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Safety worries after Ghala building collapse kills one Tonnes of concrete fell on the workers standing at a construction site while they were trying to tighten the

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TRAGIC DEATH: Rescue teams engaged in the salvage operation after the collapse of the pillar in Ghala on Wednesday. –PACDA/Times of Oman

MUSCAT: “Suddenly the pillar broke and the ceiling collapsed.” These words by survivors, encapsulated the dramatic moments before the ﬁrst ﬂoor of a building collapsed on workers in Muscat, killing one.

according to eyewitnesses. An employee from the construction site who did not want to be unidentiﬁed, said, “The accident happened when three of our workers were tightening the pillar which provides support to the ceiling. “When we were concreting the roof, we felt that the pillar to support the ceiling was not tight enough. Three of our workers went down to tighten the pillar but suddenly the pillar snapped and the ceiling collapsed.” Shomon Shuthradho had been working in the company for more than three years. The under-construction building is located opposite Savoy Hotel in South Azaiba, Ghala. “The equipment we were using

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is new but the accident occurred because of the heavy load,” asserted workers. There were around 25 workers in the building when it collapsed. According to Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA) the body was found at around 2am on Thursday while the building had collapsed at 4pm on Wednesday. Experts in Oman say the country needs to strive harder to embrace health and safety measures. Meanwhile, an official from

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Climbed fence to avoid being crushed: Pilgrim

To Mark the Royal arrival of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said in the Wilayat of Sohar, the residents of the wilayat organised a celebration in front of Sohar’s historic castle on Friday. Omani traditional troupes staged a number of programmes. >A3

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Loans weighing down on Omanis

An array of debts ranging from mortgages, student loans, cars and credit cards is weighing down on most Omanis. The age of loan applicants is getting younger. Student loans have pushed down the age of applicants. >A3

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Natural gas output, imports grow 5.3%

Oman’s natural gas production and imports rose 5.3 per cent to 26,269 million cubic metres (MNCM) for the first eight months of this year, from 24,942 MNCM in the same period last year. >B1

HM sends condolences MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for the victims of the Haj rush in Mina. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his heartfelt and sincere condolences, praying to Allah to show mercy and forgiveness on the deceased, rest their souls in heavens, grant their family members patience and ensure speedy recovery of the injured. -ONA

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Crushed to death Rescuers worked through the night in an attempt to save Shomon Shuthradho after he was crushed under the falling rubble of the building. But eight hours after the accident, at 2am on Thursday morning, the search ended in tragedy when the body of the Bangladeshi construction worker was recovered. Workers were concreting the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the building in Ghala,

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reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: “As a few of us managed to climb on the fence on the Street 204, we escaped from being crushed to death in the stampede, but the tragedy we witnessed later on, is an unforgettable one in our lives.” These were the words of Basheer Faizy Deshamangalam, an Indian Islamic scholar and Haj pilgrim, who managed to escape from the Mina stampede, which has claimed 717 lives so far and causing injuries to another 800, on Thursday. Deshamangalam said he and some others saw pilgrims being crushed in front of them by others who were running in panic. “Within seconds, we saw one

of the biggest human tragedies unfolding right before our eyes,” Basheer told the Times of Oman from Mina over the phone. “We were left speechless. We saw bodies of people belonging to different races lying on the ground together. I have never seen such an awful scene,” he said. According to Basheer and other witnesses, they were among the thousands who were on their way to perform “Stoning the Devil” ritual. “It is a one-way route. Meanwhile, we heard that some, who were returning after the ritual, had taken a short cut to avoid a long walk and entered our street, which led to Jamarāt. This reportedly created confusion and resulted in the stampede,” said Basheer. >A3

the Bangladeshi embassy said that Shomon was a supervisorlevel employee and a documented worker. “What we heard was that he had gone to supervise the work that evening. While he was standing inside the building the ceiling fell on him. He was trapped and only after eight hours did the rescue team manage to extricate his body,” said the embassy official. “The paperwork to repatriate the body and to claim the workplace accident compensation will be done in the coming days,” added the official. Recently, four Bangladeshi workers died, three of them on the spot, while four others were injured in Yiti, when the JCB

machine in whose bucket they were travelling, toppled over as it was being driven by an inexperienced driver. Of the seven workers travelling in the JCB bucket to their work site, who accidentally fell, three were crushed to death on the spot, while one succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Muscat. Bangladeshi migrant All the victims, including the injured and the dead, were identiﬁed as Bangladeshi migrant workers who were employed at a landscape project in Jebel Sifah. In all, there are 563,344 Bangladeshi workers in Oman, according to the Oman government’s latest data.

REJIMON K reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: The bodies of two young girls, who had drowned in Wadi Al Jizi in Sohar, have been recovered, rescue personnel informed on Twitter. This information was shared by the Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulances in a tweet at around 1:45pm. The nationalities of the victims are not known as yet. Last Tuesday, talking exclusively to the Times of Oman, the police had urged citizens and residents to stay safe, drive responsibly, and swim safely, and desist from playing with ﬁre during the long weekend. Last year, during the Eid Al Adha holidays, nine people had drowned in different incidents.

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After the Eid prayers, Sayyid Fahd received the well-wishers on this occasion. They expressed their best wishes to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, praying to Allah the Almighty to grant His Majesty continuous good health, happiness and a long life

Eid sermon stresses on moderation

EID AL ADHA PRAYERS: The Eid sermon touched upon the sacriﬁces of good believers at Haj rituals and the scene, which displays the unity of the Muslims at Arafat. It also called for unity of the Ummah’s world starting from the family and adopting moderation. – ONA

His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, was accompanied during the Eid prayers by a number of their highnesses, their excellencies, ministers, advisors and prominent ﬁgures

MUSCAT: The Sultanate celebrated the blessed Eid Al Adha. His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, performed Eid Al Adha prayers at the Al Khour Mosque in Muscat on Thursday. His Highness Sayyid Fahd was accompanied during the Eid prayers by a number of their highnesses, their excellencies, ministers, advisors and prominent ﬁgures. Sheikh Dr. Ishaq bin Ahmed Al Busaidi, Chairman of the Supreme Court and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Judiciary Council, who led the Eid prayers, began the Eid sermon (Khutbah) with Takbir (exclaiming God is Great), glorifying and thanking Allah the Almighty for His many blessings. The Eid sermon touched upon the

sacriﬁces of good believers at Haj rituals and the scene, which displays the unity of the Muslims at Arafat. It also called for unity of the Ummah’s world starting from the family and adopting moderation. It also covered the stability, security and safety enjoyed by the Sultanate. Blessed days He also said that the 10th of Dhul Al Hijja is one of the blessed days that have its unique status in Islam. Sheikh Dr. Ishaq affirmed that the unity of the ranks, having consensus and discarding fanaticism, are among the main aims of Islam. “The unity of the work for this nation starts from the Muslim family, therefore we should take care of the family. Allah has also warned us against ignoring the rights of our relatives and considered it as

punishable corruption of earth.” He also added that the Islamic Sharia has been known for its moderation — without any exaggeration or deviation. He also pointed out that the affairs of the nation as a whole are based on maintaining justice and equality principle. He also pointed out that the nation’s stability and social solidarity are among the great blessings of Allah and that stability ensures further progress and welfare for everyone. He stressed the importance of preserving this by following the noble values. At the end of his sermon, he called upon praying men to seize the opportunity of Eid and visit their relatives and promote understanding. After the Eid prayers, Sayyid Fahd received the well-wishers on this occasion. They expressed their best wishes to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, praying to Allah the Almighty to grant His Majesty continuous good health, happiness and a long life . Sayyid Fahd thanked all wellwishers, wishing them a blessed and happy Eid. He prayed to Allah for the return of this happy occasion and similar other occasions on His Majesty the Sultan with blessings and wellbeing, praying for his success for the good of this dear country and to achieve further progress and stability for Oman and its people under his prosperous reign. -ONA

CELEBRATION TIME: People visited mosques to offer prayers on the occasion of Eid Al Adha.

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CELEBRATIONS MARK HIS MAJESTY’S ARRIVAL IN SOHAR

To mark the Royal Arrival of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said in the Wilayat of Sohar, the residents of the Wilayat of Sohar organised on Friday a traditional celebration in front of Sohar’s historic castle. The Omani traditional troupes staged a number of Omani performances expressing the joy of the citizens on His Majesty the Sultan’s arrival, which coincided with the celebrations of Eid Al Adha. There was also a poetry night at Sohar University under the theme ‘The Eid is Qaboos’ in the presence of Sheikh Muhana bin Saif Al Lamki, Governor of the Governorate of North Al Batinah. The poets, who took part in the event, recited poems expressing their joy on His Majesty the Sultan’s arrival in Sohar. -ONA

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n array of debts ranging from mortgages, student loans, cars and credit cards is weighing down on most Omanis. What’s more, the age of loan applicants is getting younger. According to statistics, the average age of loan applicants between 2004 and 2008 was 26 years but compared to the subsequent five-year period to 2014, it dropped to 22 years. Student loans have pushed down the age of applicants as more of them now seek financial help from the banks to pay for their degree courses. About 62 per cent of 7,200 school leavers enrolling to higher education miss out government scholarships every year. Most of them resort to bank loans to upgrade their education so they can get better jobs. The Central Bank of Oman’s figures show that total credit extended by local banks in the second quarter of 2015 was OMR17.8 billion — up from OMR17.4 billion in the first quarter of the same year. More than 60 per cent of the total loans are classified as personal loans extended to individual borrowers in both quarters of 2015. Young affected With rising property prices, the average mortgage sanctioned by local financial institutions has gone up by 35 per cent in the period of 2009 to 2014 to OMR68,000 per applicant, compared to the five-year period of 2003 to 2008. Young families are mostly hit by the steep rise of the asking prices of properties who prefer to buy than rent. The problem is that mortgage is only an extension of their financial woes. It is the second repayment aggregating with the student loan that is carried forward as part of the monthly instalment. It is not uncommon for one person to be laden with a car loan as well and credit card monthly payments

With annual inflation taking a big bite from their salaries, families with debt are finding it difficult to pay their bills

on top of the financial burdens heap. Most of the banks would be happy to approve several loans to one customer and then consolidate all the credits into a one repayment system that bogs down debtors. With annual inflation taking a big bite from salaries, families ensnared in debts find it difficult to pay for their domestic bills. It means their financial miseries would spill over to other providers such as the Public Authority of Electricity and Water who would occasionally be forced to disconnect the essential services to their homes. The sad fact is that loan defaulters are faced with imprisonment, loss of their homes, car repossessions and eventually end up on the blacklist of banks. There seems to be no end to it unless the government comes up with a solution. At the moment, the Ministry of Manpower’s decree only requires the private sector to increase just 3 per cent of the basic salaries per year to their employees. For example, with a basic salary of OMR400 per month, a worker in the private sector would expect only OMR12 as an annual increment. It would not make any difference at all to their repayment system. Since the biggest loan for most Omanis is the mortgage, the government needs to look into building low-cost housing that has easy repayment system for the underprivileged. Anything short of that, would leave borrowers with low income in a spiral of debt that can only get worse — not just financially but physically and mentally as well. The statistics in the government’s hospitals show that more than half of the admitted patients suffer from illnesses caused by stress and anxieties ranging from stomach ulcers to strokes. Although Omani doctors have not particularly pinned down financial difficulties which cause illnesses to their patients, they are pretty confident about it. Unmanageable debt is not always the fault of borrowers. For the poor, it can be a lifeline in the rough sea of a financial crisis that can sink them or make them stay afloat.

MUSCAT: Total production of the Sultanate in the electricity and water sector recorded a signiﬁcant increase at the end of July 2015. Sultanate’s total production of electricity increased to more than 18.088GW, logging a 12.9 per cent increase, compared to the production recorded in 2014. The same applies to the water sector in which the production grew to exceed 190.5 million cubic meters with an increase of 6.2 per cent, according to the latest statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI). The governorates of North and South A’Sharqiyah recorded the highest rate in the production level increase compared to the levels recorded during 2014. -ONA TRAGEDY

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Street 204, where the stampede occurred, is one of the two main arteries leading through the camp at Mina to Jamarat, the site where pilgrims ritually stone the devil by hurling pebbles at three large pillars. In 2006, at least 346 pilgrims died in a stampede at Jamarat. Meanwhile, Jabir Ali, a Haj pilgrim volunteer group captain, who is still engaged in rescue and assistance operations, said that injured pilgrims are still trickling into the hospital. “All the three hospitals in Mina are flooded with bodies and injured people. Identification of the victims is still going on. There is chaos in the area,” Jabir, the captain of Risala Study Circle’s volunteer group, told the Times of Oman. “The incident might have happened at around 10 am. We volunteers are not supposed to enter the street. However, after the incident, at around 11 am the rescue teams allowed us to enter the street to assist in rescue operations,” said Jabir. According to Jabir, at least four or five bodies and the injured were transported to nearby hospitals in every available ambulance. “When we reached there, we did not know what to do. We were finding those alive and pulling them away from the dead. However, it was quite difficult. We will never forget those moments,” added Jabir. He said that more than 220 ambulances and 4,000 rescue workers were deployed in the stampede’s location to help the injured. Meanwhile, there are reports that five Haj pilgrims from Oman who were injured and hospitalised were discharged. However, still there is no further confirmation on the missing pilgrim from Oman.

Iran, Oman plan cooperation in use of stem cells Preliminary discussions are

The planned cooperation would focus on infertility treatment, use of stem cells in the treatment of various medical conditions as well as storage of umbilical cord blood

being held to establish a centre in Oman and offer training to Omani specialists as well, Seyed Vahid Askari from the international affairs department of Royan Stem Cell

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elham@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Cooperation on the use of stem cells in medical treatment and storage of cord blood, which is a rich source of these lifesaving cells, is being discussed by Oman and a leading research and treatment centre in Asia. Preliminary discussions are being held on establishing a centre in Oman and offering training to Omani specialists as well, Seyed Vahid Askari from the international affairs department of Royan Stem Cell Technology Co., told Times of Oman. He was speaking during the 5th edition of Oman Health Exhibition and Conference, which was recently held at the Oman International Exhibition Centre in Muscat. Royan Institute is based in Iran and was established in 1991 as a research institute for reproductive biomedicine and infertility treatment. Askari said that the planned cooperation between Royan and Oman would focus on infertility treatment, use of stem cells in the treatment of various medical conditions as well as storage of umbilical cord blood, which is a valuable source of stem cells. Stem cells Stem cells are special blood cells, which are the body’s building blocks for blood, organs, tissue and the immune system and are genetically unique to each baby. When a baby’s cord blood is stored, a unique biological resource is preserved that is like a

self-repair kit for the child and other possible family members. Royan Stem Cell Technology Co. was founded in 2005 to take, proceed and fulﬁl the required steps in cord blood banking. The centre has covered the preliminary steps including storing more than 55,000 samples in its public and private banks and opening branches in more than 23 cities nationwide. Askari explained that cord blood collection is easy and does not pose any medical risk to the mother or the newborn baby. If stored, cord blood stem cells will be readily available whenever needed, he added. Cord blood transplants Doctors have increasingly turned to cord blood stem cells as an alternative to bone marrow transplants. Cord blood stem cells are used in disease treatment to ﬁght over 80 diseases including many forms of malignancies such as leukaemia, autoimmune diseases, lupus, and inheritable diseases such as sickle cell anaemia. Advantages One of the advantages of cord blood transplants is that they do not require a perfect match and can be performed in cases that the donor and the recipient are partially matched. In addition, the immune cells in cord blood seem to be less likely than those in bone marrow from unrelated donors to attack the patient’s own tissues. Cord blood transplants are also associated with lower

risk of viral infections. Omani patients Askari said that Royan centre is ‘unique’ in the Middle East and even Asia in terms of research and treatment, especially infertility treatment. “We receive patients from Oman, especially for eye disorder treatment and infertility treatment through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Now we are trying to promote treatment of certain skin disorders with stem cells,” the official noted. International specialists and researches who participate at Royan’s conferences have been impressed by the centre’s achievements, he said, adding, “We feel it is important to transfer this know-how to our neighbouring countries and cooperate with them.” Seminars Askari said that the institute is keen to share its expertise with universities and health and research centres in Oman and is ready to hold short and long-term seminars in the Sultanate. Iran has made great progress in medical ﬁelds over the past years despite the sanctions, he stated, expressing hope that this potential would be utilised further after the implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Askari also noted that the health exhibition in Muscat provided a great networking opportunity for representatives of medical centres from different countries.

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20 Yemeni rebels killed in offensive MARIB (YEMEN): Loyalist forces in Yemen backed by a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 insurgents Saturday, the military said, as they pressed their offensive on the rebel-held capital Sanaa. Twelve other rebels were captured in the operation launched on the northwestern edge of Marib province, a key battleground in the ﬁght for control of the capital, said a military official “Loyalist forces, supported by coalition aircraft, have made a slight advance” in the northwest of Marib, Abda Al Subei, of the provincial security forces, told AFP. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s forces launched a major ground offensive against the Houthi rebels in oil-rich Marib province on September 13, backed by the coalition. Day after air strike Subei said Saturday’s operation came a day after coalition air strikes on rebel positions. He did not elaborate on the overall progress of the offensive. But another Yemeni officer, Murad Turiq, said ground forces came across land mines planted by rebels and were also having difﬁculty moving through the mountainous region. Meanwhile, a senior Saudi officer

and another border guard were killed in a gun battle after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, the interior ministry said. Colonel Hassan Ghasoum Ageeli and a sergeant died late on Friday in the Jazan district, and four other guards were lightly wounded, a ministry statement said. Ageeli is one of the most senior Saudi officers killed since March when the kingdom formed the coalition. The landmine blast damaged vehicles patrolling the border district. Heavy shooting After backup arrived, “they were subject to heavy shooting from several locations inside the Yemeni border,” sparking a ﬁreﬁght, it said. Riyadh launched air strikes against the Houthis six months ago to support President Hadi’s internationally backed government that was losing ground. Saudi Arabia feared the Houthis would take over all of neighbouring Yemen. But the rebels have lost territory since late July when the coalition began deploying ground troops in support of local forces. Hadi returned to the southern city of Aden on Tuesday vowing to “liberate” the whole country. — AFP

Extra security as Mina stampede toll hits 769 Saudi Health Minister Khaled Al Falih announced the new ﬁgure. The number of those injured rose to 934 from 863

MINA: Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of special forces Saturday as pilgrims performed the final rituals of a Haj marred by double tragedy, with the death toll from a stampede rising to 769. Health Minister Khaled Al Falih announced the new figure, an increase from the previous toll of 717. The number hurt rose to 934 from 863 recorded just after the deadliest incident in a quartercentury to strike the pilgrimage. Dozens of special emergency force personnel were seen on one level of Jamarat Bridge, a fivestorey structure in Mina where pilgrims stone the devil, and on which hundreds of thousands were converging when Thursday’s stampede occurred nearby. Many more patrolled the network of roads leading to the structure, which resembles a parking garage. The interior ministry has said it assigned 100,000 police to secure the Haj and manage crowds. But pilgrims blamed the stampede on police road closures and poor management of the throng, during searing temperatures. Crane collapse The disaster was the second deadly accident to mar the Haj. A massive construction crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque in the nearby holy city of Mecca days beforehand, killing 109 people, many of them pilgrims. Pilgrims in Mina still flooded the area to perform the stoning for a third time, on the last day of the Haj which this year drew about

INJURED PILGRIM: An injured pilgrim admitted at an emergency ward in a hospital following the

deadly stampede in Mina, near Mecca, late on Friday. — AFP

Saudi Arabia’s top religious leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh, told Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef that the incident was beyond human control

two million people. Most pilgrims began leaving on Saturday, returning to Mecca where they circumambulate the Ka’aba before going home. Traffic was hardly moving as crowded cars and buses jammed the route, with some pilgrims on the roofs of their buses. “We are thankful to our brothers in Saudi Arabia for this effort,” Abdullah Ali, a 38-year-old Emirati said in Mina. He blamed other pilgrims for the stampede and urged more awareness. “As you can see, people come from different backgrounds. They are affected by their cultures.” Abdullah Al Sheikh, chairman of the Shura Council, which advises the government, stressed that pilgrims must stick to “the rules and regulations taken by the security personnel”.

