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At The Opening of the Annual Session of The Council of Oman, 2008

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

Good government performance in the diff erent sectors, serving the country and citizens with honesty and dedication and putting public interest over all other considerations are the necessary pillars for any sustainable development.

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

‘Saturday’ the deadliest day on Oman roads

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI tariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Saturday was the deadliest day of the week in 2015 as more deaths stemming from accidents were reported on the day than any other day of the week. Last year, Saturday claimed 122 lives and left 469 injured in a total of 842 accidents.

While Tuesday recorded the highest number of accidents dur-ing the week, Saturday proved worse based on the number of deaths and injuries.

To understand why the last day

of the weekend was so deadly, Amir Al Mata’ani, board member of the Oman Road Safety Asso-ciation said, “There are several reasons. It could be that the roads are empty and drivers take advan-tage and speed up. Another rea-

son could be fatigue.” “Since it’s the last day of the weekend, some people are driving long distances from their hometowns to Muscat which could have resulted in an accident due to fatigue,” he added.

He explained that Saturdays are usually when the family spends a whole day together and most people drive back from their hometown to town of work so they are likely be exhausted.

“There are many possibilities but we need to know more details as to why? What time of day were they travelling? What is the cause of accident?” said Al Mata’ani.

Speeding is the number one cause of accidents, with 3,411 ac-cidents recorded, followed by im-proper acts causing 1,217 deaths, neglect causing 655 deaths and failure to keep a safe distance between vehicles leading to 462 deaths, among others that con-tributed to the overall causes of accidents in 2015.

July recorded the highest num-ber of accidents, deaths and inju-ries in 2015, with 626 accidents, 406 injuries and 71 deaths being reported during the month.

Saturdays claimed

122 lives and left

469 injured in a total

of 842 accidents last

year, data reveals

A4Syria opposition to attend Geneva peace talks

REGIONKey forum in Cairo

1Oman attends key forum in Cairo, which began on Thursday. >A2

SPORTSOman have lifeline

2Oman having gained a point are still alive in the T20 tournament. >A11

BUSINESSMiddle East airlines

3Middle East airlines reported strong passenger demand in January. >B1

T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S

His Majesty sends cable of greetings

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Ameenah Gurib Fakim of the Republic of Mauritius, on her country’s National Day. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and her country’s people further progress and prosperity. —ONA

P R E S I D E N T O F M A U R I T I U S

‘Great escape’ from death in wadiMOBIN MATHEW BLESSONmobinmathew@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: It was an escape they thought they’d never make, and fi nally, as they managed to beat death in an overfl owing wadi (val-ley), they have a simple message for one and all: Do not ignore warn-ings and do not cross an overfl ow-ing wadi.

“We still can’t believe we are

alive,” say Nidhin Mathew Eapen and Suresh Kumar, who got stuck in an overfl owing wadi in Khader near Sinaw on Tuesday morning, as it was raining heavily.

‘Facing sure death’“We were stuck for four hours in the wadi. We were facing sure death. It was a time between life and death,” says Eapen while nar-rating his ordeal to the Times of

Oman. “It was the worst time of my life,” he said.

The two were on their way back to Muscat from Duqm after some offi cial work when they got trapped in the overfl owing wadi at around 2.30am.

“When we saw the wadi, we decided not to cross until it had cleared; so we parked our sedan and took some rest nearby,” recalled Eapen to the Times of Oman. >A2

O V E R F L O W I N G W A D I

FLOODED ROADS: The weather monitoring station in Bahla

recorded 77.8 millimetres (mm) of rainfall. – ONA

Death toll from fl ash fl oods rises to eightTimes News Service

MUSCAT: The death toll from thundershowers and fl ash fl oods, which hit Oman this week, has climbed to eight after two more children were found dead, according to Oman TV. The body of a boy, who had gone missing in an over fl owing wadi (valley) in Al Kha-boura was found and another girl child also lost her life when the house wall collapsed on her in Wadi Bani Khalid.

According to latest tweet from National Emergency Management Centre (NCCD), eight people have lost their lives in fl ash fl oods so far. However, the details about the eighth per-son are not yet available. Among the fi ve dead, two lost their lives in Mudhaibi and one each in

Rustaq, Buraimi, and Nizwa.According to the Directo-

rate General of Meteorology at the Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA), the Wilayat of Bahla had recorded the maxi-mum amount of rain.

The weather monitoring sta-tion in Bahla recorded 77.8 mil-limetres (mm) of rainfall, from 10 am on March 9 to 7 am on March 10, according to PACA.

Following Bahla was Mud-haibi with 66.4 mm of rain re-corded, Adam with 59.8 mm, Amerat with 48.8 mm and Fa-hud with 46.2 mm of rain.

The weather started return-ing to normal, but there were still chances of high to middle altitude clouds in northern gov-ernorates on Friday evening, Di-rectorate General of Meteorol-ogy at PACA said.

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Accidents occurred

mainly due to speeding.

July recorded the

highest number of

accidents, deaths and

injuries in 2015

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HEAVY RAINS, FLASH FLOODS ACROSS THE SULTANATE

‘We thank the offi cers for our miraculous rescue ’

He added that they decided to cross the wadi after confi rming that the current was not menac-ing enough and that they could cross it without diffi culty.

“We saw smaller and older cars crossing the wadi easily and that made us believe that we could also cross it without any trouble,” Eapen stated.

Water level increased“But as we entered the wadi, the water level increased unexpect-edly and our vehicle was swept away from the road,” he added.

Their reaction at the time is still inexplicable, Eapen said.

“We were screaming to get the attention of the offi cials,” he said.

But even the civil defence offi -cers were not able to help because of the strong fl ow of water in the wadi. The duo’s car was swept away from the road and jammed somewhere around 750 metres away from the road.

“When we started getting

swept away, I opened the car win-dows to avoid getting trapped in-side the vehicle,” Eapen narrated.

“Our car was rotating like a small object in the water and got stuck somewhere in the wadi af-ter sometime,” he added.

“Meanwhile, Suresh climbed out of the car and stood on the top while I half squeezed out trying to manoeuvre standing on the driv-er’s seat,” Eapen continued.

According to him, the car got jammed in an area that was pitch dark and cold too.

“I didn’t have any hope of be-ing rescued. I have heard it’s hard to escape death in an overfl ow-ing wadi. I thought it’s going to be over for us.”

Eapen said the rescue team tried its best to provide some light by switching on their vehicle’s headlight.

In the meantime, water entered the car and it started tilting to one side.

“At that time we got very scared

and I was sure those would be our last moments,” Eapen recollect-ed. “I felt a pressing desire to see my family, but I was not even able to call them,” he narrated.

Stuck in the coldThey were stuck in the cold for four hours until one of the rescue teams arrived to save them.

“We were rescued by ROP’s (Royal Oman Police’s) fi re and rescue team at around 7.15 am,” Eapen said, thanking the rescuers for their miraculous escape.

“One person came with a rope through the slopes and tied it to the car and took us back with him,” he added.

“They (rescue offi cers) tried their best with all their experi-ence, but the bad weather delayed the rescue operation,” Eapen explained.

Both Eapen and Kumar said they are grateful to the Royal Oman Police and the rescue offi -cers for saving their lives.

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Oman attends key meeting in Cairo

CAIRO: Developments in the Pal-estinian issue, Syria, Libya were discussed during the 145th Session of the Council of Arab Foreign Min-isters that concluded at the Arab League headquarters on Friday.

The Sultanate participated in the session with a delegation led by Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdul-lah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Aff airs.

Among the 25 items on agenda of the meeting chaired by Bahrain were the developments on the Palestinian issue, support to the budget of the State of Palestine, the steadfastness of the Palestin-ian people, the developments of

the situation in Syria, Libya and Yemen, Arab water security and Israel’s theft of water from the oc-cupied territories, preparations for the upcoming Arab Summit in its twenty-seventh session in Mauritania and the draft statute of the Arab Court of Justice.

Earlier Alawi met with Dr Na-bil Al Arabi, Secretary General of the Arab league and reviewed topic listed on the agenda of the Arab Foreign Ministers Council’s 145th meeting. The meeting was attended by Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Harthy, the Sultanate’s Ambas-sador to Egypt at its Permanent Delegate to the Arab league. — ONA

Sultanate of Oman

participated in

the session with a

delegation led by

Yousef bin Alawi bin

Abdullah, Minister

Responsible for

Foreign Aff airs

145TH SESSION: The Council of Arab Foreign Ministers session will discuss 25 items that include a

number of important issues. - ONA

Sultanate and Saudi Arabia review bilateral cooperationRIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia received here on Thursday Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib Al Busaidi, Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs and his GCC counterparts representatives of the countries taking part in the concluding mili-tary exercise ‘Ra’ad Al Shamal’ at King Khalid Military City.

The Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs conveyed greet-ings and good wishes of His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Ab-dulaziz Al Saud and of further progress and prosperity and for the Saudi brotherly people further development and growth.

On his part, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Sal-man bin Abdulaziz Al Saud re-quested the Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs to convey his greetings and good wishes of good health and a long life to His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and the Omani people further progress and prosperity.

The meeting reviewed the bi-lateral cooperation and brotherly bonds between the two brotherly countries.

The Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs attended the con-cluding military exercise, which took place in Hafr Al Batin, in the Northern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the patronage of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia.

The concluding ceremony of the exercise included aerial, land and parachuting operations, at which the Omani force alongside with

other forces took part and used the diff erent weapons.

It should be noted that the Min-ister Responsible for Defence Af-fairs led the Sultanate’s delegation taking part in the concluding mili-tary exercise ‘Ra’ad Al Shamal’. The Sultanate’s delegation includ-ed Lt. Gen Ahmed bin Harith bin Nasser Al Nahbani, SAF Chief of Staff and a number of senior SAF offi cers. — ONA

B I L A T E R A L R E L A T I O N S

WARM WELCOME: The meeting reviewed the bilateral cooperation

and brotherly bonds between the two brotherly countries. - ONA

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Oman fi fth in economic freedom indexMUSCAT: Oman came in fi fth place in the Middle East by obtain-ing 67.1 points, maintaining its lev-el of 2015 in the Economic Free-dom Index for 2016. It advanced its ranking to 52 in the world after having been ranked 56 in 2015.

The index was issued by the Heritage Foundation Internation-al. and was based on 37 economic criteria for 178 countries.

The 10 aspects of economic freedom measured in the Index are

grouped into four broad catego-ries: Rule of law (property rights); Government size (fi scal freedom, government spending); Regula-tory effi ciency (business freedom, labour freedom, monetary free-dom); and Market openness (trade freedom, investment freedom, fi -nancial freedom).

The report highlighted the re-markable successes achieved by the Sultanate during the past years, especially in the fi eld of

freedom of trade and investment and the maintaining of intellec-tual property rights. The Sultanate achieved 70.5 per cent in the fi eld of freedom of investment com-pared to 65 per cent in 2015.

The Sultanate maintained its level in the fi eld of intellectual property with 55 per cent, thus commercial mobility of 2016 rose to 85 per cent, compared to 76.8 per cent in 2015. The report stated that the regulatory environment

enjoyed by the Sultanate in con-stant progress through the govern-ment’s attention and good labour laws, especially the / Omanisation Law / which is considered a posi-tive policy for private sector com-panies to meet hiring quotas for Omani nationals.

The index highlighted the great progress made by Oman in attract-ing foreign investment and through it bring about economic reforms to modernise the economy. -ONA

H E R I T A G E F O U N D A T I O N I N T E R N A T I O N A L

Sign language to help people with hearing challenges

Staff reporter

MUSCAT: In a bid to raise awareness about safety meas-ures amidst the ongoing ex-treme weather conditions in Oman, the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA), has launched a video campaign, addressing people with hearing challenges, by us-ing sign language.

On its offi cial Twitter feed, PACDA uploaded three videos on Wednesday and Thursday to share safety tips with such peo-ple using sign language.

The videos include instruc-tions for fi shermen to avoid ap-proaching the sea and also on how to keep their boats safe.

The presenter uses hand ges-tures to advise viewers about the importance of keeping a hand torch and a candle in cases of any electric outage.

V I D E O C A M P A I G N

Omani-Qatari joint panel meets in DohaDOHA: Omani-Qatari Joint Com-mittee on Thursday reviewed bi-lateral economic cooperation at its 17th session held in Doha.

The Omani side was led by Dar-wish bin Ismail bin Ali Al Balushi, Minister Responsible for Finan-cial Aff airs, while the Qatari side was led by Ali Shareef Al Emadi, Minister of Finance, Qatar.

The meeting reviewed a number

of aspects of cooperation between the two countries in various eco-nomic, tourist and agricultural, fi sheries, transport, regional mu-nicipalities, water resources and sports aff airs spheres.

The two sides also discussed in-vestment aspects between the two countries, including joint projects, such as Diyar Ras Al Hadd Tourist project, Karwa Auto project and

Al Meera Consumer Goods. They also discussed the promotion of investments in the special eco-nomic zone of A’Duqm by inviting the Qatari side for investment, in addition to the investment in the fi sheries sector.

On the other hand, Mustafa bin Ali bin Abdullatif, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Administrative and Financial Af-

fairs signed, on the sidelines of the meeting, the sixth Executive Pro-gramme of the Cultural and Edu-cational Cooperation between the Government of Oman and Qatar.

The two sides discussed the secondment of Omani teachers at the Qatari Supreme Education Council and discussed scholar-ships for Omani students in the State of Qatar. -ONA

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Pictures by @RthathWeather and ONA

Omani fi rms sign deals at ITB Berlin

BERLIN: Omani fi rms partici-pating in the ITB Berlin Expo have entered into contracts with a number of international fi rms while the Sultanate’s pa-vilion continued to attract visi-tors on the third day in a row.

Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mah-razi, Minister of Tourism and head of the Sultanate’s delega-tion to the ITB Berlin Expo met a number of tourism ministers and offi cials of the Arab and GCC states, where they dis-cussed the eff orts to support tourism in the Arab countries.

He also visited the Pavilion of Sudan and met with the Dr. Mohammed Abu Zaid Mustafa, Sudan’s Tourism Minister.

He also met with Egyptian tourism minister during his visit to the Pavilion of Egypt at the ITB Berlin.

He also met with a number of offi cials of international com-panies taking part in the ITB Expo . -ONA

T O U R I S M S H O W

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REGIONSyrian Peace talks convened two years ago collapsed because the sides were unable to agree on agenda: Damascus wanted a focus on fi ghting terrorism, the term it uses for the rebellion, while the opposition wanted to discuss a transitional government.

Syria main opposition group agrees to attend peace talks

BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar Al Assad of preparing to escalate the war.

The UN-brokered talks, which coincide with the fi fth anniversa-ry of the confl ict, will take place in Geneva two weeks after the start of a ceasefi re agreement which has reduced violence although not halted the fi ghting.

The High Negotiations Com-mittee said it would attend as part of its “commitment to interna-tional eff orts to stop the spilling of Syrian blood and fi nd a political solution”.

But in its statement on Friday it played down any chance of reach-ing agreement with the Syrian government to end the war that has killed more than 250,000 peo-

ple and led to a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe.

Russia said it expected its ally Syria to attend, although Damas-cus has yet to publicly confi rm it will do so. The Syrian foreign min-ister is expected to announce his government’s position on the talks on Saturday.

Peace talks convened two years ago collapsed because the sides were unable to agree an agenda: Damascus wanted a focus on fi ghting terrorism, the term it uses for the rebellion, while the oppo-sition wanted to discuss a transi-tional government.

The latest talks are intended to

focus on future political arrange-ments in Syria, a new constitution and elections, UN envoy Staff an de Mistura said.

The opposition HNC said it wanted the talks to concentrate on the establishment of an interim governing body with full execu-tive powers.

Available chancesHNC coordinator Riad Hijab said the group was “concerned with representing the just cause of the Syrian people... and investing in all available chances to alleviate the Syrian people’s suff ering”.

“We know that they (the gov-

ernment) are committing crimes, and that they are preparing an air and ground escalation in the coming period,” he said, without elaborating.

A prominent Syrian dissident, Haytham Manna, said he would stay away from the talks, which he regarded as a “failing project”.

Manna, whose Syrian Demo-cratic Council includes Kurd-ish members, boycotted the last round of talks because the Kurds were not invited.

Russian Foreign Minister Ser-gei Lavrov said however that de Mistura should this time in-clude representatives of Kurdish

groups, which have been fi ghting in Syria. The Kurds have not been invited so far because regional power Turkey does not want them in Geneva and says they are ter-rorists. Russia says they are a le-gitimate part of a future Syria, so they must be at the table.

There has been speculation that they will be included in the com-ing round. De Mistura says he has not expanded the list of invitees, but the talks’ format gives him fl exibility to consult whomever he wants. The “cessation of hos-tilities” agreement which came into force on February 27 does not include the two main militant groups, IS and the Nusra Front.

A source close to the govern-ment said the Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, is aiming to capture the historic city of Pal-myra from IS and open a road to the eastern province of Deir Al Zor, where the militants are also established.

The Russian air force has hit Palmyra with dozens of air strikes since Wednesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.

Syrian government forces were on Friday battling IS 7km (4 miles) from the ancient site that fell to the militants last May.

IS has blown up ancient tem-ples and tombs since capturing Palmyra in what the UN cultural agency UNESCO has called a war crime. The capture of Palmyra and further eastward advances into Deir Al Zor would mark the most signifi cant Syrian government gain against IS since the start of the Russian intervention last Sep-tember. — Reuters

The latest talks are

intended to focus

on future political

arrangements

in Syria, a new

constitution and

elections, said UN

Syria envoy Staff an

de Mistura

EU ministers to discuss imposing curbs on three LibyansBRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers are considering sanctions on three Libyans they see as blocking eff orts by the Unit-ed Nations to form a government of national unity and may go ahead even if a government is agreed, diplomats said.

Strongly backed by France, the travel bans and asset freezes will be discussed by ministers on Mon-

day at a lunch in Brussels. UN spe-cial envoy for Libya Martin Kobler will also attend, although he is not arguing in favour or against sanc-tions, diplomats told Reuters.

The three under the threat of sanctions are Nouri Abusahmain, the head of Libya’s General Na-tional Congress in Tripoli, one of two rival parliaments, Khalifa Al Ghwell, who heads one of Libya’s

two rival governments, and Aguila Saleh, the president of Libya’s in-ternationally recognised parlia-ment in Tobruk.

French and Italian offi cials have been saying for more than a year that the political void in Libya is al-lowing IS militants to gain ground, spreading out from Tunisia. Ef-forts to establish a UN-backed unity government in the oil-pro-

ducing nation have been stalled by resistance from hardliners, or what EU offi cials call “spoilers” of the political process.

“We expect a decision next week on imposing sanctions on these three,” said one EU diplomat, who stressed that EU foreign ministers are not expected to decide on Mon-day but that a decision could come later in the week.

The United Nations is seeking to unite factions and militias that have competed for power since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and Western powers say the UN process is the only hope of bring-ing stability and stemming mili-tancy. Western powers, including the United States, Britain, France and Germany, are pushing the Lib-yans to accept a unity government

on the basis of a document signed by several members of the interna-tionally recognised parliament in the city of Tobruk.

While the procedure is anything but routine as it would replace a full vote in the parliament in To-bruk, Western diplomats say it is the only way forward, as they fear the full parliament may not vote in favour. — Reuters

F O R B L O C K I N G U N P L A N

Abadi asks political blocs to nominate technocrats for cabinetBAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi asked political blocs in parliament and “infl u-ential social fi gures” to nominate technocrats as candidates for min-isterial positions in a new cabinet he plans to form, state TV reported on Friday.

A year and a half into his four-year term, Abadi is trying to chal-lenge a system of patronage which has become entrenched in Iraq over the last decade, paralysing politics and allowing corruption to fl our-ish. But he faces pressure from two sides as some of the country’s pow-erful political factions resist any reduction of their infl uence while others, notably the prominent cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, threaten to bring down his government unless he presses ahead faster.

Al Iraqia news channel, which announced Abadi’s move on Fri-day, said an independent com-mittee of experts will review the names put forward and then select a list of names from those candi-dates for him to choose his min-isters. Abadi said last month that he wanted to replace his ministers

with technocrats to tackle the sys-tem of patronage that encourages graft by distributing government jobs and contracts along political, ethnic and sectarian lines.

The political system adopted af-ter the overthrow of Saddam Hus-sein in 2003 was initially meant to allow the nation’s minorities to have ministers and take part in the government alongside parties that represent the majority commu-nity, to which Abadi belongs.

Corruption is eating away at Baghdad’s resources even as it struggles with falling revenue due to rock-bottom oil prices and high spending due to the costs of the war against IS militant group.

