold medal match while Oman A team comprising Haitham Al Shuraiqi and Ahmed Al Hosni will be battling for bronze against another local team. The Sultanate, however, did not taste success on the track yester-

day with Barakat Al Harthy and Abdullah Al Sooli failing in the 200m, the former with a false start and the latter out with injury. In the women’s competitions, Shnoona Al Habsi pulled out of 200m race while Mazoon Al Alwi achieved her personal best time of 26.09 seconds but ﬁnished in the fouth place. Today’s action will see Barakat leading the Omani men in 4x100m race and Shnoona the women’s team in the 4x100m eves competition. Buthaina Al Yaqoobi will be competing in 100m hurdles. In the pool yesterday, Aiman Al Kulaibi ﬁnished last the 100m backstroke event. Meanwhile, the Omani offiicials infomred Minister of Sports Affairs Sheikh Sa’ad bin Mohammed Al Sa’adi and Oman Olympic Committee Chairman Sheikh Mohammed Al Zubair congratulated the Omani atheltes for the results achieved so far. OOC General Secretary Taha Al Kishry said so far achievements of the national teams and atheltes have been commendable. “Our athletes won three medals, two bronze and one silver. And we are awaiting more medals,” he said. Currently Oman are 14th place in the medal ladder, which is led by Indonesia (16 gold, 11 silver and 19 bronze) and Turkey (15 gold, 15 silver and 23 bronze).

OC LEAGUE

Smith stars in MI’s Assarain humble Muscat CT victory over Lions JAIPUR: Dwayne Smith starred in Mumbai Indians seven-wicket win over the Lions in a Champions League Twenty20 Group A match here yesterday to keep alive his team’s dreams of qualifying for the knockout stage. With one loss and a washout game, Mumbai Indians were in dire need of a win and the West Indian all-rounder obliged as his unbeaten 63 off 47 balls helped overhaul Lions’ score of 140 for ﬁve with nine balls to spare at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here.

Mumbai are tied with second placed Otago from New Zealand on six points having played a match more. Rajasthan Royals lead the table with two wins from as many games. Brief scores: Lions 140 for 5 in 20 overs (Alviro Petersen 35 n.o., Dwaine Pretorius 31 n.o.; Pragyan Ojha 2/26, Harbhajan Singh 1/19) lost to Mumbai Indians 141 for 3 in 18.3 overs (Dwayne Smith 63 n.o.; Kieron Pollard 31 n.o.; Sohail Tanvir 1/15, Dwaine Pretorius 1/26).

MUSCAT: Assarain A humbled defending champions Muscat CT in a ﬁve-wicket victory in Oman Cricket’s lone A Division match played at the Ministry of Sports Affairs Ground I in Amerat yesterday. Muscat CT, just days after being honoured at the Oman Cricket annual awards gala for their exploits in the last season, would have been hoping to join the Enhance CT and Passage to India as the teams to start their campaigns in the new season with victories. But it was not to be as Zeeshan Maqsood-led Assarain outplayed the reigning champions, who won

Zeeshan Maqsood. – Supplied photo

the toss and elected to bat ﬁrst. Muscat CT failed to even last full quote of overs and were bowled out for 137 in 47.3 overs. Hemal Mehta was the top-scorer with 32 runs

while Zeeshan. Muhammed Nadeem and Kaleemullah picked two wickets apiece for Assarain. In reply, Assarain also lost an early wicket but opener Arun Poulose (45) and later Zeeshan (44) steered their team safety and towards the victory. Brief scores: Muscat CT 137 all out in 47.3 overs (Hemal Mehta 32, Vaibhav Wategaonkar 16, Adnan Ilyas 15; Zeeshan Maqsood 2/16, Muhammed Nadeem 2/29, Kaleemullah 2/34) lost to Assarain A 138 for 5 in 36.2 overs (Arun Poulose 45, Zeeshan Maqsood 44; Munish Ansari 2).

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WORLD Heat on us as time to act on global warming WAKE UP CALL UN panel warns of rising temperatures saying more certain than ever before that mankind causes global warming

STOCKHOLM: Leading scientists said yesterday they were more certain than ever before that humans are the main culprits for climate change and predicted the impact from greenhouse gas emissions could linger for centuries. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a report that the current hiatus in warming, when temperatures have risen more slowly despite growing emissions, was a natural variation that would not last. It said the Earth was set for more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels that could swamp coasts and low-lying islands as greenhouse gases built up in the atmosphere. Many world leaders called for stronger action to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions and limit a rise in temperatures to within manageable limits after the report, which estimated that humanity has burnt more than half the available carbon. The study, meant to guide governments in shifting towards greener energies, said it was “extremely likely”, a probability of at least 95 per cent, that human activities were the dominant cause of warming since the mid-20th century. That was an increase from “very likely”, or 90 per cent, in the last report in 2007 and “likely”, 66 per cent, in 2001. UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said the study was a call for governments, many of which have been focused on spurring weak growth rather than fighting climate change, to work to agree a planned UN accord in 2015 to combat global warming. “The heat is on. Now we must act,” he said. ‘Playing with fire’ US Secretary of State John Kerry said the report was a wake-up call. “Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire,” he said, referring to sceptics who question the need for urgent action. They have become emboldened after temperatures rose more slowly over the last 15 years despite increasing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in emerging nations led by China. European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said it was time to treat the Earth’s health. “If your doctor was 95 per cent sure you had a serious disease, you would immediately start

DANGEROUS IMPACT: A giant tabular iceberg surrounded by ice ﬂoe drift in Vincennes Bay in

the Australian Antarctic Territory on January 11, 2008. A UN panel said yesterday the Earth was set for more heatwaves, ﬂoods, droughts and rising sea levels that could swamp coasts and lowlying islands as greenhouse gases built up in the atmosphere. – AFP

HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY: The panel raised the probability that human activities, led by the burning of fossil fuels, are the main cause of global warming since the mid-20th century to “extremely likely”, or at least 95 per cent, from “very likely” (90 per cent) in its previous report in 2007 and “likely” (66 per cent) in 2001.

LONG-TERM CLIMATE TRENDS: The panel said that short, individual periods, such as 1998 which was an exceptionally warm year, are inﬂuenced by natural variability and do not, in general, reﬂect long-term climate trends.

PROJECTED WARMING: The panel said temperatures were likely to rise by between 0.3 and 4.8 degrees Celsius (0.5 to 8.6 Fahrenheit) by the late 21st century. The report uses new

looking for the cure,” she said. Compiled from the work of hundreds of scientists, the report faces extra scrutiny this year after its 2007 predecessor included an error that exaggerated the rate of melting of Himalayan glaciers. An outside review later found that the mistake did not affect its main conclusions. The report said the trend of the past 15 years was skewed by the fact that 1998, at the start of the period, was an extremely warm year with an El Nino event in the Paciﬁc that can disrupt weather worldwide. It said warming had slowed “in roughly equal measure” because of random variations in the climate and the impact of factors such as volcanic eruptions, when ash dims sunshine, and a cyclical decline in the sun’s output. The report predicted that the reduction in warming would not last, saying temperatures from 2016-35 were likely to be 0.3-0.7 degree Celsius (0.5 to 1.3 Fahren-

computer models that are not directly comparable with scenarios in 2001.

SEA LEVEL RISE: Sea levels are likely rise by between 26 and 82 cm (10 to 32 inches) by the late 21st century, after a 19 cm rise in the 19th century. In the worst case, seas could be 98 cm higher in the year 2100. The 2001 report projected a rise of 18 to 59 cm, but did not take full account of a melt in Antarctica and Greenland.

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY: The report estimates that a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere would lead to a warming of between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 and 8.1F), lowering the bottom of the range from 2.0 degrees (3.6F) estimated in 2007 report. The new range, however, is the same as in other IPCC reports before 2007.

heit) warmer than in 1986-2005. Still, the report said the climate was slightly less sensitive than estimated to the warming effect of carbon dioxide. A doubling of carbon in the atmosphere would raise temperatures by between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 8.1F), below the 2-4.5 (3.6-8.1F) range in the 2007 report, it said. The new range is identical to the ranges in IPCC studies before 2007. Unequivocal trend The IPCC reiterated that a warming trend is “unequivocal”, and some effects would last far beyond the lifetimes of people now alive, such as heat penetrating ever deeper into the oceans. “As a result of our past, present and expected future emissions of carbon dioxide, we are committed to climate change and effects will persist for many centuries even if emissions of carbon dioxide stop,” co-chair Thomas Stocker said. The report said temperatures

were likely to rise by between 0.3 and 4.8 degrees Celsius (0.5 to 8.6 Fahrenheit) by the late 21st century. The low end of the range would only be achieved if governments sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions. And it said world sea levels could rise by between 26 and 82 cm (10 to 32 inches) by the late 21st century, driven up by melting ice and an expansion of water as it warms, in a threat to coastal cities from Shanghai to San Francisco. That range is above the 18-59 cm estimated in 2007, which did not take full account of Antarctica and Greenland. “Scientists have conﬁrmed what farmers in poor countries around the world have been telling us for years, that changes to their climate are destroying their livelihoods, ruining crops, hitting incomes, food quality and often their family’s health,” said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the charity Oxfam. — Reuters LONGEST-RUNNING

Japanese cartoon to go digital TOKYO: The world’s longestrunning cartoon is to go fully digital, its Japanese broadcaster said yesterday, abandoning hand-drawn celluloidbased animation after a run of 44 years. Fuji Television Network said episodes of “Sazae-san” aired from October would be produced entirely digitally. The move will mean there are no hand-drawn cartoons left on Japanese television, according to the Association of Japanese Animations. “Sazae-san”, which ﬁrst aired in 1969, revolves around the life of the Mrs Sazae of the title, a cheerful but klutzy full-time housewife who lives with her parents, husband, son, brother and sister. The 30-minute episodes, which can readily garner more than one-in-seven Sunday evening viewers, tend to focus on tiny incidents in the family’s everyday life and are dotted with seasonal festivals. — AFP

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MARKE

RA TO SWITCH MAIN INDIA RAJAN INFLATION GAUGE AT RBI INF Res Reserve Bank of India Governor Rag Raghuram Rajan is set to use consumerpric price inﬂation as the main guide for mon monetary policy for the ﬁrst time, a shift that signals further increases in the ben benchmark interest rate. >B4

EUROPEAN UNION

VIEWING TOWER IN THE SHAPE OF A GIANT COPPER PUFFER FISH A viewing tower in the shape of a giant copper puffer ﬁsh is seen under construction on the banks of a river in Yangzhong county, Jiangsu province, China. The tower has raised an online huff about the latest in a series of bizarre and extravagant targets of state investment. Encased in 8,920 copper plates and built at a cost of around 70 million yuan ($11.4 million), the tower on an island in Yangzhong county, eastern Jiangsu province, hovers 15 storeys above ground. — Reuters

Economic confidence up in eurozone BRUSSELS: After months in the doldrums, eurozone economic confidence hit a two-year high in September matching other recent signs of improvement, official data said yesterday. The strong increase “resulted from markedly improved confidence across all business sectors, whereby improvements in construction and retail trade were particularly pronounced,” the European Commission said. The Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said its September Economic Sentiment Indicator rose 1.6 points to 96.9 in the 17-nation eurozone and by 2.4 points to 100.4 in the full 28-member European Union. The sharp increase in the EU brought the indicator above the long-term average of 100 for the first time since July 2011. “September’s increase in economic sentiment adds to mounting evidence that the eurozone economy has left recession behind,” said ING Bank analyst Martin van Vliet. Economic sentiment improved in three of the five biggest euro area economies, whose fragile performance has been a source of concern — namely Spain (up 2.5 points), Italy (also up 2.5 points) and France (up 1.6). Sentiment in powerhouse Germany “remained broadly unchanged”, the commission said, while it slipped again in the recession-hit Netherlands (down 0.9 points). Overall, the report fits in with other more encouraging data suggesting the stuttering eurozone may be pulling away from a deep and damaging recession that ended in the second quarter. — Agencies

Boeing sees $550b business in Mideast Boeing’s latest 20year outlook for commercial aviation forecasts a $4.8 trillion market for jet transports. Of that, the Middle East region is expected to require 2,610 jetliners

From the time historically when Middle East institutions funded about one-fifth of the region’s deliveries with their own capital, this year we expect to have two-thirds of Boeing deliveries here covered, which is a seven per cent increase over 2012’s explosive growth Rich Hammond Senior director of Boeing Capital Corporation

Times News Service MUSCAT: Middle East financial institutions in 2013 continue to surpass expectations for new delivery financing of Boeing commercial airplanes, the leading manufacturer reported at its annual financiers and investors conference for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region held in Dubai. The positive trend comes as the world’s airliner builders expect re-

cord deliveries in 2013, with Middle East support for US-built jetliners doubling between 2011 and 2012 to approximately $6.4 billion. “From the time historically when Middle East institutions funded about one-ﬁfth of the region’s deliveries with their own capital, this year we expect to have two-thirds of Boeing deliveries here covered, which is a seven percent increase over 2012’s explo-

sive growth,” said Rich Hammond, a senior director of Boeing Capital Corporation, the manufacturer’s ﬁnancing and leasing unit and an event co-host. Boeing’s latest 20-year outlook for commercial aviation forecasts a $4.8 trillion market for jet transports. Of that, the Middle East region is expected to require 2,610 jetliners valued at $550 billion.

Increased investor interest Boeing told the audience of some 150 commercial bankers and investment officials that the region’s increased investor interest in aircraft is helping offset adjustments from other primary funding sources. These include limits on bank lending from new global regulations taking effect and higher fees for jetliner export credit agency financing that occurred globally in 2013. “In today’s more globally diversified pool of commercial banks, the Middle East is rivalling support for our products from the likes of other economic powers,” Hammond said. Aircraft financing is seeing a major surge in support from the capital markets, where airline bond issuances, backed by new and used aircraft assets, are many times oversubscribed and pricing at record-low rates. “There’s keen interest by Middle East banks to work with the capital markets to help originate and syndicate regional aircraft financing opportunities, and Boeing’s working together with financial institutions here on structures that will facilitate such opportunities,” said Kostya Zolotusky, Boeing Capital managing director for capital markets development and leasing.