That echoed comments on Friday by Health Minister Falih, who faulted the worshippers for the tragedy, saying that if “the pilgrims had followed instructions, this type of accident could have been avoided”. ‘Beyond human control’ Saudi Arabia’s top religious leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh, told Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef that the incident was beyond human control. “You are not responsible for what happened”, SPA quoted Sheikh as telling him. “Fate and destiny are inevitable.” The prince chairs the Saudi Haj committee and has ordered an investigation into the stampede. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud also ordered “a

revision” of how Haj is organised. Authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of pilgrims killed in the stampede, as the difficult process of identification continues. But several countries, largely African and Asian, have announced deaths. Only around 250 deaths in total have been officially confirmed by foreign officials. Sudanese pilgrim Abdulmahmud Rahman, 52, said he was happy to have carried out the Haj rituals but “pained that some pilgrims had died in such catastrophic circumstances”. Warning signs Rahman suggested that when police close roads, it should be done from far away with signs warning pilgrims, so they do not find themselves crowded into the same area. Interior ministry spokesman General Mansur Al Turki said “a large number of pilgrims were in motion at the same time” at an intersection in Mina. “The great heat and fatigue of the pilgrims contributed to the large number of victims,” he said. — AFP

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Two Egyptian policemen killed in IS bombing CAIRO: Two Egyptian policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by the IS group. The ministry said 16 policemen were also wounded when the bomb hit their convoy in the north of the peninsula, where security forces are struggling to quell an extremist insurgency. The IS’ Egypt affiliate said on Twitter that its militants had detonated the bomb as police tried to set up a checkpoint. Militants loyal to the IS group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Morsi’s overthrow unleashed a sweeping crackdown on extremists. — AFP

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Toll of Indian Haj pilgrims in stampede rises to 18 MINA: The death toll of Indian pilgrims in the horrific stampede during Haj rose to 18 on Saturday as Saudi Arabia grappled to come to terms with the worst tragedy to hit the annual pilgrimage in 25 years that has claimed 719 lives so far. “Our officials on the ground in Mecca have been working continuously to ascertain information and reach out to family members of missing pilgrims. According to the latest information, 18 Indians have died in the tragedy,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Saturday. “Our mission is working with Saudi authorities and family members to confirm the identities of the deceased and expedite formalities for release of the mortal remains,” he said. Of the 18 Indians killed, 11 were from Gujarat, three from Tamil Nadu and one each from Telangana, Kerala, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. Out of the 18 Indians killed, four persons, who were later found among the dead, have been identified as — Rasul Ali from Jharkhand, Moinuddin from UP, Hafijabahen Satarsha and Syed Abdul Hussain from Gujarat. - PTI

The investigative agency raided the official residence of Virbhadra Singh in Shimla and 12 other places over alleged disproportionate assets case on a day his daughter was getting married

SHIMLA/NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented action on a serving chief minister, CBI on Saturday raided the official residence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in Shimla and 12 other places in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case on a day his daughter was getting married. Searches were carried out at his

UNPRECEDENTED: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh during the wedding of his daughter Minakshi Singh in Shimla on Saturday. - PTI

official residence Delhi, his ancestral place Padam Palace in Rampur and a farm house in Mehrauli in South Delhi which is in the name of his son Vikramaditya Singh. An 18-member CBI team swooped on the 81-year-old Chief Minister’s residence in Shimla within minutes of his leaving with relatives for Sankat Mochan temple at 7.30am to solemnise marriage of his second daughter. “This FIR was the outcome of a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) which revealed that then Union Min-

BJP MP alleges party tickets were sold to criminals in Bihar

Injustice to the people “Criminals have been given tickets even before they joined the party. This is injustice to the people of Bihar. Some people have sold tickets. What is this? How will we get clean administration? “You have given tickets to criminals. How will you give a clean administration in Bihar. No reasons have been given why criminals were allotted tickets. It is not that only criminals can win elections. We as residents of Bihar are concerned. What is the difference between you and Lalu Prasad,” Singh said in Patna. BJP, despite the seriousness of the allegation, was temperate

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Congress cries foul as CBI raids Himachal CM’s homes

BIHAR POLLS

PATNA/NEW DELHI: In potentially damaging remarks for BJP ahead of the high-stakes Bihar polls, its MP R. K.Singh on Saturday alleged party tickets were sold to criminals, a charged dismissed as “baseless” by the party but termed “exceptionally grave” by rivals. Singh, a ﬁrst-time Lok Sabha MP from Ara in the state and former Union Home Secretary, left BJP acutely embarrassed when he said criminals were rewarded with tickets at the cost of genuine party workers which, he contended, obliterated the distinction between his own party and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who was being targeted for having established a ‘jungle raj’ when RJD ruled the state.

FURIOUS: Ticket seekers of BJP shouting slogans in front of

Union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and others during a function in Patna on Friday. - PTI

in its reaction, with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh asserting tickets were distributed “fairly”. “In BJP, wherever there is ticket distribution, it is done fairly and after considering all aspects. As far as Bihar is concerned, the BJP-led NDA will win a comfortable majority. It has the support of the people of Bihar,” he said. Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad, who was in Bihar for campaigning, and Sushil Kumar Modi, dismissed Singh’s claim about tickets having been sold to criminals. Prasad, a Rajya Sabha member from the state, said “In BJP, ticket is given to a nominee after transparent discussion by senior leaders.” BJP spokesman Siddharth Nath Singh said the party followed a democratic and transpar-

ent process in deciding its nominees and advised Singh to follow party discipline and restraint. “Every leader in Bihar needs to ensure that Jungle Raj part II doesn’t come and, at the same time, it is important that party discipline and restraint is maintained,” he said. Rival JD(U) was quick to pounce on BJP following Singh’s comments, describing them as “exceptionally grave” and alleging that BJP chief Amit Shah wants to win the election by “hook or by crook”. Singh’s remarks come on the heels of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s call for a review of the reservation policy which created a political storm that prompted BJP and the Modi government to distance themselves from it. - PTI

ister while serving during 20092012 (UPA rule) had allegedly accumulated assets worth Rs6.03 crore (approx) in his name and in the name of his family members which were found to be disproportionate to his known sources of income,” CBI spokesperson Dev Preet Singh said. The FIR ﬁled with a designated court in Delhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act, named Singh, his wife Pratibha Singh, LIC agent Anand Chauhan and Chunni Lal Chauhan.

In a statement, CBI spokesperson said it was further alleged that Singh had invested his unaccounted income in LIC policies in his name and in the name of his wife and other family members through a private person by showing the same as agricultural income. “This was done by creation of a MoU purportedly dated June 15, 2008 for maintenance of an apple orchard, with the said private person (Chauhan) for a period of three years. The private person had allegedly deposited Rs ﬁve crore cash (approx) in his own bank account and debited the same through cheques for purchasing various LIC policies in their names,” CBI said. It said Singh allegedly attempted to legitimize the same as agricultural income by ﬁling revised Income Tax Returns in 2012. “The agricultural income as claimed by him in his revised ITRs was not found to be tenable. The then Union Minister had allegedly accumulated other assets disproportionate to known sources of income,” CBI alleged. Terming the action as “highly vindictive”, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said it is part of “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hate agenda and political vendetta

against Congress Party and its leaders (which) has reached its zenith on Saturday with CBI raids at the residence of India’s senior most chief minister. Azad told reporters the action has set a “shocking example of politics stooping to its lowest ebb”, as the CBI moved in at a time when his daughter was getting married. “On one side, entire family including guests from bride and bridegroom`s sides were proceeding to the temple for marriage. Modi government, blinded by personal revenge, was raiding the residence of Singh.” “Modi government`s lust for settling political rivalry has made it alien to India’s culture and tradition of not disrupting marriage of a daughter. This inhumane, cruel and revengeful behaviour is characteristic of personal style of the Prime Minister,” Azad said. Upping the ante, BJP demanded immediate resignation of the Chief Minister. “It is a clear case of corruption. It is evident that he misused his position as Union Steel Minister during UPA’s rule and indulged in corruption which has been exposed now in this case. He has no moral right to continue,” Union Minister J. P. Nadda said in Delhi. - PTI

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INDIA Modi presses for UNSC reforms when the UNGA took the “signiﬁcant step” to commence textbased negotiations on the reforms but said it has to be taken to its logical conclusion during the current 70th session of the global body. “Our institutions, approaches, and often mindsets, reﬂect the wisdom of the century we have left behind, not the century we live in. This is especially true of the United Nations Security Council,” the prime minister said.

The Indian prime minister said that the reform of the United Nations Security Council within a ﬁxed time frame has become an urgent and important task

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pressed for United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform within a “ﬁxed timeframe” in the current session of the UNGA, saying the world body reﬂects the mindset of a century “we left behind” and is not in tune with new concerns like terrorism and climate change.

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Angela Merkel, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York on Saturday. - PTI

Hosting a Summit of leaders of Germany, Japan and Brazil under the G-4 format here, he said the UNSC “must include the world’s largest democracies, major locomotives of the global economy, and voices from all the major continents” to carry “greater credibility and legitimacy”. It will make it more representa-

tive and effective in addressing the challenges of the 21st century, he said at the Summit meeting with Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Modi noted that “some movement” had been witnessed recently in the decades-old endeavour

Opportunities “The reform of the Security Council within a ﬁxed time frame has become an urgent and important task,” he said, while talking about the modern age challenges like trends in demography, urbanization and migrations. “Climate change and terrorism are new concerns. Cyber and Space are entirely new frontiers of opportunities and challenges,” he said. G-4 is a grouping which has been jointly pushing for reform of the UN Security Council to make it broad-based by including them

as permanent members. The G-4 “noted with concern that no substantial progress had been made since the 2005 World Summit where all the Heads of State and Government had unanimously supported early reform of the Security Council as an essential element of the overall effort to reform the United Nations.” Leaders of the 11-year-old grouping, which has been jointly pushing for UNSC reform and their entry into it as permanent members, “expressed determination to redouble their efforts towards securing concrete outcomes during the 70th session of the General Assembly”. They felt that legitimate reforms can be “achieved by reﬂecting the realities of the international community in the 21st century, where more member states have the capacity and willingness to take on major responsibilities with regard to maintenance of international peace and security.” The four nations pledged to work together with all member states and to accelerate outreach

towards achieving an “early and meaningful reform” of the UNSC, the joint statement said. Africa’s representation They supported Africa’s representation in both the permanent and non-permanent membership in the UNSC, while noting the importance of adequate and continuing representation of small and medium sized member states, including the small island developing states, in an expanded and reformed Council. They also affirmed their resolve to continue contributing to the fulﬁllment of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, it said. “The reform of the Security Council within a ﬁxed time frame has become an urgent and important task,” Modi said. Noting that the modern age faces challenges like trends in demography, urbanization and migrations, he said, “Climate change and terrorism are new concerns. Cyber and Space are entirely new frontiers of opportunities and challenges.” - PTI

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Ex-PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death was not natural, claims his family NEW DELHI: Claiming that prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died in Tashkent after signing a peace pact with Pakistan, could have been murdered, his son Anil Shastri on Saturday demanded a thorough probe into the incident and that all related ﬁles be declassiﬁed. “I do urge the Indian prime minister to release the documents. Not a bad idea to have an inquiry into his death, question all remaining witnesses and clear all speculation and at least establish the negligence,” Shastri, a Congress leader, told news channel CNN-IBN in an interview. Cardiac arrest Shastri and then Pakistani president, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, had been invited to Tashkent by then Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin for peace talks following the Indian-Pakistan War in 1965. An agreement was signed on January 10, 1966 but Shastri was found dead a few hours later, having suf-

fered cardiac arrest. Lal Bahadur Shastri’s family, while demanding declassiﬁcation of all documents related to his death, indicated that blue marks and white spots seen on his body were signs of foul play. Recalling the scene, Anil Shastri said: “When his body (Lal Bahadur Shastri) came to the Palam airport, we found that the body had turned blue and there were white spots on his temple.” “The moment my mother (Shastri’s wife Lalita Devi) saw the body, she knew it was not a natural death. She told us it was a murder, there was out and out foul play,” he said. Anil Shastri called it “unbelievable” that the prime minister’s room in the capital of then Soviet Uzbekistan had “no call bell, no telephone, no caretaker in his room and no ﬁrst aid. He had to walk up to the door himself. “He alleged that the death was due to fault done by the Indian embassy and termed it as “height of negligence”.

“His death was badly handled by the Indian government. It hurts me to a great extent,” he said. Death ‘badly handled’ Opining that Shastri was not taken “seriously”, he said: “Postmortem could have been done in Tashkent if there was a request from the Indian government or a request from the Indian doctors.” “...some close associates feel that suspicion revolves around an Indian hand or a foreign power,” he said. Anil Shastri claimed that his father had come to know about a scam involving a shipping tycoon Dharam Teja. Citing an article by eminent journalist Khushwant Singh, Shastri claimed Teja was in Tashkent at the time of his father’s death. He also claimed that the prime minister was likely to take action and order an inquiry against Teja after his return to India. - IANS

S U N DAY, S E P T E M B E R 27, 2 0 1 5 It is important that people open their hearts and people open their lands to people who are now needing more support and who need the right to live Malala Yousafzai, Teenaged Nobel laureate

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Malala to world leaders: Do more on Syria Government to set up NEW YORK: Teenaged Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai appealed on Friday for leaders to do more on Syria, saying that the drowning of a toddler showed the world had “lost humanity.” The 18-year-old Pakistani, who was shot by the Taliban for deﬁantly going to school, said she was so upset by abuses of girls at the hands of extremists in Syria and Iraq that she has stopped watching the news. But she saw and remained haunted by the picture of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in an image that became emblematic of the risky exodus of refugees seeking safety in Europe. “We lost humanity on that day when... nowhere a child is welcomed,” she told reporters at the United Nations. “It is important that people open their hearts and people open their lands to people who are now needing more support and who need the right to live,” she said. Malala appealed to world leaders to imagine their own children

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SPELLING OUT: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, centre, holds a news conference with her friends and fellow activists Kainat Riaz, left, Shazia Ramzan, second left, both from Pakistan, Amina Yusuf, second right from Nigeria, and Salam Masri from Syria, after speaking at the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on Friday. - Reuters

suffering the abuses meted out by the IS, which has enslaved girls from minority groups. “The ﬁrst thing is that the world leaders need to take all these issues more seriously,” said Malala, who brought with her four girls including a Syrian refugee. “They should think about their own children.” Malala came to New York for

the adoption of a new UN development agenda, which aims to end extreme poverty in 15 years. She met on the sidelines with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has emerged as the leading European force in support of welcoming refugees. The youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner explained her fund that supports girls’ education during the

15-minute meeting with Merkel, a German government source said. Malala has not returned to Pakistan for three years amid concerns for her safety, instead studying in Birmingham, England. She said she took two days off to come to the United Nations. “I never miss a school day unless it’s for a good cause and it really brings change,” she said. -AFP

Nawaz to address UNGA session on September 30 Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said in New York that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to present Pakistan’s foreign policy agenda and its position on several international and regional issues

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday arrived in New York to lead the Pakistan delegation at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Radio Pakistan reported. Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s envoy to US Jalil Abbas Jilani along with senior officials of the Pakistan mission received the prime minister at the John F Kennedy International Airport. The ambassador said that the UNGA session would be an opportunity for Pakistan to put its stance on the world stage. Calling it a historical event, she said that around 160 world leaders are scheduled to attend this year’s session. The prime minister will address the UNGA on September 30, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary announced in New York, adding that he is expected to present Pakistan’s foreign policy agenda and its position on several

WARM WELCOME: Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Jalil Abbas Jilani receiving Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York. - PMO office

international and regional issues. While the premier will highlight the situation on the Line of Control and the working boundary, and raise the Kashmir issue, the Foreign Secretary said the prime minister will also meet several world leaders including the president of China on the sideline of the UNGA session. Responding to a question, the foreign secretary said Pakistan supports constructive reforms in UN but increasing the number of permanent seats at the UN Security Council is no solution to any problem. The prime minister is also expected to attend a high-level roundtable on South-South Cooperation, and the Global Leaders’

Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, hosted by President of China Xi Jinping. The prime minister will propose new measures to defuse tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) and working boundary during his address at the UN General Assembly session next week. “Premier Nawaz will propose to India a series of new steps to bring the situation along the LoC and working boundary under control,” a senior official who has seen the draft of the prime minister’s speech said. Although the official did not provide any details, Nawaz is expected to suggest better coordination mechanisms to avoid frequent ceaseﬁre violations.

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Pakistan to hang man who claims he was 15 at the time of murder ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he claims he did not commit, lawyers said on Saturday, in the latest case to shine a spotlight on Pakistan’s crumbling criminal justice system. Ansar Iqbal says he was 15 when he and a friend were arrested 16 years ago for the murder of neighbour, which the victim’s family said was over an argument at a cricket match. Iqbal says police framed him because he was poor by planting two guns at his house. Pakistani law forbids the execution of juveniles, but the country’s courts have refused to examine Iqbal’s school records

and birth certiﬁcate because they say they were submitted too late, said Maya Foa of British legal aid group Reprieve. His old school record and a new birth certiﬁcate issued this year give his age as 14 and 15 respectively. Record keeping in Pakistan is poor and records are easily forged. Instead, the court concluded he was in his early 20s based on a policeman’s estimate at the time of his arrest, Foa said. Iqbal’s friend was tried as a juvenile. “The onus has to be on the government and prosecution to prove that the individual facing the gallows is not a juvenile if all the available evidence points otherwise,” she said.

