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Royal Decree amends Civil Status Law

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said on Thursday is-sued Royal Decree No. 33/2015 amending some provisions of the Civil Status Law.

Article (1) states that the amendments attached to this Decree shall be applied to the Civil Status Law promulgated by Royal Decree No. 66/99.

Article (2) cancels all that contradicts the attached amendments or contravenes with their provisions.

Article (3) says that the de-cree shall be published in the Offi cial Gazette and takes eff ect from its date of issue. — ONA

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A3UK’s Stereophonics coming to Muscat

Oman, Iran to form committeefor the construction of damsStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Oman and Iran plan to establish a joint committee to explore the potential for the par-ticipation of Iranian companies in construction of dams in the Sultan-ate, according to an Iranian offi cial.

The specialised and technical committee will be formed with the participation of Iran and Oman’s Ministry of Regional Mu-nicipalities and Water Resources in the near future, said Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, quoting Ha-mid Chitchian, Iranian energy minister.

Chitchian was speaking to re-porters after a meeting with the Oman’s Minister of Regional Mu-nicipalities and Water Resources Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Moham-med Al Shuhi , in Tehran.

Fruitful discussions were held and the two sides agreed to share their expertise and experience in the fi eld of management and study of water resources, said the Iranian minister.

Chitchian added that Oman, like other Gulf countries, has good experience in water desalina-tion and Iran is keen to use their knowledge in this fi eld.

In addition, the Omani minis-ter said that Oman plans to ex-

pand its co-operation with Iran on water resources and is seeking to use Iran’s experience in dam construction and transfer lines.

Al Shuhi also encouraged pri-vate Iranian companies to par-ticipate in projects in Oman.

B O O S T T O T I E S

Career growth pulls females to private sector

SARAH [email protected]

MUSCAT: Omani women repre-sent just 2.6 per cent of the private sector workforce in the Sultanate, but they are steadily making gains as more of them opt for careers in which they can fl ourish.

According to fi gures from the National Centre for Statistics and Information, at the end of June 2015 there were 1,829,726 docu-mented private sector employees, including 47,441 Omani women. Among the 206,054 Omanis, women represent 23 per cent.

While the numbers of Omani women are still comparatively low, they have been growing. In 2003 there were 13,385; in 2012 there were 35,248. But those who opt for the private sector fi nd that it’s a means to achieve more in their careers.

“If you have big ambitions, if you’re looking for promoting yourself and getting knowledge and getting real experience, I think you need to go to the private sector,” says Fatma Al Salmi, a 25-year-old Omani who works for Oman Flour Mills.

Personal growthWhen she completed her degree in Public Relations, Al Salmi pur-posely looked for a job in the pri-vate sector because she thought there would be more opportunity for personal growth and develop-ment. Though public sector jobs come with shorter hours, higher base salaries and other benefi ts, she thought there wouldn’t be much room to grow and learn new skills.

Sawsan Al Balushi, 29, works as in reservations and ticketing for a local travel agency, Razan Travel. She recommends women take up jobs in the private sector because it is more interesting and employees can progress faster in their careers.

“They should choose the pri-vate sector because the salary is good and the future is better than with the government. In the gov-ernment they see the time and no work is there. In the private sec-tor there are more options and you can do more things,” she says.

Amaal Al Lawati, Chief Cus-tomer Experience Offi cer at Ooredoo, is one such woman who has shone brightly in the private sector for the past 20 years.

Better opportunitiesShe spent 10 years in the bank-ing sector and now has worked for Ooredoo for the past 10 years. She says entering the private sector was her own decision and like Al Salmi, she thought it would off er better opportunities in the long run.

Al Lawati was looking for fast-er personal development, and thanks to her hard work, she got the results she was after. She was a supervisor in one bank when another off ered her a position as assistant manager, and after fi ve years there a third bank off ered her a manager position.

“After 10 years in the banking I said, ‘Let me try something else now,’ so Nawras approached me to be a section head,” she explains.

Al Lawati was the fi rst Om-ani director in Ooredoo (then Nawras), and now she is the fi rst Omani woman to take a chief position.