In a speech on Wednesday, Abadi said that he would announce min-isterial changes soon and that the cabinet would be made of “com-petent professionals” who refl ect the nation’s ethnic and sectarian makeup. Abadi’s media offi ce on Thursday said the prime minister had sent a document to political parties that contains the criteria along which he will be choosing his ministers. Sadr urged Abadi to

form a cabinet where the political parties are not represented.

“I want the prime minister to continue his reform plan with no fear of political pressure,” Sadr said in a pre-recorded speech aired on screens in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square, where tens of thou-sands of his supporters rallied on Friday. It was not immediately clear whether Sadr had recorded his speech before or after the state television announcement on Aba-di’s call. Some Sadr supporters at the demonstration were skeptical of the prime minister’s ability to deliver on his reform pledge.

“I don’t think Abadi can do the reforms he promised,” said Am-mar Salman, a 37-year-old taxi driver, carrying the red, white and black Iraqi fl ag. “The political blocs won’t let him.”

The cleric’s supporters have held regular demonstrations de-manding reforms to tackle corrup-tion. Sadr said on February 12 that Abadi had 45 days to deliver on his pledge of a technocrat cabinet or face a no-confi dence vote in par-liament. — Reuters

I N C R E A S I N G P R E S S U R E

Iraq’s Kurdistan resumes oil exports to port of Ceyhan

LONDON: Iraq’s Kurdistan was reconnected to oil markets on Friday as pumping from its fi elds to Turkey resumed, providing the semi-autonomous region with a lifeline amid a budget crisis and a fi ght against IS.

An industry source told Reu-ters pumping of Kurdish oil to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan had restarted after a three-week interruption following a military operation on Turkish territory. Port sources said Ceyhan could resume loading on Saturday.

Oil is the main source of Kurdis-tan’s revenues and the suspension further squeezed the already cash-strapped region’s fi nances.

Turkey completed a military campaign earlier this week near its southeastern border, shutting the pipeline that normally carries 600,000 barrels per day as the mil-itary searched for mines.

Violence has surged after a two-year ceasefi re between Turkey and Kurdish militants broke down last July. Turkey’s military launched a large-scale campaign in a hand-ful of towns in the mainly Kurd-ish southeast after the youth wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) sealed off entire districts and declared autonomy.

Turkey accused the PKK of blowing up the pipeline on Febru-ary 25 when pumping had already halted. The group denies the ac-cusation.

The outage left the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with just $233 million in net revenue from its oil exports in February - less than one third of what it needs to cover its public payroll. — Reuters

T H R E E - W E E K B R E A K

CALLING FOR REFORMS: Supporters of prominent Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr shout slogans during a

protest against government corruption at Tahrir Square in Baghdad , Iraq on Friday. – Reuetrs

DEVASTATED: Residents and Civil Defence members inspect damage after an air strike on the rebel

held Al Saliheen district in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday. – Reuters

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Summons to tycoon Mallya under money laundering law

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Vijay Mallya was on Friday summoned to appear before the Enforce-ment Directorate (ED) on March 18 even as the beleaguered busi-nessman asserted he is not an ab-sconder amid an escalating politi-cal row over how he was able to go abroad unhindered with NDA ally Shiv Sena also targeting the gov-ernment.

As the BJP and Congress traded charges, the controversial depar-ture of Mallya, 60, in the middle of a massive loan default probe rocked Rajya Sabha for the sec-ond day with Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad asking the government why did the CBI amend its ‘look-out’ notice against the liquor bar-on within a month last year.

Taking forward its money laun-dering probe in the alleged default in payment of Rs900 crore dues to IDBI bank by the now defunct Kingfi sher airlines, the ED issued summons to Mallya for appear-ance in Mumbai on a day when A Raghunathan, a former Chief Financial Offi cer (CFO) of the carrier, appeared before at in-vestigators at its Mumbai offi ce.

“The summons have been issued to Mallya under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the IDBI case,” offi cial sources said.

The sources said Mallya has also been asked to furnish docu-ments related to his personal fi -nances. “We had summoned Rag-hunathan and he appeared before us for questioning this morning.

“His questioning is important to throw light on various fi nancial transactions, as many of them are in his personal domain,” an ED of-fi cial said.

RowWith his departure from India on March 2 kicking up a row, Mallya, who is facing legal proceedings for alleged loan defaults by his group to the tune of over Rs9,000 crore, said he will comply with the law of the land.

“I am an international busi-nessman. I travel to and from In-dia frequently. I did not fl ee from

India and neither am I an ab-sconder. Rubbish,” Mallya, who is believed to be in the United King-dom, tweeted from an undisclosed location. He further said: “As an Indian MP I fully respect and will comply with the law of the land. Our judicial system is sound and respected. But no trial by media.”

Hitting out at the government over Mallya’s departure, Shiv Sena said those who raised hue and cry over Lalit Modi “fl eeing” the country should now answer how did the liquor baron leave. The BJP had targeted the UPA government when the former IPL boss, who was facing an ED probe on various charges includ-ing money laundering, left India in 2010.

“Since he has given services to many, some allowed him to take loans, while others let the money drown. Then there are some who let him leave the country. People who were making a hue and cry over Lalit Modi leaving the coun-

try should now answer how did he (Mallya) do so,” the Sena said.

Keeping up the off ensive on the Mallya issue, Congress’ chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala alleged that the businessman was “made to run away” with active abetment of government agencies.

Defending the government, BJP National Secretary Shrikant Sharma accused Congress of “misleading” the country with its “baseless” allegations and asked it to come clean on bailout package given to him during the UPA rule.

Meanwhile, the Bombay High Court on Friday deferred till March 28 hearing on two applica-tions fi led by Service Tax Depart-ment for recovery of over Rs32 crore from Kingfi sher Airlines and its chief Vijay Mallya.

One application challenged a magistrate’s order granting an-ticipatory bail to Mallya and oth-ers in a case fi led by the Depart-ment against them for recovery of Rs32.68 crore Service Tax collect-

ed by the airline from passengers during 2010-11, but not deposited in the government treasury.

The other application sought a direction to Mallya and other di-rectors to appear before the trial court on April 6 for the next hear-ing, and also in the high court in this case.

Justice C V Bhadang on Friday asked the Service Tax Depart-ment to serve copies of the two applications to the airline, Mallya and others before March 28.

“It would be travesty of justice if Mallya leaves the country and does not return to pay the dues in the form of Service Tax, admitted-ly, collected from the passengers,” the Department earlier submitted in the application.

It pleaded that since statutory dues were not paid to the govern-ment, the petition against Mallya should be heard as expeditiously as possible. The department had fi led two cases in a magistrate’s court in Mumbai for recovery of dues. In one case pertaining to re-covery of Rs 32.68 crore as Service Tax, the lower court had granted anticipatory bail to Mallya last year, on the ground that the of-fences were bailable.

The aggrieved department chal-lenged the order in the Bombay High Court last year, contending that the off ences were non-baila-ble. It urged for quashing and set-ting aside the impugned order of the magistrate. This petition (ap-peal) is pending in the high court since 2015.

Meanwhile, the department fi led another application seek-ing presence of Mallya in the trial court and high court, and also urg-ing it to impound his passport and restrict his movements abroad. This application is currently being pressed for expeditious hearing.

The High Court on Friday en-quired from lawyer Advait Sethna why the Service Tax Department had not followed up this matter since July last year. — PTI

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‘fl eeing’ the country

should now answer

how did he leave

Law to enhance compensation to air travellers gets approval

NEW DELHI: A bill providing for enhanced compensation to air travellers in case of death, injury, lost baggage or even inordinate de-lay in fl ights, was passed by Parlia-ment on Friday.

The Carriage by Air (Amend-ment) Bill was passed in Lok Sab-ha on December 2015 and by the Rajya Sabha, with certain amend-ments, on March 2. The bill, along with the amendments, came back to the Lower House on Friday and were adopted by a voice vote.

Once it gets the nod of the presi-dent and becomes an act, the law would require Indian carriers to pay compensation amount that is equivalent to the rates paid by their global counterparts.

It would allow the government to revise the liability limits of air-lines in line with the Montreal Convention, which was acceded to by India in May 2009.

Among others, the compensa-tion for death in an air accident and the amount would be calcu-lated on the basis of SDR (Special Drawing Rights). The bill intends to raise the liability limit for dam-age in case of death or bodily injury for each person from 1,00,000 SDR to 1,13,100 SDR. The currency val-ue of the SDR is based on market exchange rates of a basket of major currencies - US dollar, Euro, Japa-nese Yen and Pound Sterling.

As per the latest exchange rate, the compensation limit rises to more than Rs1 crore. One SDR is equivalent to around Rs 93.

Earlier this month, while pi-loting the bill in the Rajya Sabha, Raju had said it would bring leg-islative character to international character with respect to compen-sation for air passengers.

According to the Bill, the liabil-ity for delay in carriage for each person was proposed to be raised from 4,150 SDR to 4,694 SDR, while the liability in case of de-struction, loss, damage or delay of baggage is proposed to be raised from 1,000 SDR to 1,131 SDR. — PTI

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Lawmakers to seek smaller warnings on cigarette packsNEW DELHI: A panel of Indian lawmakers will call for smaller health warnings on cigarette packs, saying the government’s re-quirement of 85 per cent of surface area is too harsh on the tobacco in-dustry, sources who have seen the panel’s draft report said.

The decision is the latest twist in a tussle between the health min-istry, which wants to step up an an-ti-smoking campaign, in line with the rest of the world, and members of parliament who fear lower sales will hurt tobacco farmers.

Tobacco use is linked to 900,000 deaths every year in India, and the government had ordered manu-facturers to print health warnings covering 85 per cent of the surface of a cigarette pack, up from 20 per

cent now. But the parliamentary committee has suggested in its re-port that the warnings be limited to half the packs’ surface area, as a move to protect tobacco farmers’ interests, while promoting health.

The panel feels “a balanced approach” would be to keep the warning size at 50 per cent, ac-cording to two sources who have seen the report, but asked not to be identifi ed because the draft is not public. Panel chairman Dilip Gan-dhi declined to comment. How-ever, the government was unlikely to change its plan of implementing the stringent rules on cigarette packs from April, said a health ministry offi cial who declined to be identifi ed because of the sensi-tivity of the matter.

The government is not bound by the decision of the panel, but it has political clout as its members are drawn from both the ruling party and opposition groups. Activists fear the call will delay adoption of stiff er warnings on the packs.

Euromonitor International esti-mates India’s cigarette market was worth $9 billion in 2014. Lead-ing players include ITC Ltd, VST Industries and Godfrey Phillips India Ltd, a partner of US-based Philip Morris International.

ITC did not immediately re-spond to an e-mail seeking com-ment, while offi cials of Godfrey Phillips and VST were not reach-able. The Canadian Cancer Soci-ety ranks India 136th out of 198 countries that use warnings to de-

ter smokers, lagging nations such as Australia and Thailand that top the list. The lawmakers’ report would send an undesirable signal, said one offi cial of an anti-tobacco alliance.

“It will be a very unfortunate refl ection on commitment to health by people involved in policy making,” said Shailesh Vaite of the Framework Convention Alli-ance for Tobacco Control, which groups more than 350 global organisations.

Industry lobby the Tobacco In-stitute of India (TII) has called the new rules drastic and unreason-able, saying they will hit farmers’ incomes and fuel consumption of smuggled cigarettes that do not follow packaging norms. — Reuters

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FACING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS: Kingfi sher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya speaks to the media dur-

ing a news conference in Mumbai, India, in this November 15, 2011 fi le photo. – Reuters Files

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WORLD CULTURE FESTIVAL BEGINSPrime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries with Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar during the opening day ceremony of the three-day long

World Culture Festival on the banks of Yamuna River in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

Man enters Parliament premises without pass

NEW DELHI: In a major security breach, a man on Friday entered the premises of Parliament with-out a valid pass, following which he was detained and interrogated by security agencies for hours.

The incident took place around 7.40am when Pradeep Kumar, a native of Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh, walked into the Parlia-ment premises through the visi-tor’s gate on Talkatora Road with-out the required pass. He went past the fi rst security layer and was stopped at the second.

“No visitor is allowed access to the premises without a valid pass. The man was stopped at the second security layer. He was de-tained for security reasons and his records were thoroughly checked,” Joint Secretary for Parliament Se-curity Ajay Anand told PTI.

Kumar was stopped at the sec-ond check point where security offi cials, surprised on seeing him there without a valid pass, sur-rounded him. He was detained and questioned there till he was hand-ed over to police around 12pm, a senior offi cial said.

Kumar carried an Aadhar card, with the help of which security agencies contacted his family for verifi cation of details. — PTI

S E C U R I T Y B R E A C H

Check ‘subversive’ activities in varsities, government told

NAGAUR (RAJASTHAN): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday asked the govern-ment to check “subversive” ele-ments indulging in “anti-nation-al” activities in universities for long and questioned how slogans calling for break-up of the country made in JNU can be tolerated.

“We expect the central and state governments to deal strict-ly with such anti-national and anti-social forces and ensure the sanctity and cultural atmosphere by not allowing our educational institutions to become centres of political activities,” the RSS said as its top brass began a three-day

brainstorming session on Friday. The meet of BJP’s idealogical mentor assumes importance in the backdrop of Narendra Modi government facing fl ak over han-dling of JNU row, dalit student’s suicide in Hyderabad, allegations of saff ronisation of education and the debate over intolerance ahead of crucial assembly elections.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah was present at the opening of the meet of Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha which is attended by Rashtriya Swayam-

sevak Sangh’s top leaders includ-ing its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

In its annual report presented at the meeting, the RSS also ex-pressed concern over terror at-tack in Pathankot and called for a review of the effi ciency of the security forces, their material and offi cers in charge and steps to check illegal migration and Paki-stan-inspired terrorism.

It termed the violent quota agitations in west-Indian state Gujarat and north-Indian state Haryana as not only a challenge

to the administrative machinery but also a threat social harmony and trust. Referring to Malda epi-sode in West Bengal, where a mob allegedly burnt down a police sta-tion, the Sangh fountainhead de-cried attempts to create “atmos-phere of fear” as it asked political parties to give up their “policy of appeasement” and take such inci-dents seriously.

“Reports about anti-national activities in certain universities have become a matter of concern for the patriotic people.

“In the name of freedom of ex-pression, how can the slogans call-ing for breaking up and destruc-tion of the nation be tolerated and how can the guilty, who had hatched the conspiracy to blow up Parliament, be honoured as mar-tyr?” the RSS said.

The RSS said that those who do such things have no faith in the Constitution, judiciary and Par-liament and “such subversive ele-ments have made these universi-ties the centres of their activities for long”.

“When they fi nd certain politi-cal parties supporting such anti-national elements, the concern (of patriotic persons) grows further,” the report said.

“Incidents of violence and ter-ror attacks have become a matter

of grave concern. Under the pre-text of small and big issues, people armed with weapon take to the roads creating atmosphere of fear, as has happened in Malda, and it has become endemic nowadays.

“Destruction of public and private properties, looting and burning business establishment, has taken place. Political parties, giving up their policy of appease-ment, should take such incidents seriously and cooperate to restore the law and order situation and peace,” the RSS said.

The saff ron outfi t said it will be possible only when parties “shed their petty and parochial political interests”. “It is the responsibility of an effi cient and strong govern-ment to instill confi dence in the people about their security,” the report said.

On the violence during quota agitation, it said, “There should not be injustice or oppression of anybody, but the society should be vigilant and the administra-tion should take strict action on the persons and organisations engaged in anti-national activities in a planned manner.” It also said there should not be any politics on a “sensitive” issue like entry of women in temples and it should be resolved through discussion in-stead of agitation. — PTI

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mentor also asked

the government not

to allow educational

institutions to

become centres of

political activity

Female fi ghter pilots advised to postpone motherhood

NEW DELHI: India’s fi rst three women fi ghter pilots have been advised by the IAF to postpone from motherhood for the next four years so as not to adversely impact their ongoing training process.

However, IAF sources clari-fi ed that the advisory is not legal binding and is to ensure that their training does not get aff ected.

The three women pilots will be commissioned into the fi ghter stream on June 18 this year after successful completion of the initial training. Thereafter, they would undergo advanced training for one year and would enter a fi ghter cockpit by June 2017. “Continu-ous training is required for a mini-mum of fi ve years for fi ghter pilots, men or women, to become combat ready. The three women are about to complete one year of training,” the sources said, adding that preg-nancy means that the entire train-ing schedule gets disturbed.

“It is not just the cost but the time also that gets aff ected. Even young fi ghter pilots are advised not to think about marriage till a particular age,” they said. Bhawa-na Kanth, Mohana Singh and Ava-ni Chaturvedi are the trainees who qualifi ed for the fi ghter stream af-ter it was thrown open to women in October 2015. — PTI

B Y F O U R Y E A R S

Lok Sabha passes Aadhar bill to strengthen subsidy distributionNEW DELHI: Thousands of crore rupees will be saved by rout-ing government subsidy through the Aadhaar system, Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley said on Friday, as the Lok Sabha passed a Bill to give statutory backing to the unique identity number scheme.

The Bill “will empower the states to distribute resources of the State to deserving people and save the resources that undeserv-

ing people get,” the Minister said while replying to short debate on the Aadhaar (Target Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefi ts and Services) Bill, 2016’.

“The eff ect is going to be on the Centre and state governments which will save thousands of crore,” Jaitley said just before the measure was adopted by a voice vote. Moving the bill for consid-eration and passage earlier, Jait-

ley said targeted subsidy through Aadhar cards of LPG consumers had resulted in savings of over Rs15,000 crore at the Centre. Four states which had started PDS de-livery by a similar exercise on a pilot basis, had saved more than Rs2,300 crore.

Last week, Parliamentary Af-fairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu had said the passage of the Bill would save Rs 20,000 crore by

avoiding subsidies taken by the undeserving.

Statutory backingThe Bill provides for statutory backing to Aadhaar scheme for transferring government subsi-dies and benefi ts.

It provides for “good govern-ance, effi cient, transparent and targeted delivery of subsidies, benefi ts and services, the expendi-

ture for which is incurred from the Consolidated Fund of India, to in-dividuals residing in India through assigning of unique identity num-bers to such individuals”, a sum-mary of the bill said.

Giving statutory backing to Aadhaar will enable the use of the identifi cation number for better targeting of subsidies.

Jaitley said discussion on the in-stitution of Aadhar has been going

on for over seven years after the then UPA government approved a bill in September, 2010 and in-troduced it in Parliament that December. “Entire discussion in seven years has now culminated,” he said, noting that it was dis-cussed in standing committee and extensive public suggestions were also received, as he stressed that the government had taken note of all this. — PTI

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There should not be injustice or oppression of

anybody, but the society should be vigilant and

the administration should take strict action on the

persons and organisations engaged in anti-national

activities in a planned manner

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

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HAUTE COUTUREA model presents a creation by Pakistani designer Feeha Jamshed on the fi rst day of

Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) week in Lahore on Thursday. — AFP

Bid to block F-16 sale to Pakistan fails in US Senate

WASHINGTON: An eff ort to prevent a $700 million sale of Lockheed Martin’s F-16 fi ghter jets to Pakistan was blocked in the US Senate on Thursday, but a key lawmaker said he would not allow the use of US funds to fi nance it.

Lawmakers voted 71 to 24 against an attempt introduced by Republican Senator Rand Paul to prevent the sale under legislation known as the Arms Control Act.

President Barack Obama’s ad-ministration announced on Feb-ruary 12 that it had approved the sale to Pakistan of the fi ghter air-craft, as well as radars and other equipment. It drew immediate criticism from India and concern from some members of Congress.

Paul had called Pakistan “an uncertain ally” and other law-makers expressed concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear programme, commitment to fi ghting terrorist organisations and cooperation in the Afghanistan peace process.

However, they generally sup-ported the sale, saying the South Asian state needs to modernise its air force and counter-terror-

ism activities. Republican Sena-tor Bob Corker said he would use his power as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-mittee to bar the use of any US funds for the deal.

Corker said, “Prohibiting a taxpayer subsidy sends a much-needed message to Pakistan that it needs to change its behaviour, but preventing the purchase of US aircraft would do more harm than good by paving the way for countries like Russia and China to sell to Pakistan while also in-hibiting greater cooperation on counterterrorism.”