PERFORMANCE

BlackBerry posts $965m Q2 loss NEW YORK: Canadian tech pioneer BlackBerry, which earlier this week agreed to a $4.7 billion buyout, said yesterday that the ailing company lost $965 million in the second quarter. The Ontario-based company, formerly a leader in mobile phone technology, has been squeezed by rivals Android and Apple, steadily losing market share, a trend which continues according to its latest earnings report. ‘Very disappointed’ “We are very disappointed with our operational and ﬁnancial results this quarter and have announced a series of major changes to address the competitive hardware environment and our cost structure,” said BlackBerry CEO and President Thorsten Heins. He added that the company is putting in place “the necessary changes to create the best business model” for its ailing product. “We understand how some of the activities we are going through create uncertainty, but we remain a ﬁnancially strong company with $2.6 billion in cash and no debt,” Heins said. “We are focused on our targeted markets, and are committed to completing our transition quickly in order to establish a more fo-

– Bloomberg ﬁle picture

cused and efficient company.” BlackBerry announced this week that it signed a letter of intent with a group led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, which has offered to acquire the company. Fairfax, a Canadian ﬁrm headed by billionaire Prem Watsa, is already BlackBerry’s largest shareholder with approximately 10 per cent of its shares. Watsa resigned from BlackBerry’s board in August when it announced a search for a suitor. Under the proposed BlackBerry-Fairfax deal the consortium would offer $9 for each outstanding share, and Fairfax would contribute its own shares in the transaction. — Agencies

ISLAMIC FINANCE

CBO chief to open meet on IFSB standards on risk management Times News Service MUSCAT: A workshop on implementing Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) standards on risk management, corporate and Sharia governance for Islamic ﬁnancial institutions between September 30 and October 2 will be inaugurated by Hamood bin Sangour Al Zadjali, executive president of the Central Bank of Oman (CBO). The

workshop, which will be held in Crowne Plaza hotel, is conducted by CBO in association with IFSB , Malaysia, according to a press release. The workshop will be attended by the staff from the CBO, other central banks and Islamic banks in Oman as well as by a host of international participants. This workshop aims at fulﬁlling the training needs in the ﬁeld of Islamic banking for the staff of CBO,

Islamic banks and Islamic windows in commercial banks and the focus in this workshop will be to provide the participants with the latest updates on the implementation of IFSB standards on risk management, corporate and Sharia governance in Islamic ﬁnancial institutions. Lecturers from IFSB will also be presenting working papers during the workshop. The ﬁrst day of the workshop

will include review of the standards related to the various forms of risk management in Islamic banks, such as credit risks, risks in securities trading, operational risks, market risks, liquidity risks and rate of return risks in accordance with IFSB guidelines. The second day will involve discussion on case studies on risk management and sharing of best practices in this regard by the IFSB member coun-

tries, including cases and practical models regarding the rights of investment accounts holders and on how to ensure compliance with the governing Sharia principles. On the third day, the workshop will address one of the basic tenets upon which Islamic banking is based –the Sharia Governance within Islamic banks. Special focus will be on the roles played by the various components

of Sharia governance framework, such as the Sharia supervisory committee, internal Sharia reviewer/auditor, Sharia compliance unit and Sharia audit unit, in the enforcement of Sharia governance in Islamic banks. The ﬁnal day will be devoted to discussing, for the beneﬁt of staff of Banking Control Departments at CBO, the IFSB Standards – 5 regarding the supervisory review procedures.

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SPORTS RESPITE

India court clears Srinivasan to contest BCCI vote

Kvitova halts Venus Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion from the Czech Republic, repelled everything Williams threw at her in a pulsating Tokyo semiﬁnal, to complete

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court yesterday cleared the country’s cricket chief N. Srinivasan to seek a third term in his role at an election this weekend, but barred him from taking charge immediately after the vote. A cricket association in eastern Bihar state had petitioned the court to stop Srinivasan from contesting the vote for president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) because his son-in-law was charged in a corruption scandal. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan is among several officials, players and bookmakers charged with cheating and criminal conspiracy in a spot-ﬁxing scandal that has rocked the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 tournament run by the BCCI. “Why he is in charge if his sonin-law has been charge-sheeted,” the Press Trust of India quoted the judge as asking Srinivasan’s lawyers. “Why are you so keen to be elected? The elections can take place, but he cannot assume charge until the matter is decided.” Srinivasan had temporarily stepped aside as president in June when he handed interim charge to Jagmohan Dalmiya, a former head of the International Cricket Council (ICC). However he has continued to pull the strings behind the scene and ensured on Wednesday that

his bete noire, IPL founder Lalit Modi, was banned for life from the sport. The 68-year-old, who has headed the BCCI since 2011, is widely expected to be elected unopposed for another year when the elections take place in his home city of Chennai tomorrow. Srinivasan has distanced himself from his son-in-law, saying he himself has not been blamed or charged in the scandal. Meiyappan was the team principal of the Chennai Super Kings franchise, which is owned by the India Cements conglomerate run by Srinivasan. The Bihar association, which is not part of the BCCI, had opposed Srinivasan’s return since another court had termed as “illegal” an internal probe panel that absolved Srinivasan, Meiyappan, India Cements and other IPL ofﬁcials of wrongdoing. The petitioner, Aditya Verma, said the court’s interim order should convince BCCI members to keep Srinivasan out. “Would they want to elect someone who has no powers to discharge any function?” Verma asked reporters. “I am very happy with the Supreme Court ruling.” The BCCI chief is widely regarded as the most powerful man in world cricket due to India’s vast television audience which enables the board to generate almost 70 percent of the game’s revenues and allows India to have its way in major decisions. - AFP

victory in two hours and 24 minutes

TOKYO: Petra Kvitova ended the run of a resurgent Venus Williams at the Pan Pacific Open yesterday, winning a high-octane shootout 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 to reach the final of the $2.3 million event, where she will face fellow “lefty” Angelique Kerber. The German Kerber had too much firepower for Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, the fifth seed beating the former world No 1 6-2, 7-6 to reach her seventh career final. Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion from the Czech Republic, repelled everything Williams threw at her in a pulsating Tokyo semifinal, the seventh seed holding her nerve to tear through the deciding tiebreak 7-2 and complete victory in two hours and 24 minutes. “That was definitely one of my best matches of the season,” Kvitova said after playing her third match in two days. “I knew she would attack and I had a little trouble so I just tried to do the same to her.” A see-saw match which began in bright sunshine with Williams in the ascendancy caught fire in the second set. Kvitova began ripping winners past the former world No 1 , who took the rare step of calling hitting

COUNTER ATTACK: Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic returns a shot against Venus Williams of the

US during their semiﬁnal at the Pan Paciﬁc Open in Tokyo yesterday. – AFP

Lack of technology denies Venus fastest serve TOKYO: Venus Williams was denied a chance to better her world record for fastest serve in women’s tennis in absence of proper measuring technology at the Pan Paciﬁc Open in Tokyo. Williams blasted a 209 kmph serve during Thursday’s 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 win over Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard in the quarterﬁnal match.

partner David Witt to her chair for a pow-wow after being pegged back to a set-all. But Kvitova refused to buckle, ﬁnding the sweet spot repeatedly —

The WTA uses IDS radar guns to measure service speeds but they are not deployed in Tokyo, the governing body said in an email response. It meant that the 33-year-old American’s serve of 207.6 km per hour, hit during the 2007 US Open, stands as the fastest serve in women’s tennis till date. The multiple Grand Slam winner was herself surprised

to the frustration of the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion. The American unravelled at crunch time and an absorbing clash ended under ﬂoodlights when Kvi-

with the reading on the speed gun on Thursday. “I saw that but I was like: ‘Is that real?’ So I don’t know if that’s real,” Williams said. “I know I’ve been serving a lot harder this tournament than since I’ve come back from my back injury. It feels good but I don’t know if it was that hard. I hope it was... that’s insane, it’s awesome.” - Reuters

tova, who had held a 6-0 lead in the tiebreak, converted her third match point by forcing Williams to hook a forehand long after another ﬁerce salvo from the baseline. - AFP

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MARKET Oracle says cloud computing will help improve operating margins move entirely to the cloud, he said. Oracle is poised to gain market share amid shifts to mobile and Web-based services, regardless of the state of the economy, Catz said.

After spending $50b on acquisitions in the past decade, fuelling an expansion in sales and earnings, the world’s largest database-software maker is seeking new sources of growth

SAN FRANCISCO: Oracle, the world’s largest database-software maker, will boost operating margins by shifting to services delivered via the Web from software installed on computers, chief ﬁnancial officer Safra Catz said. Oracle will be more proﬁtable as technology spending is directed toward cloud-computing tools, Catz, who is also co-president, said at a meeting with analysts in San Francisco. Analysts project on average

that Oracle will reach an operating margin of 48 per cent for the ﬁscal year through May, compared to 39 per cent in the previous year. After spending more than $50 billion on acquisitions in the past decade, fuelling an expansion in sales and earnings, Oracle is seeking new sources of growth. The software maker is grappling with Salesforce.com, Workday and other competitors delivering software via the Internet, leading Oracle

to buy and develop its own cloudcomputing products. “They’re caught up in this transition between perpetual licensing and cloud,” said Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS who has a buy rating on the shares. Oracle’s hybrid approach of selling software that runs on businesses’ own computers and also over the Web is necessary for customers in ﬁnancial services, telecommunications and government that aren’t ready to

S T R AT E G Y S H I FT

Intel seeking partner to jumpstart web-TV service LOS ANGELES: Intel, shifting strategy for its planned Webbased television service, is now seeking partnerships to jumpstart the project, said a person with knowledge of the situation. The company may miss a stated goal of starting service by yearend, said the person, who asked not to be named because the plans are private. Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, is looking for a partner with a base of Internet subscribers or rights to films and television shows, the person said. Intel’s TV efforts have slowed under chief executive Brian M. Krzanich, according to the person. The new chief executive, who took the reins in May, has emphasised getting Intel chips into mobile devices. The shift in strategy for its TV effort reflects a view within Intel that the company, which has built an advanced set-top box, needs a partner with existing customers and marketing experience to make it a success. “For Intel or anyone else to launch and pay the networks what they’re getting from the cable companies makes it a very difficult proposition,” said Bernard Gershon, a New York-based digital television consultant. Web competition A spokesman for Intel declined to comment. Potential partners who have had discussions include online retailer Amazon.com, which runs a pay-video service, and TV set maker Samsung Electronics, the website All Things D reported, citing people familiar with Intel’s plans. Drew Herdener, a spokesman for

For Intel or anyone else to launch and pay the networks what they’re getting from the cable companies makes it a very difficult proposition Bernard Gershon Digital television consultant

Seattle-based Amazon, declined to comment. Lauren Restuccia, a spokeswoman for Samsung in New Jersey, didn’t respond to an e-mailed request for comment outside of business hours. Intel has been working on a Webbased television product since at least early 2012. Erik Huggers, general manager of Intel Media, said in February that the company planned to start service this year. Intel is trying to offer pay television through Web connections, creating new competition for incumbent providers like Time Warner Cable and DirecTV. The service would give consumers, who increasingly view TV on their own schedule, wherever they are, access to content across TV sets,

smartphones and mobile devices. Intel plans to offer both channels with live programming and a large library of video-on-demand. The company continues to negotiate for programming and may have agreements in place within weeks, according to the person. Progress toward a broader partnership may also be made during that timeframe, the person said. Contractual terms with content providers prevent Intel from forming a partnership with a traditional pay-TV provider, the person said. Sony and Google Intel has been testing the service among employees as it seeks programming from media companies such as Time Warner, Comcast’s NBC Universal and Viacom Inc. The company had sought to build a service that would rank alongside DirecTV, the biggest United States satellite-TV service with more than 20 million subscribers. Sony, Google and Apple are also working on Web-based pay-TV services, which offer advantages in reaching younger viewers who are just as likely to watch shows from Netﬂix or Amazon.com on their smartphones as traditional TV linked to a set-top box. An Internet TV provider would have to pay as much or more than cable and satellite services and offer a suite of channels, ESPN president John Skipper said at a press conference last month. “Intel was slow to respond to the ultra-mobile PC trends,” Krzanich said in a July conference call. “We have made several strategy and priority changes that will allow us to focus and win in that environment.” - Bloomberg News

Comeback challenge “Oracle will be left in the dust — I’ve probably heard it half a dozen times,” Catz said. “Whatever the economy brings us, we will ultimately gain share.” Larry Ellison, chief executive, whose Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup yacht race on September 25 in a comeback victory over Emirates Team New Zealand, has charted a course for Oracle that relies on selling customers complete systems of computer servers, databases and application-connecting middleware to reverse slowing growth. “You put all these pieces together,” Ellison said at the meeting with analysts. “It’s kind of like conﬁgur-

ing the boat — it’s not any one thing.” The company this week introduced a way for customers of its new database software, called 12c, to run their existing applications by putting more of the data into computer memory instead of on disk for faster transaction processing and data analysis, challenging SAP. Keeping pace The Redwood City, Californiabased company on September 18 gave a weaker-than-projected proﬁt forecast for the ﬁscal second quarter, which ends in November. Sales are also slowing — they were unchanged last year and analysts on average predict 3 per cent growth this year, according to data. Revenue increased by double digits for much of the past decade. “On the applications side, they need to demonstrate they can keep pace with the upstarts,” said Israel Hernandez, an analyst at MKM

Partners who recommends buying Oracle shares. Oracle’s compensation policies have also come under some scrutiny. CtW Investment Group, part of the labour group Change to Win, is urging Oracle to appoint a new director to oversee compensation practices. The group is also opposing the use of stock options to pay Ellison and other executives, said Michael Pryce-Jones, a research analyst at CtW, which holds 6 million Oracle shares. Ellison’s pay package declined 18 per cent to $78.4 million for ﬁscal 2013 after he gave up an annual bonus and the company missed some of its proﬁt targets. - Bloomberg News