Mark Pudwell, Business Devel-opment and Training Manager at Competence HR LLC, says pri-vate sector companies would do well to attract and keep Omani women. In an assessment his fi rm did of nearly 9,000 recent Omani graduates, 65 per cent of the top candidates were women. >A3

For those eyeing

better future and

growth ambitions,

private sector gives

the right platform to

realise their dreams

150 Haj pilgrims sent back from SaudiFAHAD AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: A reliable source at the Omani Haj Mission con-fi rmed that 150 Haj pilgrims were sent back from Saudi Arabia as their details had not been regis-tered with the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Aff airs.

The source explained that ap-proved campaigns did not face any problems while entering the Saudi Arabia.

The source pointed out that the mission is working on continuous communication between them

and the authorities concerned to take legal action against fake and unauthorised campaigns which had fooled the public and provid-ed them with fake permits.

News had spread on social me-dia about the return of 150 pil-grims. The ministry has issued 11,200 Haj permits and regis-tered other information such as the mode of transport of pilgrims to Makkah and their residential address in Medina or Makkah.

The ministry has warned Haj and Umrah campaign organis-ers that there will be legal action against the off enders.

R E G I S T R A T I O N I S S U E

SHARING EXPERTISE: Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian,

left, with Minister of Regional Municipalities and Water Resourc-

es Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Shuhi, in Tehran. -Photo

courtesy IRNA

OMANSheraton intersection opens for traffic

2 Sheraton Hotel intersection in Ruwi has been opened for traffi c

following installation of the signals. The intersection was closed due to construction work of the fl yover from Darsait to Wadi Kabir. The opening of the intersection will help people coming from Ruwi and heading towards area behind the Sheraton Hotel. >A2

REGIONOman to host Yemen ceasefire talks

3 Yemen’s government in exile said on Friday it has agreed to take part in

UN-mediated peace talks next week in Oman aimed at reaching a ceasefi re with Houthi rebels. However, in the absence of an announcement from the rebels, government spokesman Rajih Badi was unsure the rebels would attend. The talks “may not take place”, he said. >A4

OMANMeteor like object enters Oman airspace

1 A meteor like unidentifi ed object did enter the Sultanate’s airspace on Wednesday night, however, it is not clear whether it landed in the country or not, according to Saleh Al Shidhani from the

Oman Astronomical Society, Locals in Wilayat of Yanqul in Al Dhahira Governorate reported that they witnessed a meteor like object and also heard the crash. >A3

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

Omani women were

working in the private

sector in 2012 and their

number is still growing

with better career

future in their mind

35,248

OMAN FACE BAHRAININ GCC UNDER-19 FINALThe Sultanate’s football squad will be looking to bring home a second GCC crown in as many weeks when the national under-19 will clash with Bahrain in the fi nal in Doha on Saturday. >A11

FAHAD AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: An earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale was recorded around 6km south of Al Amerat in Muscat, at 3:18 am on Friday, by the earth-quake monitoring centre of the Sultan Qaboos University. The centre reassured residents that even though they could feel such an earthquake, there was no loss of life or damage to property. The centre also had not received any such reports. >A3

A L A M E R A T

No loss of life in Oman earthquake

87 pilgrims die as crane crashes into Grand MosqueRIYADH: A construction crane that crashed into the Grand Mosque in holy city of Makkah on Friday, left 87 people dead and 183 injured, the head of Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority told Al Ikh-bariya television.

Pictures circulating on social media showed the crane, which appeared to have collapsed or snapped, had crashed into it.

The civil defence authority, which gave the casualty fi gures, said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a “crane fell at the Grand Mosque”.

That came about an hour after it tweeted that Makkah was “wit-nessing medium to heavy rains”.

The incident occurred as hun-dreds of thousands of Muslims gather from all over the world for

the annual Haj pilgrimage set to begin later this month.

The Grand Mosque is usually at its most crowded on Fridays, the Muslim weekly day of prayer.

It houses the Ka’aba -- the massive cube-shaped structure towards which Muslims world-wide pray.

The governor of the holy city of Makkah, Prince Khaled Al Faisal, has ordered an investigation into the incident.

A massive project is currently underway to increase the area of the mosque by 400,000 square me-tres, allowing it to accommodate up to 2.2 million people at once.