“Otherwise it puts the defendant in an impossible position.” Iqbal’s lawyer, Munir Basit, conﬁrmed his client had been tried as an adult and had been notiﬁed he was to hang at Sargodha jail next week. “He has received his black warrant in the concerned jail,” Iqbal’s lawyer said. Court and prosecution officials were not available for comment. Pakistan brought back hanging in December as a way to crack down on militancy after Taliban gunmen massacred more than 130 pupils at an army-run school.But very few of the 240 people hanged have any links to militancy. Most, like Iqbal, were convicted of murder. - Reuters

The intensity and frequency of ceaseﬁre violations along the LoC and working boundary have seen an unprecedented increase over the past few weeks, leaving scores of civilians dead on both sides. Both sides accused the other of triggering the hostilities. According to the official, Nawaz, in his address, will highlight Pakistan’s policy of a peaceful neighbourhood. “Pakistan does not want that situation to get out of control, even if there is no resumption of composite dialogue,” he said. To a question, the official ruled out a meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan at the sidelines of the UN assembly session. - Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering setting up the Pakistan Microfinance Company, in line with the business model of renowned Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, in an effort to provide small loans to farmers and businesses. In a meeting of the federal cabinet held on September 15, a participant told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that in a bid to reduce the cost of loans, a credit guarantee scheme for small and marginalised farmers was already in place and its scope was being extended to benefit 300,000 households with small landholdings. “An amount of Rs100,000 will be provided without collateral under this scheme,” the official said. This would lead to total disbursement of Rs30 billion whereas the government had set aside Rs5 billion in the budget to provide risk cover to the financial institutions extending loans without demanding any guarantees, he said. The cabinet was also told that

the federal government was mulling over setting up Pakistan Microfinance Company by following the business pattern of Grameen Bank. This year, the government is pushing up the size of overall agricultural credit to Rs616 billion compared to Rs516 billion last year, an addition of Rs100 billion, which will primarily be meant for small farmers with landholdings of up to 12.5 acres. Despite historically low interest rates in the country, consumers are not enjoying the benefits as they are forced to borrow at a rate as high as 18 per cent per annum. In order to ease the pain felt by the small farmers, the government has decided to reduce the cost of production loans by 2 per cent. The State Bank of Pakistan and provincial governments will also join hands and start one-window operations to facilitate and promote credit flow to borrowers in the agriculture sector. - Express Tribune

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f you listen to the press secretaries of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, you’ll get conﬂicting versions of what the US and Russian presidents will talk about when they meet next week at the United Nationals General Assembly. For all their differences, though, the meeting need not be a waste of time. Putin spokesman Dmitri Peskov has portrayed Obama as eager for the opportunity to discuss Syria, where Russia has been stepping up its military presence. Obama spokesman Josh Earnest, by contrast, has said that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine will be high on the US president’s agenda. He has portrayed Putin as “more desperate,” even waxing sarcastic about the Russian leader’s body language during a recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- “less than perfect posture, unbuttoned jacket, knees spread far apart to convey a particular image.” Puerile as the public tit-for-tat may seem, both sides offer a grain of truth. Obama wouldn’t be meeting with Putin purely out of politeness or condescension (the bad chemistry between the two is well known), and there’s nothing new to say about Ukraine that couldn’t be said on the phone. On the other hand, it’s true that Putin needs the meeting more than Obama does. Apart from showing he’s still an inﬂuential player, not a universally ignored local tyrant suffering a harsh comedown from an oil high, the Russian leader must try discussing a situational alliance in Syria. Acting alone in Syria would be extremely risky for Russia. Putin can ill afford an unsuccessful military operation. Coordination with the US would greatly increase the chances of success. For the US, though, an alliance with Putin comes with strings attached: Once IS is defeated, Washington would need to discuss the postwar setup with Moscow, and they have a poor record of agreeing on anything. Also, if Obama retreated on his commitment to bring down Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and agreed to a smooth transition of power in Damascus, he would give Republicans a new pretext to accuse him of weakness.

The meeting will undoubtedly be about Syria. Ukraine will be an afterthought, not even a bargaining chip: Putin cannot count on Obama to make any concessions there, because Russia is negotiating from a position of weakness. At the same time, the language from the White House indicates that it would be wrong to get one’s hopes up about the meeting: It would be strange to stress Ukraine and avoid mentioning Syria if Obama and his people expected the talks to achieve a breakthrough in the Middle East. Given Obama’s reluctance, it’s interesting that Putin still wants to talk. He’s done a lot of homework, talking in quick succession with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to Moscow for the opening of a large new mosque. He’s making sure the ceasefire holds in Ukraine. He hasn’t acted in Syria, apart from bringing in some hardware and a limited number of troops (there have been no confirmed reports of the Russian forces doing any fighting). He has also found an unlikely ally in German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has suggested talking to Assad as well as his allies in Iran and Russia to resolve the conflict. Merkel needs peace in Syria to help her deal with the refugee crisis that threatens to undermine her in Germany. Putin must demonstrate to all these leaders that he has tried to find a negotiated solution before he takes military action on Assad’s side. Obama, for his part, can’t assume that Putin’s move into Syria is merely a bluff. Rebuffing the Russian leader might mean exacerbating the situation both in Syria and in Ukraine. The US president wouldn’t have to concede much -- just to signal that he might be prepared to “rethink Syria,” as his former Middle East coordinator Philip Gordon suggested Friday in a lengthy Politico article. Gordon’s idea is for the US to stop insisting on quick regime change and look for a compromise, which would involve coordination with Russia and Iran. On the surface, the meeting will pit Obama’s obstinacy against Putin’s desperate machismo. Yet it might be the beginning of a peace process that would benefit everyone -- Putin, Assad, Obama and Merkel. - Bloomberg View

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BANGKOK: Thai police on Saturday said a foreign man detained over last month’s deadly Bangkok attack was the main yellow-shirted suspect seen on CCTV leaving a rucksack at a shrine moments before the blast. Authorities said they were now “convinced” their ﬁrst arrest, a man named as Adem Karadag, planted the bomb on August 17 which killed 20 people after weeks of an often confusing and contradictory police investigation. Earlier police said it was unlikely that either of the two foreign men held in custody over the unprecedented and unclaimed

DEADLY BOMBING: Sniffer dogs get out of a car, centre, as a foreign suspect in the August 17 Erawan shrine bombing identiﬁed by the ruling junta as Adem Karadag arrives in a vehicle at the shrine to take part in a reenactment in Bangkok on Saturday. -AFP

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Ex-Nepalese PM quits party, House KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former Maoist premier Baburam Bhattarai on Saturday resigned from his party and parliament, days after announcing his support for protesters ﬁghting to bring changes to a new constitution. The protesters, who belong to the Madhesi community, are angry about plans to divide the country into seven federal provinces under the charter adopted on Sunday. Former Maoist rebel Bhattarai has consistently attacked lawmakers — including members of his own party — for not taking minorities’ concerns into account while drafting the constitution. “Effective from today’s date I have resigned from all obligations, responsibilities at all levels as well as general membership of the UCPN Maoists,” Bhattarai told a press conference, referring to the Uniﬁed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), in which he had been a senior member. “There is no option of returning to a house you have left, an old house, a damaged house,” BhattaASYLUM-SEEKERS

UN official puts off visit to Australia GENEVA: An independent UN investigator into the human rights of migrants has postponed an official visit to Australia that was due to begin on Sunday, citing a lack of government cooperation and “unacceptable” legal restrictions. Asylum-seekers have long been a lightning-rod political issue in Australia, although it has never received anywhere near the number of refugees currently ﬂooding into Europe from war-ravaged areas of the Middle East and North Africa. UN Special Rapporteur Francois Crépeau had planned to gather ﬁrst-hand information about the situation of migrants and asylum-seekers in the country and in Australian off-shore detention centres in neighbouring Nauru and Papua New Guinea. He had asked for access since March but Australia denied him access to any offshore centre. Crépeau also blamed Australia’s 2015 Border Force Act, which discourages detention centre service providers with the threat of a two-year court sentence if they reveal “protected information”, for preventing him from doing his job. He had asked Australia to guarantee that nobody helping him would suffer reprisals but the Australian government refused.-AFP

SUPPORTING PROTESTERS: A ﬁle picture of Nepal’s former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai. -AFP

rai said, announcing his resignation from Nepal’s national parliament as well. “I will now do what I can as a citizen of this country... as long as I am alive I will work for the country and the people,” he said. The new charter, Nepal’s ﬁrst to be drawn up by elected representatives, is the ﬁnal stage in a peace process that began when

Maoist rebels laid down arms in 2006 after a decade-long insurgency aimed at creating a more equal society. But the constitution’s adoption has been marred by weeks of violent protests in Nepal’s southern plains, home to half of the country’s population. More than 40 people have died in weeks of clashes between

police and protesters from the Madhesi and Tharu communities, ethnic minorities who say the new internal borders leave them under-represented in the national parliament. Protesters in Birgunj town, 90 kilometres south of Kathmandu, on Friday blocked a major hub for oil and food imports into the Himalayan nation. The movement of cargo through other border checkpoints has also declined. Fears of a fuel shortage saw dozens of commuters line up at gas stations in Kathmandu while the ongoing protests have sparked concern in India, which has traditionally exerted significant political influence in Nepal. Work on the constitution began in 2008 after the Maoists won elections and abolished the monarchy. But power-sharing squabbles between parties stymied progress on the draft. Lawmakers finally reached agreement in June this year, spurred by a earthquake two months earlier that killed nearly 8,900 people. -AFP

Motive unclear On Saturday national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung said “police were convinced Adem’s confession is true”, weeks after they said evidence including DNA tests could not conﬁrm Karadag was the bomber. But the suspect’s lawyer said he didn’t believe his client — who he says is called Bilal Mohammed and was not in Thailand at the time of the attack — had confessed. Chuchart Kanphai added that he was denied access to Karadag earlier this week by officials at the military barracks in Bangkok where he is being detained because the suspect was “sick”. The blast last month has left Thailand stunned and dealt a fresh blow to its reputation as a tourist haven — the majority of the fatalities were Chinese visitors, who believe prayers at the shrine bring good fortune The motive is still unclear but security experts have increasingly suggested links with militants from China’s Uighur minority — or their ethnic Turkish supporters — with the passports, ethnicity and travel plans of key suspects appearing to point in that direction. They have speculated the attack was revenge for Thailand’s forced

deportation of 109 Uighur asylumseekers to China in July, a move that ignited anger in Turkey where nationalist hardliners see the minority as part of a global Turkicspeaking family. Karadag’s lawyer has previously said his client was born in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, home to around 10 million Uighurs, but moved to Turkey in 2004 where he received Turkish nationality. The other man in custody has been identified as Yusufu Mieraili, who was seized with a Chinese passport marking Xinjiang as his birthplace. Police believe the passport is real but have not confirmed his nationality either. Thai officials have strenuously avoided using the word Uighur largely, analysts say, for fear of putting off tourists or angering China — one of the ruling junta’s few international friends. Police chief Somyot linked them to the attack for the first time last week but only in reference to their theory that the blast was conducted by a gang of people-smugglers in revenge for a Thai crackdown on their lucrative trade, including the transfer of Uighurs. The mostly Muslim minority have long accused Beijing of religious and cultural repression in Xinjiang, with hundreds believed to have fled in recent years, often heading to Turkey via Southeast Asia. -AFP

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through the Bosphorus off Istanbul en route to the eastern Mediterranean sea on Saturday. — AFP

achieve peace and a way forward in Syria, in Yemen’, Kerry said

NEW YORK/DAMASCUS: US and Western diplomats scrambled to cobble together a diplomatic strategy to end the war in Syria on Saturday after the latest humiliating blow to their military plan. Secretary of State John Kerry and his European counterparts reached out to traditional foe Iran on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Iran and Russia back Syrian strongman Bashar Al Assad, whom Washington sees as the instigator of a civil war that has left half his country in the hands of the IS group.

DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO END THE WAR IN SYRIA: US Secretary of State John Kerry poses with

Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister Javad Zarif during a bilateral talk at the United Nations headquarters on Saturday, at the United Nations in New York. — AFP

Unwilling to countenance a peace process that would leave Assad in power after he alienated or killed so many of his people, the US has backed small “moderate” rebel groups. But that strategy appeared in tatters on Saturday after the Pentagon admitted the latest UStrained ﬁghters to cross into Syria had given a quarter of their gear to Al Qaeda. In contrast to the lackluster US effort to shore up its allies on the ground, Russia and Iran have proven good friends to Assad, who clings to power in Damascus.

Iran has dispatched militia ﬁghters trained and helped by its Revolutionary Guard, and Russia has deployed a powerful military presence to a base on Assad’s territory. With the initiative falling away, Kerry and his allies came to New York hoping to persuade Tehran and Moscow to push for a broad political solution to the conﬂict. Kerry and European diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini met separately with their Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to make the case. “I view this week as a major op-

portunity for any number of countries to play an important role in trying to resolve some of the very difficult issues of the Middle East,” Kerry said Saturday, at a joint appearance with Zarif. A way forward “We need to achieve peace and a way forward in Syria, in Yemen, in the region itself and I think there are opportunities this week, through these discussions, to make some progress.” According to an EU statement, Zarif told Mogherini that Iran will assist United Nations-led ef-

forts to broker a political compromise that would end the civil war in Syria. But, before his talks with Kerry, he made it clear that Iran’s focus in its dialogue with Washington is still on the implementation of the nuclear deal it signed in April with ﬁve world powers in exchange for sanctions relief. Meanwhile, Moscow pressed its military buildup at a new airbase in Syria on Saturday. Saturday was the 15th straight day that Russian transport aircraft had ﬂown in troops and equipment to the Hmeimim base in Latakia province on the Mediterranean coast, a military source told AFP on condition of anonymity. “For the past two weeks and again today a Russian cargo plane has landed every morning at

Hmeimim,” the source said, adding they all had fighter escorts. At least some of the cargo was then unloaded and transported out of the airport, the source said. US satellites have recorded increased activity by Russian forces at the base inside the Bassel Al Assad civil and military airport. On Wednesday, the Syrian army used Russian-delivered drones for the first time, a security source in Damascus said. Washington and NATO say recent spottings of helicopters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, tanks and soldiers prove Russia is building an airbase in Latakia, the Assad regime’s coastal heartland. Russian military aircraft have conducted reconnaissance flights over Syria but not yet launched any strikes, the Pentagon said. — AFP

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Xi pledges $2 billion for poor countries UNITED NATIONS: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday pledged $2 billion for a new development fund for poor countries on a UN visit aimed at showcasing Beijing’s growing global role. Xi’s announcement, made in his ﬁrst-ever address to the United Nations, follows long-standing criticism from the United States and other developed countries that China has not taken responsibilities in line with its aspirations for a greater global role. The speech is the latest highproﬁle move for Xi on a trip that has included a White House state visit and will see him chair a UN forum on women’s rights on Sunday. Addressing a UN summit on development, Xi said China would act “by putting justice before interests and joining other countries in a concerted effort to realize the post-2015 agenda.” Xi said that China would launch an assistance fund for developing countries with an initial investment of $2 billion. The Chinese leader said that

The United Nations on Friday set a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, an effort that the global body says could require up to $5 trillion a year

his country would also step up investment in UN-deﬁned least developed countries -- which are mostly in Africa -- by at least $12 billion by 2030. China has been an increasingly active investor around the world, although it has generally focused on seeking resources rather than broader humanitarian goals. Xi said that China would also relieve debts owed by least developed countries this year. He did not provide a ﬁgure on the debts or say which countries would be affected. The United Nations on Friday set a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, an effort that the global body says could require up to $5 trillion a year.

China’s economy has soared over the past 15 years to become the world’s second largest after the United States, although concerns have been rising in recent months over the country’s financial markets and longterm growth. China has increasingly taken an assertive role in the world, especially in myriad disputes with its neighbors, but retains little stake in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. With a reform plan for the Washington-based institutions blocked by US Republican lawmakers, China has set up its own lender, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The bank, which Xi reaffirmed would open soon, has widely been seen as a way for China to dilute the inﬂuence of the United States and Japan, the most prominent holdouts from the new lender. “It is important to improve global economic governance, increase the representation and voice of developing countries and give all countries equal right to participating in international rule-making,” Xi said. China’s aid commitment remains far below levels of Western countries. Developed countries The United States in 2013 provided more than $30 billion, and Britain, France, Germany and Japan all gave more than $11 billion, according to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Xi called on developed countries to remain “the main channel” for assistance to poor nations. The pledge marks the second day in a row in which China has addressed one of many concerns of Western countries. — AFP

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Man City slip up against Spurs, Man United reach top LONDON: Manchester United exploited Manchester City’s 4-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur by beating Sunderland 3-0 on Saturday to replace their rivals at the top of the Premier League table. City’s unexpected capitulation opened the door for Louis

van Gaal’s side and they strolled through it courtesy of goals from Memphis Depay, Wayne Rooney, who ended a 1,000-minute league scoring drought, and Juan Mata. Depay made the breakthrough in ﬁrst-half stoppage time, tapping home after Daley Blind’s ﬁne pass

was volleyed across goal by Mata, with Rooney and Mata ﬁnishing the job in the second half. Rooney’s goal, set up by Anthony Martial, was his ﬁrst in the league since April and saw him draw level with Old Trafford great Denis Law on 171 league goals.

Victory took United a point above City, who slipped to a second consecutive league defeat — and a third loss in four games in all competitions — at White Hart Lane. Spurs climbed to ﬁfth place in the table and are unbeaten in ﬁve games since losing 1-0 at United

on the season’s opening day. West Ham could have gone level on points with City, but despite drawing 2-2 at home to Norwich City, they remain in third place. Arsenal climbed up to fourth place after separating Leicester City from their status as the top

ﬂight’s last unbeaten side with a 5-2 success at the King Power Stadium. Meanwhile, Liverpool edged Aston Villa 3-2 at Anﬁeld to end a winless four-game run and move up to seventh place. Southampton won 3-1 win over Swansea City and Stoke City beat Bournemouth 2-1. - AFP

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SPORTS Le Guen wants Oman to be ready for tough battle against Iranians Le Gue is happy Oman will be playing a friendly against Syria on October 2 ahead of all important 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup qualiﬁer against Iran and he is expecting his wards to be prepared well for tough battle against Iran

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raoas@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: As Oman’s campaign in the second round qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup reaches the halfway stage, Paul Le Guen is expecting his wards to be ready for tough battle against Iran in their next Group D match. Ahead of October 8 tie, a fourth outing for both in the five-team group, Iran and Oman have seven points each, same as Guam who had played one match more than the two. The match, to be played at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Bausher, is a crucial tie considering both fancied Iran as well as Oman will be hoping to stamp their authority and seal a win. The match is most likely to decide which team will be in pole position to top the group and clinch a direct berth in the Asian Cup and a place in the third round qualifiers for the World Cup. Though Oman will be travelling to Iran next March for their final group outing, which - a virtual group final - will again be vital for the fortunes of both teams. In between, Oman will also be playing a home match on October

13 against India, an away game on November 17 in Turkmenistan and another home match on March 24 against Guam. For the record, Oman had already beaten India and Turkmenistan by 2-1 and 3-1 margins though they were held to a goalless draw in Guam. Though expectations are high, as Oman will be playing at home against Iran, Le Guen is considering the hosts as underdogs who needs to be ready for a ‘tough battle’. French coach, while announcing his list of probables for the camp ahead of Iran and India matches on Saturday, said: “We will be playing two tough games. Especially Iran match will surely be tough.” “India comes next. But fist we have to deal with Iran match,” Le Guen said. “We are underdogs. But we have to prepare well and be ready to fight for full points.” “We have already dropped two points against Guam,” Le Guen said referring to a goalless draw against Guam in their previous match. “We cannot afford to do that any more if we want to finish on top of the group or as one of the four best runners-up to advance further.”