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FEATURE

McDonald s franchisees rebel as chain raises store fees The rising costs are making franchisees, who operate almost 90 per cent of the chain's more than 14,100 US locations, less likely to open new restaurants and refurbish them, potentially constraining sales

cdonald’s, already struggling to sell burgers in the United States, now must contend with a brewing franchisee revolt. Store operators say the company, looking to improve its bottom line, is increasingly charging them too much to operate their restaurants — including rent, remodeling and fees for training and software. The rising costs are making franchisees, who operate almost 90 per cent of the chain’s more than 14,100 US locations, less likely to open new restaurants and refurbish them, potentially constraining sales. McDonald’s is “doing everything they can to shift costs to operators,” said Kathryn Slater-Carter, who in June joined other franchisees in Stockton, California, to brainstorm ways of getting the chain to lessen the cost burden. “Putting too much focus on Wall Street is not a good thing in the long run. ‘’It is not as proﬁtable a business as it used to be,’’ said Slater-Carter, who owns two McDonald’s stvores and backs California legislation that would require good faith and fair dealing between parties in a franchise contract. It would also allow franchisees to associate freely with fellow store owners. Asked if McDonald’s is shifting costs to franchisees, Heather Oldani, a spokeswoman, said in an email: ‘’We are continuing to work together with McDonald’s owner/operators and our supplier partners to ensure that our restaurants are providing a great experience to our customers, which involves investments in training and technology.” Lee Heriaud, who chairs

the National Leadership Council, a group of franchisees that meet regularly with company executives to discuss ideas and concerns, attended the Stockton meeting and others. In an emailed statement provided by Oldani, he said “owner/operators’ feedback and perspectives have been shared with McDonald’s and owner/ operator leadership in the spirit of open dialogue.” The meetings were “productive,” he said. Cooperation between McDonald’s and its store owners is deteriorating, according to an April 11 letter from a franchisee to other store owners reviewed by Bloomberg News. “Many of you have said that you don’t feel that the top management understands the economic pressures that we face,” the letter said. “The tone has become much more controlling and less inclusive.” This isn’t the ﬁrst time the world’s largest restaurant company has found itself at odds with the people who own and operate its stores. McDonald’s in the mid-90s alienated US franchisees when it expanded too quickly and new stores began cannibalising other locations, said Dick Adams, a former McDonald’s store owner and restaurant consultant in San Diego. Under pressure from franchisees, the company slowed the expansion. It opened 1,130 net new domestic restaurants in 1995; by 1998, it had cut that number to 92. “There was a time at McDonald’s when the franchisee morale was extremely low and everyone was extremely upset,” Adams said. “We’re getting there again.” Today’s tensions between Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald’s and store operators coincide with the company’s struggles to grow after consumer conﬁdence fell in July after increasing for the past three

We are continuing to work together with McDonald's owner/ operators and our supplier partners to ensure that our restaurants are providing a great experience to our customers, which involves investments in training and technology. Heather Oldani McDonald's spokeswoman

months and with the unemployment rate stalled at 7.4 per cent or higher. On July 22, the shares fell 2.7 per cent, the most in nine months, when McDonald’s reported second-quarter proﬁt and revenue that trailed analysts’ estimates. Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Don Thompson said economic weakness would hurt results for the rest of the year. The Big Mac seller, which owns or leases most of its US stores, has been generating more income from fran-

chisees. Revenue from franchised stores, which includes rent and royalties, increased eight per cent on average during the past five years, while total revenue rose four per cent. Some franchisees are paying as much as 12 per cent of store sales in rent, according to notes of an April 23 meeting attended by store operators. Instead, they want the company to return to a historic rate of about 8.5 per cent, the document shows. US McDonald’s restaurants average about $2.5 million in annual sales, according to Chicago-based researcher Technomic. That means franchisees who have recently renewed leases are paying an average of $300,000 a year, up from $212,500 at the 8.5 per cent rate. “Across the country, the rent owner/operators pay for their McDonald’s restaurants is determined by local market real estate costs, as well as the cost of doing business in a particular market,” Ofelia Casillas, a McDonald’s spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement. “The range for rent has historically varied based on these and other regular business variables.” At the April meeting at a community center in Paramount, California, a group of franchisees spent five hours discussing ways to get the company to reduce rents and other costs. Another cadre of McDonald’s store owners met in Stockton in June to discuss similar issues. The group in Paramount suggested reducing rents, royalty rates and creating a regional realestate team of store owners to help set lease rates. Rent is “the firmest of fixed expenses,” said John Gordon, principal at San Diego-based Pacific Management Consulting Group and a consultant to restaurant franchisees.

“You pay that before you remodel, you pay that before you take owner salary out.” As a result, some run-down stores aren’t getting fixed up, which in turn is alienating customers, he said. “People don’t want to be in an old space, even if they’re going through the drive-thru,” Gordon said. “You get better employees, you just get a better vibe if it’s a newer store.” As it is, remodeling a McDonald’s store costs at least $800,000, according to Slater-Carter. That’s more than twice as much as at Burger King Worldwide, which after franchisees revolted cut the expense for its remodeling program by half to about $300,000, on average. Wendy’s Co. is also paring its upgrade costs and has said it will get to $375,000 for its least-expensive model. Oldani, the McDonald’s spokeswoman, said that it costs about $600,000, on average, to remodel a McDonald’s restaurant and $1 million to build a new store. McDonald’s recently told franchisee Slater-Carter she must pay $80 a year to switch to the company’s e-mail system and she’s now forking over an extra $10,400 per store annually for new software, Wi-Fi and employee training costs — all fees that McDonald’s has tacked on in the last five years. She won’t know until 2016, when her lease must be renewed, how much extra she may be paying in rent. “What I see going wrong is the corporation itself is forgetting that its fiscal strength rides on the fiscal strength and the creativity of the operators, and it’s just going for such centralised control,” said SlaterCarter, whose family has owned McDonald’s franchises since 1971. - LESLIE PATTON / WASHINGTON POST-BLOOMBERG NEWS

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Sadness is an emotion we usually try to avoid. So why do we choose to listen to sad music?

Musicologists and philosophers have wondered about this. Sad music can induce intense emotions, yet the type of sadness evoked by music also seems pleasing in its own way. Why? Aristotle famously suggested the idea of catharsis: that by overwhelming us with an undesirable emotion, music (or drama) somehow purges us of it. But what if, despite their apparent similarity, sadness in the realm of artistic appreciation is not the same thing as sadness in everyday life? In a study published this summer in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, my colleagues and I explored the idea that “musical emotion” encompasses both the felt emotion that the music induces in the listener and the perceived emotion that the listener judges the music to express. By isolating these two overlapping sets of emotions and observing how they related to each other, we hoped to gain a better understanding of sad music. Forty-four people served as participants in our experiment. We asked them to listen to one of three musical excerpts of approximately 30 seconds each. The excerpts were from Mikhail Glinka’s La Séparation (F minor), Felix Blumenfeld’s Sur Mer (G minor) and Enrique Granados’s Allegro de Concierto (C sharp major, though the excerpt was in G major, which we transposed to G minor). We were interested in the minor key because it is canonically associated with sad music, and we steered clear of well-known compositions to avoid interference from any personal memories related to the pieces. (Our participants were more or less split between men and women, as well as between musicians and nonmusicians, though these divisions turned out to be immaterial to our ﬁndings.) A participant would listen to an excerpt and then answer a question about his felt emotions: “How did you feel when listening to this music?” Then he would listen to a “happy” version of the excerpt — i.e., transposed into the major key — and answer the same question. Next he would listen to the excerpt, again in both sad and happy versions, each time answering a question about other listeners that was designed to elicit perceived emotion: “How would normal people feel when listening to this music?” (This is a slight simpliﬁcation: In the actual study, the order in which the participant answered questions about

felt and perceived emotion, and listened to sad and happy excerpts, varied from participant to participant.) Our participants answered each question by rating 62 emotion-related descriptive words and phrases — from happy to sad, from bouncy to solemn, from heroic to wistful — on a scale from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very much). We found, as anticipated, that felt emotion did not correspond exactly to perceived emotion. Although the sad music was both perceived and felt as “tragic” (e.g., gloomy, meditative and miserable), the listeners did not actually feel the tragic emotion as much as they perceived it. Likewise, when listening to sad music, the listeners felt more “romantic” emotion (e.g., fascinated, dear and in love) and “blithe” emotion (e.g., merry, animated and feel like dancing) than they perceived. Something similar happened with the happy music: perceived blithe emotions were rated higher than their felt counterparts. In general, it appears that perceived emotions may be rated higher than felt emotions when it comes to emotional categories characteristically associated with a given key. When listening to sad music, then, there is a tension, or slippage, between the two types of emotions. How are we to understand this gap? One answer might be that in everyday life we typically experience emotions that have a direct connection to whatever object or situation gives rise to them. But when we listen to sad music (or watch a sad movie, or read a sad novel), we are inoculated from any real threat or danger that the music (or movie or novel) represents. If this is true, what we experience when we listen to sad music might be thought of as “vicarious emotions.” Here, there is no object or situation that induces emotion directly, as in regular life. Instead, the vicarious emotions are free from the essential unpleasantness of their genuine counterparts, while still drawing force from the similarity between the two. We need to study vicarious emotions further. In doing so, we may be able to improve our understanding of a neglected feature of our emotional system — namely, its sensitivity to something other than palpable needs or threats. When we weep at the beauty of sad music, we experience a profound aspect of our emotional selves that may contain insights about the meaning and signiﬁcance of artistic experience — and also about ourselves as human beings. – Ai Kawakami/ The New York Times News Service

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MARKET Rajan to switch main inflation gauge at RBI India’s central bank governor is set to use consumerprice inflation as the main guide for monetary policy for the first time, a shift that signals further increases in the key interest rate

NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan is set to use consumer-price inflation as the main guide for monetary policy for the first time, a shift that signals further increases in the benchmark interest rate. RBI governor will add to last week’s surprise repurchase-rate boost after specifying a pace of consumer-price gains as the key target, seven of 10 analysts. A panel he set up after becoming governor on September 4 is due to report by December on revising the monetary-policy framework. Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist, is reviewing the array of goals now guiding policy after growth slowed to a decade low and as consumer inflation exceeds 9 per cent. Focusing on consumer prices would simplify those objectives and curb a practice of relying on wholesale inflation, bringing the RBI’s approach closer to counterparts from Indonesia to Europe. “The bank seems to be moving towards a de facto inflation- targeting regime and that’s going to be a big change in its policy framework,” said Prasanna Ananthasubramanian, an economist at ICICI Securities Primary Dealership in Mumbai. “It would represent a more consistent policy to fight price pressures.” India’s consumer gauge rose 9.52 per cent in August from a year earlier, the fastest pace in a basket of 17

CHALLENGING TASK: Core inﬂation remains high, Raghuram

Rajan told reporters on Thursday. Domestic inﬂation is a better policy anchor than the exchange rate for emerging-market central banks, he said. – Bloomberg News

CHANGES

Focusing on consumer prices would simplify those objectives and curb a practice of relying on wholesale inﬂation, bringing the Reserve Bank of India‘s approach closer to counterparts from Indonesia to Europe. India‘s central bank governor is also reviewing the array of goals now guiding policy after growth slowed to a decade low and as consumer inﬂation exceeds 9%

Asia-Pacific economies. Stripping out food and fuel, core consumer prices climbed about 8.2 per cent, according to calculations by based on government data. Interest rates Core inflation remains high, Rajan told reporters on Thursday during a visit to Frankfurt, Germany. Domestic inflation is a better policy anchor than the exchange rate for emerging-market central banks, he said. Two survey respondents said he’ll target the core gauge. Another said either the core or main measure will be used. The jump in living costs has eroded consumer demand and

hurt the poor in a nation where about 826 million people live on less than $2 per day, according to World Bank data. Inﬂation has been stoked by bottlenecks in the supply of goods amid choked roads and ports, surging food prices, higher fuel costs and more expensive imports. The rupee has slumped 14.4 per cent versus the dollar in the past year, according to data. The currency strengthened 0.2 per cent to 61.94 per dollar in Mumbai. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 0.5 per cent. The yield on the 10-year bond due May 2023 rose to 8.73 per cent from 8.72 per cent on Thursday.

Inflation hawk Rajan, vowing to fight price pressures, raised the repo rate by a quarter point to 7.5 per cent in his first review on September 20. He also eased some liquidity curbs in the banking system imposed by predecessor Duvvuri Subbarao to support the rupee. “Rajan lived up to his reputation of inflation hawk,” said Sonal Varma, an economist at Nomura Holdings in Mumbai. “Low and stable inflation expectations are a cornerstone for sustainable growth.” Three analysts in the survey said he’ll raise the benchmark rate another 50 basis points by the end of March, while two predicted the same magnitude by the end of 2013. One expected 7.75 per cent by year-end, and another 8.25 per cent by end-2014. Two analysts saw no change, and one other was unsure. The RBI currently uses wholesale-price inflation as the main cost-of-living measure to guide policy. The index, which rose 6.1 per cent in August, is more than six decades old. The consumer gauge was created in 2011. Rajan inherited a sliding rupee, elevated price increases, subdued investment and risks from currentaccount and budget deficits when he became the 23rd governor. Fiscal deficit Economic expansion will slow to 4 per cent this fiscal year from a decade-low 5 per cent in the 12 months ended March, according to HSBC. Rajan may hold off from further repo-rate increases for now as higher borrowing costs would threaten to deepen the slowdown in Asia’s third-largest economy, said Sujan Hajra, an economist at Anand Rathi Financial Services in Mumbai. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government has pledged to restrain the fiscal shortfall to lower price pressures, part of wider changes to economic policy in the past year to improve the nation’s outlook ahead of elections due by May. - Bloomberg News

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Pakistani currency all set to stabilise ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s currency is set to stabilise after falling to a record low as a $6.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) spurs capital inﬂows, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said in an interview. “Reserves are growing,” Dar said after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met company executives in New York on Thursday. “We don’t intervene in our currency. It is a free market.” The Pakistani rupee has been among Asia’s worst performers this year, according to data, and has fallen 1.4 per cent over the past month even as the IMF approved a loan to avoid a balanceof-payments crisis. The currency touched 106.3 on September 18, the weakest level in data going back to 1988, and has dropped 7.8 per cent this year. Sharif’s three-month-old government is struggling to revive the $231 billion economy crippled by chronic energy shortages and a spike in violence from a Taleban insurgency in the northwest. He has announced an ambitious reform program that includes increasing tax revenue and privatising loss-making stateowned companies. Net capital inﬂows are set to bolster foreign reserves as the government meets the loan’s conditions, Dar said. Foreign reserves fell by more than half to $4.9 billion in September from a year earlier, enough to cover about 1.5 months of imports, central bank data shows. The rupee surged 1.6 per cent on Thursday, the biggest gain since December 17, 2008, after reports that the central bank sold up to $60 million to support the currency, the Dawn newspaper reported on Thursday, citing bankers it didn’t identify. The rupee fell 0.4 per cent to 105.8 to the United States dollar in Karachi, according to data.