The mosque is surrounded by a number of cranes. The Haj has largely been incident-free during the past few years. -Reuters

H O L Y C I T Y O F M A K K A H

TRAGEDY: Construction cranes surround the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah. -Reuters fi le photo

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OMAN

Photo tribute to picturesque NizwaA photo exhibition

was organised by the

Photography Society

at the University

of Nizwa as part of

the ‘Nizwa, Capital

of Islamic Culture’

campaign. Haitham

bin Khamis Al Farsi

won the top two

places for his images,

‘Sugar cane’ and

‘Nizwa Market’ while

Mohammed Zadjali

won the third position

for his photograph

‘Green Mountain’. The

exhibition will run

until September 16

– PHOTOS COURTESY ONA

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SHERATON INTERSECTION OPENED FOR TRAFFICSheraton Hotel intersection

in Ruwi has been opened for

traffi c following the instal-

lation of the traffi c signals.

The intersection was closed

for the last few months due

to the construction work

on the fl yover from Darsait

to Wadi Kabir. The open-

ing of the intersection will

help people coming from

the Ruwi side and heading

towards the area behind the

Sheraton Hotel. Earlier they

had to go all the way to the

Wadi Kabir signal and then

take a U-turn there to reach

the area behind the Shera-

ton Hotel. -Jun Estrada

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Oman, China hold talks on boosting business, cultural ties MUSCAT: Oman and China dis-cussed various aspects of bilat-eral co-operation and means of en-hancing them, particularly in the trade, investment, cultural, eco-nomic and other areas that serve the interests of the two friendly countries and people.

The discussion came dur-ing the ninth round of strategic consultations between the for-eign ministries of the Sultan-ate and China held in Muscat on Thursday.

The Omani side was led by Sayy-id Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, secretary general of the Foreign Ministry, while the Chi-nese side was led by Zhang Ming, vice minister of foreign aff airs.

The two sides also exchanged viewpoints on regional and in-ternational issues of common concern. They stressed the im-portance of supporting all peace eff orts being exerted to strengthen co-operation and understanding, as well as maintaining peace and stability in the world.

The session was also attended by Sheikh Yahya bin Abdullah Al Fanna, head of the economic af-fairs sector, the Chinese ambassa-dor, and top offi cials.. –ONA

D I P L O M A C Y

STRATEGIC CONSULTATIONS: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers and Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minis-

ter Responsible for Foreign Aff airs, received Zhang Ming, vice minister of foreign aff airs of the People’s Republic of China, as part of the 9th session of the strategic consulta-

tions between the foreign ministries of the two countries.–ONA

Meteor-like object reported in Oman

TARIQ AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: An unidentifi ed ob-ject, possibly a meteor, entered the Sultanate’s atmosphere on Wednesday night, but it is not clear whether it landed in Oman or not, according to Saleh Al Shid-hani from the Oman Astronomical Society.

Locals in Yanqul Wilayat of Al Dhahirah Governorate reported that they witnessed a meteor-like object and also heard the crash.

Speaking to the Times of Oman, Al Shidhani said, “Based on the in-formation we have currently gath-ered we cannot confi rm whether it was a meteorite.”

“We are also not sure whether it landed in the Sultanate, but it defi -nitely passed through the atmos-phere. However, we do not know exactly where it landed,” he said, and added that the object passed

through Al Dhahirah Governorate and probably continued to the United Arab Emirates.

Confl icting reports“There were confl icting reports as some of the villagers reported hearing an explosion while others denied it. We will send a team to that region and question the wit-nesses and investigate the matter,” said Al Shidhani.

The Sultanate is the favourite destination for meteorite expedi-tions and collectors, as the gravel plains in the Dhofar and Al Wus-ta regions of the Sultanate have yielded over 5,000 meteorites in mid-2009.

The Sultanate also proved to be extremely important for scientists as the land became a source for rare meteorites.

Some meteorites worth men-tioning are Sayh Al Uhaymir 051 (SaU 51), Sayh Al Uhaymir 094 (SaU 94) and Dhofar 019, which are all Martian meteorites.

Over 22,000 meteorites have been discovered in the world, with Oman contributing a signifi cant number, comprising both Lunar and Martian meteorites.

However, a law was passed making the collection of meteor-ites from the Sultanate a crime as it was considered a national treasure.

Locals in Yanqul

Wilayat of Al

Dhahirah Governorate

reported that they

witnessed a meteor-

like object and also

heard the crash

NATURE’S MIGHT: Oman is the favourite destination for meteorite

expeditions and collectors, as the gravel plains in the Dhofar and Al

Wusta regions of the Sultanate have yielded over 5,000 meteorites

in mid-2009.