The United States identifi ed Pakistan as a key partner in its war against terror following the September 11, 2001, attacks and spent billions of dollars on mili-tary aid to help the country fi ght insurgents. — Reuters

Washington

announced on

February 12 that it

had approved the

sale to Pakistan

of the aircraft

22 tribesmen arrested over kidnapping of 8 offi cialsWANA: Pakistani authorities on Friday arrested 22 tribesmen in the troubled northwestern South Waziristan region in a “collective responsibility” punishment a day after eight government offi cials were kidnapped, offi cials said.

Pakistan’s tribal areas, which include South Waziristan, are gov-erned by colonial-era legislation under which relatives, tribesmen and neighbours of suspects can be arrested and detained for years without trial for a crime commit-ted by another.

Eight offi cials of the Fata De-velopment Authority (FDA), the a

government organisation for the Federally Administered Tribal Ar-eas, were kidnapped in South Wa-ziristan on Thursday.

“We have arrested 22 tribesmen to put pressure for the release of the eight FDA offi cials as the kid-napping took place in their area and it is their collective responsi-bility to help authorities in the re-covery,” Masood Khan, a political offi cer, said on Friday. No militant group has so far claimed respon-sibility for the kidnapping. The South Waziristan enclave on the Afghan border forms one-fi fth of the Federally Administered Tribal

Areas and is governed under a sys-tem inherited from British rulers.

Government-appointed politi-cal agents rule through the Pash-tun tribes and collect and distrib-ute revenue with little oversight. The people have limited rights.

In 2009, Pakistan’s army or-dered the biggest off ensive yet, pouring 40,000 troops into South Waziristan in a bid to tip the bal-ance. But the off ensive displaced almost half a million people as homes, schools and hospitals were turned into hideouts by militants and meagre civic amenities were destroyed. — Reuters

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Fracking : An English duck that will never fl yDr Robin Russell-Jones

After reading the article by ‘The low price of oil will aff ect Middle East environmental eff orts’ (March 7) by Richard Galustian last

week on the impact on the environment of low oil prices, I felt compelled to raise another very im-portant subject.

Fracking has aroused huge controversy in the UK, mainly in England, as there is a moratorium on fracking in Scotland and Wales.

There is very little public support for fracking and virtually no local support with anti-fracking groups springing up wherever fracking companies apply for permission to drill.

Indeed to get the programme off the ground the UK government has taken away responsibility for permission to drill from the local councils and has had to off er generous tax incentives to fracking companies to make the industry fi nancially viable. That was before the price of gas fell to one third of its peak value last year.

Opposition is based mainly around local impacts such as the risk of earthquakes, health risks to the local population, and intrusion into the English countryside by hundreds if not thousands of drill-ing platforms and lorries carrying waste products away from the fracking site. Each well requires 6 million gallons of water plus sand, chemicals and lubricants, and produces at least 3 million gallons of waste which requires disposal, some of it in fa-cilities licensed to handle radioactive material. In the United States they were extremely cava-lier about disposal as the fracking industry were granted exemptions from the Clean Water and crucially the Clean Air Act by the Bush adminis-tration, the so-called Cheney loop-hole. In the UK the industry, should it ever get off the ground, will be far more tightly regulated. In addition the shale deposits are much deeper than in the US and will be correspondingly more expensive to extract .

In Poland of course the fracking companies gave up after two years because the geology was too diffi cult. There is shale gas in both the North and South of England and shale oil has been discovered close to Gatwick airport. It is extremely doubtful whether any of this will ever be exploited, not be-cause of the local opposition, which is ferocious, but because of the global warming impact of shale gas which is 97 per cent methane.

Methane is the second most important green-house gas with a Global Warming Potential (GWP)

87 times greater than an equivalent mass of CO2 over a 20 year time frame. If fugitive emissions of methane exceed 2 per cent of production, then gas is no better than coal from a climate change perspective. Professor Nick Cowern and I have recently reviewed all of the data on methane emis-sions from both conventional and unconventional gas production, and our evidence has been sub-mitted to the UK Committee on Climate Change chaired by Lord Deben. Our conclusions present some stark choices for politicians, pose challenges to the shale industry in the US and indeed the fossil fuel industry world-wide.

Because burning gas is more effi cient than coal, it provides a 50 per cent advantage in terms of emissions of CO2 emitted per unit of energy. However that is only half the story because of the methane that escapes into the atmosphere during the exploration, production, storage, and distribu-tion phases of the gas life-cycle: in other words all of the stages upstream of the power station.

There is a large diff erence in fugitive emissions between conventional and unconventional meth-ods of gas extraction.

A large reservoir of natural gas may require only a handful of platforms to extract the underlying resource, which typically is under pressure and therefore relatively simple to release and capture. By contrast, with unconventional sources such as shale gas, the resource is present as bubbles of gas within shale rock formations. Extraction is extremely challenging, it requires the injection of sand, water, chemicals and lubricants under pres-sure, and thousands of well-heads may be required to locate and extract signifi cant quantities of gas. The potential for leaks, whether accidental or de-liberate, is correspondingly greater.

Atmospheric monitoring from the early 1990s demonstrate that conventional gas production is associated with methane losses of at least 1 per cent, so the advantage of gas over coal is 25 per cent, not 50 per cent. Second liquefaction is ex-tremely energy intensive adding 20-25 per cent to the carbon footprint, which means that Liquefi ed Natural Gas (LNG) is no better than coal from a climate change perspective.

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Defiant Kim orders more nuclear tests

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched a ballistic missile launch test and ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conduct-ing more tests, the offi cial KCNA news agency reported on Friday.

The report did not say when the test took place but it was probably referring to North Korea’s launch of two short-range missiles on Thursday that fl ew 500 km (300 miles) and splashed into the sea.

“Dear comrade Kim Jong Un said work ... must be strengthened to improve nuclear attack capa-bility and issued combat tasks to continue nuclear explosion tests to assess the power of newly de-veloped nuclear warheads and tests to improve nuclear attack capability,” KCNA said.

The North Korean leader was quoted in state media this week as saying his country had miniatur-ised nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles.

Tensions have risen sharply on the Korean peninsula after the North conducted its fourth nucle-ar test in January and fi red a long-range rocket last month, spurring the UN Security Council to adopt a new sanctions resolution.

Conducting more nuclear tests would be in clear violation of UN

sanctions, which also ban ballistic missile tests, although Pyongyang has rejected them. North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

South Korea’s Unifi cation Min-istry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said: “It’s simply rash and thoughtless behaviour by some-one who has no idea how the world works,” when asked about Kim’s comments.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Pyongyang to “cease destabilising acts,” adding that he remained “gravely concerned” by the situation.

North Korea has recently stepped up its cyber attack ef-forts against South Korea and

succeeded in hacking the mobile telephones of 40 of its national se-curity offi cials, said members of parliament who received a closed door briefi ng by the country’s spy agency. South Korea has raised its alert against the threat of the North’s cyber attacks and this week said it had intercepted at-tempts to attack its railway system.

In China, North Korea’s most important economic and diplo-matic backer, the top newspaper, the People’s Daily, urged all sides to be “patient and brave”, show good-will and resume the talks process.

South Korea said it did not be-lieve that North Korea had suc-cessfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile. The US Defence Department said

this week it had seen no evidence that North Korea had succeeded in miniaturising a warhead.

However, Admiral Bill Gort-ney, the offi cer responsible for defending US air space, told a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday it was “prudent” for him to assume North Korea could both minia-turise a warhead and put it on an ICBM that could target the United States. Intel community gives it a very low probability of success, but I do not believe the American people want (me) to base my read-iness assessment on a low prob-ability,” he said.

North Korea has issued nearly daily reports in recent days of Kim’s instructions to fi ght South Korea and the United States as the two allies began large-scale military drills. It called the annual drills “nuclear war moves” and threatened to respond with an all-out off ensive. Kim last week ordered his country to be ready to use nuclear weapons in the face of what he sees as growing threats from enemies. The United States and South Korea remain techni-cally at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce instead of a peace agreement. — Reuters

Tensions have

risen sharply on the

Korean peninsula

after the North

conducted its fourth

nuclear test in

January and fi red a

long-range rocket

last month, spurring

the UN Security

Council to adopt

a new sanctions

resolution UPPING THE ANTE: A ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army

(KPA) is seen at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Cen-

tral News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Friday. — Reuters/KCNA

It’s simply rash and thoughtless behaviour by

someone (Kim Jong-un) who has no idea how the

world works, said South Korea’s Unification

Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee

China plans fl ights from disputed isleBEIJING: China will begin civil-ian fl ights to and from a disputed South China Sea island within a year, state media reported on Fri-day, as the government expands infrastructure on islands and reefs also claimed by other coun-tries in region.

The fl ights will be to Sansha city, on Woody Island in the Paracel ar-chipelago, China’s administrative base for islands and reefs it con-trols in the South China Sea.

Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Viet-nam also have claims.

The United States has voiced

concerns about China’s assertive pursuit of territory in one of the world’s busiest trade routes.

Two passenger ships and a po-lice vessel are base stations for mobile communications in San-sha, the offi cial Xinhua news agen-cy reported, citing an interview with Mayor Xiao Jie.

The airfi eld in Sansha and a newer one on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly archipelago are ex-pected to boost air traffi c services in the region, Xiao added, aiding navigation and surveillance while providing weather and aeronaut-ics information. — Reuters

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EXTREME SURFING A surfer rides a wave at the snowy beach of Unstad, in Lofoten Island, Arctic Circle, on Wednesday, in this picture released on Friday. Surfers from all over the

world come to Lofoten island to surf in extreme conditions where ocean temperature is around 6-7 degrees Celsius and air temperature around 0 degrees. — AFP

Ex-rival Carson endorses frontrunner ‘thinker’ Trump

PALM BEACH (US): Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won another high-profi le endorsement on Friday when re-tired neurosurgeon Ben Carson became the second former Repub-lican candidate to back him in the race for the White House.

“We buried the hatchet. That was political stuff ,” Carson said during a joint appearance with the billionaire businessman at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “I have found in talking with him, that there’s a lot more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there was,” added Carson, warm-ly praising his former rival and seeking to present him as more thoughtful than his public image often suggests.

The latest endorsement for Trump followed a CNN-hosted

Republican debate in Miami on Thursday night at which Trump and the remaining three can-didates in the Republican race struck a markedly more civil tone.

Carson’s backing also gives the New York real estate magnate a boost just days before crucial nom-inating contests in the battle to be the party’s presidential candidate for the November 8 election.

Republican primaries in fi ve states - including Florida and Ohio - on March 15 will be critical for Trump to cement his lead, and to

determine whether US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Ohio Governor John Kasich will be able to continue with their increasingly long-shot candidacies.

Trump’s nearest rival in the race is US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

During Friday’s news confer-ence, both Trump and Carson talked of “two” Donald Trumps - the public and the personal - ap-parently seeking to highlight a more measured side in contrast to his combative and sometimes crude tone on the campaign trail.

“There are two diff erent Donald Trumps: there’s the one you see on the stage and there’s the one who’s very cerebral, sits there and con-siders things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that’s the Donald Trump that you’re going to start seeing more and more of right now,” Carson said.

Trump said Carson had not asked for any formal role, but praised his former rival’s ideas on education. “Ben’s going to have a big, big part,” he said. Carson, who

gathered some support last year in opinion polls but whose campaign failed to garner backing in the ear-ly nominating contests, dropped out of the race last week.

Trump began his presidential run as a long shot but has won a string of early primary contests to become clear front-runner. In the process, he has alarmed many in the Republican establishment with his brash style and state-ments about immigrants, Muslims and free trade.

RationaleThat has prompted some party leaders to push for anyone but Trump. Carson, asked why he did not back Cruz, said he could not support political operatives who want to stop Trump and that blocking him would fracture the Republican Party and hand Demo-crats a victory in November.

His endorsement on Friday followed that of another former candidate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who announced last month he was getting behind Trump. Next Tuesday’s voting will be a pivotal point as candidates chase the 1,237 delegates from pri-mary contests needed to win the nomination.

Trump has 459 delegates, fol-lowed by Cruz at 360, Rubio at 152, and Kasich at 54, according to the Associated Press. Earlier on Friday, Trump continued to de-fend comments he made in recent television interviews stating that Muslims hate the United States. For his part, Rubio said in a round of television interviews Friday morning he was still in position to win Florida’s winner-take-all con-test next week. — Reuters

Praising billionaire

businessman Donald

Trump, the former

neurosurgeon Ben

Carson sought to

present him as more

thoughtful than his

public image often

suggests

BOOST: Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with former Repub-

lican presidential candidate Ben Carson after receiving Carson’s endorsement at a campaign event in

Palm Beach, Florida on Friday. - Reuters

Athens struggles to convince migrants Balkan route is shutA T H E N S / I D O M E N I (GREECE): Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants were stuck in camps and ports across Greece on Friday as authorities struggled to convince them that the main passage to reach wealthy northern Europe has shut.

By early morning hundreds more people, many from the Mid-dle East and Africa, had reached Greek islands, days after the shut-downs along the “Balkan route” were imposed.

Their arrival helped swell the number of those stuck across the country to over 42,000. At a sprawling, muddy tent city near the northern border town of Ido-meni, 12,000 people, among them thousands of children and babies, waited to cross to Macedonia.

“These people maintain the hope that a number of them will cross to the north,” Citizen Protec-tion Minister Nikos Toskas told Greek TV.

“We’re trying to convince them ... that the Balkan route has closed.”

Arrived on shipsFurther south, more than 3,500 people waited at the main port of Piraeus near Athens after having arrived on ships from the eastern Aegean islands.

“At Piraeus we spent fi ve hours trying to get people on buses and take them to a camp, but they didn’t want to board,” Toskas said. “They think that once you reach Idomeni, you cross to central Eu-rope.” Scuffl es have broken out at Idomeni this week as destitute mi-

grants and refugees scrambled for food and fi rewood.

Tensions fl ared briefl y on Friday and at least one man was injured, with blood streaming down his face, during a handout of supplies. Many have slept in the open, often in the rain and low temperatures.

“In Syria we are fi ghting ISIS (IS militants), now we are fi ghting na-ture and I think its worse,” said Ali, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo who has been in Greece for 20 days. “ISIS have a limit but nature (has) no limit,” he told Reuters.

Greece has been the main entry point into Europe for more than a million refuges and migrants since last year. More than 130,000 peo-ple have arrived this year alone, stretching the country’s limited resources. — Reuters

R E F U G E E E X O D U S

DEAD END: Migrants queue up for food in a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border near the

village of Idomeni, Greece on Friday. - Reuters

MH370 plane debris found by teen to be sent for probe

JOHANNESBURG: A South Af-rican teenager has found debris which will be sent to Australia for testing as part of the investigation into the disappearance of a Malay-sian Airlines plane two years ago, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said on Friday.

Liam Lotter, 18, told South Af-rica’s East Coast radio he found the piece of debris on a beach in Mozambique while on holiday in December and his family took it back to their home in South Africa.

He said that after a suspected part of Malaysia Airlines fl ight MH370 was found in Mozambique last week his family made the con-nection with his fi nd.

Chunk of metalThat white, metre-long chunk of metal is being tested by offi cials in Australia, with help from Malay-sian authorities and representa-tives of manufacturer Boeing Co.

South African authorities plan to hand over the debris found by Lotter to the same Australian team. “We are arranging for col-lection of the part, which will then be sent to Australia as they are the ones appointed by Malaysia to identify parts found,” SACAA of-fi cial Kabelo Ledwaba said. — Reuters

M O Z A M B I Q U E

Hardliner is

Myanmar

army choice for

vice-president

NAYPYITAW: Myanmar’s mil-itary nominated a former junta stalwart who remains on a US sanctions list as its choice for vice president on Friday, point-ing to battles ahead for National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her hand-picked president.

The lower house of parlia-ment voted on Friday to con-fi rm Htin Kyaw, a close friend and confi dant of Nobel laure-ate Suu Kyi, as its presidential candidate.

That brought the top offi ce a step closer for the man expected to rule as her proxy.

Across town in the capital of Naypyitaw, military MPs met behind closed doors and nomi-nated retired general Myint Swe as their candidate. He was head of the feared military intelli-gence under former junta leader Than Shwe.

When Than Shwe ordered a crackdown on anti-junta pro-tests led by Buddhist monks in 2007, known as the Saff ron Revolution, Myint Swe was the head of special operations in Yangon. “

We held a meeting to decide the vice presidential candidate. There was no one who disa-greed on the proposal,” one of the 166 military lawmakers, who under the constitution hold a quarter of seats in parliament, told Reuters.

Suu Kyi has said she planned to form a government of recon-ciliation to help bridge the deep divisions in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, after nearly 50 years of military rule. — Reuters

S E T B A C K F O R S U I K Y I

T.K. MOHANDOSS sportseditor@timesofoman.com

DHARAMSALA: Persistent rain played spoil sport on Friday leav-ing no option for Oman other than ‘going Dutch’ with the Netherlands at the HPCA Stadium in Dharam-sala on Friday.

Splitting points meant that the Dutch are virtually dumped out of the preliminary round and Ire-land will have to beat Bangladesh later in the evening to keep Group A of ICC world T20 preliminary round alive.

Oman has a lifeline, and if Ire-land wins the rain-shortened game (13 overs each) they too will be in contention. But all depends on Sunday’s weather.

On Friday, Oman had won the toss and opted to fi eld.

It was disappointment that re-fl ected on the faces of Omani fans, who had turned up in fairly large numbers with national fl ags wear-ing and Oman jerseys.

The infl ow of fans began after Oman’s historic win over Ireland but it was sad that they couldn’t witness yet another triumph of their favourite team.

Confi dent OmanHowever, Oman having gained a point are still alive in the tourna-ment and they hope and are con-fi dent to put it across Bangladesh.

Skipper Sultan Ahmed spelt out the confi dence in his team, espe-cially after the historic triumph over Ireland, and said they will fi ght it out to take the giant step.

After the match was called off , Sultan said: “We wanted to play

the match badly as we were con-fi dent o beating Netherlands and boost our chances.”

But Sultan said that weather was not kind.

“In our mind, we were ready

for a fi ve-over match if weather permits and that’s the reason we dropped Jatinder and included Rajesh (Ranpura)” he explained.

“We wanted some big hitters and that was our strategy consid-

ering the rain. However, it did not happen,” he added.

On the other hand, Netherlands captain Peter Borren was emo-tional and disappointed.

“We can’t stop the weather but

what we could done was to beat Bangladesh in the fi rst game to keep ourselves alive,” said Borren.

“That match (against Bangla-desh) was in our hands but now eve-rything is lost,” lamented Borren.

T.K. MOHANDOSSsportseditor@timesofoman.com

DHARAMSALA: Oman skipper Sultan Ahmed and his Netherlands counterpart Peter Borren called for more offi cial games for the associ-ate teams and also the affi liates.

Speaking after their exit (one inconsequential match against Ireland remaining) from the ICC World T20 Championship, the Dutch captain called for more con-sideration from the International Cricket Council (ICC).

“We have the associate status but we don’t get games to play. We are eager to play more cricket and the governing body must chalk out plans to give the associate mem-bers their due,” said Borren.

“If you ask what next for Nether-lands, we have hardly three to four games lined up for this year and mind you this includes the match against Ireland here,” said Borren.

“We will be playing two matches against Nepal and one against Af-ghanistan,” he added.

“I don’t say ICC is not doing any-thing. All their developmental pro-grammes have been fruitful, but what we want is ‘play more’. More frequent matches rather than waiting till the next World Cup qualifi er,” detailed Borren.

“This will help the game spread

wings faster,” he added.Borren also highlighted that

revenue must not remain in one or two selective hands.

“It would be good everyone gets a good share of the cricket revenue, so that more can be done for the growth of the game.”

At the same time, Borren also ap-preciated the fact that it is nice to

see new cricket teams coming up and catching the eye of the world.

Vouching to what Borren said, Oman captain Sultan said, it will be nice to have more matches and ICC chalk out plans for bilateral series.

“Yes we would love to play crick-et round the year and also host matches,” said Sultan. “It would be good if we get chance to play more

50-over matches and also T20 and fi rst class games.”

Adding on Oman team manager Jamil Zaidi pointed out that the Netherlands has been an associate member for quite some time now, “but we have earned the status only recently.”

“ICC has been helping Oman Cricket a lot and it was the govern-

ing body who arranged many T20 matches (both offi cial and unoffi -cial) for us in the UAE,” said Jamil.

“ICC has helped us a lot in our preparations thus far and yes as (captain) Sultan said we would like to play more international matches from here on. Hope a new programme for the associates will be chalked out soon,” he said.