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Lack of match practice Lamenting the lack of match practice for most of the national team players, Le Guen expressed his delight in the fact that Oman Football Association (OFA) is able to arrange a friendly match with Syria ahead of Iran match. “The situation here is little difficult,” Le Guen said referring to the late start of the domestic season and some players being busy with the military teams. “Between May and till the end of October, some of the players, like (star striker) Abdulaziz Al Maqbali, get to play only one ‘competition game’. That is without taking into consideration the national team matches. “That’s the reality here. But we

cannot make excuses. We have to work hard and train hard to be ready for the match. “That’s why I am happy the OFA is able to arrange a friendly match with Syria before Iran tie.” Asked whether it is right to play a friendly (on October 2) less than a week before an important qualiﬁer, he said: “Considering the situation, it is better to play a match against tough opponents than not play at all.” Concerns in attack Continuing with his oft-repeated complaints over lack of ﬁre power or ‘lack of efficiency in front of the goal’, Le Guen said: “Obviously the main concern is the way we attack. It is a problem not just with the

national team players but other domestic players as well. “We need to focus more... on (ball) possession and control.” When asked whether there is dearth of talent in that department, Le Guen referred to forward Saud Al Farsi’s performance to make his point. He said: “When I picked Saud, he showed a lot of promise. “He played around 45 minutes against Syria (friendly in June) and around 30 minutes in Turkmenistan match. But frankly I thought he should have done better than he managed to do in those two matches.” Le Guen, however, stressed the point ‘we need to be patient with the players like him’ and ‘he can

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Fatma clinches back-to-back titles in India

TWIN TITLES: Omani star Fatma Al Nabhani displays her trophy

after winning the ﬁrst of the two $10,000 ITF Pro Circuit tournaments in south Indian city of Hyderabad.

MUSCAT: Omani tennis star Fatma Al Nabhani won back-toback titles in the south Indian city of Hyderabad when she lifted the singles crown at the $10,000 ITF Pro Circuit Phoenix Live women’s tournament on Saturday. In the final played at the Leonia Holistic Destination courts in Shameerpet, Hyderbad, the Omani sensation conceded just four games in her straight sets victory over Rishika Sunkara of India. Though the second seeded local girl tried to match the Omani top seed in the first set, Fatma stamped her authority in the second set to win the title with a final scoreline of 6-3, 6-1. Earlier in the semifinals, Fat-

MAKING A POINT: Oman football team coach Paul Le Guen, centre, speaks during a press conference at City Seasons Hotel on Saturday. – JUN ESTRADA/Times of Oman

ma defeated India’s Riya Bhatia 6-4, 6-3. In the quarterfinals, she overcame a tough challenge from another Indian girl Chilumula Nidhi for 7-6 (4), 6-0 victory. In the first tournament, which was organised from September 14 to 20, Fatma had found title success. In fact, she completed a double in that event winning the singles and the doubles crowns. In the final of the singles event, where she was seeded number one, Fatma defeated her doubles partner and either seeded Indian Prerna Bhambri 6-4, 6-0. In the doubles final, second seeded Fatma and Prerna overcame Indian top seeds Sharrmadaa Baluu and Prarthana G. Thombare 7-5, 6-2.

team Aston Villa and last host to a rugby union match in 1953. South Africa now go on to play Scotland at Newcastle’s St James Park on October 3, with a four-day turnaround before facing the United States at the Olympic Stadium. Samoa, who opened their campaign with a 25-16 win over the USA, face Japan in Milton Keynes on October 3 and Scotland a week later in Newcastle. The three brothers of the Pisi family made Rugby World Cup history for samoa when they took the field together in an otherwise forgettable afternoon for the Pacific Islanders, for whom flyhalf Mike Stanley scored their only points. Italy survive scare Earlier, Italy held off a brave chal-

lenge from Canada for a 23-18 victory in the Pool D clash at Elland Road in Leeds to record their first win of this year’s tournament. The Italians established a slim 13-10 lead by halftime but had to work hard in defence in the face of Canada’s enterprising back line, which posed a constant threat until the final whistle. Canada struck with fine tries from winger DTH Van Der Merwe and fullback Matt Evans, cancelled out by scores from Italy prop Michele Rizzo and centre Gonzalo Garcia. But in the end it was the boot of Tommaso Allan that proved the difference between the wellmatched sides, the flyhalf weighing in with 13 points. - Agencies

Messi out with knee ligament damage eight weeks,” Barcelona said. Messi, 28, looks set to be sidelined for at least eight Barca games, as well as Argentina’s first four 2018 World Cup qualifiers, including a meeting at home to Brazil on November 13. Moreover, he is now a huge doubt for the first El Clasico of the season away to Real Madrid on November 21.

Rosberg on pole in Japan after Kvyat crash SUZUKA: Nico Rosberg put F1 world champions Mercedes on pole position for the Japanese GP on Saturday after Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat crashed heavily and brought qualifying to an early close. The German secured his ﬁrst pole since Spain in May when the red ﬂags came out with 36 seconds remaining, leaving teammate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton no chance of claiming a 12th pole in 14 races. Hamilton made sure of an all-Mercedes front row.

Pakistan begin Zimbabwe tour HARARE: Pakistan begin a whistle-stop tour of Zimbabwe on Sunday with a view to preparing for greater challenges that lie ahead in the coming months. The two sides will engage in two T20 internationals (Sunday and Tuesday) and three ODIs in the space of nine days at Harare Sports Club.

Australia delay Bangladesh tour

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MADRID: Lionel Messi will be out for up to eight weeks after suffering knee ligament damage in Barcelona’s 2-1 win over Las Palmas on Saturday, the Catalan giants conﬁrmed. “Tests have conﬁrmed that Leo Messi suffered a torn internal collateral knee ligament. The estimated time out will be seven to

Team: Ali Al Habsi, Fayeez Al Rushaidi, Mazin Al Kasbi; Saad Suhail, Ali Salim Al Nahar, Mohammed Sheiba, Jaber Al Owaisi, Abdulsalam Amor, Mohammed Al Musallami, Ali Al Busaidi, Mohannad Al Hassani, Azan Al Balushi, Ahmed Mubarak ‘Kanu’, Ali Al Jabri, Eid Al Farsi, Mohsin Al Zawahri, Raed Ibrahim Al Haikal, Mohammed Al Mashari, Qasim Said, Yaseen Al Shaeedi, Abdulaziz Al Maqbali, Imad Al Hosni, Said Al Ruzaiqi, Mohammed Al Siyabi, Sami Khamis and Saud Al Farsi. BRIEFS

Boks bounce back from Japan humiliation to maul Samoa BIRMINGHAM: JP Pietersen’s hat-trick of tries helped underpressure South Africa rebound from their shock defeat by Japan to notch up a resounding bonus-point 46-6 victory over Samoa on Saturday to get their World Cup campaign well and truly back on track. Rarely can a team have gone into a match under as much pressure as the two-time champions, whose sports minister Fikile Mbalula underlined in a pre-match tweet that a “WIN is non-negotiable”. The Springboks’ 34-32 defeat by the Japanese in their opening Pool B game was the biggest upset in modern-day rugby, leading to some serious introspection from under-ﬁre coach Heyneke Meyer, his players and a country where union is the national sport. But Pietersen’s hat-trick, two pushovers from outstanding ﬂanker Schalk Burger and replacement hooker Schalk Brits, and a late Bryan Habana effort, allied with 16 points from the boot of Handre Pollard and Pat Lambie, formed the bedrock for the win at Villa Park, home to English Premier League

compete with Imad (Al Hosni) and Abdulaziz (Al Maqbali)’. Le Guen expressed his preference to play both Iran and India matches at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex (SQSC). Oman is scheduled to play India at Seeb Sports Stadium. “The Bausher complex ((SQSC) is the main stadium. I prefer Oman play their matches their. And I also think that the pitch at Bausher complex is better than the one at Seeb stadium,” he said. Team manager Mohammed Al Alawi, meanwhile, revealed that following the ‘coach’s request’ the OFA is trying to shift Oman-India match to the SQSC. Against Iran, Le Guen will be missing the services of Abdulaziz Al Maqbali and fellow forward Azan Al Balushi, both of whom will be away in South Korea representing the Sultanate’s football team in the 6th Military World Games to be organised in the city of Mungyeong from October 2 to 11. It may be mentioned Al Maqbali emerged the best player of the tournament when Oman ﬁnished runners-up to Iraq in the Military World Cup in Azerbaijan in 2013. Oman will be hosting the next edition of the military football tournament in 2017.

Messi clashed with Las Palmas defender Pedro Bigas as he tried to turn the ball home inside the area and suffered a blow to his left knee in the process. He brieﬂy returned to the ﬁeld after receiving treatment, but was clearly unable to run freely before he was replaced by Munir El Haddadi. - AFP

MELBOURNE: The Australian cricket team has delayed its planned departure to Bangladesh after been warned by the Australian government that there was a potential security risk from militants. The Australian team was due to ﬂy out of Sydney on Monday morning for the threeweek tour, which includes two Test matches against Bangladesh.

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Aaryan downs Vatsal to lift under-10 crown MUSCAT: Aaryan Punja captured the under-10 singles crown at the National Bank of Oman-sponsored Annual Badminton Tournament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC) Muscat. In the ﬁnal, Aaryan played with conﬁdence to register a brilliant 21-15, 21-5 victory over challenger Vatsal Manikandan.

Ashpruha Patnaik will take on Gayathri Krishna in the final of the girls under-15 singles. Ashpruha overcame Gauri Krishna in a three-game thriller 21-19, 21-23, 21-15 in the first semi final while Gayathri overcame Nayan Anil in another three-setter 21-17, 12-21, 21-14 in the second semifinal. Men’s top seed Prabhu AR pro-

gressed to the semifinals after scoring a convinging 21-9, 21-13 win over Vinod Abraham, second seed Niyas N. Was stretched before seeing the back of a defiant Domnic Kennedy with a 21-14, 16-21, 21-18 verdict and third seed Shebaz Nasar was kept on his toes by Manoj Varghese before the former won 21-19, 21-13 to reach the semifinals.

In second round action of the men’s A singles, Justin Thomas showed a high level of patience and perseverance when he outlasted Vineesh Mathew in three hardfought games 21-12, 18-21, 21-17 to enter the last eight stage. In other second round matches, VA Francis held his nerves to edge past Shaiju VV 23-21, 26-24.

FINALISTS: Aaryan Punja, left, and Vatsal Manikandan.

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Natural gas production, imports grow 5.3% in Oman While non-associated gas showed a growth of 6.7 per cent to 21,675 MNCM, associated gas production declined 0.8 per cent to 4,595 MNCM, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information data

Times News Service MUSCAT: Oman’s natural gas production and imports rose 5.3 per cent to 26,269 million cubic metres (MNCM) for the first eight months of this year, from 24,942 MNCM in the same period last year. Of this, while non-associated gas showed a growth of 6.7 per cent to 21,675 MNCM, associated gas production declined 0.8 per cent to 4,595 MNCM, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information. A sizeable portion of the natural gas in Oman is used by various mega industrial projects, which

stood at 14,536 MNCM for the first eight months of 2015, against 13,847 MNCM for the same period last year. Natural gas is also used in oilfields either as fuel or for re-injection. First eight months For instance, in the first eight months, as much as 5,643 MNCM of natural gas was used in oil fields, against 5,182 million cubic metres units consumed for the same period in 2014. Other major consumers of natural gas in the country include power producers, small-scale industries and liquefied natural gas plants. Natural gas used by power and desalination plants stood 3.1 per

cent higher at 5,650 million cubic metres for the seven-month period of this year. OPWP estimates The Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP), estimates gas consumption in the electricity and water desalination sector to rise substantially in the next five years, mainly due to higher production to support growing demand for power and water. While the national demand for gas will rise sharply over the coming ﬁve years, the rate of increase is by no means evenly distributed, with requirements set to spike in some regions. In fact, the Ministry of Oil and Gas is responsible for supplying gas to various consumers and the obligations are set out within the agreements. The Sultanate of Oman’s natural gas production this year is projected at 120 million cubic metres per day, which is 15 million cubic metres higher than that of last year. The Sultanate produced and imported 37,687 million cubic metres of natural gas last year (equivalent to 105 million cubic metres per day).

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India’s C & C Constructions bags road project in Oman Times News Service MUSCAT: India’s C & C Constructions has been awarded a project by Engineering Projects (India), for road and civil works in the Sultanate, said the Gurgaonbased infrastructure company in its filing. The contract value of the project is $141.28 million, according to reports carried by the Indian media. C&C Constructions operates as an infrastructure development company in India. The company engages in the construction of highways and airports, installing of optic fibre cables and maintenance of telecom networks, said the Mint newspaper. The order value is quite high compared to its current market capitalisation of Rs350 million. In the quarter ended June 2015, it has reported a consolidated loss of Rs406 million against profit of

VITAL LINK: C&C Constructions operates as an infrastructure de-

velopment company in India. — Times ﬁle picture

Rs516 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue during the same period declined to Rs3,059 million from Rs 4,315 million. Revenue from its domestic operations fell more than 50 per cent, from Rs3,697 million to Rs1,786 million, year-on-year, whereas revenue from overseas operations

more than doubled to Rs1,273 million from Rs617.7 million. According to its consolidated statement of assets and liabilities for June quarter, the companies’ long term borrowings declined to Rs17,538 million from Rs19,026 million. The company’s shares surged ahead after the announcement.

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Moody’s keeps junk rating for Greece debt LONDON: Moody’s has maintained its deep junk ‘Caa3’ credit rating for Greek government debt, but has upgraded its outlook following recent political breakthroughs. “Moody’s Investors Service has today confirmed Greece’s government bond rating at Caa3 and changed the outlook to stable,” the agency said in a statement issued Friday. “The key drivers behind the confirmation are the approval of the third bailout programme, and the emergence of a political configuration that is slightly more supportive than its predecessors for the implementation of reforms which the programme will require,” it added.

Amlak Jiran dream homes in south Maabela comprise 40 residential and 10 commercial units. The project is expected to be completed by 2016

Times News Service MUSCAT: Meethaq, the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman from Bank Muscat, and Amlak company signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate attractive Meethaq home ﬁnance for Amlak Jiran project in south Maabela. Sulaiman Al Harthy, group general manager (Islamic Banking) and Abdul Rahman Al Kharusi, executive manager of Amlak, signed the memorandum of understanding at the bank’s head office. “Committed to sustainable social and economic development, Meethaq is happy to be associated with Amlak Jiran project to provide innovative home ﬁnance in line with Sharia principles. The real estate sector is a major component of the national economy and Meethaq Islamic banking is committed to extending a helping hand for easy access to Sha-

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SHARIA-COMPLIANT: Every Meethaq product goes through the process of Sharia compliance certiﬁcation by the Sharia Supervisory Board and is created in line with the guidelines of the Central Bank of Oman. – Supplied photo

ria based home finance,” said Sulaiman Al Harthy. “Amlak company is proud to join hands with Meethaq Islamic banking in extending attractive home deals. The cooperation between the two institutions will benefit citizens to fulfill their dream homes at Amlak Jiran comprising 40 residential units and 10 commercial units. The project is expected to be completed by 2016,” said Abdul Rahman Al Kharusi. Meethaq home finance is designed to help families fulfill their dream homes. Meethaq offers Sharia based finance to suit everyone’s needs with simplified docu-

mentation and processing across the network of branches in Oman. Property ownership rights The residential segment of the real estate sector in Oman assumes importance in light of the growth in population as well as the developing economy. The deregulation granting property ownership rights to Gulf Cooperation Council nationals and expatriates has also attracted Oman as an investment destination. Meethaq has adopted the best practices in Islamic banking and ﬁnance worldwide to combine a robust model which protects

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customers and complements the Islamic banking industry. Every Meethaq product goes through the process of Sharia compliance certiﬁcation by the Sharia Supervisory Board and is created in line with the guidelines of the Central Bank of Oman. As the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman, Meethaq stands out for its independent Sharia Supervisory Board, separate capital allocation from shareholders’ money, unique risk management tools, complete fund segregation, separate books of account, core banking system which supports Islamic banking operations,

stand-alone Islamic banking branches and proper proﬁt distribution mechanism among investment account holders/depositors. The adoption of AAOIFI standards (Accounting & Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions) distinguishes Meethaq Islamic banking practices in terms of standardisation of products and services.

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Third bailout Moody’s cut its credit rating for Greece to deep-junk — jut two steps above ‘default’ — in July, shortly before a referendum on the terms of the third bailout. “Notwithstanding the positive developments the Caa3 rating continues to incorporate a high level of implementation risk given Greece’s weak institutions and past poor track-record of implementing conditions of ﬁnancial support,” added the statement. Newly re-elected left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that Greece must “quickly implement” the terms of the tough European Union bailout agreed in July. Tsipras won Sunday’s general election, picking up between 33 and 35 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, Greece and Bulgaria hope to reach an agreement by the end of the year on a gas pipeline connecting the two countries, says state gas supplier. - Agencies

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Need to diversify to boost trade Oman Broadband, ITA sign

flows, Indian exporters urged high-speed fibre optic pact SINGAPORE: Indian manufacturers and exporters should diversify more and become part of regional multi-lateral trade pacts to boost shipments of their products globally, India’s top envoy in Singapore has said. “It is for the business community of India and Singapore to identify more opportunities and further increase trade flows,” India’s High Commissioner Vijay Thakur Singh told some 200 delegates at the ‘India-Singapore Trade: Challenges and Opportunities’ business forum. Underlining the wide range of initiatives and thrust of India’s

trade foreign policy, Vijay called on the manufacturers and exporters to diversify and be part of the regional multi-lateral trade pacts to boost shipments of their products globally. Vijay also reiterated the government’s target of further increasing shipments of merchandise and services as there are plenty of opportunities to do so. “The trade policy aims to increase the share of Indian exports in world markets to 3.5 per cent by 2019-2020, doubling it in ﬁve years,” Vijay said. In value terms, the increase in exports would be approximately $900 billion by 2019-2020, al-

most double from $461 billion in 2013-14. Some 175 Indian manufacturers and exporters are showcasing their products at the Singapore International Indian Shopping Festival being held from September 24-27. Ajay Sahai, director general and chief executive officer of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations, also called on the manufacturers and exporters to adopt strategies to further boost their exports. Stressing that India’s direct global exports were growing, he said there are still more opportunities to be part of regional trade groupings and pacts. - PTI

Times News Service MUSCAT: Information Technology Authority (ITA), represented by Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, chief executive officer of ITA, and Oman Broadband Company (OBC) represented by Eng. Said bin Abdullah Al Mantheri, chief executive officer of OBC signed an agreement for implement a private and resilient fibre optic backbone for Oman Government Network (OGN). This agreement will be directly implemented to connect the current 63 government entities hosted by OGN providing high-speed connectivity and linked to the National Data Center at ITA in addition to another backup data centre. On this occasion, Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, chief executive officer of ITA said: “We are pleased to sign the first phase of the high speed government network with OBC to implement and operate the current active network. The first phase of this implementation will cover 63 headquarters for all government organisations in the Muscat region replacing the current lower speeds of OGN. The new network will connect the mentioned headquarters with the previous 1GB connectivity and will connect them to the ITA National Data Center (NDC) with a 10 GB backbone.” “This new service will enable government organisations to enhance the service quality and hence better customer satisfaction for their provided services. It will also enable government organisations to integrate by exchanging data to facilitate a true

DEAL: Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of Information Technology Authority, and Eng. Said bin Abdullah Al Mantheri, CEO of Oman Broadband Company, signed the agreement. - Supplied photo

end-to-end service delivery for their customers. The new service will also enable government organizations to focus on their core business by taking part of the Government Cloud and the National Government Data Center state-of-art managed services. ITA looks in the near future to connect regional office of all government organisations with similar speeds in multiple phases of the project,” he added. eTransformation “This new service is also an essential milestone in the implementation of eTransformation plan adopted by ITA, as it will help transfer data and procedures in high speed. We, at ITA, will spare no effort to facilitate the completion of this project successfully through following-up, support, guidance and consultation,” Dr Al Ruzaiqi said. Eng. Said bin Abdullah al Man-

theri, chief executive officer of OBC pointed out that this step is one of the important objectives of the national strategy for broadband and to support and enable government services. The implementation of this network will work to remove obstacles related to fast data transfer which is currently a challenge to the implementation of eGovernment services. “This network will transfer data between these government entities significantly as this would serve to unite all government data in a unified national data centre,” Mantheri added. While providing each government entity with one Gbps, which stands for Gigabits per second throughout fibre optic connection and is faster than the current speed by 1,000 times, the period of implementing the interconnection project will not exceed12 months from the date of signing the agreement.