‘Children of working women better educated’

“They are clearly academically more gifted, they’re more com-mitted, and particularly their English language skills are better than the men,” he says.

Omani women are also get-ting degrees in science and en-gineering and other fi elds tradi-tionally dominated by men, and they’re not afraid to put on work boots and hard hats to work as surveyors or in the oil fi elds, Pudwell says.

The challenge some of them face is from their families since culturally women are still seen as the homemakers, he says.

“I’ve discussed this with some of my Omani lady colleagues and they say their husbands or future husbands don’t want them to work,” he says.

In the West by the 1970s the poor economy was prompting more women to work outside the home in order to support their families.

Given the average lifestyles of Omanis, which often includes new homes and car and good edu-cation for their children, it would be better to have two incomes

here, too, Pudwell suggests.Al Lawati also thinks having

women working benefi ts Omani families. She says that in her family the children of women who work are more educated and advanced.

“If the mother is going and ex-ploring things outside the house, she will be able to transfer this to her kids. Financially also it’s bet-ter. If the wife is working...she will be able to support the husband at the same time and the quality of education they are giving to their kids, the quality of lifestyle will be much more better than if only the man is working,” explains Al Lawati.

Pudwell says companies could attract more women by off ering fl exible working hours so wom-en can balance work and family responsibilities more easy, and bigger companies could also pro-vide on-site nurseries. Having part-time work or job-sharing as an option would help women join the labour force, too, he notes.

“By allowing particularly Oma-ni women to work part-time you’d see a lot more going to work. Then

a wife could demonstrate to her husband that she could do both, go to work and support the family and manage a household,” he says.

Whether a woman chooses to be a housewife, have a career, or do both, Al Lawati advises all young Omani women to spend at least a few years working so they know what they are capable of. She also says careers in the pri-vate sector can be highly reward-ing, as she has found.

“The private sector will be rewarding you if you work in a good way, for example if you have smart objectives. You can feel the rewards and the returns. The development you’re receiving in the private sector is much higher than the government,” she says.

Al Lawati says that in the 1990s when she joined the workforce people wondered what she was doing, especially when she put in long hours, and Omani men didn’t take her seriously.

“But now after 20 years it’s the women’s right to go out and work and develop herself. It’s totally diff erent. It’s a positive change, defi nitely,” she says.

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Quake triggers shock

A number of residents of Amerat said that the news of the earthquake spread on social media.

Abu Abdul Aziz, an Amerat resident, said that he and his family felt the tremors but thought it was caused by a large truck crossing the road located near his house.

Scary experienceAnother Amerat resident, Saeed Mohammed, told Gulf News that he was scared at fi rst but as soon as the tremors stopped he thought it was something con-nected to some construction go-ing on near his house.

“When I felt it at fi rst I was scared, but then I thought the construction workers were do-ing something, or maybe some-thing had collapsed in their building,” he said.

In the morning he was shocked to see the news on social media, and most of the other residents also did not re-alise that they had experienced a quake, he added.

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MUSCAT: Following in the foot-steps of Ed Sheeran, one of UK’s most popular acts, The Stereo-phonics - responsible for rock an-thems such as Just Looking, Have a Nice Day and Dakota - are com-ing to Muscat.

After performances at T in the Park and V Festival this year, the band is coming to Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa’s am-phitheatre on 12 November 2015 in Muscat, ALIVE Entertainment has announced.

Stereophonics are set to release their ninth studio album in Sep-tember, titled Keep The Village Alive, so their concert in Oman, also in association with Hi FM,

promises an evening fi lled with songs audiences have heard be-fore, as well as some new tracks.

Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley, Wales.

The group includes Kelly Jones singing lead vocals and guitar, Richard Jones with bass guitar and backing vocals, Adam Zindani playing guitar and backing vocals,

Jamie Morrison on the drums, and touring member Tony Kirkham playing the keyboards. Gordon Mackenzie, Managing Director of Alive Entertainment said, “We are thrilled to be bring-ing Stereophonics to Oman for all the rock lovers in the country. Our goal as an events company

is to bring the biggest and best names in entertainment to the Sultanate. There’s a lot more to come”

Shangri-La’s amphitheatre is no stranger to hosting large events. Mark Kirk, Area Man-ager and Hotel General Manager, said: “After the success of Ed Sheeran back in February, we are delighted to welcome yet another international artist to perform at Shangri-La Muscat.