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GROUP A Played Won Lost Tied N/R Net RR PointsBangladesh 2 1 0 0 1 +0.400 3Oman 2 1 0 0 1 +0.283 3Ireland 2 0 1 0 1 -0.283 1Netherlands 2 0 1 0 1 -0.400 1

GROUP BAfghanistan 2 2 0 0 0 +0.805 4Zimbabwe 2 2 0 0 0 +0.625 4Scotland 2 0 2 0 0 -0.625 0Hong Kong 2 0 2 0 0 -0.789 0

S T A N D I N G S

Pakistan clears team’s travel to India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s In-terior Ministry has cleared the national cricket team to travel to India for the World Twenty20 following concerns about player safety, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Friday.

Pakistan had earlier said its men’s and women’s teams would travel to India only after New Delhi gave a public guar-antee on the safety of its players.

“The interior minister has given permission to send the Pakistan cricket team to play the Twenty20 on the basis of solid assurances received from chief minister of West Bengal and the... union home secretary and the home minister (in India),” PCB executive committee chair-man Najam Sethi told reporters.

“The team is completely ready and hopefully they will fl y to Dubai tonight and then from there will leave straight for In-dia,” Sethi added.

The March 19 clash between India and Pakistan has already been shifted to Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, following Pakistan’s security concerns over the original venue Dharamsala.

India’s Home Minister Ra-jnath Singh said on Friday Pa-kistan should not worry about their players’ safety.

“Why only Pakistan? Who-ever comes here, India provides them security. There is no rea-son to be worried about security here,” Singh said in New Delhi.

PCB chief Shaharyar Khan told reporters in Lahore that the play-ers were given the pullout option if they felt any security threat but all 15 squad members wanted to play in the tournament.

“We want cricketing ties to remain active...Our hope is that our cricketing relations (be-tween India and Pakistan) re-main intact,” Khan said. - Reuters

I C C W O R L D T 2 0

Oman hopes still alive though rain forces teams to ‘go Dutch’Shared points meant

that the Dutch are

virtually dumped out

of the tournament.

But Oman have a

lifeline going into

their fi nal group

match against

Bangladesh

on Sunday

Sultan, Borren seek more matches for associates

A P P E A L T O I C C

ASKING FOR MORE: Oman captain Sultan Ahmed, left, and the Neth-

erlands skipper Peter Borren.

WASHOUT: Indian ground staff cover the wicket as rain falls ahead of the ICC World T20 qualifying match between Oman and the Nether-

lands at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala on Friday. – AFP

DHARAMSALA: The qualifying round match of World T20 cricket tournament between Bangladesh and Ireland was abandoned after just eight overs due to rains here at the HPCA Stadium on Friday.

The match was initially reduced to a 12-over aff air after the start was delayed by one hour and 45 min-utes due to heavy rains. Put into bat, Bangladesh were 94 for 2 after eight overs when the Group A match was stopped again due to rains. The ‘no re-sult’ meant that whoever wins the match between Bangladesh and Oman on Sunday will qualify from Group A for the Super 10 stage of the world event.

Another tie abandoned, Ireland out

BANGLADESH (12 overs maximum) Tamim Iqbal c Porterfi eld b Dockrell 47Soumya Sarkar st N. O’Brien b McBrine 20Sabbir Rahman (not out) 13Shakib Al Hasan (not out) 0Extras (b-1, lb-9, w-4) 14 Total (2 wkts; 8 overs) 94Did not bat: Mahmudullah, Mushfi qur Rahim, Mohammed Mithun, Mashrafe Mortaza*, Abu Hider, Taskin Ahmed, Al Amin HossainFall of wickets: 1-61 (Soumya Sarkar, 4.4 ov), 2-94 (Tamim Iqbal, 7.6 ov).

Bowling: T. Murtagh 2-0-16-0; B. Rankin 1-0-11-0; K. O’Brien 1-0-19-0 (w-2); A. McBrine 2-0-20-1; G. Dockrell 2-0-18-1 (w-1).IRELANDW. Porterfi eld, P. Stirling, GC Wilson, NJ O’Brien, K O’Brien, A. Poynter, A. McBrine, M. Sorensen, T. Murtagh, B. Rankin, G. Dockrell.Result: Match abandonedToss: Ireland, who chose to fi eldPoints: Bangladesh 1, Ireland 1Umpires: NJ Llong (England) and RJ Tucker (Australia)TV umpire: CB Gaff aney (New Zealand)Match referee: AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)Reserve umpire: S Ravi

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Batting mavericks set to outrage the purists

NEW DELHI: When the curtain rises for the World Twenty20 Su-per 10 stage on Tuesday, a handful of batting mavericks will take cen-tre stage to amuse the fans, bemuse the bowlers and off end the purists — one outrageous stroke at a time.

Aesthetics has never been the strongest point of 20-over crick-et, where end justifi es means far more than in any other format of the game.

The brevity of the contest means a dot ball is a luxury any batting side can ill-aff ord. Besides piling pressure on the batsman, it is also a moral victory for the bowler. The need for improvisation has natu-rally never been felt more and some batsmen responded by coming up with shots that makes a complete mockery of fi eld placements.

Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan tore up the batting manual at the 2009 World Twenty20 when he stepped forward to a length de-livery, went down on one knee and scooped the ball over his own and the wicketkeeper’s head.

As his team begin their title de-fence against a qualifi er on March 17, the 39-year-old father of “Dils-coop” seems ready with another

version of the ramp shot which he unfurled in last week’s Asia Cup contest against Pakistan.

As paceman Mohammed Amir charged in, Dilshan changed his grip and ramped the ball over short third man for a boundary in a remarkable display of audacious ingenuity.

Across the Palk Strait, Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni has done his bit to redefi ne limited overs batting with his “Helicopter Shot”.

Batting coaches worldwide tell their students to put survival fi rst and respectfully dig out yorkers, but the Indian captain sniff ed a scoring opportunity from the most challenging of deliveries.

The result is a shot that involves a wild 360 degree swing of the bat, sending the ball over the midwick-et boundary with his fi rm bottom-hand grip and sheer power.

Breathtaking shortsThe shot has dried up of late but

Dhoni insisted it was more due to the fact that bowlers are not feeding him those toe-crushers anymore.

“If they bowl me bouncers, the only way I can play the helicopter shot is if I stand on a stool,” Dhoni, who led India to inaugural World Twenty20 glory in 2007 and the 50-over World Cup four years lat-er, quipped last month.

When on song, South African tal-isman AB de Villiers poses a bigger headache to rival captains with his versatile batting, which was in full display in his record-setting 31-ball century against West Indies in a Jo-hannesburg one-dayer last year.

An amazing athlete with a breathtaking range of shots, the 32-year-old right-hander bats in-side an imaginary box in the crease but continuously thinks outside of it with his outrageous shot-making.

De Villiers attributes his wide range of shots to a distinct grip and fans are assured of entertainment

should he fi nd form in the tourna-ment. Due to Kevin Pietersen’s absence in the England line-up, however, there will not be any op-portunity to enjoy a “switch hit”.

The South African-born crick-eter who cleared boundaries and polarised opinion in equal measure provided a microcosm of his turbu-lent career with this freak shot that sent the game’s custodians into a huddle to debate its legality.

The right-hander switched stance in a fl ash to transform into a left-hander, making fi eld setting impossible in a unique combina-tion of skill and chutzpah for a shot that was deemed legal in 2008.

By keeping the selection door fi rmly shut on a divisive presence, the 2010 champions may have spared themselves more dressing room drama but they have also denied fans a chance to witness some of the sport’s most audacious stroke-making. - Reuters

The need for

improvisation has

naturally never been

felt more and some

batsmen responded

by coming up with

shots that makes a

complete mockery

of fi eld placements

REDEFINING BATTING: Indian’s captain MS Dhoni pictured during a training session at Eden Garden

in Kolkata. – PTI

Stump-hoarding Dhoni eyes more memorabiliaNEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has grown a reputation as a notorious hoarder of souvenir stumps and considering India’s imperious form going into the World Twenty20, few would be surprised if he adds one more to his formidable collection on April 3.

After all, inaugural champions India go into the sixth edition of the tournament as the top-ranked team in the world, having won 10 of their 11 matches this year.

India started off the year blanking Australia in a three-match series before following that up with an Asia Cup triumph in Bangladesh. Seeking to ride that momentum all the way to a second World Twenty20 title, In-dia’s most successful captain has the comfort of being able to take on the challenge on home soil.

The fl ip side of India’s home advantage is the burden of ex-pectations from an unforgiving 1.2 billion cricket fans but Dhoni has not earned his “Captain Cool” moniker for nothing.

Five years after calmly hit-ting a six to seal India’s 50-over World Cup triumph on a humid April night in Mumbai, Dhoni, who plays only shorter formats, seems to have all the necessary resources to triumph once more in the fi nal phase of his career.

Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have forged a potent right-left combination at the top followed by batting mainstay Vi-rat Kohli, all three capable of win-ning matches single-handedly.

In Suresh Raina and Dhoni,

India are lucky to have two bats-men who can eff ortlessly shift gears, while all-rounder Hardik Pandya can also bash a few out of the ground.

Much to Dhoni’s relief, the team seemed to have fi nally fi xed their death bowling issue. In Jasprit Bumrah, India have dis-covered a bowler who can bowl yorkers almost at will, a virtue not really common in India. Even better, those are hurled with an unorthodox action which makes it even more diffi cult to pick them.

“The good thing with Bumrah is he technically has bit of pace,” Dhoni said. “He does not have a normal action, so batsman also takes time to get used to it. At the same time, his execution of york-ers is also very good.”

Ravichandran Ashwin’s cun-ning and control — best combined in the ‘carrom ball’ that he fl icks with his fi nger — has troubled the best in the business and the off -spinner will be a dangerous weapon in familiar conditions.

Apart from the fi tness con-cerns around paceman Moham-med Shami, the team seem to have no real worries and Dhoni already has set his eyes on col-lecting more memorabilia.

“It would be great. I have to do my post-cricket plans you see,” he said at a recent promotional event.

“I don’t mark the stumps that I collect. (Post-retirement) I’d watch the matches, look at the stumps and say ‘ok, this is from that match’. I have enough to keep me occupied for years.” - Reuters

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Newcastle put

faith in Benitez

after sacking

McClaren

LONDON: Newcastle United put their faith in Rafa Benitez on Friday, hoping the Spaniard will keep them in the Premier League after they won only six of 28 league games under the sacked Steve McClaren.

McClaren, who had been head coach for the last nine months, was dismissed only hours be-fore the club announced Ben-itez was taking over on an initial three-year deal.

Media reports said there was also an opt-out clause if New-castle are relegated this season.

Former Liverpool and Real Madrid boss Benitez, 55, has only 10 matches to save United.

“It will be a challenge not just for me and my staff but for the players, the club and the fans,” Benitez said.

Newcastle are 19th in the 20-team league having won only six league games under McClaren, whose fate was sealed when New-castle were beaten 3-1 at home by Bournemouth last weekend.

Benitez has been without a team since he left Real in Janu-ary, and Newcastle will be the third English club to employ him following his six years at Liverpool between 2004 and 2010. - Reuters

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PORSCHE PROFIT RISES Porsche, the maker of the 911 sports car, reported that profi t last year jumped 25 per cent jump to a record, providing much-needed support to parent Volkswagen as it braces for the towering cost of resolving its emissions-cheating scandal. - Bloomberg News

UK pound exchange rate fl uctuations a threat to economyLONDON: British government’s recent announcement that a ref-erendum on Britain’s European Union (EU) membership will take place on June 23 was quickly followed by a sharp drop in the pound’s value.

Exchange rate volatility for the pound is bound to continue until the referendum, and to intensify at moments when a vote for ‘Brexit’ (Britain’s exit) looks more likely. The result may be a self-fulfi lling prophecy, in which market and po-litical instability drive British vot-ers to reject the EU — an outcome that would be highly dangerous for them and their European counter-parts alike.

The political implications recall the experience of the twentieth century, when the pound’s external value was a national obsession in the UK and currency crises regu-larly destroyed the credibility of governments and wreaked politi-cal havoc. For example, in August 1931 – the middle of the Great De-pression – a fi nancial crisis and a

run on the pound forced the resig-nation of the Labour government, led by prime minister Ramsay MacDonald; it was replaced by a coalition government, and the La-bour Party split apart.

In 1967, another Labour govern-ment, led by Harold Wilson, was damaged by a devaluation spurred by a speculative attack; Labour lost the subsequent general election. The party regained power in 1974, but within two years Britain was hit by another currency crisis – this one large enough to require sup-port from the International Mon-etary Fund. Again, Labour lost the next election and the party split.

Credibility at stakeSuch credibility issues were not exclusive to Labour.

It was under prime minis-ter John Major’s Conservative government that 1992’s ‘Black Wednesday’ struck, with the pound being forced out of the Eu-ropean Exchange Rate Mecha-nism, the precursor to the euro.

This severely damaged the govern-ment’s credibility. Although the Conservatives did manage a nar-row victory in the next election, the party’s internal fi ssure over Euro-pean integration deepened, and by the end of the 1990s, Labour was back in power (and would remain

there for more than a decade).The economic eff ects of Brit-

ain’s twentieth-century currency crises were far less severe than the political repercussions. In fact, the devaluation of 1931 set the stage for an era of cheap money, which made 1930s Britain a much less

dismal place than it had been un-der the economic orthodoxy of the gold standard in the 1920s. And the 1992 devaluation led to a new monetary-policy approach, great-er macroeconomic stability, and faster economic growth.

Infl ationToday, however, the British econ-omy is facing serious risks. Ex-change-rate fl uctuations pose a serious short-term challenge for monetary policy, given the poten-tial of the resulting price changes to spur infl ation. That may not seem like such a bad thing, given today’s excessively low infl ation (partly a result of falling oil and commodity prices); the risk, of course, is that infl ation will overshoot.

More dangerous is the possibil-ity that political uncertainty in the run-up to the referendum will discourage foreigners from buying British assets – a major problem for a country with a large current-account defi cit. The prospect of losses from a declining exchange

rate will be a further deterrent, po-tentially pushing the United King-dom into a vicious cycle of collaps-ing confi dence. In that case, the forced adjustment of the current account would tip the economy into recession.

As in the twentieth century, this economic breakdown is likely to destroy the credibility of prime minister David Cameron’s Con-servative government. The ques-tion is whether that will turn voters against the government’s pro-EU campaign, causing them to choose Brexit, or against the dam-aging referendum that the gov-ernment has introduced, thereby spurring a pro-EU outcome.

Two competing narratives are now being tested. Those, including Cameron, who support continued EU membership emphasise that Europe (but not the single cur-rency) is a source of strength and stability for the UK.

Meanwhile, advocates of Brexit argue that the UK is uniquely pow-erful. - Project Syndicate

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Airlines in Middle Eastmaintain strong growth

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Middle East airlines had the strongest year-over-year passenger demand in January this year at 10.9 per cent, helped by ongoing network and fl eet ex-pansion. Capacity rose 12.9 per cent and load factor dipped 1.4 percentage points to 77.8 per cent, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA)

January international passen-ger traffi c rose 7.3 per cent com-pared to the year-ago period. Ca-pacity rose 5.9 per cent and load factor rose 1 percentage point to 78.8 per cent. All regions recorded year-over-year increases in de-mand, says IATA note.

“January maintained the strong traffi c growth trend seen in 2015, showing the resilience of demand for connectivity despite recent turmoil in equity markets. The record load factor is a result of strong demand for our product and airlines making the most pro-ductive use of their assets,” said

Tony Tyler, IATA director general and chief executive offi cer.

“Underlying conditions point to another strong year for pas-senger traffi c, with the latest de-cline in oil prices likely providing additional stimulus for air travel growth,” Tyler added.

The IATA said that global pas-senger traffi c results for January 2016 showing demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 7.1 per cent compared to Jan-uary 2015. This was ahead of the 2015 full year growth rate of 6.5 per cent. January capacity rose 5.6 per cent, with the result that load factor rose 1.1 percentage points to 78.8 per cent, the highest load factor ever recorded for the fi rst month of the year.

Asia Pacifi c regionIn the Asia Pacifi c regions, air-lines recorded an increase of 10.3 per cent compared to January 2015. Capacity rose 7.6 per cent, pushing up load factor 2 percent-age points to 79.2 per cent. A 7.3

per cent increase in the number of direct airport connections within the Asia region over the past 12 months or so has helped to stimu-late demand. European carriers’ international traffi c climbed 4.2 per cent in January compared to the year-ago period. Capacity rose 2.6 per cent and load factor rose 1.2 percentage points to 78.8 per cent. Airline strikes and the shutdown of Russia’s Transaero caused the region’s traffi c to fall in the last quarter of 2015. Volumes have picked up somewhat in re-cent months.

In the African region, airlines saw January traffi c jump 12.1 per cent compared to January 2015. This continues the strong upward trend in travel since mid-2015 that coincides with a jump in ex-ports from the region over the same period. With capacity up 8.2 per cent, load factor rose 2.5 per-centage point to 71.3 per cent.

North American airlinesNorth American airlines saw de-mand rise 2.4 per cent in January over a year ago. Capacity rose 1.3 per cent, pushing up load factor 0.8 percentage points to 80.3 per cent. North American interna-tional traffi c growth was weak-est among the regions, as carriers have focused on the stronger and larger domestic market.

Latin American airlines’ traffi c climbed 8.9 per cent in January. Capacity rose 7.8 per cent and load factor increased 0.8 percentage

points to 82.5 per cent, highest among the regions. Domestic traf-fi c remains under pressure from economic diffi culties in the re-gion’s biggest economies, notably Brazil, but the strong growth in international demand shows little sign of slowing.

Domestic marketIn the domestic market, air travel rose 6.8 per cent in January year-on-year. Capacity rose 5.1 per cent and load factor was 78.9 per cent, up 1.3 per cent percentage points.

India’s domestic air travel soared 22.9 per cent in January compared to a year ago. Growth is being propelled by the compara-tively strong domestic economy and increases in air services.

The Indian market overtook both Australia and Japan during 2015 and is currently level with Russia at around 1.2 per cent of global RPKs.

Russian domestic traffi c slipped 2 per cent in January. Despite the decline, the Russian domestic load factor reached an all-time January high as capac-ity fell at a faster rate, suggesting that local carriers have absorbed traffi c aff ected by the shutdown of Transaero.

January international passenger traffi c rose

7.3 per cent compared to the year-ago period.

Capacity rose 5.9 per cent and load factor

rose 1percentage point to 78.8 per cent

Tehran’s oil market return ‘more modest’ than forecast:Energy agency

TEHRAN: Increase in Iran’s crude oil exports after the lifting of sanctions has been “more modest” than the country intended, accord-ing to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Iran increased oil output by 300,000 barrels a day this year to a four-year high of 3.2 million a day in February, the Paris-based agency said. That’s less than the 400,000 barrel-a- day increase Iran itself has reported. Even af-ter sanctions were eased following the completion of a nuclear deal, Iran still faces obstacles to selling crude to Europe, one of its main export markets before the trade restrictions were imposed in 2012.

“Iran’s return to the market has been less dramatic than the Irani-ans said it would be,” the IEA said in its monthly report Friday. “Pro-gress in ramping up crude sales has been somewhat slowed by the wariness of banks and ship owners to do business with Iran.”

The nation’s crude exports in February rose to above 1.4 million barrels a day, compared with about 1.15 million just before sanctions were eased, the IEA said. Prelimi-nary data suggest shipments in March will expand by a further 150,000 barrels a day, it said. Be-fore additional sanctions were imposed in 2012, Iran was export-ing about 2.2 million barrels a day, with Europe accounting for about 600,000 barrels.

Iran managed to sell some crude shipments to Europe in Febru-ary, adding up to a fl ow of about 140,000 barrels a day, the IEA said. Refi ners including France’s Total, Spain’s Cia. Espanola de Petroleos and Lukoil’s trading arm Litasco purchased crude from the Middle Eastern country. The fi rst tanker of Iranian crude since 2012 ar-rived in Europe earlier this week.

Buyers in Asia, some of which were still able to purchase Iranian crude during the sanctions, have stepped up their purchases, ac-cording to the report. South Korea has imported about 200,000 bar-rels a day so far this year, double last year’s level.

Meanwhile, oil headed for the longest run of weekly gains since May amid signs of rising United States fuel demand and easing crude production.

Futures climbed as much as 3 per cent in New York and are set for a fourth weekly advance.

Gasoline consumption the past four weeks was at the highest since September, while crude output remained near the least since No-vember 2014, according to Energy Information Administration.