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MARKET Dhahirah registers 11,335 commercial registrations is also a direct open road to the markets of Dakhiliyah governorate,” he added.

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and facilities for investment in all industrial and commercial sectors. Certain legislations have been issued to ensure investment and facilitate the procedures. – Supplied photo

Times News Service MUSCAT: There were 11,335 commercial registration certiﬁcates registered by the department in the Dhahirah governorate till the end of July 2015, said an official. “Most of the commercial and economic activities in the governorate are centred around building materials and construction activities, in addition to shopping centres, public service shops and other commercial activities,” said director of the Trade and Industry Department at the governorate, Said bin Homoud bin Said Al Qassabi said. Dhahirah has all the suitable means and facilities for investment in all industrial and commercial sectors. Certain legislations

have been issued to ensure investment and facilitate the procedures. The governorate is the northern gateway of the Sultanate with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It has many natural resources and raw materials, including oil, gas, gold, and copper, apart from chrome, marble, clay mud, gypsum and stone salt. The governorate will contribute in increasing the added value generated from local resources enjoyed by the governorate. This will see the emergence of numerous industries and accompanying services. The economic zone that comprises the industrial and logistic sector in the governorate comprises the biggest investment projects that will be witnessed in

the near future. It will increase investment opportunities, encourage youth to set up projects and provide job opportunities. Modern roads In the recent past, the governorate has witnessed a positive trend in commercial and industrial activities. This has helped in increasing the commercial movement thanks to modern roads that have recently been constructed in the governorate, said Al Qassabi. “There is a direct connection between the four main roads and the biggest Omani governorates including Al Batinah. The IbriHafeet road leading to Al Buraimi governorate will ease connectivity by land with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. There

Commercial sector “Most of the industrial activities at Dhahirah focus on the small and medium industries like workshops, bricks factories and other activities. The governorate has four industrial services zones including industrial service areas in Ibri, Tanim, Al Tayeb and Dhanak,” said the official. “These zones are witnessing an expansion currently with the establishment of some new projects. In the near future, more projects will come up in these areas on the completion of necessary services like road, water and phone networks. The Ministry of Regional Municipalities is paving these areas. The plans of industrial services at Tanim have been completed. The industrial services area at Al Tayeb is also semi-complete. Work is in progress in Ibri,” pointed out Al Qassabi. He indicated that the industrial area that is set to be established on the Empty Quarter road leading to the Saudi Arabia is a start for the governorate to activate this sector. “From the beginning of 2014 till the end of July, 1,156 certiﬁcates of origin were issued by issuing the necessary licences and permits, in co-ordination with the competent authorities. Certiﬁcates of origin for national products and industries have also been issued for the purpose of exporting them to the

GCC and other Arab countries,” he said. Market inspection “The role of the Commerce and Industry Department at Dhahirah is not limited to issuing licences that regulate commercial work alone. Rather, it includes effecting field inspection tours for the markets of the governorate. The markets and commercial centres are inspected in collaboration with the suppliers to ensure the availability of the different consumer goods. Licences of sales and promotions are also followed up,” explained Al Qassabi. “Last year, 789 commercial registration certificates were issued, while from January to July 2015, 242 were issued. In the past year, 1,494 trade names have been issued, while 814 were issued from January to July 2015,” he pointed out. “Last year, 184 commercial and private licences were issued, apart from 84 till July 2015. For national products and industries, 355 certificates of origins were issued. From January to July 2015, 801 certificates of origin have been issued. For cement shipments, 150 certificates of release were issued last year, while another 1017 were issued till July 2015,” he added.

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Tesla chief calls for ‘random emission’ testing TILBURG (Netherlands): Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has called for fossil fuel-powered cars ‘to be tested at random’, as German giant Volkswagen’s worldwide pollution cheating scandal continues to reverberate around the globe. “The obvious move is to pick cars at random and then test the emission in transit,” said Musk at the unveiling of the US-based electrical carmaker’s new plant in the Netherlands, the ﬁrst in Europe. The CEO’s comments come in the wake of revelations that Volkswagen equipped 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide with software that can switch off those pollution controls — except when it detects the vehicle is undergoing official testing. “Clearly emissions-testing needs to be more rigorous,” Musk said after the shock discovery, which has thrown the focus on electrical cars and their environmental advantages. The scandal broke a week ago when United States officials publicly accused Volkswagen of cheating and launched a probe into the scam. The US has since been joined by a growing list of countries launching similar investigations. “What we’re seeing with diesel is that we’ve hit the limit,” said Musk, whose new factory in Tilburg in the southern Netherlands will be able to pump out 450 highend electrical cars a week. He said he believed the German car giant “was under a lot of pressure to make improvements” in emission levels. - AFP

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Oracle lowers Larry Ellison’s pay in ﬁrst year as tech chief

Larry Ellison. – Bloomberg News

NEW YORK: Oracle’s highestpaid executives were awarded less in ﬁscal 2015 as the software maker granted performance-based stock in place of some options. Founder Larry Ellison, who stepped down as chief executive officer in 2014, saw his compensation fall to $62.1 million from $100 million in the previous year, according to the Bloomberg Pay Index, a ranking of the 200 highest-paid United States executives that prices equity grants as of a company’s ﬁscal year-end.

His co-replacements Mark Hurd and Safra Catz were each awarded $56.9 million. The previous year all three were among the 20 highest-paid US executives, each receiving more than $70 million, the index shows. Oracle, the world’s largest database maker, paid Ellison almost entirely in options until last year. The Redwood City, Californiabased company introduced performance-based restricted stock after he stepped down to become chief technology officer and

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Food trucks struggle to fit in MEXICO CITY: In a colourful truck painted with flowers, chef Luis Castillejos serves tlayudas — a toasted corn tortilla topped with shredded beef, avocado, cheese and hot salsa — to customers in Mexico City. He has dubbed his truck Nanixhe, which means ‘delicious’ in the indigenous Zapotec language, and the former accountant proposes to serve traditional food with ‘a gourmet touch’. But instead of driving around the city to find hungry office workers, his vehicle is stuck in a parking lot along with other food trucks. While the sidewalks of Mexico City are crowded with small food stands that draw big lunch crowds, it has found little space in its heart for gourmet food trucks, which have become mainstays in other major cities such as New York. The kitchens-on-wheels are in a legal limbo in the mega-capital, where police chase them out of the streets while lawmakers fail to regulate their businesses, forcing them to huddle in places like parking lots or street fairs. “We want to work in a legal

UNREGULATED Kitchens-onwheels are in a legal limbo in the mega-capital, where police chase them out of the streets while lawmakers fail to regulate their businesses, forcing them to huddle in places like parking lots or street fairs

way,” Castillejos said. On Facebook With the help of social media, the food trucks manage to advertise their locations to their loyal customers, publishing pictures of their menus, ranging from sushi to Lebanese kebabs. “It’s something original and there aren’t many places to eat something different near the office,” said Miguel Mendoza, a 39-year-old

accountant feasting on ceviche. Twitter, Facebook, Periscope and Instagram are “the main engines that drive the business,” said Jorge Udelman, a Venezuelan chef with 20 years of experience who parks at drive-in movie theaters, concerts or private parties. Udelman makes Venezuela’s traditional arepas, corn cakes stuffed with all sorts of ﬁllings, in a turquoise van. He doubts that the city government will ever give permits to food trucks. “It’s more interested in votes to stay in power than allowing a nicer offering” for foodies, he said. When food trucks park on a street, “transit police or a borough authority arrives” to kick them out, said Fernando Reyes, president of Foodtrucks DF, an association that represents dozens of the city’s nearly 300 food trucks. Mostly young entrepreneurs, the “food truckeros” (food truckers) spend between $24,000 to $120,000 to start their businesses. While such vehicles struggle to ﬁnd a place in the city, the traditional food stands are everywhere. - AFP

named Hurd and Catz co-CEOs. Excluding Ellison’s shares, Oracle investors have never approved the company’s compensation plan in advisory say-on-pay votes. Oerformance-based stocks Deborah Hellinger, a spokeswoman for Oracle, declined to comment. The performance-based stock awards were contingent on revenue and operating cash ﬂow growth compared to a group of competitors that included International Business Machines,

Salesforce.com and Intel. The shares will be paid out over a fouryear period if targets are met. Ellison received 3 million options to purchase Oracle shares, and Hurd and Catz were each given 2.75 million, granted with strike prices between $38.89 and $40.47, according to the ﬁling. The year earlier, Ellison received 7 million options, and Catz and Hurd received 5 million options apiece. The most- recent option grants are valued on the Bloomberg Pay Index using Oracle’s ﬁscal year-end

price of $43.49 a share. Oracle returned 4.8 per cent to shareholders during its ﬁscal year, trailing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which returned 12 per cent. Pay for Catz and Hurd also included $950,000 salaries and $20,795 and $22,253, respectively, in other compensation, including credits toward various beneﬁt plans and legal counseling for reporting contributions to political campaigns. Ellison received a $1 salary and perks including $1.53 million in costs. - Bloomberg News

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BlackBerry unveils Android phone in new reboot effort WASHINGTON: BlackBerry announced plans Friday to sell an Android-powered smartphone, in the latest reboot effort from the faded star of the sector. The Canadian ﬁrm said its would begin selling “Priv,” describe as “a ﬂagship handheld device that will run on the Android operating system with BlackBerry security,” expected to be available later this year. “Priv combines the best of BlackBerry security and productivity with the expansive mobile application ecosystem available on the Android platform,” said John Chen, executive chairman and chief executive. BlackBerry said however it “remains committed to the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which

enables industry-leading security and productivity beneﬁts.” Platform updates The company said it “will continue to develop and enhance the BlackBerry 10 operating system and is conﬁrming plans to release platform updates focused on security and privacy enhancements,” in March 2016. The BB 10 operating system was unveiled in 2013 as part of an effort to regain market share lost as consumers around the world shifted to devices running on Google Android and Apple’s iOS. But the operating system share has fallen further, and now represents less than one percent of smartphone users.

BlackBerry, one of the early pioneers of smartphones, has been struggling for years. It has made several efforts to find new customer niches, with low-cost devices, tablets and by shifting its emphasis to software and services. In releasing its quarterly results, BlackBerry said it swung to a profit of $51 million for the three months to August 29, compared with a loss of $207 million in the same period a year ago. But the profit came from a one-time credit from an adjustment in the value of some of its debts. Revenues for the period slumped 46 per cent from a year ago to $490 million. “I am confident in our strategy and continued progress, highlighted by our fourth consecutive

quarter of year-over-year double digit growth in software licensing revenue and sixth consecutive quarter of positive free cash ﬂow,” Chen said. Making faster progress “At the same time, we are focused on making faster progress to achieve proﬁtability in our handset business.” BlackBerry said it sold 800,000 smartphones at an average price of $240. That represents a tiny fraction of a global smartphone market of some 300 million per quarter. The company said 15 per cent of its revenue came from software and services, 41 percent for hardware, and 43 per cent for service access fees. — AFP

SLEEK MODEL: BlackBerry, one of the early pioneers of smart-

phones, has been struggling for years. It has made several efforts to ﬁnd new customer niches, with low-cost devices, tablets and by shifting its emphasis to software and services. - Bloomberg ﬁle picture

Wall Street braces for grim earnings season

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Forecasts for thirdquarter S&P 500 earnings now call for HIGHLY VOLATILE: Mario Draghi said the ECB needed more time

to assess whether China’s slowdown, particularly its impact on commodity prices, cheap oil and a rising euro, would slow inﬂation further. - Bloomberg ﬁle picture

Focus on euro zone inflation, US jobs LONDON: Euro zone inflation and US jobs data will offer clues to the health of major developed economies in the coming week while the malaise gripping emerging markets is expected to prompt India to cut interest rates. China may release monthly foreign exchange reserve data indicating how much more the central bank has spent on steadying the yuan following August 11’s surprise devaluation. Catalans vote on Sunday in a regional election which separatist parties are framing as a proxy referendum on independence from Spain while polls point to no clear winner in Portugal’s October 4 election. Wednesday’s flash reading of September’s annual euro zone inflation is expected at zero, although core inflation, which excludes volatile energy prices, is seen at 0.9 per cent for a third consecutive month. A negative headline inflation reading, which would be the first since March, would fuel speculation about further European Central Bank stimulus, six months after the euro zone’s central bank launched a one trillion-euro-plus asset-purchase programme. On Wednesday, however, a sur-

prisingly hawkish-sounding Mario Draghi said the ECB needed more time to assess whether China’s slowdown, particularly its impact on commodity prices, cheap oil and a rising euro, would slow inflation further. Even if inflation turns negative again, deflation risks remain low, Unicredit analysts said in a note, with a fading of the base effect from 2014’s plunge in energy prices likely to push the headline rate higher by year-end. Friday’s non-farm payrolls data is expected to show the US economy added 203,000 jobs in September with the unemployment rate holding steady after falling in August to 5.1 per cent, its lowest since April 2008. Buoyant labour market data would revive expectations of a first US interest rate rise in nearly a decade, after a sharp selloff in global financial markets sparked by worries about China’s economy prompted the Fed to hold fire this month. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday she expects the US central bank to begin raising rates this year as long as inflation remains stable and the US economy is strong enough to boost employment. Her comments lifted the dollar on Friday. — Reuters

a 3.9 per cent decline from a year ago, based on Thomson Reuters data, with half of the S&P sectors estimated to post lower proﬁts

GROWING CONCERNS: S&P 500 is down about nine per cent from its May 21 closing high, dragged

down by concern over the effect of slower Chinese growth on global demand and the uncertain interest rate outlook. - Bloomberg ﬁle picture

thanks to falling oil prices, a strong US dollar and weak global demand

NEW YORK: Wall Street is bracing for a grim earnings season, with little improvement expected anytime soon. Analysts have been cutting projections for the third quarter, which ends on Wednesday, and beyond. If the declining projections are realised, already costly stocks could become pricier and equity investors could become even more skittish. Forecasts for third-quarter S&P 500 earnings now call for a 3.9 per cent decline from a year ago, based on Thomson Reuters data, with half of the S&P sectors estimated to post lower profits thanks to falling oil prices, a strong US dollar and weak global demand. Expectations for future quarters are falling as well. A rolling

12-month forward earnings per share forecast now stands near negative two per cent, the lowest since late 2009, when it was down 10.1 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S data. Above historic levels That’s further reason for stock investors to worry since market multiples are still above historic levels despite the recent sell-off. Investors are inclined to pay more for companies that are showing growth in earnings and revenue. The weak forecasts have some strategists talking about an “earnings recession,” meaning two quarterly proﬁt declines in a row, as opposed to an economic recession, in which gross domestic product falls for two straight quarters. Earnings recessions “Earnings recessions aren’t good things. I don’t care what the state of the economy is or anything else,” said Michael Mullaney, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust Co in Boston.

The S&P 500 is down about nine per cent from its May 21 closing high, dragged down by concern over the effect of slower Chinese growth on global demand and the uncertain interest rate outlook. The low earnings outlook adds another burden. China’s weaker demand outlook has also pressured commodity prices, particularly copper. This week, Caterpillar slashed its 2015 revenue forecast and announced job cuts of up to 10,000, among many US industrial companies hit by the mining and energy downturn. Also this week, Pier 1 Imports cut its full-year earnings forecast, while Bed Bath & Beyond gave third-quarter guidance below analysts’ expectations. “We are continuing to work through the near-term issues stemming from our elevated inventory levels and have adopted a more cautious and deliberate view of the business based on our ﬁrst-half trends,” Jeffrey Boyer, Pier 1 chief ﬁnancial officer, said in the earnings report. On the other hand, among early

reporters for the third-quarter season, Nike shares hit a record high after it reported upbeat earnings late on Thursday. Negative outlooks Negative outlooks from S&P 500 companies for the quarter outnumber positive ones by a ratio of 3.2 to 1, above the long-term average of 2.7 to 1, Thomson Reuters data showed. “How can we drive the market higher when all of these signals aren’t showing a lot of prosperity?” said Daniel Morgan, senior portfolio manager at Synovus Trust Company in Atlanta, Georgia, who cited earnings growth as one of the drivers of the market. To be sure, the vast majority of companies usually exceed their earnings forecasts when they report real numbers. — Reuters

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US economic growth hits 3.9% WASHINGTON: US economy struck a peppy 3.9 per cent annual growth rate in the second quarter, faster than originally thought and providing more fuel for a Fed rate hike, the Commerce Department said on Friday. The new data conﬁrmed the economy’s rebound from a ﬁrstquarter stall, though since then it has settled to a more modest pace as global growth has slowed.

It also suits the Federal Reserve’s plans to begin increasing interest rates despite weakness and market turmoil elsewhere. Both investment and consumer spending — keys to economic strength — were stronger in the April-June period than in the previous growth estimate, which was 3.7 per cent. Investment in inventories was lower than previously thought,

but that only suggested that inventory spending would remain solid through the current quarter. The revised ﬁgure was better than expected, adding to arguments that the US economy remains strong, despite weakness elsewhere in the world. Still, US growth for all of 2015 is expected to be modest, 2.1 per cent in the Federal Reserve’s latest forecast. — AFP

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Holidays come with their doses of fun as well as fatigue. If you did plan your holiday well and spent it responsibly, without overdoing things (eating, playing, and sleeping), you won’t need to whip yourself back into shape. But, if you pulled out all stops, and indulged, it’s time to get your system in order with a simple, yet sincere, regime.