“It is exciting to see the increas-ing interest from the entertain-ment industry in Oman and we are proud to be part of this devel-opment,” he added.

To reserve tickets, visit the event website at www.stereo-phonicsoman.com.

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MUSICAL FOURSOME: Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that was formed in 1992 in the village

of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley, Wales.–Supplied photo

Cancer conference to form united strategyTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Cancer Asso-ciation’s Oncology Conference will open on Saturday, as it hosts 78 international, regional and local speakers.

The opening ceremony will be held under the auspices of His Highness Sayyid Taimour bin As-sad Al Said.

“We will have 23 participat-ing countries. There will be 18 sessions in total and 88 lectures. Also, we will have 4 satellite sym-

posiums and 3 board meetings. We have so far registered 396 par-ticipants,” announced Yuthar Al Rawahi, founder and chairperson, Oman Cancer Association.

“The Oman Cancer Associa-tion’s vision is to reduce the bur-den of disease from cancers and signifi cantly reduce the incidence and prevalence of cancers in Oman, especially in regards to fa-talities, morbidity and disabilities arising from cancers,” she said.

The fi ve-day event is being or-ganised by the Minister of Health.

H E A L T H

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE: The conference has brought together a

number of experts from many continents to network and provide

opportunities for knowledge sharing.–Supplied photo

Stereophonics to rock Muscat

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REGION

VICTORY CHANT: Yemenis shout slogans during a demonstration in support of the Saudi-led operation against the Houthi rebels in the

country’s third-largest city Taez on Friday. — AFP

UN-mediated Yemen peace talks in days

SANAA: Yemen’s government said on Friday it will join UN-mediated peace talks next week, as rocket fi re from Houthi rebels reportedly killed 20 civilians and wounded dozens more in a busy market.

Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coa-lition sent new reinforcements over the border into Yemen in preparation for an off ensive to retake the capital, seized by the insurgents a year ago.

And, in an ongoing campaign to soften up Sanaa, coalition war-planes struck an arms depot, trig-gering powerful explosions that killed at least seven civilians and wounded 10, witnesses and med-ics said.

An AFP reporter at the Wadia border crossing from Saudi Ara-bia saw at least 40 vehicles cross into Yemen’s oil-rich Marib prov-ince in part of the operation to recapture more territory from the Houthis, who swept southwards after taking Sanaa.

Since July, loyalists have recap-tured the main port of Aden and four other southern provinces.

The vehicles were carrying

Yemeni troops trained in Saudi Arabia as well as coalition sol-diers whose nationality military offi cials declined to give.

Their arrival came as war-planes killed seven rebels in the eastern province of Marib, while other raids struck insurgent po-sitions in neighbouring Shabwa province, military sources said.

Hours later, the rebels fi red Katyusha rockets at the govern-ment headquarters in Marib’s provincial capital, witnesses said.

But several rockets struck an adjacent market, killing at least 20 civilians and wounding doz-ens, medics and witnesses said.

Friday’s violence came as the government confi rmed it had agreed to take part in UN-mediat-ed peace talks, which it said would be held in Oman next week.

Late on Thursday, the UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said the ex-iled government and rebels had

agreed to take part in peace talks in the region next week.

However, in the absence of any announcement from the rebels, government spokesman Rajih Badi was unsure they would at-tend. The talks “may not take place,” he told AFP.

The government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in-sisted that a rebel pullback from areas seized since last year -- as outlined by UN Resolution 2216 -- remained a precondition for ne-gotiations.

The coalition has waged daily air strikes against the rebels, who are backed by troops loyal to for-mer president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The coalition has intensifi ed raids against rebels since last week, when a missile attack killed 60 Gulf troops, most of them Emi-ratis, in Marib province.

In preparation for a push on Sanaa, coalition member states have reportedly sent thousands

of heavily armed reinforcements to Yemen since last week, mainly to Marib.

The government has also an-nounced that 10,000 Yemenis are now ready to serve in a “national army being prepared to liberate Sanaa and other provinces”.