Stockpiles still remain at the most since 1930. Prices may have bottomed as shrinking supplies erode a global glut, the Interna-tional Energy Agency said. - Agencies

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January maintained the

strong traffic growth

trend seen in 2015,

showing the resilience

of demand for

connectivity despite

recent turmoil in

equity markets

Tony TylerDirector general and CEO, IATA

POSITIVE FORECAST: Underlying conditions point to another strong year for passenger traffi c, with the latest decline in oil prices likely providing additional stimulus for

air travel growth, International Air Transport Association. – Bloomberg News

CURRENCY CRISIS: The prospect of losses from a declining ex-

change rate will be a further deterrent, potentially pushing the UK

into a vicious cycle of collapsing confi dence. – Bloomberg News

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Italy factory output beats estimates

ROME: Italian industrial output rose more than twice the econo-mists’ forecast in January, sign-aling that the pace of economic growth may accelerate in the com-ing months.

Production increased 1.9 per cent from December, which reg-istered a 0.6 per cent fall, national statistics bureau Istat said in a re-port issued on Friday in Rome. The median of 14 estimates in a survey called for a 0.7 per cent rise in the fi rst month of 2016. On an annual, work-day-adjusted basis, produc-tion rose 3.9 per cent, Istat said.

The output’s monthly increase in January was the biggest since August 2011, according to data.

As a limited revival in consump-tion more than off set the impact of falling net exports and investments that failed to rise, GDP is expected to increase by 0.1 per cent in the three months through March, the same as in the previous quarter, Istat said earlier this week.

First quarterThe production report is “excellent news as it supports expectations of an economic expansion in the fi rst quarter,” said Loredana Federico, an economist at UniCredit Bank in Milan. “Looking ahead and given both the persistent weakness in global demand and the fi nancial-market turbulence, decline in coming months can’t be ruled out.”

Italian executives remain pessi-mistic about the economic outlook. Business confi dence fell in Febru-ary for the fourth straight month amid concerns that the GDP may fail to pick up. - Bloomberg News

J A N U A R Y Global markets eye Gulf’s $6 billion leather industry

Times News Service

MUSCAT: International leather makers are training their sights on the Gulf region’s $6 billion leather industry, with several big names already confi rming their participa-tion at the Middle East’s only trade show covering the global leather industry’s entire value chain.

The second edition of Leather-world Middle East will take place from April 26 to 28 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will re-turn following a rousing industry response to the inaugural show in May 2015.

ExhibitorsMore than 125 exhibitors are ex-pected at the three-day event in 2016, all eager to capitalise on the Gulf Cooperation’s leather trade that according to analysts Euro-

monitor, was valued at $4.09 bil-lion in 2014. That fi gure includes the import and export of semi-fi nished and fi nished leather, ac-cessories, travel goods, handbags and footwear.

The GCC is also a leather manu-facturing hub — $1.9 billion worth

of dressed leather, luggage, hand-bags, saddlery, harnesses and foot-wear were produced in the Gulf region in 2014, with Saudi Arabia ($1.1 billion), the UAE ($468 mil-lion), and Qatar ($250 million) the region’s big three leather producers.

Many exhibitors are return-

ing to Leatherworld Middle East 2016 after successful debuts in 2015, headed by Dani, the Italian supplier of sustainable leathers, Indian companies Hidesign, and C&E; and UAE-based leather sup-plier Afriwest. Conceria Superior from Italy headlines the fi rst-time exhibitors taking part in 2016.

2,400 trade buyersAll will build on the show’s breakout debut success, where nearly 2,400 trade buyers from 66 countries passed through, while 86 exhibitors from 16 countries showcased their latest wares, from hundreds of vari-ations of animal hides, production machinery and chemicals, to leath-er handbags, footwear, accessories, and garments.

Ahmed Pauwels, chief executive offi cer of Messe Frankfurt Middle East, the organiser of Leatherworld Middle East, said: “After three days of busy networking, knowledge sharing, and insights into the latest global leather trends, Leatherworld Middle East 2015 fi rmly made its mark on the regional and interna-tional leather market.”

“The GCC’s $4.09 billion worth of leather imports and exports in 2014, along with $1.9 billion worth of manufacturing capabili-ties reinforces an ideal backdrop for Leatherworld Middle East to become one of the world’s premier trade and networking platforms.”

Leatherworld Middle East 2016 will have a distinct luxury touch that is synonymous with all things leather-related, and while new business alliances will be forged

and the distinct leather smell will permeate the air, it’s the three-day event’s returning features that are set to grab plenty of attention.

The popular Trend Area is among these, where an exclusive range of luxurious global leather in-novations and animal hides will be seen for the fi rst time in the region, from stingray skin pouches and la-ser printed calf hides, to 22-carat gold-embossed alligator skins.

Elsewhere, the UAE’s most talented up-and-coming fashion designers at prestigious fash-ion institute ESMOD Dubai will showcase their creative talents with an inspiring array of leather garments at Leatherworld Middle East’s Designers’ Area.

Other exclusive product zones include ‘The Shoe Box’, a section dedicated entirely for footwear; and ‘The Fashion Avenue’, where suppliers of high street fashion leather products showcase their high-end leather clothes and accessories.

Leatherworld Middle East en-compasses tanneries (semi-fi n-ished and fi nished leather), chem-icals, and machinery to fi nished leather goods, including footwear, bags, wallets, accessories, furni-ture and everything derived from leather, bringing together industry stakeholders all under one roof.

More than 125

exhibitors are

expected to attend

the second edition of

Leatherworld Middle

East from April 26

to 28 in Dubai

Samsung opens up chairman’s seat, warns of 2016 tech gloomHONG KONG: Samsung Elec-tronics warned of rising competi-tion across businesses from smart-phones to memory chips, again sounding a dour note for the global technology industry in 2016.

The world’s largest smartphone vendor faces another diffi cult year after a 2015 plagued by economic turbulence and volatile exchange rates, chief executive offi cer Kwon Oh-Hyun said in a letter to share-holders ahead of their annual meeting on Friday.

At the gathering, Samsung for-mally adopted a proposal to allow non-CEOs to take up the chair-man’s role for the fi rst time, a move that signals eff orts to improve gov-ernance. The pool of candidates now encompasses qualifi ed execu-tives as well as independent board directors, said Kelly Yeo, a spokes-woman for the company. South Korea’s largest conglomerate is in part reacting to criticism after the sale of a subsidiary to another unit, in a controversial 2015 deal that helped cement the Lee family’s control of the empire.

More immediately, Samsung

Electronics — the maker of Gal-axy smartphones and the group’s crown jewel — is fi ghting to pro-tect its market share from Apple and Chinese rivals like Huawei Technologies and grappling with declining semiconductor and con-sumer electronics prices.

“We expect core products of our company, such as smartphone, TV, and memory, will face oversup-ply issues and intensifi ed price competition,” the CEO said in his annual letter. “We expect that

2016 will also be a tough year.”

First moverSamsung Electronics in January reported a quarterly profi t that fell short of expectations by almost 40 percent and said it expects slow-ing demand for smartphones and more global economic headwinds this year. The company is invest-ing in new technologies such as foldable mobile displays to try and boost profi t.

“Even under the challenging circumstances, we will renew eve-rything from our product devel-opment and management to the organizational culture in order to lead the new era and become a true fi rst mover,” Kwon said.

Apple — Samsung’s biggest cus-tomer according to data compiled by Bloomberg -- has predicted its fi rst sales decline in a decade. Ap-ple vhief executive offi cer Tim Cook said the maker of iPhones was seeing “extreme conditions” unlike anything it had ever en-countered, with economic growth in China at its weakest pace in 25 years. – Bloomberg News

C O R P O R A T E

Euro-area infl ation goal diffi cult to achieve: ECBFRANKFURT: European Cen-tral Bank (ECB) is coming to terms with the idea that its near-2 per cent infl ation goal won’t be materialising anytime soon.

Bank staff downgraded their outlook to 0.1 per cent headline infl ation this year, forecasts re-leased showed, with price pres-sures rising to 1.6 per cent by 2018 — still short of policy makers’ goal. In their December projections, they expected to hit 1 per cent this year and 1.6 per cent in 2017.

“I think it shows some real-ism from the ECB,” said Anatoli Annenkov, senior economist at Societe Generale in London, after Draghi announced a package of rate cuts and expanded asset pur-chases. It also keeps the door open for easing, he said, because “the fact that they put 1.6 at the end forecast almost begs the question — why didn’t they do more?”

This is a near-term concern for ECB president Mario Draghi Draghi. He said that energy prices suggest that infl ation will remain in negative territory and only pick up later in 2016.2. Growth recovery

Draghi said that in order to re-turn to price stability, the euro area fi rst needs to close its output gap, or the diff erence between potential and actual growth. It’s getting there, he said, with output gains that are “not spectacular,” but ongoing.

“It’s going to take time because it would be foolish to think that we go back to infl ation, to 2 per-cent or below 2 percent, with an economy that hasn’t recovered yet,” Draghi said.

Unrealistic?When it comes to the prospects for infl ation in a low- growth environment, Draghi sounds more hopeful than former ECB Governing Council member Luc Coene. Coene, now a representa-tive at the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mecha-nism, questioned the ECB’s entire infl ation-targeting framework, in an interview with Belgian news-paper De Tijd published on Friday. “The ECB must ask itself whether its infl ation target of 2 per cent is still realistic” as memories of 2

per cent to 3 per cent growth fade, he said. 3. Wages

Draghi noted that while in-creases in wages haven’t yet ma-terialised in a “signifi cant way in the euro area,” they need to arrive on the road to higher infl a-tion. The takeaway? Draghi isn’t despairing about infl ation, but he’s increasingly admitting that it could be a long time coming.

That said, the ECB didn’t fully account for the anticipated ef-fects of its newly unveiled uncon-ventional monetary policies in this round of infl ation forecasts, unlike when it unveiled the quan-titative easing (QE) programme for the fi rst time last year. So that means there could be an upside surprise in the next round of fore-casts due in June, if the package of rate cuts and bond purchases announced on Thursday has the desired eff ect.

ECB’s decision to buy corporate bonds will be a boon for investors but may have a muted impact on infl ation given the small size of that market and its tenuous link to the broader economy. – Agencies

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HUGE MARKET: Gulf Cooperation Council is a leather manufac-

turing hub — $1.9b worth of dressed leather, luggage, handbags,

saddlery, harnesses and footwear were produced in the Gulf region

in 2014, with Saudi Arabia ($1.1b), the UAE ($468m), and Qatar

($250m) the region’s big three leather producers. - Supplied photo

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Failed Indian airlines promoter Mallya refutes ‘fl ed’ claimsNEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Ty-coon Vijay Mallya, under pressure from banks to repay more than $1 billion owed by his collapsed air-line, on Friday refuted claims he had fl ed India as politicians traded recriminations over how he was able to fl y to Britain unhindered.

The March 2 departure of Mallya has sparked uproar in parliament and a fi restorm in do-mestic media that pore over the lifestyle one of India’s brashest en-trepreneurs. Questions centre on how Mallya was allowed to leave even after creditors of his failed Kingfi sher Airlines had appealed to the Supreme Court to ensure he stayed in the country.

“I did not fl ee from India and

neither am I an absconder,” 60-year-old Mallya said in a series of posts on Twitter. Mallya said in his posts that he would comply with domestic laws.

India’s fi nancial crime-fi ghting agency, the Enforcement Direc-torate, has summoned Mallya for questioning on March 18, a senior agency offi cial said later on Friday. A spokesman for Mallya’s holding company, UB Group, declined to comment on the summons.

The self-styled ‘King of Good Times’, who co-owns a Formula 1 racing team, explained to his 5 mil-lion Twitter followers that he trav-els to and from India frequently, saying he was the target of ‘a raging fi re’ media witch hunt.

Flew to LondonMallya, also a member of parlia-ment’s upper house who was last seen in the chamber on March 1, didn’t disclose his current loca-tion in the social media posts. Two people familiar with his travel ar-rangements said Mallya fl ew fi rst class to London on Jet Airways

Flight 9W-122 the next day.Indian TV reporters said they

had traced Mallya to the Hert-fordshire village of Tewin, north of London, where he is known to locals. The businessman’s luxu-ry home, called ‘Ladywalk’, cost £11.5 million ($16.4 million) when bought in July 2015, property re-

cords show. Security offi cials said that Mallya, a fi xture in India’s society press pages who sports a goatee, an ear stud and a ponytail, was the subject of a ‘lookout no-tice’ — an offi cial circular that trig-gers an alert if the target seeks to leave India but does not provide a legal basis to prevent departure.

No formal legal warrant was is-sued against him, even as creditors sought to step up eff orts to recover the $1.4 billion owed by Kingfi sher Airlines, which stopped fl ying in October 2012.

“What can we do? It was the banks’ responsibility to fi le a criminal case against him,” said a senior home ministry offi cial who declined to be identifi ed because

he was not authorised to discuss the case publicly. “We had no legal basis to stop him.”

Modi skeweredIndia’s attorney general, represent-ing more than a dozen creditors, told the Supreme Court only this Wednesday that the tycoon was no longer in the country — a week af-ter Mallya left — leaving New Delhi red-faced over his departure.

Opposition politicians have skewered Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi for presiding over a situ-ation where Mallya was allowed to leave the country, mocking Modi’s election promise to bring back illicit “black money” stashed abroad. - Reuters

D E B T

Opec-Russia oil group struggles with talks venue

LONDON: A month after prom-ising cooperation that would re-balance global oil markets, the producer coalition forged by Saudi Arabia and Russia is having diffi culty taking its fi rst step.

Organisation of Petroleum Ex-porting Countries (Opec) mem-bers and rival producers have yet to decide when, or where, to hold talks on a proposed accord to freeze oil output, a strategy aimed at curb-ing the worldwide oversupply.

Dates and locations suggested by one producer — this month or next, in Moscow, Doha or Vienna — are promptly snubbed by an-other in the fl edgling alliance. On Wednesday, the process received another setback when a gather-ing of Latin American producers scheduled for Friday in Quito, Ec-uador, was pushed back.

Opec members and Russia reached a tentative agreement on February 16, their fi rst in 15 years, to cap oil output to ease a crude-price slump that’s pumme-led economies, markets and com-panies. Benchmark Brent oil has since recovered from the 12- year low it reached in January.

While a production freeze alone is seen as inadequate to tackle the oil surplus, Saudi Arabia’s description of the deal as “the beginning of a process” spurred speculation that more concrete steps may be taken.

“It’s funny to hear almost each day the diff erent dates, diff erent locations or the lack of invitation for this producer meeting,” said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS Group in Zurich.

“Talking about the freeze has been supporting prices, but talk is cheap. Even if a freeze is agreed, it won’t eliminate near-term global

oversupply.”Brent, which has gained 14 per cent this month, rose 1.9 per cent to $40.82 a barrel at in Tokyo on Friday.

Welcomed by most Opec mem-bers, the pact struck between Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar also received some support from other producers. Azerbaijan is prepared to join the agreement, ANS TV reported, citing state oil Company of Azer-baijan President Rovnaq Abdul-layev on March 6, while Oman’s oil minister described the deal as positive on February 23. Ka-zakhstan said in January that its production is already projected to decline this year.

Global surplusStill, the initiative will have lit-tle impact on the global surplus without the co-operation of Iran, which is unlikely to participate, according to Commerzbank. Poised to restore as much as 1 million barrels of daily exports previously blocked by sanctions, Iran has dismissed the proposal as ‘ridiculous’.

There are other signs the ac-cord may be fraying before it even begins, as countries that ini-tially welcomed the idea push for bolder action. Freezing output is ‘insuffi cient’ given the scale of the oversupply, Algerian Energy Min-ister Salah Khebri said in Algiers on March 9.

Ecuadorean Oil Minister Car-

los Pareja said the planned Quito gathering of Latin American pro-ducers — now on hold — may have pushed for output cuts.

That would clash with the stated policy of Opec’s biggest member, Saudi Arabia, whose Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on February 23 that the freeze would not become a cut.

Ecuador’s Pareja said the planned conference of regional producers would be postponed until late March or early April because of scheduling diffi culties, according to government news agency Andes. Even if the region’s exporters agreed to cap supply, International Energy Agency data indicate there would be little impact on markets as output from most Latin American produc-ers is set to stagnate or decline through next year anyway.

Getting to the next round of talks has been a tangled process.

Speaking at the IHSCera Week conference in Houston last month, Saudi Arabia’s Al Naimi said the process of devising a freeze agreement would con-tinue with more discussions in March. Two weeks later, Nigerian Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu said those talks would be held in Russia on March 20. While RBC reported the meeting would be in St Petersburg, Rus-sia’s Energy Ministry said later that day no date or location had been decided. – Bloomberg News

Dates and locations

suggested by one

producer — this

month or next,

in Moscow, Doha

or Vienna — are

promptly snubbed

by another in the

fl edgling alliance

Sensex ends in green, rupee rises

MUMBAI: After a day’s pause, market benchmark Sensex re-sumed its upward march by bouncing 95 points in a choppy trade to end at 24,717.99, spurred by rally in FMCG, healthcare and oil & gas stocks as buying activity re-emerged amid a fi rming trend.

For the week, Sensex gained 71.51 points or 0.29 per cent and Nifty surged 24.85 points or 0.33 per cent, logging their second straight weekly gains.

Optimistic purchases by inves-tors ahead of IIP data for January

and the government announcing a new pricing formula for unde-veloped gas discovering in diffi -cult areas, buoyed sentiment.

Extending gains against the American currency for the third consecutive day, the rupee on Friday ended at 67.05 per dol-lar, higher by 2 paise on persis-tent selling of the greenback by banks and exporters in view of sustained foreign capital infl ows into equities. The rupee resumed lower at 67.15 as against Thurs-day’s closing level of 67.07. - PTI

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TENTATIVE AGREEMENT: Opec members and Russia reached a

tentative agreement on February 16, their fi rst in 15 years, to cap

oil output to ease a crude-price slump that’s pummelled econo-

mies, markets and companies. – File photo

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Technology companies al-ways get to break the rules. We don't dispute how much

cash Apple actually has. Or that Amazon's stock is  valued at  447 times earnings.

And so this may sit fi ne with you, too: Of all the companies that have made big acquisitions during this two-year- long deal boom, none have had a larger increase in good-will as a proportion of assets than Facebook. 

For most other businesses,  that kind of statistic could be alarming, as a high level of goodwill following a deal  can signal the buyer over-paid. For Facebook, no worries. 

Where did it come from? Just a little over two years ago, on Febru-ary 19, 2014, in a curious regula-tory fi ling that hit after US market hours, Facebook announced it would  acquire mobile- messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. It was the end of an already busy day as far as merger and acquisi-tions (M&As) news went: Mylan was being speculated about as the

drug industry’s next mega-merger candidate. Safeway, a grocery-store chain, and Furiex, the maker of a therapy for irritable bowel syn-drome, were also both said to be seeking bids. And jewellery com-pany Signet announced a takeover of rival Zale that morning.

Even though  the surge in deal activity was fostering a “never say never” mentality, many of us look-ing at the Facebook fi ling thought, could it  be a hoax? It looked le-gitimate, but the price seemed too outlandish to be real. Our analysis that evening would fi nd that Face-book’s off er valued WhatsApp as if it could cure cancer — literally. The valuation would put it in a camp of biotechnology companies devel-oping treatments for cancer and other serious ailments. 

Analysts tried  to make sense of the price, because there›s tre-mendous faith in the founders and CEOs of big tech companies, especially someone  as successful as Mark Zuckerberg. It came down to two numbers: Zuckerberg’s goal

to expand the WhatsApp user base to more than one billion people and charge them 99 cents a year (after a fi rst year of free service).

That would eventually trans-late into roughly $1 billion of sales — still a lofty multiple, but  a case could be made. 

In February, WhatsApp reached that milestone of one billion users. As for the revenue, well, that›s been pushed further down the road.

The 99-cent subscription fee was discontinued in January, and the company is going to look for alternative  ways to monetise all those users. 

“Naturally, people might wonder how we plan to keep WhatsApp running without subscription fees... Starting this year, we will test tools that allow you to use What-sApp to communicate with busi-nesses and organisations that you want to hear from.” — WhatsApp blog post

It cited the texts and phone calls  people get from their banks when a transaction is suspected to

be fraudulent or from an airline if a fl ight is delayed, and how this could perhaps be made easier through WhatsApp.

This does sound like a big op-portunity to improve services that are nice in theory but have fallen behind in practicality (sometimes those texts look like spam, and calls feel intrusive in this day and age).

But Facebook doesn’t need to rush to fi gure this out. Revenue — driven in large part by mobile advertising sales — was a record again in the latest quarter at $5.84 billion, which topped analysts’  av-erage estimate  for $5.37 billion. Net income more than doubled in the period to $1.56 billion. As Sarah Frier noted last month, EMarketer predicts that Facebook will capture one in every fi ve mobile ad dollars in the US this year. 