Reserves are growing. We don’t intervene in our currency. It is a free market Ishaq Dar Finance minister, Pakistan

Power blackouts Sharif has been able to cut power blackouts by paying off more than $4 billion in energy debt to electricity producers. “There are 30 companies which we have targeted for either full privatizations or strategic partnerships,” Dar said, adding that the list may include electricity generators. The deals may take about nine months to close, he said. Sharif is targeting 4.4 per cent economic growth during the fiscal year, up from an estimated 3.6 per cent in 2012-2013, and to keep inflation in single digits. The government can meet its goals to cut the deficit by 50 per cent in three years, Dar said, adding that it aims to achieve annual economic growth of 6 per cent within five years. Sharif returned to power in a May 11 general election, more than 13 years after his second period as premier was cut short by a 1999 army coup. He has sought talks with Pakistani Taleban to stem a wave of attacks, including a September 22 suicide bombing at a Peshawar church. - Bloomberg News

MARKETS

Indian stocks, currency fall MUMBAI: Indian stocks declined, with the benchmark index halting a four-week rally, amid concerns the central bank may tighten monetary-policy further after governor Raghuram Rajan’s comment that inﬂation is still high. ICICI Bank retreated 2.4 per cent, sending a gauge of 13 lenders to a three-week low. Bharat Heavy Electricals was the worst performer on the index, ending a three-day, 12 per cent rally. Tata Steel fell the most in a month, pacing losses among metal producers. The S&P BSE Sensex slid 0.8 per cent to 19,727.27, taking the week’s loss to 2.7 per cent. Volume on the measure was 41 per cent less than the 30-day average at the close. ICICI Bank dropped to Rs923, the lowest close since September 5. HDFC Bank lost 2 per cent to Rs608. State Bank of India fell 2.1 per cent to Rs1,640. The S&P BSE Bankex Index dropped 1.8 per cent to its lowest level since September 5. Bharat Heavy fell to Rs143. Mahindra & Mahindra fell 1 per cent

to Rs844, its biggest weekly drop this month. Tata Steel plunged 4.2 per cent to Rs287. Hindalco slumped 2.7 per cent to Rs113. The S&P BSE Metal Index declined 1.6 per cent, the most in two weeks. The inflows helped the Sensex post its best monthly gain in a year. The gauge has risen 1.6 per cent this year and trades at 13.7 times projected 12-month earnings, compared with the five- year average of 14.1 times, data show. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is trading at 10.5 times. The CNX Nifty Index fell 0.8 per cent to 5,833.20. India VIX, which gauges the cost of protection against losses in the Nifty, gained 0.3 per cent. Global funds bought a net $2.1 billion of Indian stocks this month, exchange data show, partly spurred by the United States Federal Reserve’s decision on September 18 to not pare its monthly bond purchases. The inflows helped the rupee rebound 10.2 per cent from an all-time low of 68.85 touched on August 28.

Indian rupee drops India’s rupee fell from a one-week high on speculation importers bought dollars to benefit from the exchange rate and as traders pared bearish positions on the United States currency ahead of the weekend. The rupee fell 0.7 per cent to 62.50 per dollar in Mumbai, ending the week with a 0.4 per cent loss, according to prices from local banks. It had risen to 61.76 earlier, the highest level since September 19. The currency’s 5.1 per cent advance in September is still the best performance among Asia’s 11 most-traded currencies. The rupee had gained earlier yesterday on optimism the central bank’s efforts to boost the supply of dollars will ease concerns about financing the nation’s current-account deficit. The shortfall in the broadest measure of trade widened to $23 billion in the three months through June from $18.08 billion the previous period, according to the median of 23 estimates in a survey. -Bloomberg News

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PRAYER TIMINGS

Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Isha Fajr (Tomorrow)

Y O U R B I R T H D AY

BORN today, you are a frank, honest and straightforward individual who will talk about virtually anything in realistic and unadorned terms. Indeed, there are times in which your native honesty borders on bluntness, at least to those who are not used to hearing the truth or for whom the truth is only a passing acquaintance! You understand the importance of cause and effect in life, and you will always study the linear progress of a thing in order to comprehend it completely — this includes other people as well. You don’t see anything mysterious in human behaviour; you consider it a product of simple, basic laws. You may not always pursue your goals with the gusto they warrant, yet you almost always achieve them. This is because you never take your eyes off the prize even though you may go after it with a kind of nonchalance that belies its true importance to you. Also born on this date are: Hilary Duff, actress; Naomi Watts, actress; Mira Sorvino, actress; Janeane Garofalo, actress and comedian; Brigitte Bardot, actress and model; Marcello Mastroianni, actor; Al Capp, cartoonist; Ed Sullivan, variety show host.

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ainly clear skies over most of the Sultanate with chance of early morning low clouds along the coastal areas of Dhofar Governorate and southeastern coast and chances of clouds development over Al Hajar mountains and adjoining areas towards tomorrow afternoon. EXPECTED WINDS: Along the coastal areas of Oman sea winds will be variable light at night becoming northeasterly light to moderate during day. Along coastal areas of

southeastern coast southwesterly light to moderate and over the rest of the Sultanate winds will be northwesterly light to moderate. SEA STATE: Slight to moderate along the southeastern coast with a maximum wave height of 1.5 metres and slight along the rest of Oman’s coasts with maximum wave height of 1.0 metre. HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY: Good over most of the Sultanate.

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SCORPIO S You’ll want to control certain variables more strictly, but some may defy you despite your efforts.

SAGITTARIUS S [[NOV. 22-DEC. 21] You are perilously close to taking a certain practical joke too far; do so, and you’ll have to make amends quickly and permanently.

CAPRICORN [DEC. 22-JAN 19] You and a friend may remember a mutual experience very differently. A third party should be able to glean the truth, however.

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

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AQUARIUS [JAN. 20-FEB. 18] The “official” version of a given event may not be wholly appreciated — until you come up against one who was actually there.

PISCES [Feb. 19-March 20] You’re in no mood to take the lead, at least for the ﬁrst part of the day. Later, perhaps, you’ll feel conﬁdent enough to do so.

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ARIES [March 21-APRIL 19] Your attitude may not be as bright and positive as it could be, given the circumstances. You’ve misinterpreted a certain event.

TAURUS [APRIL 20-MAY 20] You’ll be in the driver’s seat for most of the day, so be sure to give yourself the rest you need when you have the chance.

GEMINI [MAY 21-JUNE 20] Someone is gaining on you, and you’ll have to pick up the pace, perhaps before you feel you are truly ready to do so.

CANCER [JUNE 21-JULY 22] You may have to step in and take over something that is not being done according to your explicit instructions. You can teach by example.

LEO [JULY 23-AUG. 22] Certain personal adjustments may be necessary, but not all of your routine will have to change. The core of a current endeavour is solid.

VIRGO [AUG. 23-SEPT. 22] Take care that you do not intrude on others in a disruptive way. You can watch and learn, of course, but use courtesy.

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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[[OCT. 23-NOV. 21]

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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ENTERTAINMENT CINEMA SCHEDULE

BAHJA CINEMA Phata Poster Nikla Hero (Action/Comedy) (12+) Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ileana D’cruz 9:30pm; CP No: 849 PLAZA 3 Chennai Express (Action) (PG) Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone 6:30 & 9:30pm; CP No: 692

Kikoriki (Animation/Family/Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Vadim Bochanov, Sergey Mardar and Anton Vinogradov 11:30am & 1:30pm; CP No: 856 Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde 3:15 & 9:30pm; CP No: 869 Battle of the Year (3D) (Dance/Music) (12+) Cast: Chris Brown, Josh Peck and Laz Alonso 5:30pm; CP No: 839 The World’s End (Action/Comedy) (12+) Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman 7:30, 11:45pm; CP No: 852 Planes (3D) (Animation/Comedy/Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Carlos Alazraqui, Dane Cook, Stacey Keach 1:30pm; CP No: 809 Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson, Liam Hemsworth 3:30, 9:30, 11:30pm; CP No: 863 Insidious: Chapter 2 (Horror) (15+) Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne 5:30, 7:30pm; CP No: 858

Kikoriki (Animation/Family/Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Vadim Bochanov, Sergey Mardar and Anton Vinogradov 1:30pm; CP No: 856 The World’d End (Action/Comedy) (12+) Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman 3:15, 5:00, 9:30 & 11:45pm; CP No: 851 Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson and Liam Hemsworth 5:30, 7:30 & 11:45pm; CP No: 862 Planes (3D) (Animation/Comedy/Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Carlos Alazraqui, Dane Cook 1:30pm Aftershock (Horror/Thriller) (15+) Cast: Eli Roth, Ariel Levy and Nicolas Martinez 3:15pm; CP No: 841 Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl 2:30, 7:15 & 9:30pm; CP No: 868 Riddick 2 (Action/Sci – Fi/Thriller) (15+) Cast: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban and Kate Sackhoff 5:00pm; CP No: 777 The Family (Action/Comedy/Crime) (12+) Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pﬁeffer and Tommy Lee Jones 7:15pm; CP No: 822 Insidious: Chapter 2 (Horror) (15+) Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne 9:30 & 11:30pm; CP No: 857

The World’d End (Action/Comedy ) (12+) Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman 3:15, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm; CP No: 853 Riddick 2 (Action/Sci - Fi/Thriller) (15+) Cast: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban and Kate Sackhoff 5:15pm; CP No: 779 Insidious: Chapter 2 (Horror) (15+) Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey 3:30 & 11:45pm; CP No: 859 Planes (3D) (Animation/Comedy/ Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Carlos Alazraqui, Dane Cook and Stacey Keach 5:30pm; CP No: 810 Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde 7:15, 9:30pm; CP No: 870 Phata Poster Nikla Hero (Action/ Comedy) (12+) Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ileana D’cruz and Padmini Kolhapure 3:30pm; CP No: 846 Raja Rani (Tamil) (Comedy/Romance) (PG) Cast: Arya, Jai, Nayantra 6:30, 7:30pm; CP No: 878 Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson and Liam Hemsworth 2:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm CP No: 864

PLAZA 1 Warning (Action/Comedy) (TBA) Cast: Santosh Barmola, Suzana Rodrigues and Manjari Fadnis 3:30 & 9:30pm; CP No: 879 Phata Poster Nikla Hero (Action/Comedy) (12+) Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ileana D’cruz 6:30pm; CP No: 849 PLAZA 2 Grand Masti (Comedy) (18+) 3:30 & 6:30pm Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh and Aftab Shivdasani CP No: 815

Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) 2:30, 6:30pm; CP No: 869 Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) 4:45pm; CP No: 863 The World’s End (Action/Comedy) (12+) Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman 9:00, 11:15pm; CP No: 852

Memories (Malyalam) (Thriller) (15+) Cast: Prithviraj, Rahul Madhav and Mia George 4:30, 10:30pm CP No: 874

Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm; CP No: 865 Insidious: Chapter 2 (Horror) (15+) Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne 5:30, 9:30pm; CP No: 860 Planes (3D) (Animation/Comedy/ Adventure) (PG) Voice Overs: Carlos Alazraqui, Dane Cook 3:00pm; CP No: 811 Percy Jackson 2: Sea of Monsters (Adventure/Family/Fantasy) (PG) Cast: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario 5:00pm; CP No: 805 Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl 7:00, 9:30, 11:45pm; CP No: 871 The Family (Action/Comedy/Crime) (12+) Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pﬁeffer, Tommy Lee Jones 4:00, 6:00pm; CP No: 825 Memories (Malyalam) (Thriller) (15+) Cast: Prithviraj, Rahul Madhav, Mia George 8:00, 10:45pm; CP No: 875

Empire State (Action/Drama) (12+) Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson and Liam Hemsworth 3:30, 5:30, 7:45 & 9:30pm; CP No: 866

The Family (Action/Comedy/Crime) (12+) Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pﬁeffer and Tommy Lee Jones 7:30pm; CP No: 826 Rush (Action/Biography/Drama) (15+) Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde 3:15, 5:30 & 11:30pm; CP No: 872 Memories (Malyalam) (Thriller) (15+) Cast: Prithviraj, Rahul Madhav 10:30pm; CP No: 876

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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

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Puts money on Hold a job Flit Throw off heat Home- products brand Plains dweller Psychic sight Moniker Family mem. Fairy tale boots (hyph.) Zsa Zsa’s sister Poetic tribute Fast food acronym Subside Use a machete Encircle Pupil’s place Carnaby St. locale Trout home Cleopatra’s snake Maynard or Kesey Johnny — Hamster, e.g. Board rooms? That fellow Jai —

53 — Reekie (Edinburgh) 55 DJ gear 56 German capital, once 57 Tropical isle 58 “— Rheingold” 59 Large swallow 60 Petition

25 — -Magnon man 27 Win — — nose 29 Hunky-dory (hyph.) 30 That woman 31 Sweetie-pie 33 Campus building 35 Glimpsing 38 Meat on skewers 40 Green shade

43 45 46 47 48 49

Look out —! Vagabond Andean capital Ballpark ﬁgures Raja’s spouse Like some controls 50 Swing around 51 Once owned 54 Width of a cir.

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DOWN 1 Maude of TV 2 Down under birds 3 Automotive purchase 4 Fend off 5 Spice Girls hit 6 Like some race tracks 7 Ill-fated lover 8 Handles dough 9 Meditation guide 10 To — — (precisely) 11 Penn. neighbour 19 Morn’s counterpart 20 Congeals 23 Frequent 007 foe 24 Cone bearer

Answer to previous puzzle

W.C. FIELDS said, “After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.” This deal would put some declarers into the hospital, metaphorically speaking. South is in four hearts. West leads the diamond two. East wins with his ace and returns the diamond eight. After ruffing, how should declarer proceed? South’s three-heart rebid would usually advertise 14-16 high-card points, but this hand has seven clear-cut playing tricks, making it easily strong enough for the jump. Do not be locked into high-card points; always think about winners. North had a borderline raise, but we love to try for a game bonus, especially when vulnerable. South has four potential losers: one spade, one diamond and two clubs. He has only nine immediate winners: one spade, seven hearts and one club. Declarer must get two club tricks. Some players would go that far, draw trumps, cross to dummy with a spade, and play a club to their queen. But when the finesse lost, they would go down one and complain about being unlucky. However, that was only a 50 per cent line. There was a 63 percenter available. Along with East’s having the club king, South should also try to find East with the club jack and 10. Declarer should cash his heart ace, play a heart to dummy’s king, then lead a club to his nine. Here, it pulls out the king, ending South’s problem. But if West could have won the trick with the 10 or jack, declarer would have returned to dummy with a spade and played a club to his queen, losing nothing over finessing the queen on the first round. — By Phillip Alder

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John’s tapori character revives Aamir’s Rangeela ACTOR JOHN ABRAHAM says his tapori look in Welcome Back resembles Aamir Khan’s look from the 1995 film Rangeela. “It’s a very different character in Welcome Back. I can say it’s somewhere close to Aamir Khan’s look in Rangeela. I am having a lot of fun shooting. I hope the audience will be shocked to see me in a different look,” John told reporters at an event. The actor, who is experimenting with different genres, says his first love will always be action. “I want to do all kinds of films now. I am doing Welcome Back and then Dostana 2, but my first love will always be action films. I am also doing a film with Nishikant Kamat,” he said.