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ack after the Eid break and feeling down in the dumps? Had an overdose of frolic and simply cannot get back to work? Took your tummy for granted or made your limbs take more than they could, and now want a quick ﬁx to bounce back? Don’t worry, you can bring the spring back in your stride by adhering to these simple instructions for post holiday health. Here are eight simple tips to rejuvenate yourself:

Replenish Your Skin Drink plenty of water all day, have a steam bath or sauna to rid yourself of toxins, dirt and grime. Get a facial or use mudpacks or face masks to get rid of tan and dryness.

Avoid Outside Food After having all types of food in restaurants or meals outside your home during your trip, it’s better to get into the kitchen and prepare a simple meal than to call up your favourite restaurant for a home delivery if you’re not in the mood to cook. A good time to rely on fresh fruits.

Do Yoga Performing breathing techniques and doing yoga postures in a hot room or environment helps in sweating out toxins and getting in better shape soon after an indulgent holiday. This can be done at home without fan or AC or even in a sunny balcony or terrace, no special place needed.

Switch to a Healthy Diet Try to cut off or cut down on meat, ﬁsh, poultry and take up a ﬁbre-rich diet (fruits or salads and juices) to undo the harmful effects of overindulgence in non-vegetarian and fat-rich foods during your holiday. But, don’t skip breakfast to cut calories.

Have a Massage Visit a spa and enjoy a good massage to ease off tensions and aching muscles due to hectic activities (trekking, climbing, swimming, dancing, cycling, and rowing) which you undertook during the break.

Drink Dandelion Tea Dandelion tea is said to be very good for getting rid of bloating feelings or swellings due to travel as it helps in reducing water retention. Since dandelion stimulates the liver which is the main organ that removes toxins, it helps in streamlining your detox regime.

Take Up Exercise Hit the gym immediately or take up simple routines at home (walking, jogging, and skipping) to burn off the extra calories you’ve stored up by skipping your ﬁtness regimes.

Get Good Sleep If you have been sleeping less or at odd hours during your break, try to catch up with some more rest or sleep by getting into bed early. Try doing some meditation to relax your mind and induce better quality of sleep. hubert@timesofoman.com

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SHATTI Sicario (Action, Crime)(12+)(2D) Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro 12:00 pm /07:00 pm /09:30 pm /11:55 pm The Visit (Comedy, Horror) (15+) Cast : Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould 2:30 pm /11:45 pm The Intern (Comedy)(PG12) Cast : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro 12:15 pm /03:45 pm /07:45 pm Hotel Transylvania 2 (Animation)(3D)PG Cast : Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg 12:15 pm /06:00 pm Hotel Transylvania 2 (Animation) (3D)PG 2:00 pm Pay The Ghost (Horror,Thriller) (15+) Cast : Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Alex Mallari Jr. 5:00 pm /10:00 pm /11:45 pm The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (Action) Cast : Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario 4:30 pm /09:15 pm (PG12)(3D) Everest (Adventure, Drama)(PG)(3D/IMAX) Cast : Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa 2:30 pm /07:00 pm Everest (Adventure, Drama)(PG)(2D) 7:00 pm MUSCAT GRAND MALL Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: 3D (Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller) (PG12) Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie 03:15, 11:45 PM Gold Class: 06:30 PM Sicario (Action, Crime, Drama) (12+) Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro 12:15, 07:45, 11:55 PM Gold Class: 02:00, 09:00, 11:15 PM Moomins on the Riviera : 2D (Animation) Cast: Maria Sid, Mats Langbacka (PG) 10:00 AM, 1:30 PM Everest : 3D (Adventure, Drama, Thriller) (PG)

WICKED FLYING MONKEYS - 2D (Animation) (U) Voice Overs : Raúl Araiza, Raymundo Armijo Timings : 2:15, 4:00 PM

SICARIO (Action, Crime) (PG12)(2D) Cast : Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro Timings : 12:00, 7:00, 9:30, 11:55 pm

Cast : Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa 4:45 PM Hotel Transylvania-2 : 3D (Animation) (PG) 10:00, 11:45 AM, 02:30 PM Gold Class: 12:15 PM Calendar Girls (Hindi) : 2D (Drama) (15+) Cast : Akanksha Puri, Ruhi Singh, Kyra Dutt 9:30 PM Pay the Ghost : 2D (Horror, Thriller ) (15+) Cast : Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies 5:45, 10:00 PM The Intern: 2D (Comedy ) (PG12) Cast : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro 7:00 PM; Gold Class: 04:15 PM

Cast – Nicolas Cage, Sarah Callies, Veronica 2:15, 11:45 PM Hotel Transsylvania 2 – 2D (PG) Animation, Cast – Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler 2:00 PM Hotel Transsylvania 2 – 3D (PG) Animation 3:30, 05:10 PM Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon – 2D (PG) Cast: Kapil Sharma. Elli Avram, Simran Kaur 2:00, 06:45, 09:15 PM (Romantic) Calendar Girls – 2D (TBC) Hindi, Drama Cast: Kyra Dutt, Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi 6:45, 09:00 PM Kunji Ramayanam – 2D (PG) Comedy Cast: Vineeth Shrinivasan, Aju Verghese 4:30, 09:30 PM Trisha Illana Nayanthara - 2D (PG) Comedy Cast: GV Prakash Kumar, Anandhi 7:00 PM

AZAIBA Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – 3D (PG12) Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast - Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie 4:30, 11:55 PM Everest – 3D (PG) Adventure, Drama, Thriller Cast - Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa 2:15, 11:30 PM Sicario – 2D (12+) Action, Crime, Drama Cast – Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin 4:00, 06:15, 10:45 PM Pay The Ghost - 2D (15+) Horror, Thriller

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MOHD AHMED SALEEM September 27, 2004

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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 EMBASSIES IN OMAN

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Film information 24791641 / 24786776 Website: www.isurf.co.om Kunji Ramayanam (Mal) (Dram/Com) 6-30 & 10-00 pm at Cinema Main \ 12-30 & 3-30pm Cinema-2 Cast: Vineet Srinivasan, Aju Vargees Trisha Illana Nayanthara (Tamil) (Act/Com) 12-45, 3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 Pm Cinema-3 Cast: G.v Prakash Kumar, Anandi Subramanyam (Telugu) (Act/Rom) 12-00 & 3-00 Pm at Cinema Main; 6-30 & 9-30 Pm Cinema-2 Maya (Tamil) (Horror) 12-45 & 6-45 Pm At Cinema-4 Utopiayile Rjavu (Mal) (Drama/Com) 3-45 & 9-45 Pm At Cinema-4 NEXT CHANGE: Pulli (Tamil) Rajni Murugan (Tamil) Singh Is Bling (Hindi) Programmes are subject to change

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BURAIMI Sicario 2D (Action, Drama, Crime) (12+) 7:00, 9:15, 11:30PM Maze Runner: The Scroch Trails - 3D

The Visit (Comedy/Horror) Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan 12.00, 2.15, 6.15 & 10.00 p.m. CP No: 2445 ( 15+) Pay The Ghost (Thriller) Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Alex Mallari Jr. 8.00, 10.15 & 11.55 p.m. CP No: 2446 (15+) The Intern (Comedy ) Cast: Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, Nat Wolff 12.00, 1.45 & 8.00 p.m. CP No: 2447 ( PG 12) Ahwak (Arabic) (Comedy) Cast: Tamer Housney, Ghada Adel, Mahmoud Heimeida, Amal Rizki 5.45 p.m. CP No: 2451 (PG 12) Everest (Adventure/Drama/Thriller) Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Elizebeth Debicki, Keira Knightly 4.00 p.m. CP No: 2434 (PG) The Deadlands (Action) Cast: James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Te kohe Tuhaka 4:00, 11.55 p.m CP No: 2435 ( 15+ )

SALALAH Pay the Ghost (2D) (15+) (Horror/Thriller) 12:30/10:10/11:55PM Everest (3D) (PG) (Adventure 2:15PM Hotel Transylvania 2 (3D)(PG) (Animation) 10:00AM/02:00/3:45PM Sicario (2D) (12+) (Action/Crime/Drama) 10:15AM/07:00/09:15/ 11:45 PM The Intern (2D) (PG12) (Comedy) 11:45AM/5:30PM Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (3D) 4:30/11:30PM (PG12) Kiss Kisko Pyaar Karoo (2D) (PG) 10:45AM/ 07:45PM The Visit (2D) (15+) (Fantasy/Romance) 1:15/ 10:00PM Ahwak (2D) (PG12) (Arabic) (Comedy) Cast: Tamer Hosny, Ghada Adel, Mahmoud 5:30PM Tale of Tales (2D) (12+)( Fantasy/Romance) Timings: 03:00PM Kunju Ramayanam (2D) (PG) (Mal)(Comedy) 7:45PM

TO SINAW (ROUTE 52) 20:50

TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54) 14:30 14:30

Sohar Ruwi Ruwi Sohar Ruwi Sohar Ruwi

SOHAR Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 3D (PG12) Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast : Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario 4:30 , 11:45 PM Pay the Ghost - 2D (15+)Horror | Thriller Cast : Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies 2:45 ,10:00 , 11:55 PM Ahwak - 2D (Arb) (TBC) Drama 6:45 PM The Intern - 2D (PG12) Comedy Cast : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro 12:30 , 04:30 , 07:20 PM

Wicked Flying Monkeys - 2D (U) Animation Cast : Raúl Araiza, Raymundo Armijo 2:15, 4:00 PM Hotel Transsylvania 2 - 2D (PG) Animation| 2:45 PM Hotel Transsylvania 2 - 3D (PG) Animation| 12:30 , 05:45 PM Sicario - 2D (12+) Action|Crime| Drama Cast : Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin 12:30 , 02:45 , 07:00 , 09:15 , 11:30 PM Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon - 2D (PG) Comedy Cast : Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur 12:15 , 07:30 , 11:15 PM Calendar Girls- 2D (TBC) Drama Cast : Akanksha Puri, Ruhi Singh, Kyra Dutt 9:30 PM Kunji Ramayanam - 2D (M) (PG) Comedy Cast : Vineeth Sreenivasan, Aju Varghese 9:00 PM Trisha Illana Nayanthara- 2D (T) Romantic Cast : G. V. Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Manisha 5:00 PM (PG)

Film information 24540856 / Advance Booking 24540855 Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com

SUR Sicario (Action | Crime | Drama) (12+) 4:45, 07:00, 11:45 PM Maze Runner : the Scorch Trails (3D) (Action) 8:15 PM (PG12) Hotel Transylvania (3D) (Animation) (PG) 4:15 PM Kunji Ramayanam (Mal)(Family) (PG) 10:45 PM Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (Hindi) (Romance) 9:15 PM (PG) Everest (3D) (Adventure ) (PG) 6:00 PM

WEATHER

QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (ROUTE 36) Quriyat Sur Jaalan

6.30, 9.30 PM Screen 2 Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (Romance) – PG Cast: Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur 3.45 PM Calendar Girls (Drama) – 15+ Cast: Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi, Ronit Roy 6.45, 9.45 PM Screen 3 Jawani Phir Nahi Aani (Comedy) – 12+ Cast: Humayun Saeed, Javed Sheikh 3.45, 6.45, 9.45 PM

RUWI Screen 1 Calendar Girls (Drama) – 15+ Cast: Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi, Kyra Dutt, Timing: 3.30 PM Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (Comedy) – PG Cast: Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur

LONG DISTANCE BUS TIMINGS (OMAN NATIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANY SAOC) *SUBJECT TO CHANGE

MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA - 2D (PG) Voice Overs : Maria Sid, Mats Långbacka Timings : 10:00 AM, 1:30 PM

CALENDAR GIRLS (DRAMA) – 15+ Cast: Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi, Kyra Dutt, Ruhi Singh, Satarupa Pyn, Suhel Seth, Ronit Roy Timings: 3.30PM

BAHJA CINEMA

4:45, 11:30PM (Action, Sci-FI, Thriller) (PG12) Everest – 3D (Adventure) (PG) 4:30PM Hotel Transylvania 2 – 3D (Animation) (PG) 4:30, 6:15PM Pay the Ghost – 2D (Horror, Thriller) (15+) 10:00, 11:55PM Tale of Tales – 2D (Fantasy, Romance) (12+) Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel 6:45PM Kiss Kisko Pyaar Karoo– 2D (Romantic) 9:15PM (PG) Kunji Ramayanam – 2D (Comedy) (PG) 8:00PM

CITY CINEMA Contact (10 am to 6PM) 24567664 | 68. www.citycinemaoman.net facebook.com/citycinemaoman

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PHARMACIES Round the clock Al Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi 24783334

Apollo Medical Centre, Hamriya Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi Salalah Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra Muscat Region Apollo, Al Hamriya Muscat, A Seeb Market Muscat, Al Khuwair Muscat, Al Hail South Dhofar Region Muscat, Al Nahdha Road, Salalah

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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 AIRLINE OFFICES Muscat Airport Flight information (24 hours) 24519456/24519223 Aeroflot 24704455 Air Arabia 24700828 Air France 24562153 Air India 24799801

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LIFESTYLE How to Use a Treadmill Properly Treadmills provide you the effect of walking indoors. Walking on a moving belt is considered equivalent to taking a morning constitutional or an evening stroll as it helps you quickly burn calories in one spot. But you need to be careful while using this simplest of gym equipment that can produce all round health beneﬁts, like improving cardiovascular health, enhancing blood circulation, strengthening the spine, tightening the abdomen, and building muscles of the lower limbs.

BEGIN SLOWLY: Most modern treadmills have controls that enable the user to adjust the speed as per one’s comfort level. Start at a slow pace and slowly speed up.

DON’T READ: Reading while on a treadmill is a risky proposition that can make you lose balance or sideline your feet.

DON’T STAGNATE: Slowly improve the time you spend on the treadmill as well as the speed during each session. Don’t get stuck with the same boring routine.

HANDS OFF HANDRAILS: Keep your hands off the handrails, you don’t need support. Walk as if you would normally walk without holding onto anything.

DOS

DON’TS DON’T JUMP: Never jump or try to take long strides to cover more distance. The most efficient speed should enable a maximum of three steps per second.

LOOK AHEAD: Watching the movement of your feet is not good, just look straight ahead and keep moving. If you need to answer anyone, do it without turning around. EXPECT DIZZINESS: It’s normal to feel a bit dizzy after you step off. So slow down before you step off, and rest a little before getting onto another routine.

DON’T HUNCH: Leaning forward is dangerous as it could throw you off balance. Maintain an upright posture while walking/jogging.

ALWAYS WEAR SHOES: A good pair of walking shoes is all you want while using a treadmill. Going bare feet is not good as sweat can cause you to slip.

DON’T OVERDO: Soreness of muscles/aches, accelerated heart beats, are signs to slow down and stop. You may resume after some rest but never go beyond your capacity.

KEY BENEFITS ĊŗCardiovascular ﬁtness ĊŗJoint ﬂexibility ĊŗMuscle strength ĊŗHigh immunity ĊŗWeight management

BEST WORKOUT Ċ Use your treadmill for workouts 4-5 days a week. ĊŗEach session should not exceed 30-40 minutes. ĊŗUse the inclination option to burn more calories per minute. ĊŗŗIf you run for 30 minutes (average speed 100 metres per minute) you can burn between 250-300 calories. lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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3 & 4 BHK villa in Al Khuwair. Contact 99792181

Deluxe villas at Al Hail. Contact 95282986

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Two shops in Muttrah Souq, for rent more details please contact: 91214849 / 99364735

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New flats for rent in Darsait Al Sahal. Contact: 99777351 600 SQT commercial flat for rent opposite Oman flourmill Darsait more details. Contact: 91214849/ 99364735

Flats in Ruwi, Muttrah, Mumtaz area available. Contact: 24813822

Flats, shops for rent in Ruwi, MBD & Mumtaz area. Contact 97293708

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Flats in Al Khuwair 33 with gym free for tenants 2 BHK RO.425/-. Contact 93161111

1BHK Wadi Kabeer near Sana RO 180/-. Contact : 95094028

3BHK ﬂat Darsait Near I.D card Medical 450/- R.O. Contact: 99358589 / 95570288

Fully Furnished 2BHK Apartments available at Bareeq Al Shatti. Contact 92888063

1& 2 BHK ﬂats for rent at Wadi Kabir, Wadi Adai, Hamriya, Al Khoud and Mabela and shop at Al Khoud land line. Contact : 24834644 GSM 93994401/ 02/ 03, 3 lines

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Twin villa 6BR hall, kitchen at Al Ansab-2. Contact: 99747560 / 99444786

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Flats in Al Khuwair 2 BHK RO.350/Contact – 93161111.