Earlier this month, a steep climb in Facebook’s stock pushed  its market capitalisation  above that of Exxon Mobil and Berkshire Hathaway. That meant, for a time, the world’s four most valuable

companies were US tech giants: Apple, Google’s parent that now goes by Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook. Shares of Facebook have retreated a bit from that point, but they’re still up 36 per cent from a year ago. 

Instagram is proof that Face-book is as skilled a dealmaker as any company that’s been around longer. It paid $1 billion for the picture-sharing app in 2012  and this year, EMarketer projects it will make up 20 per cent of the compa-ny’s  revenue from mobile devices. There’s no doubt that WhatsApp is incredibly valuable, but Facebook still needs to prove it was worth 19 Instagrams. And it probably will at some point. But as with ev-erything in tech, the conventional rules around how quickly manage-ment teams should convert acqui-sitions into tangible shareholder value need not apply because Face-book can get away with what most other dealmakers can’t. And there’s a reason for that. — TARA LACHAPELLE/

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FACEBOOK GETS TO AVOID THE GOODWILL QUESTION ON WHATSAPP

In February, WhatsApp reached that milestone of one billion users. As for the revenue,

well, that's been pushed further down the road. The 99-cent subscription fee was discontinued

in January, and the company is going to look for alternative ways to monetise all those users. 

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It’s easy to help your child not only excel at maths but also en-joy it,” says Raj Valli, the founder of Tabtor

Math, a tablet-based math learn-ing programme for K-8 children personalised by a dedicated tutor. “Create a maths-friendly environ-ment, make maths a playful lan-guage and participate in an ongo-ing dialogue about maths.”

Valli off ers the following advice for helping your child enjoy math.

Create a positive environ-ment around maths. Since chil-dren model the attitudes of those around them, speak positively

about maths (even hiding your true feelings). Say encouraging phrases like, “It’s really cool that you can use math every day.”

Think about maths as a lan-guage. Because children begin us-ing language when they are very young, they don’t feel the same anxiety about reading and writing as they do about maths.

To transfer this positive attitude over to maths, approach maths as a language, rather than as a “problem.” Count things together, measure things together and talk about the numbers involved in any activity you are doing together. Don’t worry too much about get-

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ting answers “right” or “wrong.” Instead, help them think through the process of using maths aloud, in words.

Hold a maths “dialogue” centred on everyday activities. Once your child is comfortable with think-ing about maths in language terms, ask at the supermarket how many cookies are in a package and how your child calculated this answer. She might refer to the size of the package or the size of the cookies inside. Whether right or wrong, it’s important to emphasize the pro-cess used in her head to make the guess. This gets her thinking about math as a visual subject involving

shape and volume, rather than just as numbers in a line.

You might ask an older child how many slices of bread are in a loaf, how thick each slice is and how long the loaf is.

Open the package to see how close the estimate was. He will learn to feel comfortable with es-timating and will enjoy a conver-sation with you using math as a focal point.

If you set the stage correctly, you’ll fi nd that your child enjoys maths more than you did — and then you can relax and enjoy your child’s future success in the class-room.- NewsUSA

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(Exploring History, Science, and Nature) Palaces

A castle is a large, for-tifi ed building or set of buildings. The word “castle” is de-rived from the Latin

word for “fortress.” People have been building cas-

tles for as long as they have been building buildings. One of the ear-liest fortresses was built by the Mayan people about 1,500 years ago in Yucatán, Mexico.

This great walled city was called Chichen-Itza and was constructed with huge stones.

Early castles were made of wood and earth. Most of them were built on a natural or man-made hill called a motte. A tower or keep was built on the top of the motte and protected by a wooden wall. Often, fortifi ed courtyards called baileys were built at the bottom of the motte.

Life in a Castle

Castles were more than fortresses — they were also home to a diverse group of people, from lords and la-dies to archers, engineers, cooks and carpenters. A nobleman’s castle and lands were defended by noble tenants called vassals. The lord rewarded his noblemen with gifts of land, money and marriages. This system was called feudalism.

Castles were hard to keep warm,

so tapestries and carpets were hung on the walls to keep out drafts. The great hall was often used for sleep-ing and eating, though the lord had private quarters.

When we talk about fairytale castles we instantly remember Cinderella’s castle made famous by Disney. But there are many cas-tles in real life that aren’t fi ctional ard are very much real.

Famous Fairytale Castles • Normandy Castle, France• Werfen Castle, Austria• Edinburgh Castle, Scotland• Alcazar Castle, Spain• Covadonga Castle, Spain•Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany• Chillon Castle, Switzerland• Carondelet Castle, Belgium• Sigmaringen Castle, Germany• Bourtange Castle, The Netherlands.• Hochosterwitz Castle, Austria• Stalker Castle, Scotland—lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.

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

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Dance, Darlene, Denise, Dogs, Drama, Faith, Fashion, Franklin, Green, Help, Hope, Jennifer, Kellan, Kind, King,

Lear, Maes, Marilyn, Mikaela, Model, Monroe, News, Nine, Poster, Raider, Rockwood, Shia, Starr, Sydney,

Transformers, Wallace, Young. Answer: Tattoos

CLUE: MEGAN FOX SOLUTION: 7 LETTERS

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Abhijit Prasad Nair Grade VIIIndian School Wadi Kabir

He sat on his seat waiting for a customer,Waiting to work on his artistic power.With spectacles rested on his nose,A mole on his chin.He waited and was heated.Because he did not get a customer, he had no luck.

A woman with high esteem entered the scene,With a little rabbit so keen.“This shop looks empty,Make a good portrait of mine, I will pay you hefty.”He made his best masterpiece from all angles,After an hour of waiting, he brought the portrait.“Madam this is the best in any tribunal yes, I say.”“Fanny will judge, this rabbit of mine.Fanny dear, recognise your mother?”The rabbit bored, moved no step further.

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Luxury flat for rent in Bareeq Al Shatti buildingSpacious 2 BHK with sea view, split A/Cs, fixed wardrobes,

kitchen appliance. Near Opera Gallery.

Rent RO.900/- negotiable. Contact - 94084335 / 96920789

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

1BHK at Al Hamriya near Muscat

Pharmacy contact: 99224748-

99332297

Flats, shops and basement in

MBD area and Honda road.

Contact: 92433127/96291778/

92589235/97293708

1 & 2 BHK Flat in Al.Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181

2 BHK fl at in Ghobrah.

Contact - 99792181

2 BHK fl at in Ruwi.

Contact - 99792181

Offi ce Space Available in Al Khu-

wair & CBD.Contact – 99792181

Villa in Al Khuwair. Contact: 92125648/25250300

1BHK close to Indian nursery,

Darsait blog -1619, way No .1322

RO 225/-. Contact: 99476728

Land (17000sqm) with offi ce /

store /shaded area for rent at Ghala

industrial area –prime location.

Contact:99476728

Rooms for rent in Al Khuwair near

Ibis hotel. Contact: 95124975

Double bed room fl at CBD area.

Contact: 97608564

Industrial land in misfi t for near

Hal service & Al Awazi.950sq.M

with 3rooms,5 bathroom, bound-

ary wall with 2 sides road facing

&large parking in front.

full or part area.

Contact- 99364007/99454425

3 Deluxe fl at in Ghobrah near

Chedi hotel 550 RO per monthly

Contact: 90161220

2 BHK fl ats /offi ce & shops valu-

able in a new building at Honda

road .Contact: 91165807

Vila for rent in Al Mab-

ela South near gulf college.con-

tact:95950025

Furnished room available for

executive bachelor in Ruwi area.

Contact - 99054542

Commercial/ residential fl at for

rent in a new building. A ware-

house also available, location

Muttrah. For more details contact

– 99364735 / 95729711

Room Al khuwair 120 R.O

Contact: 97799175

Studio type in Qurum.

Contact: 92230462 -98273470

2 BHK in Wadikabir RO250.

Contact: 97799175/92144045

2 BHK in Ghobrah RO310.

Contact: 97799175/92144045

1.2BHK in Darsait .Contact:

97799175/92144045

Flats 2 bedroom Majlis, 2 toilet,

kitchen balcony near Indian school

Darsait new building rent R.O

275/-Contact: 99243059

4 BHK villa in Qurum.

Contact: 97799175/92144045

2 BR fl ats with 2Baths Kitchen

Al Amerat Aster Hospital .

Contact: 99366142

Furnished fl at for rent near City

Center Mawalah. 2 Rooms, Majlis,

hall, kitchen & 4 bathrooms. Rent

RO.400. Contact – 99336776

2 BHK fl at with big rooms

behind Bank Muscat, Near ISWK.

99373290, 24815012

1000sqm two rooms with com-

pound well at Misfah Sanaiya.

Surround huge open land for trailer

movement, Suitable for tile, sanitary

ware, building materials etc store.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

Flats in Darsait. 94051789-97201688

02 BHK residential fl at opposite

to Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

To spend interesting times with

family or friends a new park for

rent in Al Amerat near Sultan Cent-

er for details. Contact: 99332273

Whatsapp 95806364

Building and house in Al Amerat

near Bahwan stores suitable for

big store and resident for work-

ers for details. Contact: 99332273

Whatsapp 95806364

2 Bed rooms fl ats with hall 2

bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat

municipality. Contact: 92584715

Flat for rent in Hamriya.

Contact 99341112

2 Bed room centrally air condi-

tioned fl at in CBD prime location.

Contact: 24714625/91173997

New fl ats for rent at Al Ghobrah

near to atlas hospital the fl ats

includes 2 living room , 1hall ,

kitchen , toilets , air conditioned

room & high Quality fi nishing rent

per fl at is R.O 375/-. Interested

candidates please

Contact: 00968- 97093283

Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact: 94051789-97201688

4 Bedroom new villa Al Mawaleh

1/2 KM to city center mall High

end fi t outs split A/C full kitchen

fi tting all rooms w/ private toilets

monthly 600/- R.O.

Contact : Hassan 99349990

2 Room, 2 Bathroom, kitchen cat

parking 200 Rails.

Contact: 92005298

Two bedrooms fl at in Al Ghob-

rah near Oman Oil of 18 Novem-

ber Street. OMR 330 Monthly.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955.

Four bedroom two fl oors luxurious

and spacious residential villa in

Al Hail North, near to the sea and

Oman oil. Each room has its own

bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and

shaded car park. OMR 750 monthly.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

1BHK Flat with spilt A/C near

star cinema 210/-. Contact:

99358589/95570288 /97079146

Full furniture room for rent for

family monthly 200/- .

Contact: 99251975

House in Amerat near to Makah

hypermarket with 3 room+ 5 toilet+

hall+ living room+ kitchen.

Contact 98885055/ 92744168

WAREHOUSE AVAILABLE FOR RENT

IN BALADIA SANAYAH AMIRAT

(Floor area 600sqmtrs and mezzanine of 500sqmtrs)

1100sqmts fully cover warehouse

& staff accommodati onsPlease contact: G.S.M

99417229/926210393 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent. 18

November Street. Near Mars Hyper-

market and The Chedi. Ghobrah -Good

for Commercial or Residential use.

OMR 295/- month. Call 94477222

Conditioned room with toilets in

Al Khuwair. Contact: 92620858

/92605500

2 BHK fully furnished fl at at Ruwi

MBD area. Contact – 93211557 /

24814853

Villa in Al-Khuwair 33. Quality

Finishing. Consist 5 Bedrooms, 1

Living room, 3 Lounges, All with A/C,

Kitchen and storage.

Contact: 90665135

2BHK and 1BHK fl ats spilt air

conditioners are available for

rent in new building in Al Qurum,

near rose Garden. Interested

persons may content on phone:

9513331/96722449

For rent in Mabela Sanaya road

no.6.show room two shutter &

warehouse (900m2) & staff

accommodation & offi ce with split

A.C. reasonable rent

Contact: 99318152&99225067.

Contact PersonMr.Mudassir :99314330

Mr.Joao Pereira: 99435952

RESTAURANT AVAILABLEFOR RENT

Of area 500 Sq mts with well equipped kitchen and dining facility on Ground Floor at

DARVESH Building, Near Royal Hospital.

DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, M A R C H 1 2 , 2 0 1 6 C3

FOR RENT

FOR SALE

For sale Porta cabin; new & used

(wooden steel p.u.panel)

Contact-99318152

Email:ahastco@gmail.com

A well established automotive

service center is for sale in Mabela

area of 2850sqm

please contact Virat: 94656682

Dental chair and mobile X-ray unit

for sale.contact:92737149

Offi ce furniture for immediate sale

15 workstation, 4 executive desk,

chairs & branded 4 TVs. # 94104022

Household & electronic items for

sale. Contact – 99421740

Expat leaving. Household items

for immediate sale, 99457386

New & used (refurbished) Porta

cabin with ablution for sale.

Pleases Contact: 97143704 or

email: rsttllc@gmail.com

Treadmill heavy 120kgs new

OMR 140/- with massager.

Contact: 92670572

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

A well running pharmacy for sale

at prime location.

Contact- 99627621, 93240949

Well established coff ee shop / res-

taurant prime location at AL Khoud.

Contact: 92188777/98700760

Space for printing press available

at wadikabir with or without

machinery. Contact 99328430

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Commercial fl ats of 3 & 2 BHK

in Al Ghobra North 18 Nov street

RO.650/- & 450/- #91776665

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact - 94051789-97201688

Flats in WadiKabir. Contact - 94051789-97201688

600 M2 showroom or offi ce in

Bousher in front of Dolphin complex.

RO.3.5 per m2. Contact 91776665

Offi ces & Showrooms in Al Khoud. Contact 94051789-

97201688

Fully Furnished apartments in

Boucher (35) Contact- 94051789-

97201688

Brand new 4 BHK villa in Al Fai

compound Al Khoud. RO.475/-

Contact – 91776665

Villa of 3 BHK and sitting area in

Al Ghobra North. RO.525/-

Contact – 91776665

Luxury and brand new semi

furnished 2 BHK fl at in Remalbow-

sher. RO.550/- Contact – 91776665

Mini Furnished Apartment in

Qurum. Contact 94051789-

97201688

Spacious 1 BHK fl at in Al Wattaya

with all split A/C’s and parking.

RO.300/-Contact – 91776665

Offi ces & Showrooms in Muttrah.

Contact - 94051789-97201688

Flats in Darsait. Contact -

94051789-97201688

Offi ces in Qurum opposite City

Center. Contact 94051789-

97201688

Fully Furnished apartments

in Boucher (35). 94051789-

97201688

Single room with A/C & WIFI

having separate entrance for

non –cooking Indian execu-

tive, near Rawasco, AL Khu-

wair rent 130/- (W& E). Contact

92888691/95397442/97201100

Flat with two rooms with window

A/C, with toilets & car parking way

No: 1670 north Al Hail near Dos-

teen restaurant 1KM Inside.

Contact: 99238334

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly

& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly

new building good location Barka

Market. Contact: 99342661

3BHK in Qurum P.D.O high 350/-

Monthly. Contact: 99342661

Flats in Muttrah. Contact:

94051789-97201688

Offi ces in Ghala. Contact: 94051789-97201688

Offi ces & Showrooms in Muttrah.

94051789-97201688

Duplex villa in Qurum 29.

94051789-97201688

Offi ces & Showrooms in

Al Khoud.94051789-97201688

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

94051789-97201688

For rent and investment Land

industrial shops in Rusayl.

Contact: 99323957 / 95490842

Flats in Qurum. Contact

94051789-97201688

Flat for rent south Al Mabela.

Contact: 95331177/95230355

1B/R apartment executive fully

furnished at AL Khuwair 33 & 5 B/R

villa unfurnished at Madinat

Al Ilam & 5 B/R villa furnished at

Madinat Al Ilam. Contact: Atlas Real

Estate & rent a car LLC -24834888/

99249069/92888376/94617563

Email: info@alshahiintl.com

Luxury villa of 5 BHK in Al Khuwair

33 RO.650/- Contact – 91776665

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

area 3500 sqm - covered ware-

house (500sqm), offi ce,

accommodation (1000sqm), open

area (2000sqm) please

contact: 99273774 - 99202278

Flats for rent in Ruwi Mumtaz

area 2 bedroom. Contact:

91409667/24291500

Flat for rent in Al Hail south

2 bedroom.

Contact: 91409667/24291500

ACC. AVAILABLE

Room with toilet for working lady.

Contact: 91450718

Sharing single big room for fam-

ily or couple with separate bath-

room near Badr Al Sama clinic

Al Khuwair. Contact - 99796500

Accommodation available in Al

Khuwair, single room with fur-

niture and A/C, sharing kitchen.

Contact - 94297820

Furnished room attached bath for

Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj Ruwi &

lady Wadi Kabir near Mars

hypermarket.

Contact: 96202458/96761960

Furnish bedroom with attach

bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

Room with attached bathroom and

sharing kitchen available for

Executive bachelor or small family

at wadikabir Contact 93049849

Room available in Mumtaz area

1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1

room, common bathroom. Inter-

ested please Contact: 92680041

Mr. Altaf

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan villeage. # 93687466

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirt-

ing, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery,

Crockery, Glassware, Chafi ng Dishes,

Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound

Systems and spectacular lighting.

Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering

and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound &

Light. ww.tunesoman.com,

E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

ACC.WANTED

WANTED

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or

msg on Whats up.

Mobile no: 92927880/99012165

BUYING

Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Buying cars for cash.

Contact: 90202090

NRI

Villa for sale Mavelikara

behind Cheltikul Angara Tem-

ple 3 BHK1700 SQF within 10

cents. Contact: 968-96920346-

7025525606

Flat for sale 1360 Sq.ft semi

furnished 3 BHK Flat with covered

car park near Vennala, Eroor North

Tripunithura, with close proximity

to seaport- Airport road ,info park

,vyttila hub, Ernakulum medical

center, gold souk, Oberon & lulu

malls-for sale. Contact: 96725458

Flats villas land for sale in Pune

Contact: 95272138/918139098275

Furnished Apartment for sale at

near Nedumbassery Airport.

Contact: 92394014

MATRIMONIAL

Hindu Boy -30 Yrs MBA Finance

Graduate working in Muscat seeking

alliance of Hindu girl only.

Contact: 98278401

Kerala Kottayam RC male 28 years

Civil Engineer is seeking alliance

from suitable family, preference for

BDS, Eng & bank employees.

Contact 95035953

40 Years male divorced, working

in Muscat seeks suitable proposals,

Indian. Contact - 91346321

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in

Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites

parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact: 968 98267338,

0091 9287215726

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from widow/

divorcee/ single.

Contact: 96059801.

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should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication.

* Subject to space availability

1ST GRADE RUNNING ESTABLISHMENT

FOR SALEFully equipped

Signboard Fabrication workshop.

Contact – Muhammad 90579500

Almost new beach/ garden lounge

chairs /bar stools/ counter. Photos

can be sent 95865457

Luxury Apartments in Bousher

(35). 95056808-97201688

Steel Scrap materials for im-

mediate sale: Contact 99273774/

99202278

HD Scaff oldings, Shuttering

Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering

wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),

Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,

Steel Fabrication Machinery

(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)

including tools for immediate sale:

Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Villas in Al Khoud. 95056808-

97201688

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact:

+968 96725423

for viewing the items.

Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale

at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /

What`s up No 97290565

Required single room for an

executive lady (non cooking) in

Darsait, Ruwi, Wadi Kabir.

Contact - 98591132

Accommodation required with

food for 1 month, bachelor for

March month. Preferably Al Ghob-

rah area. Contact: 99335742

DRIVING220 M2 SHOWROOM

FOR SALE@ Sanaya/ Hospital

Road- SoharPLEASE CONTACT:

00968 - 9898 9532/ 2471 4325

info@paramountmuscat.com

CLEARANCE SALEWhite wood, Red wood,

Manhole covers, Hard ware, Electrical items & other

building materials for clearance sale (price negotiable)

Location Barka – Al RumaisFor further details &

inspection, Please contact - 96125603

Concrete Plant & Pump, Porta-cabin Offi ce for immediate sale

Working Conditi on Concrete Batching Plant Pemat mixer,

Econocrete - full setTEKA Concrete Pump mounted on

MAN ChassisReady to use Porta-cabin Offi ce -

about 450 Square Meter area, with cabins.

Contact Mr Mateen - 92892209/Mr Sreejith - 99478263/ Mr Aqueel - 99338619

MV SALE

LOST

Toyota Corolla, White, 1.6, 2011,

Automatic, Warranty available,

excellent condition, 63500 KM.