Ram Leela music launch postponed for Ranveer THE MUSIC of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram Leela, which was slated to be launched tomorrow, has now been pushed to later as the movie’s lead actor Ranveer Singh is in hospital with dengue. A source close to the film’s team said: “Sanjay, who is known to have a grand event for all of his films, has decided to postpone the music launch of the film considering Ranveer’s health.” Ram Leela also features Deepika Padukone. Ranveer was admitted to a suburban hospital yesterday morning following high fever. Doctors diagnosed a severe case of dengue. — IANS

DINNER IS PRINTED How would you like a 3-D-printed meal?

he hype over 3-D printing intensiﬁes by the day. Will it save the world? Will it bring on the apocalypse, with millions manufacturing their own AK-47s? Or is it all an absurd hubbub about a machine that spits out chintzy plastic trinkets? I decided to investigate. My plan: I would immerse myself in the world of 3-D printing. I would live for a week using nothing but 3-D-printed objects — toothbrushes, furniture, bicycles, vitamin pills — in order to judge the technology’s potential and pitfalls. I approached Hod Lipson, a Cornell engineering professor and one of the nation’s top 3-D printing experts, with my idea. He thought it sounded like a great project. It would cost me a mere $50,000 or so. Unless I was going to 3-D print counterfeit Fabergé eggs for the black market, I’d need a Plan B. Which is how I settled on the idea of creating a 3-D-printed meal. I’d make 3-D-printed plates, forks, place mats, napkin rings, candlesticks — and, of course, 3-D-printed food. Yes, cuisine can be 3-D printed, too. And, in fact, Lipson thinks food might be this technology’s killer app. (More on that later.) I wanted to serve the meal to my wife as the ultimate hightech romantic dinner date. As it turned out, the dinner was perhaps the most labour-intensive meal in history. But it did give me a taste of the future, in both its utopian and dystopian aspects. In case you don’t subscribe to Wired, a 3-D printer is sort of like a hot-glue gun attached to a robotic arm. But instead of squeezing out glue, the tube extrudes plastic. The shape is your choice. Using special software, you can design any object on your computer — say, a coffee mug with two handles — then load the ﬁle into the 3-D printer. You wait a couple of hours as the printer nozzle shuttles back and forth, oozing out melted plastic layer by layer until — voilà — your ambidextrous mug. Other types of printers work with metal, biological tissue, ceramics and food. To its boosters, the 3-D printer is a revolution in the making. It will democratise manufacturing. Just as the Internet turned us all into couchbound Gutenbergs with the ability to publish to millions of readers with a single click, 3-D printers will turn us all into Henry Fords, Ralph Laurens and Daniel Bouluds. In the future, if you want a new pair of

Noodles from a 3-D printer in the shape of the initials of A. J. Jacobs and his wife.

3-D printed pizza in the shape of Italy, complete with the Apennine Mountain range in the middle.

boots for that night’s party, just load in a nylon cartridge, choose a design, punch a button and slip them on. Of course, the revolution isn’t here yet, at least not for home users. According to an industry consultant, Terry Wohlers of Wohlers Associates, only about 68,000 consumer printers have been sold. Most home users are hobbyists, and the geek factor remains high. The biggest chunk of the fast-growing $2.2 billion 3-D printing economy is industrial. Food printing is so far a minor phenomenon, conﬁned mostly to science fairs, universities and a handful of chocolate devotees. And, I hoped, me. But before I became a chef of the future, I’d need to make the plates and utensils. I bought a Cube 3-D printer, perhaps the sleekest of the home gadgets. It looks like a sewing machine mated with a MacBook. I downloaded design software to my laptop and diagramed a fork. I clicked a button, and 20 minutes later, my “fork” emerged from my printer. It was a lop-

sided hunk of neon-green plastic with four sharp points at the end. It resembled something a chimp might use to extract termites. At noon, Jeffrey I. Lipton — a 25-year-old Cornell Ph.D. candidate in engineering — arrived and unloaded boxes of equipment. Out came an air compressor, plastic tubes and bottles of xanthan gum, a food thickener. Our kitchen table was overtaken by a large 3-D printer that had been used for various other experiments — like printing artiﬁcial buttocks muscle for medical training. “Don’t worry,” Lipton said. “It’s been cleaned.” Lipson believes that the 3-D printer could be the most powerful kitchen tool ever created. You will have unlimited control over your meal’s shape, consistency, ﬂavour and colour. Just think of what it means for parents, he said: “What boy wouldn’t want to eat a Lamborghini, even if it’s made of broccoli?” The most ardent supporters of 3-D-printed food have big ideas.

Nasa gave $125,000 to a Texas company to study 3-D-printed cuisine for astronauts. The benefit is, they could design a wide assortment of meals from shelfstable ingredients. There’s talk of embedding medicines in meals. In his book Fabricated, Lipson dreams of digitally driven dinners, where the printer uses your body’s upto-the-minute data to create the perfect lasagna for your nutritional needs, with, say, extra protein or vitamin A. Junk-food makers hope 3-D printing will allow them to patent a new way to combine salt, sugar and fat. Animal-rights activists hope printers will squeeze out chops made from the lab-grown stem cells of hogs. And idealists believe that the technology will help solve world hunger. The hope? We can more efficiently ship powdered food to developing countries, where it can be printed into a variety of meals. A group of Dutch researchers is working on inexpensive bases made from algae and insect protein. When Lipson’s engineers were experimenting with printing food in 2009, they created artificial snacks made from gelatin and flavouring. The resulting food cubes — infused with banana and vanilla — were sampled by undergraduate volunteers. They were not a hit. “It was met with universal condemnation,” says Lipton. “It was very ‘Soylent Green.’” Instead, the lab now squishes whole foods down into a paste that can be used as the printer’s ink. The menu for my dinner took weeks to figure out, balancing my wife’s tastes and the lab’s scientific constraints. “It needs to be something processed,” said Lipson. “Like quiche or meatloaf. It can’t be a salad or steak.” But will there also be a revolution in our homes and kitchens? Will 3-D printers transform our lives like the PC and Mac did? That remains to be seen. It will be a battle between two forces: one, our love for ego-gratifying stuff tailored to our every whim. And two, our built-in laziness. Will we make the effort to print out a hexagonal ostrich burger with cucumber swirls (and then clean the printer) when we can just get a Quarter Pounder at the drive-thru on the way home? I’m a techno-optimist, so I hope so. In the meantime, I’d judge this the strangest and most memorable meal of my life, and that includes a dinner party that featured vegan cow entrails. — A. J Jacobs/The New York Times News Service

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CHANGE OF NAME We Naseer Kunduvalappil Thachankandy (Name of father, holder of Indian Passport No. H 3293303) & Farnas Naseer (name of Mother, holder of Indian Passport No. H 0995305) Having permanent address in 568, Karyakkaran Puthiyapura (K.P) near Railway Station, P.O. Pappinissery, Kannur 670561 (complete postal address in India) and presently residing at the following address in Al Musanna, P.B. No. 434 PC 312, Sultanate of Oman, hereby solemnly affirm & declare to change the name of our child Master Muhammed Afras Karyakkaran (name as per present passport), holder of Indian passport No. H 0331372 date of issue 05.09.2008 issued at Kozhikode. The name of our child will be henceforth known as Afras Naseer (new name) for all purposes. Any Objection towards change of name of our minor child may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box no 1727, Postal Code 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman. We Naseer Kunduvalappil Thachankandy (Name of father, holder of Indian Passport No. H 3293303) & Farnas Naseer (name of Mother, holder of Indian Passport No. H 0995305) Having permanent address in 568, Karyakkaran Puthiyapura(K.P) near Railway Station, P.O. Pappinissery, Kannur 670561 (Complete postal address in India) and presently residing at the following address in Al Musanna, P.B. No. 434 PC 312, Sultanate of Oman, hereby solemnly affirm & declare to change the name of our child Miss Asna Karyakkaran (name as per present passport), holder of Indian passport No. H 0331384 date of issue 05.09.2008 issued at Kozhikode. The name of our child will be henceforth known as Asna Naseer (new name) for all purposes. Any Objection towards change of name of our minor child may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box no 1727, Postal Code 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman. We Haresh Sunderdasved (Name of father, holder of Indian Passport No. Z 2432299) & Birva Haresh Ved (name of Mother as per the passport, holder of Indian passport No. F0002545 having permanent address in Near Chitralekha 150FT Ring Road Kalava Road, Rajkot (complete postal address in Indian) presently residing at the following address in SUR P. B. No 879, P.C No. 411 Sultanate of Oman, hereby solemnly affirm & declare to change the name of our child Danisha (name as per present passport), holder of Indian passport No J5405094 date of issue 7/3/11 issued at Muscat The name of our child will be henceforth known as Denisha Haresh Ved for all purposes. Any objection towards change of name of our minor son may please be communicated to Embassy of Indian, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box No.1727, postal Code112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

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2 BHK with split AC in Mattrah Opp Oman house. Contact 96708000

Luxury 6 Villas for rent in Al Khoudh. Contact 98559565

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Store Ghala behind Kumatsu 100 mtrs. Contact 99414644 / 93666201 2 BR, 1 Majlis, 2 toilet, kitchen & balcony Wadikabir, near Baldiya Yard & Ruwi, near Khamis Shoe, Honda road Junction, 1 BR & Majlis Pent house Wadikabir. Contact 99737562

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1 BHK ﬂat with 2 toilets, balcony, storeroom in Wadi Kabir near Al Maha Petrol Station, RO 250/-. Contact 96394794

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4 Villa in Aziba with sitting room & hall & 4 bad room & 6 toilets with AC 800 RO. Contact 99548999

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Luxurious 2 bedroom ﬂats available for rent in Mumtaz area.Way no 3358, building no -3940. Contact 24564460 / 61.

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Deluxe Villa Al Khuwair 25, 6 Bedroom. Contact 98914157

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3 BHK Flat Darsait 450/RO. Contact 99358589 / 97079146 1 BHK Flat Wadikabir 250/RO. Contact 99358589 / 95570288 1 and 2 BR Brand New Flats in Azaiba. Contact: 96793675 Villa in Amerat 5/1, 1 Floor, 3 Bedroom + Majlis & hall. Contact 95522405 Flat in Wadikabir, Opp. Kuwaiti Mosque. Contact 93355300

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

BUYING/SELLING 1 BHK ﬂat Star cinema 240/RO. Contact 99358589/97079146 2 BR, 2 toilet, kitchen at Al Mawaleh.Contact 99444786 / 99747560 2 showrooms for rent Al Amerat behind Sultan Center. Contact 97886169

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTED ADMIN/HR 14+ years of experience in HR/Admin /logistics, with driving license, looking for suitable position. Contact 95824598

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Indian male 39 Senior Accounts Manager having 16+ years experience in Financial Accounting, Audits can join immediately. Contact 96675398

Indian male 26 yrs, seeking job in HR/Admin ﬁeld 3 yrs working experience in UAE as HR/ Admin including logistic, transportation etc. Contact 95287474

Accountant male 12 years of experience in accounting upto ﬁnalization, admin and logistics control. Contact 98186511

Indian male BBM (Finance) with 4 years experience as a lead operations at IBM, seeking job in Finance/ Accounts/ Admin. Available for immediate joining. Contact 93080380 Email vijay.05reva@gmail.com

Accountant, Indian, with UAE & Oman working experience in Accounts, seeks suitable position in Muscat as an Accounts Executive. Contact : 96950764. E mail manipv.pv@gmail.com

Indian female B.Com 8 years experience in Admin HR/ Customer services, having valid Driving license. Contact 96253400 / 96998242 Indian male 39 years HR & Administration 15 years experience (7 years in Oman), seeks suitable placement. Contact 94370069 Indian male 30 yrs, 8 yrs experience with valid D/L seeking suitable post in admin / operations. Contact 93005916 Indian male 35 yrs MBA 12+ Years experience in Admin HR/ Operations, with valid Driving license. Contact 96727030 / 96253400 Qualiﬁed Female HR Professional with MBA(HR),BE,PGDBM 5 years of experience seeking suitable role in HR Proﬁle.Valid Oman D/L Contact 94129462 Indian female, MBA( HR & Marketing) B.Tech ( Electronics & Communication) with experience. Contact 96963961 Indian Male, 27 years, 5 years’ experience as a Customer/Client relation Manager in MNCs. Seeking suitable posts in Customer relations/Administration/HR. GSM: 93088407

ARCH/ INTERIOR Iraqi Architect 22 years experience. Contact 97608513

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE 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 Senior Accountant seeks part time job. Contact 99013963 / 98803439 Accountant Indian male B.Com 8 years Oman experience with Omani Driving license, ready to join immediately. Contact 91101645 Indian male Looking for suitable job vacancy in Marketing Accounts, Business development B.Com Tally Peachtree experienced. Contact 98910513 Chief Accountant, Indian, Well experienced, B.Com. ICWA (Inter) in Finance & Accounts seeks change. Contact: 96545021 Chartered Accountants and M.Com having 6 experience in Finance & Accounts, Audit & Risk, Cost Control, Budgeting, MIS. 97132081 Young male B.Com Graduate with Accounting Software Tally requires job. Contact 98668738 Sri Lankan male 36 yrs, Chartered Accountant and Graduate of B.Sc Business Administration ( Major Finance), excellent skills and experience in Finance Management and Auditing over 13 yrs, dedicated and result oriented, looking for a suitable placement. Contact 96747660 Email kcruwan@gmail.com Chartered Accountant, Indian male 37 years 4 years experience in Oman, total experience 11 years. Contact 93795838 Accountant, B.Com male 10 yrs experience knows Tally, MS Office, looking for part/ full time job. Contact 96171646 B.Com 21 yrs with 1 yrs exp Indian male valid D/L. Contact: 95186796 Indian male, 24 years, B.Com MBA Finance, H.R) 1 years experience in accounts, now on visit visa, seeking suitable placement. Contact 93439561 / 98251197 Chief Accountant, 22 yrs. experienced, seeks immediate placement. Contact 95598477 / 99013963

Account Assistant, computer operator, data entry operator, inventory control, tally account ERP 9, quick book ERP. Contact 98498276, zamee_khan49@yahoo.com

DRIVERS

Part time accounts / audit services. Gsm 99761216

Driver English & Arabic speaking. Contact 97146169

Male Accountant MBA, ICMAP (ﬁnalist) 6.5 years experience in ﬁnance, accounting, payroll, audit, administration, ERP,SAP,TALLY, seeking for good opportunity E-mail: faisalsaeedrana@hotmail. com Faisal Saeed : 97268088

20 Yrs Exp Light Duty Driver. Contact 91210747

Part time Accountant / Internal Auditor computerized and Manual Accounts, Driving own car. Accounts up to ﬁnalization. Contact Kumar 96414305 Indian Male, experience in Accounts. Contact 95139075 Indian male with 18yrs exp working as a Asst Manager handling payroll & General A/Cs, seeking suitable placement. Contact 98155057