Shops for rent in Wadi Kabeer. Contact: 99888390

Furnished ﬂat in Bareeq Al Shatti 2 BHK RO.750/-. Contact 93161111

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FOR SALE Beauty Parlor for sale or rent. Contact 99131775 / 96700192 For sale land in Amerat 3000 Sq.mt with petrol pump permission. Contact 99323957 / 92702891

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AVAILABLE Vegetable & fruit counter in grocery store in Saham available. Contact: 93006562 / 99417418 Party & Wedding equipment rentals. Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chaﬁng Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

ACC. AVAILABLE Near Mars Wadi Al Kabir spacious room hatched bath room separate kitchen facility (small family). Contact: 95731543

FOR SALE Gas cooker (4 burner) in good condition for immediate sale. Contact 96027403 Computer training centre for sale. contact 94412557 Ladies parlor for sale at Ansab. Contact: 98806430 Ice Cream & juices shop in Ruwi good location for sale suitable for beauty parlor also. Contact: 92150455 Shop for sale at Ruwi High street inside. Contact 96023492 Sale of Radiator of Cummins C 1100D5B Generator presently lying at M/s Al Ansari Yard in Ghala. For further information, please contact Mr. Deshpande on 99415504 M/s Muscat Surveyors LLC on 24816579

Large room furnished sep / entrance Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99336206 A big room in available near Hamriya R/A for Muslim couple / small family / Executive bachelor rent 150/- per month including W+ E. Contact: 99495131 Acc. available for a decent Expatriate in Wadi Adai, Ruwi. Sharing entrance, own: room, kitchen and bathroom- fully furnished including elect. RO 150. Contact 96243086 from 5pm 3 BHK Fully Furnished Villa for (Family or executive bachelors) at South Al Mawaleh (Behind Seeb City Center). Gsm 92494923 Separate room with A/c, Small Fridge and Bed, for non-cooking Asian bachelor, behind Shell ﬁlling station, Ghoubra round about. Contact: 94263390

FOR HIRE Bobcat Grader and roller for rent. Contact: 94584688 Volvo 12 Ton Truck for monthly rent. Contact: 98713900

ACC. AVAILABLE Single room with separate bathroom available opp. Al Nahdha Hospital for Indian families. Contact : 92394614 Sharing accommodation for couples near Kims Darsait. Contact: 94627458 Room for rent with sharing bathroom & kitchen at Al Khuwair, behind Golden Spoon Restaurant. Contact 92994415 Semi furnished separate room for non-cooking Asian bachelor, behind Shell ﬁlling station, Ghubra round about. Contact: 94263390 Large room with separate bathroom & sharing available in Al Khuwair. Contact 95250161 Furnished room (for Ladies)with attached bath separate entrance in Mabela. Contact :99634841

MATRIMONIAL RC, Keralite ( Kottayam) male, 27 yrs, Civil Engineer, working in Muscat from decent family looking for suitable alliance. Contact : 95035953

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31 years RC boy, M. Com MBA - working in Sohar - Seeks alliance from Christian families Contact 94219830 Suitable alliance invited for a Marar (ambalavasi) girl 24yrs 170cm from thrissur, star rohini, shuddha jathakam, MTECH (e&c), from parents of boys belong to marar/ podoval/nair or related communities. GSM: 00968 93691316 Email- smgkutty2006@yahoo.co.in Seeking alliance for our son from Muslim families. Interested families Contact: 99889590

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Mitsubishi Pajero 2006 model Automatic, 1,22,000 km, insurance + registration valid till August 2016 black, well serviced, good condition, OMR 2,800/-. Contact: 94515102 Genuine Ayurvedic treatments & massage, Ayurvedic clinic at Al Khuwair. Contact: 24478618 / 97263637 / 93309131 FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know more about Islam, please call: 99425598, 99250777, 99353988, 99253818, 99341395, and 99379133. For ladies: 99415818, 99321360, 99730723 Orvisit:www.islamfact.com Ayurvedic massage backache, joint pain, neck pain etc. Contact 98254909 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact 24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com

Mercedes car – C 180, 2010 model for sale, 160.000 KM, very good condition, expecting around R.O 6,000. Contact: 99751044 Lexus GX 460, 2013. Contact : 99336093 Kia Cerato 2014 Model for sale 1300 kms Under agency warrenty and service. Contact: 99634841

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ADMIN Omani Receptionist required receptionist, well presented with excellent communications skills and telephone manner, ﬂuent in Arabic and English required for Ruwi office. Candidates should be familiar with MS English and Arabic office suite. Send CV and covering email to mj-co@omantel.net.om

ACCOUNTANT Urgent need Purchaser / Imports, Accounts Assistant. Candidates with bachelors degree and 3 to 5 years relevant experience. Please email CV to trend1993@yahoo.com

BEAUTICIAN Urgently required experienced Beautician. Contact 96616731 or send CV to pbm.ibra@gmail.com

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A well – known private School require English, Mathematics, Science, Computer and KG Teachers. Contact: 96910649 Email: staffing.oman@gmail.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Accountant 7 Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH Biomedical Engineer is required, preferably with Oman exp. Contact: 99337840

SALES / MARKETING Cooks & helpers for café. Contact: 95529970 Restaurant Staff urgently required Tandoor roti maker, waiter/ helper required in restaurant in Saham. Contact : 98029701 / 95821905 Required Catering Supervisor, Chef, Asst. Cook & Chapathi makers for a catering Company in interior area. Apply with NOC. SMS : 99242984 Required Filipina female Waitresses & male Housekeepers in Dolphin Hotel – Muscat. Only residents / contact number: 24488192 please send C.V : dolphinhoteloman@hotmail.com

DESIGNER Required Graphic Designer (minimum 2 years experience) Client Service Executive with Omani license (minimum 2 years experience) visa available. Contact: 96727631 send CV to dollydhian@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELPER Looking for a female who can teach and play with two kids at their home in Gubrah. Candidate must be caring and ﬂuent in English. Timing 2pm -6pm and salary RO120. Contact: 93892656 Required housemaid for part time at Ghubra.Contact:93267065

DRIVER A reputed Lebanese chain of Restaurants requires Delivery Man in Muscat. The person should have a two wheeler driving license and must be familiar with the Muscat city. Are you interested to be a part of a reputed group please call 92443104. Driver with Oman driving licence needed. Visa available. Contact 94288863 Looking for an experienced house driver for an Omani family. Interested candidates may Contact: 96203333

DRAUGHTSMAN A leading Construction Company in Muscat urgently requires Draughtsman (Civil). Send CV : hr.azatllc@gmail.com or call 99344279

EDUCATION Urgently required for a private bilingual school at Al Ansab for immediate placement - Physics, Maths, Librarian, Nurse, Special Educators. Please email your CV : employment22013@gmail.com immediately. Post Graduate researcher required. Contact 99229700

Reputed metal fabrication company seeks fabrication supervisor, structural steel fabricator, Machine maintenance Technician and Electrician. Contact: 99102383 Email: hr@khancogroup.com A Mechanical Engineer with salesmanship experience of 5 years & above preferable with Oman drivers license and NOC. Please forward your CV to almaadhi.trd@gmail.com

MEDICAL Urgently needed female Dermatologist with minimum 5 yrs experience. Send CV : elixirhealthcenter@yahoo.com P.S. details of salary and beneﬁts will be sent after submitting the CV Wanted Pharmacist (B.Pharm), Staff Nurses (female) with or without MOH license for a polyclinic near Sohar. Excellent salary package. Contact 99006915, Email : alhinaee.clinic@yahoo.com Required urgently General Physician Gynecology, Pharmacist, LAB Technicians staff nurse. Contact: 95133572 Email: kunoozghala@gmail.com Wanted Nurse for dental centre in Mawaleh South & Qurum. Contact 93431024, Email : drasyanaseem@gmail.com Required Pharmacies with license, needed for clinic in Al Khoudh , Contact :+968 97696502 , mail CV to towershr70@gmail.com Urgently required Female Nurses with MOH license for a Polyclinic. Attractive Salary with accommodation. Contact: 97091664 or 97327175. Email: mmcmuscat@gmail.com Wanted a Lab Technician with valid M.O.H license and N.O.C to work in a polyclinic. Salary R.O 450/- per month (package).Contact: 96493058 (2 pm to 4 pm). Email: ap_sdsudhi@yahoo.com

Looking for a Staff has experience in Oman in real estate and real estate valuation. Interested Contact: mobile: 99109094 Email: aburashid94dd@gmail.com Marketing Manager with Oman experience & driving license. Contact: 95766844 Looking for qualiﬁed, good communication and computer skills candidate with experience for position of : Sales Manager to work in high-end window tinting business. Minimum academic requirements: bachelor’s degree and own a driving license. Kindly email your CV to abdullah.alhinai86@gmail.com Urgently required Sales Executives for construction materials with local experience, driving license and NOC. Send the CV with photo to grioman@gmail.com Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light license. Send your CV ocean@omantel.net.om

MISCELLANEOUS A leading Construction Company in Muscat urgently requires the following candidates: - 1) Electromechanical Supervisors 2) Electrical Foreman 3) Plumbing foreman 4) Electricians 5) Plumbers. Send CV : hr.azatllc@gmail.com or call 99344279 Building material Salesman, Electrician cum Plumber & C.C.T.V Technician. Contact: 99383044 Experienced Denter, Spray painter, Mechanic, Outdoor sales person required. Contact 98045373

Accomplished Advertising Sales & Business Development Executives for leading Media Enterprise. Enthusiastic Freshers also welcome. jobs@interacoman.com AVON requires female Omani Nationals (bi-lingual) and Expatriates to join their expanding local Sales Team. Candidate must have good communication skills, highly organized with a commitment and enthusiasm to be successful. Training will be provided. Valid Omani D/L necessary. Send CV on samiha-avon@mhd.co.om Sales Executive : required urgently for an established Printing Press. Minimum 3 years relevant experience and working knowledge of printing process is expected. Contact 99354681

SKILLED LABOR Urgently need Project Sales Executive - Modular Kitchens, candidates with bachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years relevant experience, please email CV to trend1993@yahoo.com

Wanted urgently need two Tailors who can make curtains. Contact: 98962888

SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Fresher 24 years B.Com Graduate, Tally 7.2 & ERP9, looking for a suitable placements in Accounts. Contact: 97219505

Indian male 10 years experience, 6 years in Oman, with Oman driving license, having NOC seeking suitable job. Contact: 96012973

Senior Finance Professional (CA, ICWA, CIMA), Indian, with more than 25 years of varied experience in ﬁnance and accounting, project evaluations and business valuations seeks suitable employment opportunities in Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait or Bahrain. Available for immediate joining. Contact Gopal +971 50 508 2538, email – rajiraja@hotmail.com

Accounting B.Com male Diploma in computerized professional Accounting, professional & manual accounting, 25 yrs, Indian, 25 yrs, Keralite, India. Contact: 0091 9746838659 Email: jijesh567@gmail.com

MANAGER Required Sales Manager for a hotel supply company with minimum 5 years experience. Contact 92035162

Required Sales Executive for Stationery Company with Oman driving license. Send Email: mipartjob@gmail.com

Highly experienced & qualified Finance Controller / Manager seeks suitable position. NOC available. Can join immediately. Contact: 92817797 Indian female 26 yrs B.Com CA Inter with 4 yrs experience seek placement in accounts. Contact : 94045427 Indian male 27 yrs, B. Com, MBA, CA Inter ( pursuing final) with 7+ yrs experience, seeks suitable placement in accounts, holds valid Saudi D/L. Contact : 95358659 ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Graduate, Indian female, looking for full time employment in Accounting and Audit. +968 96964379, sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com Indian female (BSc MBA) having 6 yrs exp in Garment industries seeking suitable office oriented job. Contact : 91317975

Finance Manager 26 years experience including 22 years Oman with NOC. Contact : 91302906 / 91335205 Accountant Indian female on visit visa, degree B.Com exp Tally ERP-9 finalization of Accounts, Tax Accounting, Stock maintenance, pay roll, etc. Contact : 91551164 / 91175456 Chief Accountant, 12 years Oman experience looking for suitable position. Contact: 99513082 Indian female MBA fresher finance & HR B.Com Computer on family joining visa. Contact : 93839846 Email: abmiesunny92@gmail.com Accountant with 8 years U.A.E experience, on visit visa, looking for a job. Contact : 96166512 Senior Accountant 10 years experience, looking for accounts parttime works and finalization works. Contact: 96247295

25 yrs female Indian with B.Com MBA looking out for a job in finance / marketing / HR field with a work experience of 1 year, 3 months at Bank Muscat & 7 months at India. Contact: 94657403 / 95537261 Indian male B.Com Graduate 24 years looking for suitable placement. Contact: 97219505 Jordanian Accountant (ACPA) with more than 15 yrs experience in Oman (Accounts, Purchase & finance. Contact: 92881223 Email: kamal_sarhan@yahoo.com Indian male, 27years, MCom, having 2years experience in Accounts looking for suitable position. Presently on visit visa. Contact 93455055| gibingeorge88@gmail.com Part time Accountant available. Contact : 93438100

DRIVER Light duty driver looking for job more than 4 years exp in Oman. Contact: 92602182 Driver. Contact: 95084826 Wanted driving job. Contact 97690766 Driver Pakistani available. NOC available. Contact: 94356465 Pakistani male light vehicle driver looking for job. Contact: 96474528 Driver with car. Contact :91452930 Wanted driver. Contact 95112461 Car with driver or without cat specially Companies. Contact 97943750 / 97408900 Driver job wanted. Contact 99343782 Light duty driver 5 years exp in Oman. Contact: 92602182

DOMESTIC HELP ADMIN Indian male BBA Graduate 12 years experience in Administration level 15 months exp in Oman having NOC available looking for suitable placement. Contact : 91458388 14 years of gulf experience in HR / Admin & logistics ﬂuent in Arabic / English with D/L looking for suitable position. Contact: 95824598 Indian 24 years BCA MCITP having 2 years exp as system administrator looking suitable job. Contact 94170892 Filipina, 10 yrs experience in Fashion Retail, Shipment, Logistics, Inventory, Warehouse Control and Store Management is seeking employment. Call +971565833126 or 97728418.

ARCHITECT Senior Architect, Indian male 15yrs exp. having DL& NOC, Looking for suitable position. Contact: 97239313 Email: abdul_muq2000@yahoo.co.uk

CATERING Indian cook, Tandoori cook experience in Indian looking for a cook job in hotel, Restaurant. The candidate is in India (brother). Contact: 98744307 Indian male B.A with Diploma in Hotel Mgt with 15 yrs experience in hotels & catering, having Oman D/L seek suitable placement. Contact: 95451547 Email: lijosaju@yahoo.com

DRIVER Bangladesh 24 years, 2 years experience. Contact: 97806144 Light driver with car Hyundai Accent 2016. Contact : 94039796 Bangladeshi light driver (AG) 48) expe, 14 years, need job & visa have release paper transpire. #99165961 Light Vehicle Driver with 4 yrs exp looking for job. Contact: 94241385

Housemaid (exp 20 years) looking for English, family. Contact: 99564133 / 96534195

DRAUGHTSMAN Indian Civil Auto cad Draftsman looking suitable placement 5 years experience. Contact: 97465102

EDUCATION Indian female, MSC physics B.ED having 5 years experience in teaching looking for suitable jobs. Contact: 97367389

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Sudanese Telecom Engineer 5 years experience in Oman. Contact: 93391008 HSE Engineer (Indian, 26 yrs), B.Tech Mechanical, Nebosh, 5 yrs experience in oil & gas construction. Contact 94616721 Young Electrical Engineer looking for suitable placement. Having specialization in electronics. Contact 99227861 Project Manager (Interior fitouts décor & MEP) B.E. Arch having 8 years experience looking for a suitable position in a reputed company. Local release is available. Contact: 91528851 B.E Arch with 8 years experience as 2 Project Manager in Interior fitouts décor & MEP works looking for suitable. Local release is available. Contact: 91528851 Indian male diploma in Civil Engineering with 20 years experience in interior fitout with valid driving license NOC and local release available. Contact: 98048410 Mechanical Engineer, male 28 yrs, Indian 2 yrs experience (L& T Ports) as Maintenance Engineer knowledge in protect planning & management seeking for a suitable job. Contact: 92685011 on visit visa. Email: srinathvijayanavs@gmail.com

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SALES / MARKETING

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Business Development. experience in Electromechanical and Irrigation sectors. Contact no- +971558763220 email id-sangowri@outlook.com

Filipino lady looking for Receptionist Sales girl having good experience in Muscat. NOC will be available ready to join immediately. Contact: 92664896 / 91107941. After October 1st week. Contact: + 639759460269

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA, MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT support, networking and server support valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/Server support. Contact 92607532

Indian BE (MECH) aviation BE degree diploma in material quality management 17 years Navy aviation 13 years construction purchase stores professional on visit. Contact: 90205082 /98796982

Indian male 35 years BBM, diploma in A/C, 5 years experience as Sales Executive in Oman with valid D/L and NOC seeking suitable placement in Muscat area. Contact : 92683606 Email: abhi.abrahm09@gmail.com

Indian B.E Computer Science graduate 2012 passout. 1 .5 yrs exp. in Accounting. Having good communication skills and mindset to work in a team. Having NIIT certiﬁcate in Diploma in Java Technology. # 97767894 Email: jinsonjacobjohn@gmail.com

Professional Civil Engineer 25 yrs experience with N.O.C Management and Supervision with D/L. Contact: 97290338 Bangladeshi Diploma Civil Engineer 3 years experience in Bangladesh 2 years in Oman. Contact: 93796905 / 97319361 Electronic & Communication Engineer auto cad, 2 yrs Indian experience in Instrumentation, currently on visit visa looking for a suitable position. Contact : 94493227, Email: rijokokkadan@gmail.com Female Civil Engineer with 3.5 years experience looking for job in Muscat, proﬁcient in site execution, tendering procedures billing, Quantity take off, budgetary control have knowledge in AutoCAD, SAP, Word, excel, power point. Contact: 97207212 Email: ranjur20@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECHNICAL Civil Engineer (Diploma) 3.5 years experience seeking for placement. Contact: 96535084 Civil Engineer (diploma) 3.5 yrs exp, seeking for placement. Contact: 95200650 MECH. ENGG Indian male having 1 year exp & AutoCAD knowledge looking for suitable job. # 92835957 Indian Mechanical Engineer 31 yrs, 8+ experience in sales & Bus. Dev, having Oman driving license & NOC. Contact: 97116858 Email: menonamit1984@gmail.com

CCNA MCITP Network support/ Network technician with 2 yrs experience Indian male having bachelors degree on visit visa. Contact: 93080871, email :sean.f.peters@outlook.com

Electrician 3 years experience in Building lines in Oman and other related experience also. NOC available. Stay till 29.09.2015. Contact: 94057129 / 95964419 Email: raheemdadbaloch@hotmail.com

Indian male 34 yrs M.Tech Industrial biotechnology having teaching experience seeking for job. M. Ramkumar. Contact : 96674521, 0091-9940586051 Email: rmkumar28@gmail.com

Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp. Email: mohd.ateeq.khan@gmail.com

Civil Engg, B.Tech fresher Indian male currently on visit visa seeks suitable placement. #91702450 Email: tijoct2015@hotmail.com

C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech. Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26 seeks placement. Contact : 91823331 Email: kannasekhar46@gmail.com

Civil Engineer, Indian M 29 5yrs exp. having DL & NOC Looking for suitable position. Contact: 94576233 Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com

Electrical and Electronics Engineer with one year experience and GCC licence holder seeking a job mail – shyjalpk@gmail.com

Pakistani diploma civil (Eng) 24 year 1.5 years experience in Pak) 2 years in (Oman). Contact: 97138320

SUPERVISOR: Indian male site supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING) 25 years of experience with valid Oman Driving license, seeking suitable placement. Contact: 97498809, 93391910 Email: hilariankj@gmail.com

Since March 2010 in Oman as a building Construction Site supervisor with Oman D/L looking for suitable placement or small Omani Construction Co. Contact 93061107 D.A.E (Civil) Engineer 5 years experience Infrastructure work + safety officer cause (OSHA & IOSH) looking for suitable placement. Contact 97850996 Degree Engineer Civil, 6 years experience Oman D/L, N.O.C available for a suitable position. Contact: 93523507 / 95961336 Indian male, 23 yrs, B.E in Mechanical post Graduation Diploma in piping Engineering, seeking job in relevant field. Contact : 94786570 Email: asim.hajwani6@gmail.com A Senior Executive, Civil Engineering professional is available for multitask engagement, coordination lead contract disposals in consultancy or construction set ups. Contact 99703972 Indian 22 years male, Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech has done internships, born and brought up in Oman with Omani driving license, seeking suitable jobs. #92791637 Email: ashwinsureshkotturethu@gmail.com Indian male Production Engineer logistics supply chain seeks suitable placement, currently visit visa. Contact : 97804481 Email: akshaygopi@hotmail.com Indian male BE civil project Engineer 15 years Oman experience in building projects with valid D/L NOC available. Contact: 92178471 B.Tech civil project coordinator 5 years experience of with different ministry projects NOC available. Contact: 94194393 Indian male software Engineer 2 years experience knowledge of Java .NET C# ASP.Net. Contact: 99210940 working in techno park Indian Trivandrum Sudanese Telecom Engineer five years experience in Oman. Contact: 93391008 Cisco certified Network Engineer with license NOC 4+ years experience looking for job. Contact: 91703807 Email: ekrema.zia@gmail.com BE Electrical Engineer 8 years experience 4 years in Oman with Oman driving license. Contact : 96942032 Civil Engineer (Diploma) seeking for placement. Contact: 95200650 B.E Civil job, Project Eng exp 11 yrs. Contact: 95690780 / 95694048 Email: sadiq.asrar81@gmail.com