All services at Toyota only. 3650

OMR. Contact: 96530058

Nissan Qashqai 2013 low mileage

30.000kms comprehensive insur-

ance UAE Oman valid till 2016 .

Contact: 96665430

Pickup for sale, model 2013,

diesel engine 4x4.

Contact - 94194399

BMW 525.I 2006. Contact: 99336093

Hyundai Sonata 2008 model,

expat driven & well maintained.

Contact: 94222681

FOR LADIES

Europe beauty centre off ers 50%

discount on beauty packages, home

services, slimming & post delivery

massages. CBD – 24797813 /

97082451 / 94004152. Wadi

Kabir – 24815805 / 94004153 /

96761960

Duplex villa in Qurum 29.

Contact - 94051789-97201688

Flat, 1 bedroom, kitchen, toilet in

AL Khuwair family bachelors

R.O 150/-. Contact: 95154331

2 Bedrooms, kitchen, toilet, car

park R.O 200/- & 1 bedroom,

kitchen, toilet R.O 130 in Al Khu-

wair. Contact: 95154331

1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,

2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O

200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact: 95154331

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2

toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti

Masjid. Contact – 97007934 /

92609232

Sibtain Mohammed has lost

Pakistani Passport No. AB5073112.

Finder please handover to ROP.

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SALES / MARKETING

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ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

7 yrs exp Dubai marina chandelier

restaurant, Arabic food and grill

Arabic salad. Contact: 94896474

Cooks (Arabic Indian) gulf exp

looking job. Contact: 99531802

Required urgently a Legal Consultant/ Lawyer for reputed

law fi rm in Sohar, Muscat. Can-

didates should have 5-7 years

experience as a Legal Consultant/

Lawyer with good knowledge of

Computer & should be fl uent in

English both written & spoken.

Email C V to shejaanil66@gmail.

com or Contact 99153620

between 8am to 1pm & 2pm to

5.30 pm on Sunday to Thursday

Indian male good experienced in

Accounts, ERP Tally 9 & Admin in

India & Oman, presently on visit

visa, looking for suitable placement.

Contact 94834687

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in com-

merce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/

fi nance fi eld. On visit visa. Immedi-

ately available. Contact 92836216 /

muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELP

DOMESTIC HELP

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Accountant with two years of

experiencerequired for building

material shop .contact no.99318152

Email:ahastco@gmail.com

Required Accounts Offi cer- en-

sure accurate processing of

revenue data into ERP systems

and invoicing module. Posting of

invoices to customer SAP portal

and delivery to customer offi ces

and interface with country man-

ager/ reporting to regional CEO.

Qualifi cations: BSc accounting.

Relevant experience & knowledge

on online accounting systems

especially the customer

SAP system. Submit CV to:

me-job@interwell.com

Accountant with gulf experience

in construction fi eld preferred with

Oman driving license. Interested

candidates send CV to:

Email: omanhari@yahoo.com

Gsm: 95892831/95197615

Housemaid required for full-time

for Indian family, Hindi/English

speaking CBD area Ruwi.

Contact: 96183093

Housemaid required for caring

two babies for Keralite family

at Al Hail. Contact: 99423608

/95662154

Looking for a part-time cook-cum-housemaid in Azaiba.

Call 92450197.

Required Cleaners & Offi ce boys. Contact 24707833

Housemaid (overseas) Indian family

looking for job. Contact 99531802

EDUCATION/TRAIN

MISCELLANEOUS

Required Site Inspector (PRO) hav-

ing Omani D/L. Contact – 24291500

Email: hr16.careers@gmail.com

Required Hydraulic Mechanical. Contact - 95251213

Civil Engineer with minimum 5/8

years experience with valid Oman

driving license. Contact Interested

candidates send CV to:

Email: omanhari@yahoo.com

Gsm: 95892831/95197615

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Omani national Security Staff similar experience for immediate

employment for an international

school. Contact: 99468907

Wanted house driver cum cleaner with Oman valid license contact:

99415443

Looking for motor cycle license holders for FMCG merchandising

contact: 92312112

Trailer driver + Hiab truck .

Contact: 99332185

Required a expat driver with

Omani D/L. Contact – 91409668

Wanted driver. Contact: 91025698

Part or full time Driver Required

call us 91120552

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

REQUIRED PROJECT MANAGER

For an Infra/ Bldg project in Duqm/Oman

Graduate Engineer with 20+ years experience preferably

in Oman/ GCC with valid D/L and transferable visa,

computer literate.

Send CV to Email : omanproject2011@gmail.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

SITUATION WANTEDSIT. WANTED

Urgently required a Marketing Executive with 2 years experience

and driving license (GCC) for a re-

puted building material & electrical

showroom in Al Khoud.

Please send CV to –

startradingmuscat@gmail.com.

Contact - 94320909

Required Salesman cum Drivers for spare pas shop in Ghala .

Contact: 99410172

Looking for an immigration advisor who has experience in

counseling for PR and migration to

Canada and Australia. Email your CV

at consultancyvisa82@gmail.com

Sales Executive Required for an

offi ce Stationery company in

Muscat with Oman D/L and Noc

Send your CV to

info@centraltrading-oman.com

Required Sales staff 2 NOS Having

experience in Cosmetics Sales.

Send your updated CV to

james_kunju@yahoo.com

GSM 92683688

Omani or European female Sales representative required for part

time please send CV to

gcpe16@gmail.com

with expected salary

Required female Nurse, with MOH

license for private dental clinic in

Bowshar area, Muscat.

Contact: 92189807

Required Staff Nurse and house maid in Mabela. Clearance avail-

able. Urgent Contact. 95200180.

Wanted ORTHODONTIST, IMPLANTOLOGIST with or without

MOH License for a polyclinic.

Excellent Salary, Commission and

Accommodation. Phone: 99006915

Email: alhinaee.clinic@yahoo.com

GP doctor needed for reputed clin-

ic. Preferably with MOH license or

with Datafl ow & Paramatics pass

Contact: 95388934

Nurse required for a dental clinic

in Al Khuwair. Contact 95114616

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately

for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact: 95081010

Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com

Indian male 25 B.B.M 4yrs

experience Arabic speaking

with Oman/D/L seeking suitable

position in accounts Admin sales

contact:91266733-

email: safvank.ka@gmail.com

8 years of intensive Oman experi-

ence in procurement & supply

chain management looking for

suitable placement.

Contact: 97755488

Indian female BS, 2 yrs exp

looking for suitable position in

HR & Administration. Contact –

94656009

Urgently required Document

controller / material controller /

HR job 15yrs exp. D/L available plz

contact; 96777019/92386043

Indian female with B. Tech and

MBA H/R (Liverpool UK) with exp

2yrs looking for suitable job and

visit visa. Contact: 98401623

Indian Male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial

and purchase with good com-

puter skills. Holding Oman Driving

license. Looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 99709336

28/male/MBA - fi nance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a

suitable placement. # 90187483

shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Kerala male 25 yrs B.com diploma

in IATA PGDCA Tally 2 yrs exp ac-

counts in Kerala. Currently in Oman

NOC available. Contact: 99323841

Email: rohitpanam@gmail.com

Dynamic Indian Male Account-

ant with 9 Years Experience seeks

suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 96902860

Indian female MBA Accountant, 8

yrs exp in accounts seeking suit-

able placement. Contact: 96117303

Indian Accountant with 30 years

experience in construction (Finan-

cial & Cost ), Administration, Store

Keeping and HR seek full/part time

assignment anywhere in Oman or

UAE. Contact 98598099

Indian female MBA in fi nance cur-

rently on family visa seeking suit-

able placement. Contact: 96471025

Indian female Accountant 8yrs

exp in Oman. Contact:93726921

Part time accountant, up to fi na-

lization of accounts looking for job

after 5 PM (location prefers – MSQ

– to AL Hail). Contact: 95694737

Indian Chartered Accountant - with 8 yrs + Exp in Finance/

Accounts/Auditing in Oman &

UAE. Seeking suitable position

in Muscat/Dubai and available

immediately for joining. NOC avail-

able. Available till 9.3.16 in Oman.

CONTACT #: 98707434

Email: casmart007@gmail.com

Jordanian, Senior accountant, 15 yrs experience in Oman fi nance

& accountant. Contact: 92881223

Required Sales/ Marketing executives having light license

for facility management co.

sendcv-ocean@omantel.net.om

Challenging tyres Omani compa-

nies seeking for Sales Man only

an tyres division sales minimum

2 years experience send CV to

saeed@liwainvestments.com

Urgently Required Steel Fabri-cated Products Salesman with

an experience in steel fabrication,

MUST have Oman driving license,

and immediately join. Apply,

fax 00968–24605955, emails

sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

An Omani construction company located at Muscat looking for

Marketing executive with

GCC driving license & NOC

send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

REQUIREDACCOUNTS CUM ADMIN

IN-CHARGE(For a service & contracting co)Qualifi ed accountant with 7 to 8 years of experience in accounts, cost control, inventory, procurement, fi nance up to

fi nalization and admin. Good knowledge of ERP, Tally-9,

MS offi ce, and good communication is mandatory.

Apply on vacancyforoman@gmail.com

Pakistani light driver looking job

9 yrs exp in Oman.

Contact: 96048460

Light driver Indian 4yrs exp in

Oman having own car looking for

job, release available .

Contact: 93053917

Driver looking for job, speaks

English, Hindi & Arabic & 4 yrs

Oman exp with valid Oman driving

license contact: 92820309

2 Years exp in driving, seeking

any job .Contact: 97460056

Bangladeshi male looking for job.

Contact - 93822195

20 Years Embassy experience expert driver cum PRO seeks suit-

able place. Contact – 94297820

Driver cum electrician 7 yrs exp,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact – 98255214

3 Years driving exp in Muscat,

speaks English, Arabic, Hindi&

Bengali. Contact- 97462781

Driver job wanted. Contact

96393082

Pakistan driver with car.

Contact: 97198672 / 98988208

Seeking driver job with own car.

Contact: 98031620

OUR CENTER IS LOOKING FOR FULL TIME:Hairdressers (male/female) - Beauti cians (female)

Job descripti on: Hair related treatmentsMust possess excellent communicati ons skills and be able

to learn the product and service knowledge by att ending in house training classes.

Advises clients on hair care and use of products. Ensures that the high standard of service is maintained.

Salary based on skills and experience.

Please submit CV to info@artemishfp.com

The Egyptian school requires chemistry Teacher for IG, English, Science & mathematics. Teacher’s application should be

submitted by hand or by email –

egyptianschool98@gmail.com /

24603930

Required personal lady Trainer at home in Wadi Kabir.

Contact – 94100959

TECHNICIAN

Urgently required Electronics Technician with at least 2-4 yrs

exp, in network cabling, access

control, telephone systems,

interested send the CV to

info @smartvisionoman.com

We, the storm shield in the talented candidates for the below

positions (Indian only): Maintenance Technician (male -1) should have knowledge of new

mobile devices & 3 years Oman

experience Contact: 94441111

Send CV to

email: gshield9@gmail.com

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

Indian Female 24yrs, AutoCAD

draftsman with 3ds max & rivet, 4yrs

exp. looking for suitable vacancy in

Muscat now in visit visa .

Contact: 95601266

Email: reshmanb121@gmail.com

AutoCAD Draughtsman seeking

job. Contact: 95516807

Indian Female, Bsc Fashion De-

signer with Oman driving Lisence,

looking for any good job.

Contact 98757582

B. Arch graduate female with 1

yr experience looking for suitable

placement as an architect / Inte-

rior designer Contact 95981197

email: merlnoronha@gmail.com

Interior Designer Seeking suitable

job. On visit visa in Oman.

Contact - 92166130

Interior designer 3 years experi-

ence 1 year in Oman and 2 years

in Egypt, experience in interior

design, 3D max, AutoCAD,

Photoshop. Contact - 94762876

AutoCAD draftsman experience 2

years. Contact: 93738335 /95809393

Email: mammoosing@gmail.com

SEEKING SKILLED EMPLOYEES

1. Skilled iron worker2. Skilled iron welder3. 3D sign board specialist4. Skilled painter5. Skilled carpenter6. Car wash supervisor

Email : creativityeast@gmail.com

Indian male 28 yrs MBA fi nance/

marketing and graduate in com-

puter experience 3 yrs seeking

suitable job, now family visit visa.

Contact: 93195378

Email: faisalme.beg677@gmail.com

Accounts Manager 24 years work-

ing experience 8 years in Oman

looking managerial position with

family status interested to work

construction or manufacturing trad-

ing organization. Contact: 95919546

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with

13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman in

manufacturing, trading & con-

tracting Cos, capable of handling

all accounting, fi nance, banking,

L/C, import, export & fi nalization

seeks placement. NOC Available.

Call+968-98932752,

mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com

Indian Male Accountant 10yrs

Exp. in OMAN Retail &

Furniture Co. (Release Available)

GSM.92564955

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com

Finance-Indian with 7 years expe-

rience in Finance & Accounts up to

fi nalization. Currently employed

in Oman. Having D/L & NOC.

Mob: 94122464,

Email: cammk13@gmail.com

Indian male MBA (fi nance) one

year exp in Oman with D/L and

Noc. Looking for Suitable

placement contact: 94103975

A reputed, long standing, multi division Company in Oman requires

Finance manager to be based in Muscat.

Th e person should be a Commerce Graduate with 10 years professional experience in Accounts up to Finalization,

cost control, inventory and tax planning.Interested candidates can apply at: jobs4oman2016@yahoo.com

Candidates to apply who can meet present Oman Government’s visa condition.

SITUATION VACANT (FINANCE MANAGER)Urgent placement for Polyclininc at Mabella, Seeb

1. Gynaecologist - Arabic Speeking -F2. Pharmacist -M/F3. Staff Nurse -F

Kindly send CV to alsalamaoman@gmail.comwww.alsalamamuscat.com

Th ose who hold valid MOH Licence and NOC from the current sponsor will be given preference.

4. Radiographer -F5. Lab. Technician -M/F6. Marketing Executive -M/F7. Receptionist -F

Indian male Accountant looking

for a suitable placement in Salalah.

More than 20 years exp in account-

ing job (up to fi nalization of ac-

counts) 8 years working experience

in middle east in Dubai, Muscat &

Salalah. Contact - 91325029

Sri Lankan Accountant CIMA

Inter mediate qualifi ed, on visit.

Contact: 90660764

Part-time Accounting assignment.9am-5pm.

Contact; 91126314

Accounts part time services

available to handle all accounts up

to fi nalization, on Monthly basis

fi nalization and consulting works.

Contact: 96247295

Indian C.A fi nalist having 7 years

exp in Finance fi eld, looking for a

suitable position with license and

NOC. Contact – 98097009

25 Years/Male Indian/B.com with

2 Years Experience/Seeking Job

in Finance and accounts/Skills

Tally ERP9/SAP-FICO/MS Offi ce.

Immediately Joining.

Contact No: +96897184087

Email: modi_harshal@ymail.com

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA

Finance and marketing with IT

skills, 7+ yrs of experience,

Looking for suitable placement.

Contact : 94879615,Email-

sajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Indian male, B.Com with 6 years

experience as an Accountant,

looking for suitable placement.

Mob: 93903458 ,

Email : Akkandyrijesh@gmail.com

Chief Accountant 25 years expe-

rienced looking for part/full time

accountant job.

Contact: 95598477/98803439

Indian male 25 B.Com (graduate)

2 years experience as accountant

in country club India with ERP

oracle r12, tally knowledge. On visit

visa immediately available.

Email: shabi.hyd@gmail.com

Contact- 9042-1161

Indian female 25 yrs, MBA HR &

Marketing, with one and half years

experience as accountant and

6 months experience in teaching,

now on a visit visa, seeking suit-

able position. Contact: 99624044,

mail: np.neethu1@gmail.com.

Required Sales Executive knowledge of building materials.

Full or part time.

Contact: 99421513

Indian female Graduate with 4yrs

exp, looking for suitable placement

in admin/accounts .

Contact 99236071

Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, Now

on Visit Visa,looking for suitable

position. Contact: 90196235

Indian male MBA 33yrs having 10

yrs of exp seeking full time suit-

able placement in Administration/

HR/ Operations/ Coordination/

Logistics. Holding valid D/L.

Contact 99054786

Indian male MBA- UK 18 yrs Gulf

exp in Administration/ HR & Public

relationship. Fluent in Arabic/

English with D/L. Looking for suit-

able position. Contact - 99897280

Female business graduate from

UK with four years experience in

procurement purchasing expedit-

ing logistics and supply chain in

UAE seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 99581399

Filipino male with 13 years HR and

Administration managerial experi-

ence. MBA & CIPD holder. Currently

looking for job in Oman. Interested

employer Contact - 97728418.

Indian, 26 yrs , female , 5 yrs exp

in HR/ Admin with valid Oman

D/L seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98236033

Indian male MBA / HR and

marketing 2 years experience in

royal bank of Scotland looking for

opportunities in banking operating

marking and HR services excellent

communication Kills.

Contact: 90661245

MCA Indian Female on a visit visa

seeking suitable job.4yrs exp in of-

fi ce Admin &IT. Contact: 92286147

Indian female, Masters in HR,

having 4 + years Oman experience

in media management and HR,

looking for openings in HR, Educa-

tion, Admin, Corporate communi-

cations. Contact 98252030

DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, M A R C H 1 2 , 2 0 1 6 C5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

DRIVER

EDUCATION/TRAIN

EDUCATION/TRAIN

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

MBA Graduate with 6 yrs exp in

IT solutions, sales & marketing,

solution selling, POS, ERP, time at-

tendance, security system, software

development projects, websites &

mobile apps. Seeking suitable posi-

tion. Contact - 92103545

Indian Male, IT System Engineer

having 4 yrs of experience in sys-

tem administration.CCNA,MCSE,

Linux. Looking for suitable job.

Contact :91272867

Indian female, B.Tech gradu-

ate, with one and half years

experience as ‘web developer’

interested in web development

and has experience working in

HTML,CSS,Bootstrap, JavaScript

and Photoshop. Contact: 9592

7075 e-mail id:

mariarosejacob90@gmail.com

MSC (IT) male 32 age 4

yrs networking system ad-

ministrator. Seeking a suit-

able placement +918608247110.

email:samad3301@gmail.com

24yrs Indian male B.SC Computer

Science with 2 yrs networking and

IT helpdesk support exp, a Cisco

Certifi ed, seeking for suitable

placement. Contact: 96910605-

email:shaikzube@gmail.com

Pakistani male 26 yrs BS (CS)

hold 2 yrs UAE exp in IT software,

knowledge in Oracle 1g, MS SQL,

C#Net, word press, IT networking

and hardware. Looking for suit-

able job. Contact – 92826049 /

m.saifmasood@outlook.com

Indian male diploma in computer

4 yrs exp in system admin, tele

call support, IT hardware network-

ing. Looking for suitable position,

on visit visa. Contact - 95917613

Indian male, IT professional , BE

in ECE with 2 yrs of networking

and Technical Support Engineer-

L2’ experience with CNA certifi ca-

tion, looking for full time job -

GSM 92916894 ;

Email: salu.mn555@gmail.com

Indian female, B.Tech graduate,

with one and half years experience

as ‘web developer’ interested in web

development and has experience

working in HTML, CSS, Bootstrap,

JavaScript and Photoshop.

Contact : 9592 7075, e-mail id:

mariarosejacob90@gmail.com

SAP/ABAP Consultant, BCA, MCA,

ASP.Net certifi cation, Indian fe-

male 30, having 1.5 yrs exp, family

visa, seeking placement.

Contact – 99109121/

ashamaryphilip@gmail.com

Indian male 25 years BSC (C.S)

with basic hardware and software

knowledge seeks suitable place-

ment now on visit visa.

Contact: 92319677

Email: ismabsc@gmail.com

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERIndian male 30 years, having 5 years

of experience in industrial automation and utility

maintenance in India (MRF Tyres), holding valid Oman D/L.

Contact - 92789995Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

IT

IT

Building Site Supervisor working

in Oman since Mar 2010 with Oman

D/L looking for suitable placement

.contact:91507828

Diploma electrical candidate look-

ing for suitable job, having 2 yrs

experience in electrical utilities

maintenance and plant mainte-

nance. Contact: 94652387

B.Tech electronics & Comm.Engg

with CCNA certifi ed with 2yrs exp.

Contact-99490930.

email; sujith8938@gmail.com

An Iraqi civil with more than 30

years experience in (Iraq and G.C.C)

looking for a job, (N.O.C) available.