4 yrs Experienced Indian Driver looking for job as driver. Contact 93079087

DESIGNER ACCA ﬁnance professional 5 years experience including 1 yr in Oman experience, looking for suitable placement. Contact 95174220 MBA ﬁnance and marketing Indian male 24 years 1 year experience in Accounts seeking suitable placement. Contact 94223199 / 98296316 Email: jahafeer@gmail.com Jordanian Senior Accountant 11 Years Experience, Worked In Constructions, Tourism Company and Poly Clinic, Experience in Tally Erp9.Contact 96470036

Indian, B. Com Graduate with 9+ years experience, great exposure in Accounting/Administration job(TallyErp9), seeks suitable placement. Omani Driving License, Contact: 96001864

Indian Male B Com Accountant, over 8 yrs experience in accounting upto ﬁnalization. Experience in tally9 and focus v6 softwares. GSM:93513783

Female Indian B.Com LLB (CA) 8 years experience Internal Auditor in Oman, seeks suitable job as Internal Auditor/ Legal dept. # 95465951

Indian male 28 yrs CA, Intermediate 8 yrs experience in Accounts & Audit, seeking suitable placement. Contact 93455387

Accounts Admin Banking 09 years of experience including Gulf valid Oman driving license. Contact Mazhar GSM 92149202 Email msk92149202@gmail.com

Indian male with 8 yrs experience, working as an Accounts Officer, handling Accounts payable including L/C and General accounts, seeking suitable placement. Contact 99580698

Chartered Accountant Young Indian female 25 years with Good knowledge and experience in Finance, Accounts and Audit of large corporate, available for immediate joining. Contact 92530131/ 24785757 Email muﬂihak@gmail.com

Accountant : Indian male B. Com, M.Com, Inter C.A. Passed, having 2 years experience in accounts & audit dept. seeks suitable placement. Immediate joining - GSM – 94473812

ACCA Member, Graduate (UK), 24 yrs male, 3 yrs experience, tally ERP -9, quick book & MS Office looking for suitable placement. Contact 97268263

Indian male Accountant 10 yrs exp in Oman with Driving license, seeks placement. Contact 91169487

Part time Accountant with 15 yrs experience in Accounts Finance Audit & tax management. Contact 95857199

Finance Manager, 16 + years Gulf exp. in accounts , MIS, budgets, strategic planning, cost control, working capital management, commercial manager seeks suitable job pls call : 95379211 E mail :- vijay.564@hotmail.com Accountant (European) with 17 years experience seeks career opportunity in Oman with suitable employer. Available for interview immediately. Tel. 98526906 / 24485560 / 24486561 Accountant B.Com Indian male, over 10 years exp in Oman, Accounts Finalization, Payroll, Audit, Banking etc, having Omani D/L. Contact 97331967 Indian female 26 yrs M.A Economics with DIFA Diploma in Indian and foreign Accounting with one year experience, Seeks suitable placement. Contact 94067604 Accounting part time job, tally based. Contact 96934161 Credit Controller with Accounts experience having D/L seeks suitable placement. Contact 93769860 Male 23 years, B. Com, Tally ERP 9, 2 years experience in India as an Account Assistant and 3 months experience in Oman as an Finance Assistant looking for suitable placement (visa holder) 2 yrs. Contact 95625201 / 99755134 Email: manazmuhammed@gmail.com Finance Controller 15+ years versatile experience in Oman, seeks immediate openings. Contact 92439941 Indian male, 28 yrs, 7 yrs experienced in Accounts & Procurement, valid Saudi D/L, looking for suitable job. Contact 92490123

29 yrs male, Double postgraduate in ﬁnance with 8+yrs of experience in Oman and valid Driving License seeking suitable opportunities in Accounts, Finance and Audit. Contact :98693256 Indian female MBA 27 yrs experienced looking for suitable placement in operations. Contact 98435532 Part time, accounting, ﬁnalizing in tally, focus, ERP. Contact 95276276 2 years experienced Indian male 25 yrs B.Com /MBA Finance seeks suitable placement in accounts / commercial. Contact 98250349 MBA Finance Indian female having 4 years experience in Equity research & trading seeking suitable placement. Contact 93013636 Chartered Accountant Young Indian female 26 years with good knowledge and experience in Finance Accounts and Audit of large corporate available, for immediate joining. Contact 99887464 Email deepaj122@gmail.com Kerala female M.Com two years experience in accounting and tax consultancy, seeks suitable placements. GSM - 92153287 E-mail: sandhyaprince164@gmail.com

G.D.B.A Indian male 3 years Indian exp as Accountant, seeks suitable placement for Accounting Assistant. Contact 95728856

Accountant, Indian male having valid Omani driving license, 31 yrs, B.Com Graduate with 10 years of computerized accounting experience in India, U.A.E & Oman recently working as Accountant in Oman seeking suitable jobs. Contact +968 94058639/ +968 95704584

Indian female, Accountant, 7 years Oman experience, well versed in accounts and administration, seeks employment. Contact 95607661

Indian female 29, B.SC M.BA 6 yrs exp in Garment export & buying house in India seeking for suitable placement. Contact 98228674

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. # 91103856 Email newjobs13@yahoo.com

Part time accountant up to ﬁnalization Wadi kabir and Ruwi. Contact 98519432

Chartered Accountant, Indian female 25 years, with good Knowledge and experience in Finance, Accounts, Audits, immediate joining. Contact 92530131 / 24785757 Email : muflihak@gmail.com Indian male 39 yrs with 7 yrs experience as Accounts Manager, can handle till finalization of Accounts and cash flow management, seeking suitable position. Contact 00968 92823325 Email skk0074@gmail.com Indian female, Accountant B.Com 3+ years experience 1 year and 6 months in Oman computers Diploma in Tally and Busy. Contact 96498424

Indian male 24 years B.Sc Physics, MBA Finance & HR 1.2 years experience. Contact 93806653 Email achathnawaz@gmail.com Indian male 24 MBA ﬁnance with SAP diploma March 2012 to Aug 2012 on a visit, seeking a suitable job in Accounts/ Audit. # 99828934 Sr. Accountant, Indian male, M.Com, 11 years experience in Accounts, Banking, Insurance, treasury, MIS, Costing and budgeting, having valid Omani D/L, seeks suitable placement. Contact 95236775 Email anil1579@yahoo.com Indian male, 34, B.Com & CA intermediate, over 10 years experience (5 years in Oman). Expertise in Accounts, Statutory Audit & Internal Audit, looking for suitable Accounts Managerial positions. # 99169501

Indian female 35 B.Com with 5 years experience & driving license, seeks suitable placement. Contact 95871492

Finance Accounts Indian male B.Com MBA 31 years, Exp 6 years. Contact 93257426 / 92365310, Email : sibigeorgep@gmail.com Accounts works up to finalization on part-time / fulltime. Contact 96247295 M.COM, ACMA (ICWA) 35yrs, 12 yrs exp (2 yrs in Oman with valid D/L) in finance, costing, budgeting & business plan, accounts finalization, advanced excel presently at US MNC Chennai, India interested to relocate to Oman. Contact 91-9789900628 Email: costmanagement2012@yahoo.com Indian male Accountant B.Com 4 years exp in India prof in Tally ERP9 seeks suitable placement currently on visit visa. Contact 91377681 Male, Indian 26 yrs Accountant 4 yrs in Oman. Contact 95960600 Mumbai Born, male-24, PGPM + MBA (Finance) with one year experience as a financial analyst in India. seeks job in finance. Tel: 98711999 email: sharancherian@gmail.co

BEAUTY 5 Yrs experience Indian beautician available with release. Contact 97319461

CATERING Indian male 27 yrs BHMCT 3yrs experience as Senior Associate in food & beverage dept, seeking suitable placement. Contact 94359564

DRIVERS Graduate driver with car. Contact 98267157 10 years GCC driving exp looking for job (light). Contact 92498028 Driver cum office boy. Contact 93620612 Corolla 2013 with driver. Contact 96772324 LMV Driver, looking for a job. Contact 93607112 Karalite 11 years Oman L/V license with car seeks suitable placement in Sohar. Contact 91066897 Indian male heavy license Saudi Arabia working experienced, looking for suitable job vacancies in Sales, Heavy driver, Merchandising Etc. Contact 98910513 Driving looking for job. Contact 92617293

Indian male 29 years, looking for a 3D job in MAYA/ MAX and Graphic designing, having a experience of 8 years currently working in Oman, Available to join immediately. Contact 98567624 , +91-9886712424 mail sandeepsharmasolid@gmail.com Indian male 30 yrs, B.Com Graphic designer 5 years experience in Dubai on visit visa. Contact 97166820 Indian female, 25yrs Bsc-FASHION DESIGNING, 3yers experience in designing ﬁeld and teaching. looking for a sutable placement. Contact: 98785310. Email: vinaya.m.nair@gmail.com

DRAUGHTSMAN BSc Interior designer with 6 years in Mumbai and 2 years in Oman, seeking a suitable job for Site Co ordination. # +968 95796137 Male Philipino, 23 yrs . Draftsman. knowledge on 2D and 3D Auto cad , 3D max, 3yrs. Experience in oman, contact : 96095641 Indian male Draughting and co-ordination 8 years experience in Civil and MEP, working in Reputed ﬁrm Muscat, looking suitable placement. Contact 96395748 AutoCAD Draftsman 4 yrs experience in Drafting & designing urgently seeking suitable placement NOC available. Contact 95208203 Email: anvarkhan848@gmail.com Electrical D/man, experienced, on visit visa. Contact :96516924

EDUCATION 26 Years Indian female BA. B.Ed & MSW degree holder applying for Teaching & office administration post. Contact 94162888 Email sreelakshmi.kuttysree@gmail.com Indian female, BSc B.ED, fresher looking for a teacher’s job for secondary section from 5th to 8th for all subjects. Contact 97645135 / 93023379 Pakistani female masters (M.Sc) Biology having 15 years experience of Gulf and Pakistan of teaching Biology and Chemistry, also worked as environment coordinator, seeking for suitable fulltime / part time placement. Contact +968 91280346

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: BTech, Electrical and Electronics having 3 years experience in operation and maintainance of EHV substation, projects, technical coordination,electrical designing and drafting,handled E autocad, Contact :95669828 Email: johncml007@gmail.com 27 Years, male presently working as a Site Engineer (BE Mechanical) having 4 years experience in Erection & Fabrication of steel structures, seeking a suitable placement in Oman. Contact 93370241 Email: binuprofessional@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECHNICAL Planning Engineer- Civil-5 yrs exp, PRIMAVERA,MSP,SAP, holds D//L GSM:93011346 email dewani835@yahoo.co.in (BE) Electrical Engg with 8 yrs Gulf exp in Electrical projects for valid license and visa. Contact 92732744 Email sahulhameed.k@gmail.com Infra Structure Engineer 10 yrs exp road, Bridge, fly over. Contact 95484776 Email joanjebaraj@gmail.com Civil Engineer (Degree), 5 Yrs gulf experience with good construction skill, looking for suitable placement. Mobile: 93247929, Email:maislam03@hotmail.com B.Sc in Civil Engineer, 6 years experience in Construction field in UAE Dubai, having UAE driving license, seeking suitable placement. Contact 97125780 Indian female B-Tech(CSE) with around 2.5 years teaching & administration experience in Engineering College, looking for suitable position - Teaching/ Technical / Admin jobs. Proficient in C/ Java/ C++ programming. Contact 97268414 Email mejaida@gmail.com Indian Graduate with 10 years experience in Oman with valid D/L as Sales In charge in mobile phones and Electronics, looking for a suitable position available to join immediately. Contact 93780404 Operational Manager Microtunneling / Sewerage Network with 19 yrs of experience infrastructure with management skill, seeking available placement. Also having Omani D/L, NOC available. Contact 96553659 Email : kh1974@rediffmail.com B.Tech Mechanical Fresh Engineer Indian male presently in Oman looking for suitable vacancy. Contact 91034141 Email lijo_rrec@yahoo.com B.E Civil Engineer 7 years experience in Oman with valid Oman D/L job, looking for a Consultancy. Contact 99612163 Mechanical Engineer with 3 years experience in Sales & Marketing in India and having valid Omani driving license looking for suitable opening. Contact 96596482. 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 B. Tech in Electrical & Electronics Indian male 27 years single 4.5 years experience as Electrical quality inspector in reputed heavy industry abroad currently in Muscat, On visit looking for suitable and immediate placement. Contact 92521239 Email: electricalengineer.sk@gmail.com Mechanical Engineer western educated 25 year old Male looking for suitable placement with valid Omani driving license. Email aziz.qaiser@gmail.com Mechanical Technician 36 yrs Indian male 9 yrs Gulf experience 3 yrs in Oman with D/L, seeking suitable placement. Contact 96287511 Email maheshlazer@gmail.com MD. Hasan Habib Diploma in Electrical having 8 years experience (3 years in Oman MEP). Contact 95881358 Email habib.eng98@gmail.com Indian male Electronics and Communication Diploma MCITP, having experience in Oman, seeks suitable placement in IT, Electronics or Similar field. Contact 99170783 Email rajeev00t@gmail.com Q.C. Inspector 25 yrs experience in Chemical and food. #92106143 Civil Engineer 1 year Exp as (Design Engineer & Shop Drawing) professional @ AutoCAD ,ETABS, Revit, Robote structural analysis. Contact no : 91381068 Civil Engineer 6 years Exp as (Site Technical office Engineer, QS, Planning engineer & Site Engineer) Professional @ AutoCAD, Sap, P3 & office. Contact no: 91148708

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SIT.WANTED

SITUATION VACANT

SALES / MARKETING Require Philipino sales lady for an optical shop in Muscat-Email : appointments156@gmail.com Wanted males / females Omanis & expats as freelancers to conduct corporate & Individual market surveys in Muscat, Sohar, Salalah, Nizwa, Ibri, Buraimi & Musandam on project to project basis. Graduate, ﬂuent in English driving license must. Contact 24701430 Marketing company requires Sales Executive salary + incentive, visa available send CV at bdmrightway@gmail.com Contact 95748080

SIT.WANTED Indian male, 32 yrs, urgently looking for situation of sales / store keeper, having exp in FMCG of nine yrs in Oman & five yrs in building material in India. Contact : 92117571/ Email: t_52taher@yahoo.com Indian lady B. Com on free visa available for accounting, data entry finalization of accounts & audit. Contact / 92824142 Indian female B.Com with computer seeks suitable placement preferably in Accounts / finance Contact : 95486567 Ag 35 yrs, Indian, house boy, can work on own initiative good cook, 6yrs with UK family reference available. Contact : 99591754 Indian female , 15 yrs of teaching exp in India in college as a Lecturer in business management & 3 yrs in Oman in School as a business studies teacher (Ed Excel GCE & IGCSE UK) seeks placement in Schools, College, Institute. Contact : 96040624