Engineer with 3 yrs experience in Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical maintained ﬁeld on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 99191535 Email: fareed029@gmail.com Btech computer science graduate 2015 passout.. Android application marketing.. Having good communication skills and mindset to work in a team. Contact 91024385 Indian male BE Mechanical currently on 2 yrs free visa with NOC & local release. Looking for suitable job in Muscat. Contact – 90296975 / ali.syedausaf@gmail.com

HOSPITALITY Dynamic result oriented hospitality professional with 20 years of international exp. MBA in Hotel Management, specializing in Hotel/Restaurant start ups, concepts & Franchise development with proven records. Seeking for Challenging positions in reputed groups as GM/COO/CEO/ Business Head. (NOC available) Contact : 96059470 Indian Male 5 years experience in Admin and Hospitality services, seeks suitable placement Contact:96461046 Email:chijilsidhan5@gmail.com

IT Software Programmer, 6 yrs exp in software development (Java, PL/SQL Unix) on visit visa. #99487493 SAP BW Analyst : Indian male, 26 yrs, B.Tech (CS & E) from ASET, New Delhi, worked as a Business Analyst in Software Industry. Contact 98008127 / 92878708, vaisakh.bhaskar@gmail.com Indian male, 29 yrs, B. Eng in CS, CCNP, JNCIA, MCSA, MCITP, ISO/ IEC27002, 8 yrs exp in IT, Networking and Server support. #98285401 Email: maneshm3@gmail.com Indian 24 years BCA MCITP having 2 years exp as System Administrator looking suitable job. #94170892 B.Tech Information Technology looking job in System work. MS Office, Data Entry, Networking experience, 2 years experience in Linux Admin. Contact: 92472137 Email: vairavel.inbaa@gmail.com BE, ECE Mumbai university skills in C, C++, windows, linux, controller and processor RTOS, Electronics, Networking, 6 months experience in embedded software seeks placement. Contact : 917774864736 Email: sadatbtisekar@gmail.com

MEDICAL Indian male Nurse, prometric passed seeks suitable placement. Contact 97284508I 33 years, Indian male Dentist having 7 years of experience with MOH license is seeking suitable placement. Contact: 91559265 Email: praveengp_82@yahoo.com A GNM Nurse seeking suitable placement in Hospital or clinic having 11 yrs experience in Oman. Contact 98766167, can ready to work temporary or permanent. Indian female BSc Nurse with 4 years experience with Oman prometric 64% looking for suitable placement in capital area. Contact: 95847286 Indian male, MSc, MPhil, BEd Chemistry,2 Yrs Teaching experience and having experience in lab analyst, currently on visit visa, seeks suitable post. Contact 90208673

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR Sudanese Procurement Manager three years experience in Oman. Contact: 93391008 Project Manager (B.E. Arch) in Interior décor ﬁt outs & MEP having 8 years experience looking for a suitable post in a reputed ﬁrm. NOC is available. Contact: 91528851 Sudanese procurement Manager three years experience in Oman. Contact: 93391008 Senior Manager Indian, 30 years in FMCG Business in Oman looking for better opportunity at management level. Contact 99231513 Fabrication Manager overall 07 years of experience in fabrication of Structural steel industry with NOC & driving license looking for an opportunity available up to 25th September 2015. Contact : 97004394 Email: mohanmukund_mech@yahoo.co.in 22 years B.Com Graduate having experience in trading of car accessories and also with valid GCC driving license looking for a suitable job. Contact 98504698

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SECRETARIAL & OFIC. Indian male more than 10 years gulf experience in Office / Sales Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and purchase with good computer skills. Having Driving license and NOC available, looking for suitable placement. Contact 90135063

MBA Graduate having 23 yrs of experience as Sales Manager in building materials trading looking for a suitable opportunity, release available. Contact 92106768, Email : suvimasri@gmail.com Business intelligence / Global Marketing management specialist with 9 years of experience developing brand value & managing overall projects to achieve business objectives seeking suitable position on family visit. Contact: 91902154 MBA 15 years experience in Sales & Marketing in telecom, FMCG, presently in India C/O Saif Kazi. Contact : 99625957 Email Id: a_kazi123@yahoo.co.in Indian male 25 yrs BBM Graduate 3 yrs of experience Sales / Marketing in Oman looking in suitable placement. Contact : 93185316 Email: karsh794@gmail.com

TOURS & TRAVELS Five years experience in Travel ﬁeld ,BCom., IATA & pursuing MBA, Presently working in the Travel Desk of (ITC managed) Five Star Hotel in India, looking for a suitable position in the Middleeast. pls contact 9470 5767

MISCELLANEOUS Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having 4yrears of experience in MNC, hands of experiences in recruitment and administration, ﬂexible for any suitable job placements currently in visting visa. Contact Tel : 98864639 Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

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Indian 26M, B. Tech Computer Science graduate, 3 years exp in India, looking for suitable job in Muscat. Contact : 93125669, Email : amritrajGT18@gmail.com Indian Male Nurse with Moh licence & Noc seeking a job with Family Status gsm:95817579. E.mail:vasudevanv2005@gmail.com Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant ,doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available. Contact 98803439 Accountant 7 years experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084 Sudanese/Bsc IT/26/2 years experience/excellent Eng-Arb speaking/ Omani driving license/96387227/ henrykarrar@gmail.com MBA - (F), M.Com, B.COM. Indian female having knowledge of accounts with Tally looking for part time or full time job. Presently on family visa. Contact- 91892264. mail: yv.dixit@yahoo.com Indian male Accountant, 12 years experience, looking for a full time or part time job, experience in tally also. Contact 98983122 Pakistani, Male, Pak, Exp 14 Years in IT Trainer / Computer Teacher, looking for a better position in Oman, already working in Prestigious Construction Company. Contact 95983711. Join.mtmali@gmail.com Indian Male (Diploma in electronics Engineering and CCNA.) having 9 years of experience in Networking, 5 years’ experience in Oman. Looking for a suitable Placement. NOC available. GSM- 93787098, Email –anishktr@gmail.com INDIAN MALE 24 YEARS,B. Tech (Electrical & Electronic).Having 2 years experience as Electrical Site Engineer in Constructions. Done IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certiﬁcations. Seeking for suitable placement in constructions or in any related industries. Contact no: 98045482, Email: shannu.hse@gmail.com

Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business Management, 6 years in Oman. Knowledge of MS Office and Arabic Language. Seeks suitable position. Contact 93931935

Mechanical Draftsman, Indian male 27, Diploma in Mechanical Engineering having 7 years of experience in Auto CAD looking for a suitable placement. Contact : 97351786 / 96143708 E-mail : mohammednazeer07@gmail.com

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Business Development. experience in Electromechanical and Irrigation sectors. Contact no- +971558763220 email id-sangowri@outlook.com

Indian male Oman 8 yrs exp looking for any suitable vacancy for accountant / Asst. Accountant office admin local release available. Contact : 98492752 Email: atiduehzidve@rediffmail.com

Site Supervisor/ L Driver, Pakistani Male 33 with valid D/L, 4 years experience in Muscat, ﬂuent in English, Arabic looking for suitable place. Contact: 97950869

Indian male, with ﬁnance and Law degree, having more than 25 years of experience in Finance/ Accounts / Audit (5 years of Oman experience) seeks suitable placement. NOC available. Contact: 98421619. E-mail: talemadhamu@yahoo.com.

ACCA Affiliate, OBU Degree, 2.5 years experience in audit and ﬁnance in Big6 ﬁrm, Looking for permanent placement. NOC release available. Contact: #95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT support, Networking and Server support with valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/ Server support. Contact 92607532

B.Tech EEE with 4+ years experience in the ﬁeld of it, networking, ex-tonics etc. presently working in Amazon India development centre as a content quality associate seeking for suitable jobs in Oman. Contact : +91 9940514005, 93116402 email: mail2nbn@gmail.com

Indian male auto cad draughtsman (civil) 8 years experience seeking for part time job mobile no: 0096899070584, email: remluvp@gmail.com

Indian male Executive Secretary having vast experience in admin, logistics & procurement well versed with computer seeks suitable placement. Contact : 99514286 Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com Finance having 2.5 year experience as a accountant & marketing executive looking for suitable placement. Contact: 97670816, E.mail: naeem.ahsan68@gmail.com Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experience with constructions companies - 1 years in Oman - qualiﬁed as Site Engineer & Planning Engineer . Contact+968-94682217 ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 having 4 years experience in accounting & having well knowledge in tally. Contact:968094535881, 0091 9037622048, Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com 31 year Indian male PG in HR ,with 5 yrs Professional experience in HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman seeking for a suitable placement. Kindly contact me on 93488914, emailKaarthickshankar@gmail.com Sudanese/26/Bsc Computer Science /3 years exp/skills Excellent knowledge in operating systems and maintaining computers Java Programmer Web Developer Linux SMS solutions Android developer/ email khalid.omx@gmail.com/contact no 944958080 and 99758186. Civil Autocad Draughtsman part time work for job mob :96023726 Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years of experience in production ﬁeld Contact: 91247222 Email:sahadpoonchola@gmail.com

Indian female with MBA in finance seeking immediate placement. Contact: 968-93316493 MBA Finance with more than five years of experience in Finance & Accounts including GCC, looking for a suitable opening. Having UAE driving license. Contact no..91391802. Senior Accountant. 8 Years experience. NOC available. Oman driving license. Seek suitable opportunity. GSM- 98184170 B.E Mechanical Engineer with 2 years’ experience in HVAC field on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact: 93442296 Email Id: sal201091@gmail.com. MBA (F) B.COM Indian female having knowledge of accounts with Tally looking for full or part time job. Presently on family visit visa. Contact: - 96259171. Email: bhumicapandya@gmail.com Indian Male, MBA, Talented management expert having 6 year experience at U.A.E, India and Oman in luxury goods and Retail. Seeking suitable openings in related or same field. Contact:92700670 Email: jobcareer44@gmail.com MBA Finance with more than five years of experience in Finance & Accounts including GCC, looking for a suitable opening. Having UAE driving license. Contact no..91391802

Admin, having 10+ years experience in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper, in reputed companies. Presently working in Muscat. Contact- 968 94369965 mail - satya1528@gmail.com

Indian Male, 25, Chartered Accountant, working with ICICI Bank India. On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying with parents at Azaibah. Ph:24492638. Email: shyamal008@gmail.com Tunisian shoes designer wuth 40years expereince in designing and manifacturing loocking for a job in a related ﬁeld contact : 97816917 Indian Male, 28, B.Com, 6+ yrs exp in Accounts, 2 yrs in Oman with Valid Oman D/L, NOC available.#9719 4864 Indian male post graduate.2 years experience in sales. currently in oman on visit visa.seeks suitable placement.Gsm 92388346 Civil site coordinator, Diploma, Male 25, now present in Oman, Seeking job in Oman. Contact: 92875345, jubincivileng@gmail.com Male Indian 27, working as ﬁnance analyst having two years Oman experience with Driving license looking for suitable position. Mob: 98097009, rameesnm@gmail.com FRESH - B.Com Graduate on Family Visa, looking for any suitable Job. Contact : 92567020 / 95322175, Email: shwayanad@gmail.com Admin Executive, Indian Female having 10 years Gulf experience in seeking suitable placement currently working in Muscat. Email: meenafajar@yahoo.com, Mobile 0096893211402

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SIT.WANTED Indian female MBA Finance currently on visit visa seeks immediate placement. Phone: 968-98430089 MOH Indian Dentist 10 years experience in Oman. Can speak Arabic, has driving license. Contact 98995321 or ventureoman007@gmail.com Having 9+ years exp. in Administration & HR in reputed companies. Presently working in Muscat and seeking for suitable placement. Contact No.: 97693456. Email : muralimahdav77@gmail.com Omani , female, have diploma in quantity survey, bachelor in Constitution management, seeking situated placement at Sohar. Tel 94454180, Mail nhlmct@yahoo.com Indian male,27, IT/Telecom Engineer, 2 yrs exp in Oman, with valid Oman D/L, NOC Available.# 93938727 Diploma in civil engineering having an experience 24years (20years in Oman) experience in Estimator / quantity surveyor looking for a suitable placement, willing to join immediately Contact : 96328687 Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA, MCSA, MCSE, 2yrs + exp. in IT support, networking and server support valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/Server support. Contact 92607532 Indian male, 14 yrs Experience in Maintenance & Supervisor in hotel field ( Electrical. Ac Mechanical & Plumber ) N O C available #95253640 . email = hareeshma24@yahoo.com ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8 Years Structural engineer experience, Looking for Structural Designer, supervisor or site engineer Position. Iranian male. #93696929, Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com Indian Male 26 years MCA, MCSE 2012 certified, Microsoft Exchange Server Administration, having 1 year experience in IT/System Administration looking for suitable placement. Contact Mob : 00968 92745708 Email: nabeelmmkty@gmail.com, Light duty driver, Young and honest. Can speak Arabic, Hindi and understand English. Release available. Ph.92854775 / 93487450 Indian female with MBA on visit visa seeking immediate placement. Contact - 968-93316493 27,male,ACCA finalist, have professional experience upto finalization of accounts, statutory and internal audit, expertise in using tally and focus & oracle software, have 3.5 years experience in accounts till finalization and statutory audit, seeking for permanent replacement ,GSM-97654769,email idabdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com Sudanese male, 31 years, have 3 year Diploma in electrical engineer , 6 year experience in construction and electrical production plant . Mobile No ; +96894549609 Indian male, B.com, MBA, having 5 years experience (3 years in U.A.E) is currently seeking suitable opportunities within finance/accounts/ admin dept.Contact:93953613, allen.mathew83@gmail.com B.Com graduate, 11 years experience in Accounts, 9 years Oman experience , Oman valid driving license, looking for suitable post. Mob:92758404 NOC Available. Indian male 27 years B.E & MS Mechanical Engineer working in Delhi for last 4 years inJcb India pvt. ltd., seeks placement in Oman. Contact: 93393768 Driver looking for job exp 2 yrs. Contact: 98522914

SITUATION WANTED Female MBA gold medalist, with computer proﬁciency, Oman driving license looking for job opportunity in event management companies in Muscat. Ph : 99012949 SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, Indian male,29 years.8 years experience .Presently working in Oman as a Senior Accountant with oman Driving license. NOC available. Seek suitable opportunity. GSM: 97705854 Two year experience in Oman, experience in sales, purchase and system admin, Having GCC license. Contact number 97475860, Yadhukrishnan08@gmail.com Indian Male, 32 yrs, MBA-HR, Trainer & Faculty worked on Omanisation & nationals development activities with 10 yrs of experience seeking suitable job. Contact : 93891401 saiprasad_18@yahoo.com Sudanese 29 male (Bsc computer science,diploma computer engineering), 6 yrs. experience dba oracle plsql , ms sql-server ,ms visual studio vba,network Omani Driver licence language English, Arabic Tel: 91415886 Piping Design Engineer, Indian male 27, looking for suitable placement in Piping Design & Engineering. Having 7 years of experience in AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS (11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact : 97351786 / 96143708/97357143 Indian female, 24yrs, M.COM (Accounts) having 3 yrs experience in Accounts, HR, Administration, Customer Service. Good Computer Proﬁciency seeking Suitable Position. Visa Transfer/NOC Available. Contact: 99654913

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Indian female LLB (Advocate) 2 years experience looking for suitable post legal advisor company secretary etc. # 93343190 / 94476387 Email: shafu1019@gmail.com Indian Female Accountant, CA Final (Group I cleared), 5+ year’s experience in the ﬁeld of Accounts, Audit and Financial ERPs. Currently available in Muscat and seeking suitable job opportunities.Ph:94704800 email id: vinithsavith@gmail.com B.E (IT) 1 year exp complete schooling in Muscat needs job in software / net working / java/ WEB design or marketing. #97136248 / 99313821 Indian female, B.Sc, PGDCA, currently on family joining visa, 2 years working experience in oman as customer care / sales co-ordinator, immediate joining seeks suitable placements. Contact no. (968) 95573205 / 95949230 / 95800792 Indian male 22 years ACCA affiliate , BSc, Graduate in applied accounting 2 months working experience seeking suitable placement in Finance / Accounts / audit immediately. Contact: 97378607 / 92558734 B-tech Electrical Engineer with more than 2 years of experience in erection and designing of HT and LT electrical systems. Seeking for suitable job in Muscat. Contact: 98269366. Email: sijincleetus@gmail.com Project Manager / Senior Engineer, Indian Male BE Civil, 21yrs experienced including Oman looking for the Job Contact +918939295181 Email I’D 58031_bala@yahoo.co.in Indian male 26 , graduate in mechanical engineering having 2 years experience in fabrication production ﬁled in India, looking for a suitable job. mobile: +968-91384621 EMAIL : rmekhil@hotmail.com

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Sr. Sales Executive, Indian Male, Holding Valid Oman DL. Total experience in Oman of 15 years with 4 years Rent a Car Co. experience. Looking for Opportunities in any Industry for similar sales role. # 95703233 email id “khetani_r@yahoo.com

Piping Design Engineer, Indian male 27, looking for suitable placement in Piping Design & Engineering. Having 7 years of experience in AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS (11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact : 97351786 / 96143708, Email : mohammednazeer07@gmail.com

29 years Indian female (MBAFinance) with 4+yrs experience (Oman) in Accounts, seeking suitable placement in Accounts/Admin. Contact:96141283

Indian male 28YRS, 7Years exp. in Architectural & structural Draughtsman & 3d visualization, looking for a suitable Post GSM: +971551965944. Email:aboosuﬁyan@gmail.com

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SIT.WANTED INDIAN MALE 23 YEARS, B. Tech (Electrical & Electronic) having 4 years working experience as an Electrical site Engineer. Looking for suitable job in Oil Gas Sector or in related industries. Contact 98045482 Indian Female, M.Com & MBA with 1.5 years of experience in Reinsurance Treaty seeking a good job opportunity in Insurance & Reinsurance Accounts or General Accounts. Contact: +968 91920189, Email: neethumano.manohar@gmail.com CCNA MCITP network support / network technician with 2 years experience Indian male having bachelors degree on visit visa. #93080871 sean.f.peters@outlook.com 8 yrs exp 2d, 3d draughtsman (HOLDING OMANI DRIVING LICENSE) seeking job. Contact : 93790601 ME. Civil Engineer, Structural Designer, 3 Years Structural Design, 6 Years Str Supervising Experience, Looking For Structural Designer Position. Iranian Male. # 93696929 Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com BSC Female Nurse having 8 years of experience ( 3 years in gulf). Prometric passed - 57%. Currently in Oman. Contact : 98034384 ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experience .Presently working in Oman as a Senior Accountant with Oman Driving license. NOC available seeks suitable opportunity. GSM: 98184170 ACCOUNTANT, M.Com holder with 2 year working experience as an accountant in Kerela-India, seeks suitable placement. GSM NO:96947500, 9 9463120, mail: mohamedshaﬁkk5@gmail.com Indian Male 22 Years, Graduation In Electronics Seeking Jobs In Supervisory , Sales & Sales Co-ordination Fields , Good Communication Skill Contact 96141317, E-mail: akhilek5@gmail.com

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