Contact: 96561306

Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 11 yrs exp in con-

struction fi eld having Oman driving

license & NOC. Contact – 94194399 /

shiblyrock@gmail.com

Indian male 22, Chemical Engineer

residing in Oman looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 92379181

Engineer has 10 years local & in-

ternational experience in ready mix

concrete also in Oil & gas fi led also

in marketing & sales fi eld ,

has Omani driving license.

Contact : 92534098

Indian History graduate with diploma in Safety with

valid Oman Driving licence seeks suitable placement.

Contact-93361624, Email-dheerachpadikkala@gmail.com

HOSPITALITY

MANAGER

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male Graduate hotel man-

agement 12 yrs exp operations &

sales oriented GCC driving license

and release available.

Contact - 94525463

Hospitality Degree 5 yrs exp

holding Dubai driving license.

Contact - 91234870

Hospitality/Hotel/ Restaurants

Dynamic result oriented hospital-

ity professional with 20 years of

international exp. MBA in Hotel

Management, specializing in

Hotel/Restaurant start ups, con-

cepts & Franchise development

with proven records. Seeking for

Challenging positions in reputed

groups as GM/COO/CEO/Business

Head. (NOC available)

Contact: 96059470

EXPERT ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE For your BPR, guide fi nance &

HR & RM, advise product marketi ng & CRM, appraise IT system for reporti ng & communicati on. Contact: Tel - 96500729

k.profi toman@gmail.com

Sudanese Civil Engineer 4 years

experience –98093544

B.E Mechanical and diploma with

75%, age 28, 2yrs Hyundai Motor

and 3yrs in water treatment.

Contact - +91 9003612305.

prabugh28@gmil.com

Male 25 age M.B.A, HRM, BE Auto-

mobile 3.4yrs exp production engi-

neering. Contact: +91 9841873619/

vickey040890pt@gmail.com.

B.Tech Engineer (Indian, 23yrs

male) 1.5 yrs exp (IBM India &Pvt

Ltd & seizer engineers (Pvt ltd)

looking for suitable job.

Currently on visit visa ready to join

immediately

Contact: 93354092/990249660.

email:eapenbijoy92@gmail.com

Pakistani male Diploma Civil En-

gineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling &

mega projects, valid license Oman.

contact:98821022

A Pakistani Civil Engineer having

5yrs exp in consulting and build-

ing fi eld, looking suitable job good

running company with valid driv-

ing license. Contact: 91800277

BE Electrical Engineer search-

ing for suitable job. Experience

plc driver panel control wring oh

crane air compressor etc.

Contact: 90628814

Mechanical Engineer having

Omani driving license and 2yrs

exp seeks suitable placement.

email:malvindevidan@gmail.com

Mechanical Diploma Engineer having 8yrs of exp seeking for

suitable currently on visit visa.

Contact- 94657806

Diploma Civil 5yrs exp seek-

ing suitable placement

Email:sushbinde86@gmil.com.

contact: 96938770

Indian male B.Tech civil engineer

(Auto cad 3 max) 4 yrs exp in plan-

ning, designing & site Supervision

seeks Suitable placement NOC

available contact: 95472155

B.Tech Mechanical Engineer with

6 yrs of exp in India & Singapore

as welding inspector. Having NDT

level 2, Cswip3.1, 1so 900:2008

leap auditor certifi cations .looking

for suitable job. Currently on visit

visa .contact: 98919114

Project Engineer 9 Civil, 7.5 yrs

in Oman, need suitable placement,

NOC release available.

Contact – 91129192

Sudanese Electrical Engineer, granted with distinction, hard-

working and can adapt to diff erent

work conditions. Contact: 98133281

Electrical & Electronics Engineer with 3 years GCC exp in sales, GCC

driving license. Seeking suitable

placement. Contact - 90301410

Diploma Civil Engineer 13 years

GCC experience NOC available

with valid Oman driving license.

Contact: 99794456

26 yrs Indian Male – B.Tech

(IT) - 6 yrs exp -sales & admin

-seeks suitable placement -

91848460 / 98304080; Email:

arun9895431989@gmail.com

Indian male 37 yrs X-Ray welder

7 yrs exp (ARC, TIG, ARGON,

Welding) seeking suitable job.

Contact: 91360190/98223683

Diploma in computer, looking for

any offi ce job, exp in tele support and

sales, on visit visa.

Contact - 95917613

B.Com Graduate with fi ve and half

yrs exp in Oman as a purchaser. NOC

available. Valid driving license. Look-

ing for suitable placement

Contact: 96772166

Graduate, computer literate, experi-

enced in sales, credit control,

accounts, Omani D/L , seeks suit-

able placement. Gsm 98805474

A lady entrepreneur with BF Tech

1st Class (Fashion Technology)

since 2006 in Kerala like to make

change for better. Specialized in

designing, Production Management,

Fashion Art, Grading, Surface orna-

mentation, Garment Construction.

Email: prettyjinu08@gmail.com

Mobile: +919539397097.

Indian female on visit MBA

(International Business- Market-

ing & Logistics), BE (Computers &

Science Engg.) Trained in SAP-BI/

BW with 1 year experience

seeking for job Contact: 90228586

Email:fathimasha16@gmail.com

Bangladeshi male, University

M.Com, Working as an Accountant

& Administrator in Oman; search-

ing better job. Phone: 94864966

Email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com

REVIT (ARCH), Diploma Civil 3yr ,

in visit visa , exp. Salary : 250

PH : 92279784

Electrical diploma Engineer with

1.5 years experience in AutoCAD

designing for LV constructions and

diesel generator maintenance look-

ing actively for job in Oman.

Contact: 92171858/90595609

Email: nelsondas213@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) with

2 and half years experience Indian

male 24 years in visit visa. Contact:

96620482 / + 919605423272

Email: bijumonps@gmail.com

Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp

seeks suitable position ina reputed

company. NOC available.

Contact – 96789711

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

in Oman as a project engineer for

governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

Procurement Engineer (27 years

single male with Oman Driving Li-

cense) having 7 years experience

(UAE 2, Oman 3) with expertise in

MEP, Water, Electromechanical,

Instrumentation seeking suitable

placements. Contact 95852033,

mail: hemal1988@gmail.com

Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian

male 24 years with 1+years Indian

experience,(Certifi ed in Staad

Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).

Looking for a Suitable position.

Available In Sultanate of Oman

(Muscat) on Visit Visa.

Contact: 92835952. E-mail:

mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com

Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in

designing, assembling, commis-

sioning execution etc having valid

GCC license too looking for a suit-

able. Contact: 00968-98052942

Email: azamjeelani78@gmail.com

Indian male, Mechanical

Engineer having 1year experi-

ence, on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact:97416564,

Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com

Procurement Manger Indian

Engineer + MBA. With 16yrs exp,

Oman driving NOC valuable

Contact: 96561943-

email:srajan_kripa@yahoo.com

Indian well experienced per-

sonal assistant/executive offi ce

manager/ senior administrator /

commercial executive with license

looking for a change. release letter

available – 99168054

mbkishore@hotmail.com

The Business Development Man-

ager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years

Inside and outside Oman follow-

ing activities: construction(Very

strong and qualifi ed to bringing

business for civil work Or any

type of the construction work for

many million per year with a good

experience in pricing and collect

payment and cash management of

the company & marketing projects

& investments& tenders & real

estate. Contact 92385033

Manager having 12 years experi-

ence in Sales & property manage-

ment with valid GCC driving license

looking for a suitable placement NOC

available. Contact: 98125226

B.E Arch working as a project man-

ager (interior fi t outs) specializing

in shop fi t outs restaurateur, offi ces,

lifestyle shops etc looking to work

in a reputed fi rm NOC available.

Contact: 94274437

Operation & Accounts Manager. Indian 18yrs experiences in Oman

–operation, admin, fi ancé, purchase,

HR& sales looking for SR.position.

Contact:99889396-

Email: srjobsinoman@yahoo.com

Indian male 35 years, mechanical

engineering diploma, 15 years of

total experience, 4 years in Dubai,

seeking challenging assignments in

business development/management

& sales, on visit,phone:95990541,em

ail:kckurup.v@gmail.com

P.M/Electrical Engineer B.Sc

5yrs exp.(2yrs in PDO area)driving

license looking for suitable job

mob.:91175016

E.mail:elmuthana@hotmail.com

General Manager MEP also manage

civil, MBA, BE Electrical, 10 yrs exp

in Oman valid D/L, release available.

Contact – 92447102

MBA with 18 years of experience in

Procurement, 2 years in Sohar, Oman

driving license with vehicle,

looking for suitable position.

GSM :94047501,

ahmed16071974@gmail.com

Network Engineering with 9 years

and half experience seeking suit-

able placement. Contact: 95249087

Sudanese mechanical Engineer, 2 years experience HVAC

fi refi ghting, on visiting visa.

Contact 95630047

Sudanese civil Engineer holding

bachelor with two years of experi-

ence in Oman has resident visa and

valid license. Contact: 94393880

Indian male 31 years Civil

Engineer diploma holder 4 years

experience in Oman need place-

ment N.O.C available.

Contact: 93298395

HSE & Fire Safety Engineer 4 years experience air port opera-

tional safety, power & chemical

industry. Contact: 94374241

22 Years exp in Gulf civil building

construction project manager.

Contact – 0097430824610 /

arshadjamalkhan@rediff mail.com

B.Tech Electronics & comm. Engg

& MBA Degree in operation man-

agement with fi ve years experi-

ence in optical fi ber planning coor-

dination etc. Contact: 94819139

Indian Male Degree Holder BE (civil) having 11 years of Oman

experience with valid Oman driving

license looking for a suitable job

.NOC available and ready to join im-

mediately. Mobile: 93803950.

Mail:kavinvasi2007@gmail.com

B.SC Civil Engineer 27 yrs Oman

experience as project manager,

structural Engineer looking for

suitable placement NOC/ LOCAL

transfer available.

Contact: 99349578

Email: farooqatm@hotmail.com

Electrical Engineer with 18 years

exp in UAE. Contact: 98148034

Email: shassalih66@gmail.com

Structural Engineer, 8 yrs expe-

rienced in fl at slab, post tensioned

& slab-beam multi story building

design & supervision with driving

license. Contact: 98256860

Mechanical Engineer M.Tech

2 years experience HVAC design

& site Engg revit MEP Auto CAD.

Contact: 90150913 Email:

mahmanmechengg@yahoo.im

Omani HSE supervisor. Email:

jeebal3000@gmail.com

Indian female civil engineer

B.Tech having 3 years experience

sound knowledge of software,

REVIT STAD PRO structural detail-

ing currently on family visa seeks

suitable placement.

Contact: 95345591

Civil Engineer (BE) having total

5 years experience in building

construction looking for a suitable

placement. D/L available

Contact# 94450270

MANAGER

MEDICAL

Indian Female, MSc Maths from a

central university, B.ED qualifi ed with

over 6 yrs into teaching. Distinction

holder and passion for teaching, cur-

rently on family visa seeking lecturer

jobs. Contact: 91360147.

Indian female 25years M.C.A

on family visit required suitable

placements also interested in

teaching. Contact: 90417133

Email: renjitharose04@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Executive Secretary/ assistant Indian female 9 years experience in

Oman, Diploma in Business

management. Valid D/L.

Contact: 96684705

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordi-

nator 12 years experience in Oman

in reputed companies, seek imme-

diate Employment. Call: 95244761

Sri Lankan Engineer (27 Years

old) – B.Sc Engineering (Hon)

Mining / Geotechnical Presently

in Muscat, 1.5 years experience.

Contact 91295802

acmfaslan123@gmail.com

Indian Electrical Engineer Btech,

female 24 seeking job, presently

in oman having 2 year experience

in design and estimation of Ht &Lt

projects. Contact 968 97436557,

Mail id : sibinanoop1@gmail.com

Bachelor Civil Engineer 6 Years

in Oman experience Valid Driving

License seeks suitable placement

Phone 97619722

Email – golamrob@yahoo.com

Diploma in Mechanical Eng piping system in AutoCAD work,

21+ years experience with Driving

license. Contact: 95267113

Email: rkakkaryil@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 6 yrs Exp in Oman

with license. Contact: 98975518

7 Yrs Exp. PM in Mech. Engg in

the fi eld of Building Const. Oil &

Gas Seeking Job.94625598

Road and Construction Engineer with 5 years exp in Oman.

Contact: 97667113

Mechanical Engineer with 3 Yrs

experience in international Oil

& Gas company looking for job

Contacts: Tel: 90164236 Email:

mustafaoshi-62@hotmail.com

Indian female, 31 yrs, 7 yrs expe-

rienced as AutoCAD civil drafts-

man (2 yrs experience in Oman)

currently in Oman seeks suitable.

Contact 96789441

Email: simi5304@gmail.com

Sudanese Telecom Engineer, 5 years experience, 3 years in

Oman PMP certifi cate.

Contact: 93391008 Email:

momen.awadallam@gmail.com

Indian Male 23 years B.Tech

Civil having 2 years experience in

quantity survey and site manage-

ment looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact:- 95042656

Omani 26(M) seeks placement,

6 yrs excellent experience

networking hardware software.

Contact: 95356166

Sudanese net work Engineer holding IT BACHELOR (CCNA,

CCNP, and MCSE) has one year

experience and license.

Contact: 92394485

Staff Nurse (female) with MOH

license. Looking for opportunity in

Muscat. NOC / release letter avail-

able. Contact - 99433415.

Indian female Dentist specialized

endodontic looking for a suitable

placement prometric completed.

Contact: 96410448

Indian Bsc Female Nurse with

6.5 years exp, 4 years in KSA.

Passed Oman Pro Metric with 69%,

completed data fl ow. Presently in

Muscat in visit visa looking for a

suitable placement.

Contact 94744900, 94742834,

jincyalphonese@gmail.com

Indian male Nurse 32 years Oman

parametric and data fl ow completed

8 yrs emergently experience.

Contact: 92463190

Male GP Doctor with NOC 6 yrs

experience in Oman for perm/locum

job. Contact : 97746074

An experienced Sudanese female Dentist with MOH license look-

ing for job. Contact 96436517

/97396088

Looking for job light duty driver

6 years experience NOC available.

Contact: 92381696

Pakistani light looking job 3 years

experience in Oman. #93711608

Bangladeshi male light driver

looking for job 3 exp.

Contact: 93254149

Looking for job driver 10 yrs exp.

Contact: 99035942

Indian light driver cum house

cleaner. Contact: 96255558

/99415443

Light driver. Contact: 96756014

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

Structural buildings marine. Avail-

able NOC release. Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com

HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma

Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over

10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter

(NOC) available), seeking suit-

able placement, Mob:97061817,

Email:jayanammu1977@gmail.com

Indian male experienced in priority

and retail Banking handling HNI/

ultra HNI and SME portfolios as rela-

tionship manager in UAE and India,

with UAE driving license on tourist

visa looking for suitable opportunity.

Please contact #90204929

E-mail-hani.leo@gmail.com

The Business Development Manager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years

Inside and outside Oman following

activities: tenders& real estate&

construction & marketing projects&

investments & transportation &

Marine services& companies man-

agement& develop business.

Contact: :- 92385033

Production Manager 9 years

experience in Oman manufacture

and development factories .GRB.

GRC. GRG rubber molds and false

ceilings, fi berglass and executive

at site emadadly2000@yahoo.

com96149081

Indian male, with experience in

operations management, informa-

tion security, purchase & stores

mgmt, hold UAE driving license,

on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact 91904541

Email: naushers@yahoo.com

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male 23 yeas BBM & Diplo-

ma in logistic. Looking for Indore/

Outdoor sales & marketing suitable

placement, currently in one month

visit visa. Contact: 93180270/

faizanmck@gmail.com

An experienced sales & market-

ing person having several years

experience in GCC with valid D/L.

Looking for a suitable position.

Contact – 92124669

Indian male with 6 yrs of GCC

exp in sales and service & 1 year

of exp in gym fi tness instructor.

Seeking job presently in Mus-

cat in family visit visa. Con-

tact: 90694335/ 99438360 or

email:sahildgreat99@yahoo.com

Sales Executive 8yrs exp build-

ings materials group of company

in Oman NOC available. Seeking

suitable job. With D/L in Oman

.email: sameermoul@gmail.com

Indian female 23 diploma

in tool and die making with

one and half yrs exp and also

interested in sales & mar-

keting.contact:94743992-

email:selveena054@gmail.com

SriLankan malebusiness manage-

ment BA (UK) Graduate.Special-

izedmarketing, key Accounts,sales,

and customer services .4years

work experience in England .seeks

opportunity in Oman. D/L avail-

able. Tell: 94820153.

email:inshafmalk@yahoo.com

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Karate and self defense classes

at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per

month twice a week Monday and

Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.

CONTACT 98294551

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed

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SKILLED / UNSKILLED

Mason, SH / carpenter, steel fi tter

gulf & Indian exp looking job.

Contact: 95175192

Filipinas lady having exp in

ticketing and preservation, call

center, secretarial and real estate

is now looking for job please

call.94054080

TOURS & TRAVEL

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,

Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.

Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact 93769089 /

95323517

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

LEGAL SERVICEAn Indian lawyer Provides all legal

services in company matt ers. Labour issues, contracts, agreements, LLC formati on, legal help for starti ng new business in Oman, Civil, criminal

cases,.service issues.Ibrahim Al Massalhi.legal consultancy

Sarafudheen, LLB, MBA,Legal Advisor

Muscat. GSM: 97351649

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

House shifting. Contact: 99708138

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC .

contact:99344723

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. Contact 24793614/

99314807

A/C maintenance & servicing,

fridge, washing machine & dish

washer repairing, painting & clean-

ing services, electrical & plumbing.

Contact: 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact:99344723

Split A/C servicing R.O 10 only.

Contact: 94217681 / 99210141

Building maintenance. Contact: 96173326

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control & anti-ter-

mite treatment, general cleaning

painting,Plumbing, Electrical,

shifting. Contact Mundhir

Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.

Contact: 24810137, 99450130

House shifting packing.

Contact: 99657644 / 98518013

Marble ti les grinding & polishing, Mosaic ti les grinding & polishing,

carpet shampooing, sofa shampooing, pest control treatment & general cleaning

of villa & building.Express Building Cleaning Services.Contact 98480070 / 94134784

Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning ti les /

Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.

Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C

NOC available looking for opening

in sales 10 years experience in

Oman with driving license to join

immediately. Contact: 95941228

Indian male 33 yrs, 11 yrs exp

in Oman in sales fi eld, with NOC

seeks suitable placement.

Contact – 96169598 /

adilj.8782@gmail.com

MBA graduate having 6 years exp

in Sales & Marketing, 4 years with

PEPSI, India, having international

driving license permit seeks suitable

placement. Contact : 95308167,

Email : samir.pag@gmail.com

Indian Male 28 MBA Marketing

with 4 years of experience in sales

with good communication skills

now available in Muscat on visit

visa. GSM 95840153 /

Mail akbarshareef786@gmail.com

Indian sales marketing profes-

sional highly experienced in busi-

ness development in ME India and

Africa seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 97897611

B.Com male 2 yrs experience in

sales Computer knowledge,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98371144

email: nabilnazar22@gmail.com

Indian male, MBA Marketing

having 2.5 years Sales experience

immediately looking for a suitable

position. Contact: 91415145,

Email: shariqs88@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

Villa cleaning, shifting, marble

crystallization, tiles polishing,

shampooing sofa & carpet. Modern

Eastern Arms. 92145560

Sahal Al Wadi White Trad. Spe-

cialist in repairing of cold store,

chiller, A/C & refrigerator.

Contact – 94528546

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 / 94285064

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance.

Contact ABU QABAS- 99320217

/24788722

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC .

Contact:99344723

Male 38 yrs Graduate 07 years

experience indoor / outdoor

electronic fi eld with D/License &

NOC available (as per new rule).

Contact: 92453375

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BP specifi cation for monthly rent

& small car with driver. Contact

99839898

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Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain

Marine Tours contact 98029602,

92808636

We arrange tours & accommoda-

tion at all the beautiful places in

Oman. Contact 99839898

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ONE STOP SHOP BUSINESS SERVICES

Contact Saleh: 96723485

Public relation services (PRO), Formation new

companies, LLC companies, investor visa, business setup,

prepare business & companies accounts, legal

services, representing you and your company.

Transportation available for

Al Khuwair, Azaiba, Al Hail to Ruwi

area. Contact - 94297820

Transportation. Contact

98505294

Ruwi, Muttrah, Al Khuwair,

Muscat, Qurum, seek transporta-

tion. Contact: 91132238

Transportation. Contact

99508282 /93113534

Transportation. Contact

99508282

From Mabela to Mawaleh for

school student. Contact: 92757673

Transportation. Contact

92015894

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

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