ADMIN Construction Company requires Secretary – cum- Administrator with 10 years experience in Gulf. Email: jalsethna@hotmail.com A well reputed Company seeks 1/ Procurement Manager / Buyer MBA+ 5 Year experience in Retail in Oman Market +D/L. Very attractive package will be provided. Only short list will be contacted. Send your C.V to E-mail: Hroman2013@outlook.com Required for a leading international company in the ﬁeld of IT located in Ruwi, CBD Area, a female employee (Administrative Secretary) holding a diploma in IT and familiar with public relations and staying in Wilayat Muttrah. CVs to be sent to the email: anismaimani@gmail.com

ACCOUNTANCY Wanted Accountant, minimum 5 years experience with D/L. Contact 95098253 / 92191191 email: atif@ayoonwater.com

BEAUTY Exclusive Ladies SPA & Saloon in Salalah has an opening for female Operation Executive exp. min. 3 yrs, energetic & independent to operate. Guest relationship & strong knowledge in ERP. Send CV info@ezrahlife.com Required Filipino and Indian staff for a newly opened spa and beauty center. Please contact 97887898 or 97770732 for details. Henna Designer Beautician. Contact 99335343 Required Indian lady beautician, Al Amerat, visa & accommodations available. Contact 92059502

CATERING Required Catering Manager with 3 - 5 years catering experience (minimum), 3* - 5* hotel experience Good command - Microsoft Office. Please email CV’s: cv@sahtane.com, 97165014 Required Cook: Minimum 1-3 years cooking experience (minimum), 3* - 5* hotel experience English: Written and conversational. Please email CV’s: cv@sahtane.com, 97165014 Urgently required North Indian part time cook in mutrah. Contact – 99100314

Indian female B.Com, M. Com, exp in accounts teaching, customer handling seeking a suitable placement. Contact : 94263228

CATERING Required Kitchen assistance/ Delivery Driver with 1-3 years of driving experience in oman Interested in developing career. Please email CV’s: cv@sahtane.com, Contact: 97165014

Indian female with pleasant personality and 18 yrs exp in admin/ accounts /marketing / secretarial seeks suitable placement. Contact : 92184494 (4pm to 5pm) Pakistani male MBA Finance 5 yrs exp in Accounts department, seeks suitable position in Accounts department. Contact : 93619846 / subhan_ahmed86@yahoo.com

Required Sue Chefs & Cooks (Preferably Italian Food), Minimum 3 - 4 years experience. Send your CVs : office@fourseasonsoman.com , Fax 24601725

Indian male Gradate having exp in retails, sales / marketing, also have experience in Admin, have knowledge of computerized ﬁnancial, accounting packages. #: 93036772

DOMESTIC HELP Full time South Indian Housemaid wanted for small family at Rex road. Contact 99855203

Desktop Support Engineer, Indian male, diploma in Computer hardware maintenance & MCSE with 2 yrs exp seeks suitable placement. Contact: 98987123

Wanted housemaid to work in Indian family, from 9 AM – 9 PM. Contact 96226787

Indian male 6 yrs experience Muscat, handle purchase, Accounts & HR activities with Omani D/L license. Contact : 97641476

DRIVER Required Omani Driver, 3 Ton Vehicle for Muscat / Interior, salary RO 375/- 5 days duty. Contact 24816774 Wanted Driver. Contact 97199327 Wanted Driver. Call - 24170076 / 98936716. Send resume: tthrteam@gmail.com. Car Driver personal. Contact 96694954

ENGINEERS/TECH

Masons, carpenters & steel ﬁxers required to recruit locality. G-mail: omaniantrad@gmail.com Contact 96181039 A reputed group urgently looking for Junior Civil Engineer with good knowledge in building material testing & concrete quality aspects, preferably with 4-5 yrs experience in similar ﬁeld. #92892297 Urgently Required: Senior QA/QC Engineer minimum 7years experience in steel fabrication, welding etc. BS Civil Engineer minimum 5years experience. Civil Foreman 10years experience.Apply, fax 24605955/ email sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com Only Indian Diploma Civil Engineer with 1-2 years experience and Should have valid G.CC Driving license. Email smtcoman@gmail.com Require Hydraulic Technician with 5 years experience in Gulf. Contact 99450633

ENGINEERS/TECH Urgently required mobile phone technician for mobile shop in Al Hail. Contact 94169912 email: smpaeds@gmail.com Civil Site Supervisor / Coordinator, diploma holder with 2-3 years experience in site metal fabrication /erection projects. Valid Oman D/L preferable. Contact 99102383 Email: hr@khancogroup.com Construction Company require Civil Engineer minimum 7 to 10 years experience in gulf. G-mail: omaniantrad@gmail.com Contact 96181039

MISC Required urgently a Legal Consultant/ Lawyer for reputed law ﬁrm in Muscat. Candidates should have 5-7 years experience as a Legal Consultant/ Lawyer with good knowledge of Computer & should be ﬂuent in English both written & spoken. Email C V to shejaanil66@gmail.com or Contact 99153620 between 8am to 1pm & 2pm to 5.30 pm on Sunday to Thursday . Required an Arabic spoken office boy from Kerala. Contact 92345861

MEDICAL Wanted lady Dentist with MOH license to work in a dental clinic in capital area. Contact 99335361 Required G.Ps & specialist doctors with MOH license preferred. Email clinicalmaha@yahoo.com, 99372860 A licensed dentist is needed to rent a running dental clinic in Sohar (next to Sohar university). Contact 95603395 Omani Staff Wanted : A reputed hospital in Muscat urgently needs Omani HR Manager, Reception Staff, Nursing Assistants, Technicians, Security, Drivers for immediate recruitment. Please send your CV to vacancyahh@gmail.com we will call you.

SALES / MARKETING Require for reputed ﬁrm dealing in building materials, hardware, tools, sanitary ware and electrical four Nos – Salesmen and One- administrator. Must have knowledge and experience for two to ﬁve years, preferably with knowledge in spoken Arabic. Contact: +968 99464868 Leading construction company requires Quality Assurance (QA) & quality control (QC) Electric Engineer, Personnel. Send CV to : nikunj@uniqueom.com

Indian male 30 yrs B Com in India on visit Oman 7 yrs exp sales, 5 yrs accounts, 2 yrs store keeper accounts, sales. Contact : 96204641 local contact : 97314864/ pravevp@gmail.com Indian male 40 yrs sales man having 19 yrs of exp in Oman having valid Oman driving license looking for a suitable placement. Release available. Contact : 98916217 Indian male B.Com Senior Accountant 6 yrs exp in Oman, total 14 yrs exp now working in a construction company, good exposure in accounts & pay roll. Contact : 92839085 Mechanical Engineer with 3 years experience in Sales & Marketing in India and having valid Omani driving license looking for suitable opening. Contact 96596482 Indian female, BE Chemical engineer with 3.5 yrs exp in chemical industry in R@D,QA @QC, production, seeking suitable placement, available to join immediately. Contact 98490086, e-mail - k.shyni@gmail.com

Indian female 24 years, having 4 years GCC experience .Looking for suitable post for Secretarial & admin work. Contact no:95972831, Email: pbroseangel@gmail.com Indian female 24YRS, 4 Years Experienced in GCC Secretary Work& Admin Work looking for a suitable Post GSM:95972831/99230946, pbroseangel@gmail.com 24 yrs female with driving license, b.b.a plus I.A.T.A,3 years experience seeking suitable position in secretarial, admin, hr, procurement, travel. Contact 95337828 or e-mail at hibhak@gmail.com Videographer for filming any occasion or event, website videos, corporate profiles, promotional films, ad films. Also calendar, brochure, logo, poster designing. Contact 99631986 Indian Female MCA,M. Phil., Computer science 5 years experience as a Software Engineer/ Programmer in .Net, SQL, MS-Access with good Communication skills seeking for immediate placement. Contact : 97765173 dtkthillai@gmail.com Indian female on family visa, MA (HR), one year experience in HR, seeking suitable position in admin/ hr sector. Contact No : 91258981 Logistics & Operations/Accounts MCom (Finance), 32 Years Indian Male, 11 years experience (5.3 years experience in Oman) with valid Oman Driving License seeks suitable placement. Contact 96442295” Indian Female, 26 years ,MBA , currently on visit visa , 4 years experience in Administration skilled with M S Office and fluent in language seeking suitable position. Contact : 95517914 Email : remyarajan05@gmail.com Planning Engineer BE Mech Female Indian 9years experience in oil & gas (7years in UAE) seeking suitable job, Contact number 97408929 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Professional, Indian Female,B.TechIT,Fresher,Currently in Resident Visa,having C and JAVA Knowledge, seeking Suitable Position in IT. CONTACT : 97232497,99108857, EMAIL : psharan24@gmail. com,parthipan61@gmail.com Network Engineer, BE, Male, Indian, 3 Yrs experience in telecommunication field, having CISCO certification seeks suitable position. Currently on visit visa. Contact 9869 1245. Email: sreejithrm@gmail.com. Administration & Purchase Officer with over 25 years of working experience in office management & procurement is looking for a suitable vacancy. Has worked with reputed organisations in Oman and has valid Omani driving licence -92048765 Indian Female 24YRS, 4Years Experianced in GCC Secretary Work& Admin Work Looking for asuitable Post GSM:95972831 / 99230946, Email: pbroseangel@gmail.com Indian Male,M tech-Infrastructure (Civil Engineering),Fresher,looking for post of Junior Level Planning Engineer, Contact +968 97312086, email:dhinu.90@gmail.com Indian Male Graduate, 26, 3 yrs exp in handling purchase in a reputed company in Oman looking for suitable placements. # 95776353 Indian Male, fresh B.Com Graduate, 23, currently on family visit looking for suitable placements. Phone: 97266023 Seeking a job as a Driver in company or family. Having valid D/L. Contact: 98982410. Ayurveda Doctor BAMS, MD female Indian with MOH license seeks suitable opening in Muscat Region. Contact : 95724583 Indian , 25,MBA in Marketing & finance work exp of 11 months with Western India Plywood PVt ltd as sales & marketing executive , now on visit visa in Oman seeks suitable job in Sales Supervision & management. Contact : 91043874 A Veterinary Doctor having exp of 3 yrs IN veterinary field seeks placement. Contact ; 92150513

Administration & Purchase Ofﬁcer with over 25 years of working experience in office management & procurement in Oman is looking for a suitable vacancy. Has valid Omani driving license. Contact 92048765

Indian male 2yrs exp in Accounting ﬁeld looking for a job. Know M.S Office and Tally ERP9 presently on visit visa in Oman. Contact : 94167064 / 96190785

Indian, female, 38 yrs, administration& accountant, exp. in India & GCC seeks suitable post # 93048539 Email.shamalamagesh@gmail.com

Indian female MBA (HR) 2 yrs exp in Admin and ACC (Tally ERP) good communication skills seeks suitable placement. Contact :97602578

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TOURS

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al Ainain Marine Tours- Contact: 98029602, 92808636

WEBSITE

We arrange Tours to Jabel Alakhdar / Shames wahiba Sands. Contact 99839898

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COMPUTER

BUSINESS WEB, ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) creation and management at rock bottom price. Contact: http//webviewoman

BUSINESS Learn Drawing & painting for children. (MBD area Ruwi) Contact 99737812 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

FOR LADIES Looking for Omani Investors/ Partners for Developing new business. Contact 96460469 Email digjaa@gmail.com Looking for Omani partner for business development services. Contact 93194825 Email: edumass4@gmail.com

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

Special package for RO. 15/(Threading, facial, waxing, pedicure, manicure, hot oil treatment) . Contact 99722031

Omani Consultant Engineer established new building contract and interior design looking for: Working partner for building contracting, Working partner for interior designing Email : - mfunima@gmail.com, contact : - 93223140

BUSINESS CANADIAN company .for immigration & manpower is looking for a partner in Oman with license !For contact evro21@gmail.com 0097333054453

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INFORMATION TECH

Mechanical Engineer Indian male having 10 years GCC experience in HVAC & MEP with valid Omani D/L, seeks suitable job in a reputed company. Contact 96093552 MEP Supervisor exp 15 years, HT, LT (exper.) with D/L, dp maintenance. Contact 96297274 Indian female, B-Tech Civil Engg, 3 years (6 months in Oman) experience in QS, Estimation, Cost control & planning, seeks suitable job. Contact 92047375 Email vinujosephcm@gmail.com

HOSPITALITY Indian male MBA in Hospital Mgmt bachelors in Hotel Mgmt training experience in Food & Beverage, Sales & Marketing. # 93038671 Indian Male 28years B.sc Hotel Management 3years experience in house keeping and front office. Contact 98438450 email: rchichur@gmail.com

INFORMATION TECH 10+ Yrs GCC experience E2E Telecom ICT/IT projects management solution design implementation Operations, CCNA, CCNP ITIL eTom IP Telephony Wireless Networking specialist BE & MBA since 2.5+ yrs managing PDO projects automation solar power NOC, seeks placement. #93777257 Email ma498@yahoo.com Sudanese Programmer Software Network 7 years experience. Contact 91108512 Email dolly_261@hotmail.com

MEDICAL

General Manager, Having 29 yrs experience in Oman for Transport & Logistic, seeking suitable replacement. Contact 99830440

Female MBBS doctor with 3 years experience seeks suitable position in Muscat region. Contact 91218141

Indian male on visit visa, seeking suitable placement. Competent professional with 14 years experience in Managerial level in MNC, Well verse in Customer services operations vendor management credit collections MIS. Contact 92458499 Email sudheesh.schandran@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer, Indian, Female, with 10 years experience, 4 years in consultancy ﬁrms in UAE seeks suitable job in Muscat. Mob: 91279796 Indian male B Tech Chemical Engineer, looking for suitable placement in Oman urgently. Email sarellayeshwanth@gmail.com/ vanabalaji@gmail.com

MANAGER/ SUPER

Indian male 24 years, having exp in Telecom as Team lead NOC Engg for 1.5 yrs, having certification CCNA & MCTS, Looking for suitable placement it & Telecom & Oil field. Contact 99689445 Email thousi4jb@gmail.com Male 35 years, MCA having 15 years experience in Sale / service of electronics and software products like Vehicle tracking system tracking system (IVMS), speed limiter sophisticated IT related products seeks suitable change. Contact 93214096 Mail ID: balajimr2010@gmail.com Over 6 years Enterprise level exp. system and Network support professional, looking for suitable Opportunities. Contact 97132723 Male, Gradate looking a job in IT –field experience in hardware, networking MCSE, CCNA. Contact 95850691 CCNA , CCNP & Juniper firewall certified IT professional with 7 years experience, expertise in network & security design, configuration, implementation & troubleshooting looking for suitable placement. Contact 97656607 Email: m.pan3110@gmail.com 33 yrs, male NEBOSH, IGC1,2,3, BCS computer science CCNA, net working experience, IELTS, Banquet hall management, High School Administration, 15 years relevant experience. Contact 92046361Email murtazahameed@yahoo.com IT professional, Indian male Gradate, CCNA, CCNP, MCITP Exchange server 2010 with 1year experience now on visit visa seeking for suitable placement. Contact 99392339 Email: fayiskottikollath@hotmail.com

Indian male 34 having 15 years of experience in logistics, warehouse management seeking suitable post. Contact 96698257 Senior Manager with 20+ yrs experience in Purchase, Sales, Admin & Accounts with D/L & Release. Contact 97073942 Operations Manager Indian male, Hotel Management Graduate (B.H.M) 8 years experience in F & B production and Hotel operations, having good communication skills, seeking suitable placement. Contact 94420046 Email shownkfrans@gmail.com Indian male 42 Years, Ex Army 5 years exp in Muscat worked as Warehouse supervisor, looking for a suitable post, having Omani license, on visit visa Contact 94050311 / 94050378 Sales Manager having 15 years of experience in Retail management in Oman & Currently handling Electronics & home appliances, seeking suitable placement, Release available. Contact 93826379 id- marvelgeet@yahoo.com Indian total exp18 years with 10 years Gulf exp as a services center in charge in electronics & Gulf driving License, seeks suitable placement in Oman. Contact 96527926 Manager/Super 12+ yrs experienced Purchase Manager with D/L & release , seeks placement. Contact 97073942. Indian Male 42, B.Com Graduate, 19 years experience in AC,LCD, LED installation Manager seeking sales, service or Supervisor post, on visit visa. Contact 98044075 Mail markarmstrong20068@gmail.com

MEDICAL

24 years, male seeking a job vacancy in IT ﬁeld or any computer operator work in Oman. Contact 96942674

Indian male 27 years old, Masters in Computer Applications with 4+ years experience, Key skills: Oracle Pl/sql and .net Seeking Suitable placement. Contact: +919538345624 sujithchennat@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

ITIL, OCP, CRISC certiﬁed IT Professional with 20 yrs. exposure to Dubai & Oman markets having expertise in ERP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, security, IT/Project Management, Citrix, Oracle etc. is looking for immediate placement. Contact: 95602424

Indian male 26 years MSC telecom (UK) B.Tech (EC) having 3 years experience in IT/Telecom seeks suitable placement.Contact 95285710 Email : prajith5678@gmail.com

Indian male Nurse with MOH License having 6+ years experience, seeks placement. Contact 93435399 Email : jithu.das02@gmail.com

CCNA male 28 years with 4 years experience in system and network support, looking for job. Contact 98479807

An Indian male Nurse with MOH License is looking for a suitable placement. Contact 93028571 / 99764484

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

M.Sc Biotechnology Clinical Research Clinical Data management IPR 4 Years experience. Contact 92136290 Email ebinabraham@gmail.com

10 Years of Technical presales experience, Graduate from University of Huddersﬁeld UK, previous experience of working with ZTE, looking for job. Contact 91379396 Diploma in Computer Technology Indian male 25 yrs, 1 year experience in Accounts / Office Admin and knowledge hardware/Network , Now on Visit Visa looking for the suitable post Contact 93453027 email Id akbalachandar@yahoo.com

Male Nurse with MOH license valid GCC driving license. Contact 93217438 / 91226236 Female, B.Sc Nurse with MOH Exam pass & 4 yrs experience require immediate placement. Contact 96527483 / 93039089 LAB Technician Indian female with MOH License, seeks placement. Contact 99873781 / 96503239

Indian male Nurse with MOH License, 1 year experience from Oman as company Nurse is Looking for a job, now on visit visa. Contact 93645954

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male, 27 Yrs, B.Com, having 7 Yrs experience in Finance & Accounts seeking suitable position. Contact : 98205735

Nursing caregiver, qualiﬁed & experienced Nurse & Assist Nurse seeks good placement at home / clinic. Contact 92989109 email: medicoport@gmail.com Pharmacist with MOH license need job. Contact 98217100 Female Dentist with MOH license looking for placement in Muscat area. Contact 93538672

MISCELLANEOUS Working As a Store keeper in a reputed company since 2008, looking for suitable placement. Contact 96437672 Indian Male, experience in Store/ Operation//Logistic/Coordinator having good communication skills, seeking suitable change. Contact 94355675 Chemical Manufacturer all type of Detergent and car care. Contact 98651593 LAND SERVEY, having 1 year exp. in Total Station, auto level, theodalite, on visit visa, 97249473

SALES / MARKETING Indian male 26 yrs 5 yrs experience in Sales & Marketing 2 yrs experience in Tele Marketing & customer services, Fluent in English, seeking suitable placement. Contact 91034271 B.Com + Tally 26 yrs, with 3 yrs exp in building materials sales, Indian male valid D/L. Contact 98462052 Indian male 26 years, 4 years experience in Oman sale and marketing with D/L, seeking suitable placement. Contact 92092441 Email shukkoorsubaida@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 Indian male 25 yrs, Valid Oman driving license, 2 years experience, looking for suitable job. Contact 98562921 27 years Indian male 8 years’ Indian market experience in the field of Event Management, Sales & Customer Service, looking for a challenging opportunity in Muscat in relevant field. Contact 96167803 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 Indian male MBA Sales & Marketing, 7 years of experience holding Oman D/L, looking for a suitable position in the same. Contact 95475833 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 in Marketing & Finance with 2 years work experience in Oman, with valid driving license and good communication skills, Seeks suitable placement. Contact 91181288 / Email george15386@gmail.com Indian male MBA marketing / finance with 4 yrs of exp in sale & marketing looking suitable placement in sales/ marketing/ sales coordination/ customer care/ retail/ admin jobs. Contact 98443722 / 92409198 Indian male 6 yrs experience in Oman Sales field, having valid Omani Driving license, seeking suitable placement. Contact 92868522 15 yrs exp Purchase, Sales, Store & Admin, fluent English, Arabic, know computers, Omani D/L. Contact 99717061

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male, 33 years, MBA (HR & Marketing) with 10 years excellent experience in wealth management sector in India, currently on visit visa, seeks suitable placement. Contact 97141479 / prajesh.mct@gmail.com Indian male, 8 yrs experience in Marketing and Branding. Available immediately for Opportunities. Contact 99502772 Male, 22, MBA (Marketing) graduate with a pleasing personality, efficient communication skill and Oman driving license looking for suitable placement. Contact 96746604 Indian MBA Male having 6+ years experience in Industrial Marketing Oman, seeking suitable position. Contact 96043079 4 years experience in after marketing sales and services of heavy equipments, Diploma holder looking for belter opportunities. #97630433, Email: athul_pkayamkalam007@ yahoo.com Sales Manager having 15 years of experience in retail management in Oman and Currently handling electronics & home appliances, Seeking suitable placement release available. Contact 93826379 Email marvelgeet@yahoo.com Indian male BSC (PCM) working as BDM with Oman DL exp in Decorative paints Tiles waterproofing and Chemical, seeks employment. Contact 96613487 Email vsd472@yahoo.com Graduate male Indian 10 yrs experience with Oman D/L, seeking placement Sales / Marketing. Contact 95066454 Indian male 34 years Indian CDC holder having 12 years of experience as motor man (Sailor, Shipping field), seeks suitable placement in any technical field in or round Muscat. Contact 93484214 Email sumpersonal@gmail.com Indian male with 2 years of experience in sales and marketing both in India and Oman currently working as Sales coordinator and manager in Oman looking for suitable placement. Contact 988663738 Experience procurement and logistics person with D/L is looking for suitable placement. #95028750 Indian (M) with 11yrs exp. (7 India & 4 Dubai) in Sales & Back Office support with Omani D/L for a job in Oman.Call 98267793 Experienced Marketing Executive with valid GCC driving license. Contact 99737429 / 91226236 Indian male, MBA, 7 yrs exp in Sales, Marketing & operations, available immediately for opportunities. Contact 98823315

SECRETARIAL Indian female, having work Experience as Customer Service, Front Office Exec, Office Admin in India & Oman, looking for a suitable position. Contact: 98405390 Executive Assistant/ Secretary 25 years experienced, Indian male seeks suitable placement. Contact 95460323

TOURS & TRAVEL IATA Foundation & Consultant Diploma holder BA female looking for suitable Travel / Office jobs. Contact 98644880 B.Sc Indian male 5.5 yrs exp Airline /Travels, Diploma in Travels. Contact 97099386

MISCELLANEOUS

MBA( MKTG)6 yrs exp Sales & Mktg valid OM D/L, Ind Male 30yrs currently working as an AQT manager. Contact 97757866

26 Years old Indian female Bachelor of Business Administration with 1.5 years experience, Looking for a Marketing Job # 968-99068641

Indian male 37 yrs, having 6 yrs exp. in purchasing with D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact 99345732

Indian male, experience in Store/Operation//Logistic/Coordinator having good communication skills, seeking suitable change. #94355675

24 yrs female with driving license, BBA plus I.A.T.A, 3 years experience seeking suitable position in secretarial, admin, HR, Procurement, travel. Contact 95337828 or e-mail at hibhak@gmail.com. Indian male 25- holding valid driving license having 2 years of experience in sales, looking for suitable position. Contact 98562921 23 yrs female, MBA, 2 yrs exp in marketing, holds valid Omani license, seeking suitable placement. Contact 96349423 Bangladeshi male ( Graduate) looking a job in Banking, Money exchange sector.Having 15 years experiences in related field. Contact:92260580. Accounts Assistant Post : B. Com having 4 years Accounting experience having knowledge of day today entries and assist to main Accountant . Also knows MS office and excellent with Tally package. Contact no : 93214484/98485871 Male Graduate, 13+ years Oman experience in HR – recruitment, C&B, Competency Mapping, Performance Appraisals, etc. Contact: 92798389 31 years Indian male with 5 years experience in Bahrain and saudi,b.com with computer application(tally, oracle, al ameen) seeks suitable position as accountant, store manager or senior business development executive. Contact 95032157. Indian female with GCC experience in office admin, accounts and HR seeks suitable placement Contact 95584732. Driver looking for job. Contact 96136615. Driver with car seeking a job in Oman as a company’s or family driver, having experiences 12 years in Abu Dhabi and 2 years in oman. Contact: 93043871. 28 years, Male MBA in Marketing looking for suitable job on urgent bases, having valid Omani driving license and 2 years marketing experience in oman and 4 years marketing experience in Pakistan. Contact: 97136426 Indian male, BBAM, 27 years, specialized in marketing & finance, 6 years of experience as transport coordinator in an earthmoving co. having valid Omani driving license seeking for suitable placement. Contact : 93213160 email: nikiniji86@gmail.com Indian, male, 26, Mechanical Engineer (HVAC) having 3 years experience as project engineer in Oman seeks suitable placement holding valid Omani D/L. Contact 98050877 Indian Male, MBA, 16 yrs in Oman. Experience in supply chain mgmt, logistics, import export mgmt, purchase, domestic and export sales seeks suitable placement in Bank or money exchange sector. Having 15 years experiences in related field. Contact: 922 60 508. Male, 27, MBA specialized in marketing , looking for suitable position. Having valid oman driving license. Contact. 99590408, E mail. aneesteepee@gmail.com Videographer for filming any occasion or event, website videos, corporate profiles, promotional films, ad films. Also calendar, brochure, logo, poster designing. Contact 99631986 24 yrs female with driving license, BBA plus I.A.T.A, 3 years experience seeking suitable position in secretarial, Admin, HR, Procurement ,travel. Contact 95337828 or e-mail at hibhak@gmail.com. 31 years Indian male with 5 years experience in Bahrain and saudi, B.Com with computer application(tally, oracle, al ameen) seeks suitable position as accountant, store manager or senior business development executive. Contact 95032157. Indian Female, B.Tech-IT, Fresher, Currently in Resident Visa, having C and JAVA Knowledge, seeking Suitable Position in IT. CONTACT : 97232497,99108857, psharan24@gmail.com, parthipan61@gmail.com

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SERVICES

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. Contact 24793614/ 99314807 Split & Window AC Servicing & repairing. Contact 99557080 Split & Window A.C Servicing & repairing. Contact 99380307 Split & Window A.C Servicing & repairing. Contact 93769089 Corporate gift items, Diary, Calendar, T-Shirt, Cap, Key Chain, USB, Leather items, Travel Bag and for any customized gift items. Contact – 98234207

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

SERVICES Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles polishing, carpet shampooing, maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS99320217 /24788722 A/C service RO7/- , repairing & installation, painting, building all maintenance. Contact 95563858 / 99326786 Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & antitermite treatment, general cleaning painting, Plumbing, Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. Contact 24810137, 99450130

Marble polishing & crystallization building cleaning ﬂoor, ﬂoor polishing, carpet, sofa shampooing, pest control, anti termite, shifting, maintenance. Contact 99504275 Civil Maintenance, painting, Electrical land scaping. Contact 96465032

Split A/C window cassette type standing unit installation, maintenance servicing. Contact 97145652 / 99540621

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998

Electrical Plumbing Painting Contract and Maintenance. Contact #98456535

Accounting and audit services project feasibility study. Contact97133729 Email: omanaudits@gmail.com

House shifting, packing and Transportation. Contact 99657644 / 98518013

GULF INTERNATIONAL LLC all kind of pest control. Contact 92326955 SPLIT / WINDOW A/C servicing 5/10 RO. Contact 95084850 Door to Door Computers repair specialist laptop software Website cartridges.Contact 99199376

Electrical Works, Maintenance, Building Gas Pipelines, Fire Alarm & Security systems. Contact Amjad Majees Trading & Contracting: 99467936 Building maintenance, electrical, plumbing, painting, cleaning, false ceiling, compound wall, interlock, lift maintenance etc. Contact 95885106 / 95829331

Water prooﬁng ABUQABASContact 99320217/24788722 A/ C maintenance, servicing & installation. Split A/C Servicing RO 10.000 Only. # 94217681 / 99210141 Pest control water proof. Contact 99067923 Carpet, sofa- cleaning, glue removing, shampooing, house cleaning, polishing & painting etc. Contact – 99542979 / 98855815