“Preparations are ongoing for large-scale military operations to liberate the provinces of Marib and Jawf (in the north) in order to enter Sanaa,” one of the Yemeni military offi cials told AFP.

The deputy head of the Na-tional Centre for Strategic Stud-ies, Major General Thabet Hus-sein Saleh, told AFP the coalition had intensifi ed its operations as a “preemptive measure” ahead of any “results that could come out of political talks.”

He said he expected the “war scenario” to overpower any po-litical talks, highlighting the im-portance of Marib in recapturing Sanaa. — AFP

Late on Thursday,

the UN special envoy

for Yemen, Ismail

Ould Cheikh Ahmed,

said the exiled

government and

rebels had agreed

to take part in peace

talks in the region

next week

CONFLICT: Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting an arms depot

in the capital Sanaa early on Friday. — AFP

Democrats back Obama to pave way for Iran nuclear dealWASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s Democrats have staved off a united Republican ef-fort to sink the Iran nuclear deal, handing him a welcome foreign policy victory.

As expected, US senators fell two votes shy of the 60 needed Thursday to advance a resolution disapproving of the international accord, meaning the legislation aimed at sabotaging the deal is es-sentially dead.

“The Senate has spoken with a clarion voice and declared that the historic agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon will stand,” Senate Minority Lead-er Harry Reid said after Democrats cleared the way for the accord.

Obama hailed the vote as “a vic-tory for diplomacy, for American

national security, and for the safe-ty and security of the world.”

“Going forward, we will turn to the critical work of implementing and verifying this deal so that Iran cannot pursue a nuclear weapon, while pursuing a foreign policy that leaves our country -- and the world -- a safer place.”

Four Democrats including Chuck Schumer, the party’s likely Senate leader in 2017 once Reid retires, opposed the accord, join-ing all 54 Republicans.

But the 58-42 vote in favour of

disapproval was not enough to get over the 60-vote procedural hurdle.

The result eff ectively assures that the deal will go into force while sparing Obama the em-barrassment of having to use his veto pen against a disapproval resolution.

Step forwardSecretary of State John Kerry hailed the vote as an “important step forward” in implementing the accord reached between world powers and Iran in Vienna in July.

“This agreement, when im-plemented, will make the United States, our friends and allies in the Middle East, and the entire world safer,” he added.

But Republicans, who unani-

mously oppose the accord, vowed to keep fi ghting, with House Speaker John Boehner insisting “this debate is far from over.”

Boehner said House Repub-licans will “use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow and delay this agreement from being fully implemented,” including suing the president to prevent him from car-rying out the Iran accord.

“That is an option that is very possible,” Boehner told reporters Thursday.

The deal struck between Iran and six world powers provides Tehran relief from crippling eco-nomic sanctions in exchange for tight limits on its nuclear program.

Republicans complain the deal does not do away with the program me altogether. — AFP

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LANDMARK VOTE: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, left, and

Senator Dick Durbin, speak after a vote failed to advance debate

on a nuclear agreement with Iran on Capitol Hill in Washington on

Thursday. — Reuters


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Unknown militants claim kidnapping Turkish workersBAGHDAD: An unknown mili-tant group has claimed the kid-napping of 18 Turkish workers in Iraq and issued a list of demands it said Ankara must fulfi l for them to be released.

Gunmen seized 18 employees of major Turkish construction fi rm Nurol Insaat on September 2 in the Sadr City area of northern Baghdad, where they were work-ing on a football stadium project.

In a video posted online, mili-tants armed with submachine guns and wearing black uniforms, sunglasses and balaclavas stood behind men said to be the kid-napped Turks.

The men, who were dressed in grey and blue T-shirts, did not ap-pear to have been harmed.

The militants identifi ed them-selves as “Furaq Al Mawt,” or “Death Squads,”.

One of their demands was that Turkey order rebel forces to stop besieging four majority sect vil-lages in northern Syria.

This all indicates the militants are from the majority sect, but could also potentially be an at-tempt to mislead, and the group’s make-up and provenance were not immediately clear.

Flow of militantsThe demands, addressed to Turk-ish President Recep Tayyip Er-dogan, included Ankara stopping “the fl ow of militants from Turkey to Iraq,” and “the passage of stolen oil from Kurdistan through Turk-ish territory.”

Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish re-gion is independently exporting oil via Turkey in a move the federal government considers illegal -- a point of contention between Bagh-dad and Ankara.

“If Erdogan and his party do not respond, we will crush Turkish interests and their agents in Iraq by the most violent means,” the group said. The 18 Turks were working on the 30,000-seat Sadr City Stadium project, which also includes practice fi elds and a hotel.

Turkey’s foreign ministry said they were separated from the other workers and singled out for abduction.

Dozens of Turks have been kid-napped but later released in Iraq in the past 18 months by the IS group, which overran large parts of the country last year.

But Sadr City is a stronghold of majority sect paramilitary forces opposed to the extremists.

A soldier was killed last week when security forces clashed with the Ketaeb Hezbollah militia while searching for a person allegedly in-

volved in the kidnappings.The security command respon-

sible for the capital said there had been intelligence that “one of the members of the gang that carried out the kidnapping” was on Bagh-dad’s Palestine Street.

It did not identify the gunmen, but Al-Etejah television, which is affi liated with Ketaeb Hezbollah, said one of the group’s facilities had been attacked by the Bagh-dad Operations Command on that street.

Baghdad turned to mostly ma-jority sect volunteer forces for support as IS advanced towards the capital in June 2014. Those groups have played a key role in halting and then reversing the ex-tremists’ gains.

Criminal activitiesIn doing so, the government em-powered the militias, some with chequered human rights records, and spurred the creation of new ones, allowing them to act with near-impunity despite the fact they offi cially fall under govern-ment command.

Some people linked to the mi-litias stand accused of criminal activities, including kidnapping, property seizures and murder.

Kidnappings for ransom are a persistent problem in Baghdad, although political motives can also come into play.

Ankara has been accused of complacency towards IS extrem-ists and complicity in assisting the group, which also holds substan-tial territory in common neigh-bour Syria. — AFP

I R A Q

WAR ZONE: Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fi ghters stand in a military

vehicle after they reportedly captured several villages from the IS

group in the district of Daquq, south of the northern city of Kirkuk

on Friday. — AFP

lves as ‘Furaq Al Mawt’,

or ‘Death Squads’.

One of their demands

was that Turkey order

rebel forces to stop

besieging four majority

sect villages

in northern Syria

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Modi hits out at Congressover legislative deadlock

CHANDIGARH: Attacking Con-gress for disrupting Lok Sabha proceedings in the Monsoon ses-sion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said 40 MPs are “conspiring” and “playing” with democracy by “blocking” parlia-mentary process.

“MPs are sent by the people who elect them to Parliament. Howev-er, 40 MPs have conspired against the principles of democracy and playing with it against the wishes of people which is an insult to their representatives,” Modi said here addressing a gathering after handing over keys and papers to 10 allottees under the ‘General Self Financing Housing Scheme’ of Chandigarh Housing Board.

“Why are some people doing this (blocking the proceedings of Parliament), just for their arro-gance. There can be nothing more unfortunate than this,” he said.

What 40 people are doing in Parliament is not in the spirit of democracy and Parliament has to function, he said.

Virtually throwing a challenge to the Congress, he said, “Beyond the Lok Sabha is jansabha (Peo-ples’ parliament) and that is why I am expressing my views here, in front of you (the gathering).”

After a gap of 30 years people have given a huge mandate to one party at the Centre, he said, add-

ing, “people will not forgive some of the political parties for their conduct in Parliament.”

“Ideals of democracy were not respected,” he said while target-ing Congress. On the vexed issue of One Rank One Pension (OROP)

for ex-servicemen, Modi said that the previous UPA government al-located only Rs500 crore for the scheme, but when his government looked into this matter, it was re-alised that the amount required was Rs10,000 crore.

“I have said that we will work on OROP and work began right from the time we assumed offi ce. We spoke to stakeholders,” he said.

Disapproving the agitation on OROP by some veterans after announcement of the scheme,

he said, “Some people have been gripped by the disease known as agitation just for vested interests.”

Modi also referred to another historic landmark associated with the day, of Swami Vivekananda’s address at the World Parliament of Religions on September 11, 1893, in Chicago.

“In the annals of history, 9/11 holds another signifi cance. In 1893, about 120 years ago, a great man of this land had gone to the US. And, on 9/11, Swami Vive-kananda began his speech at the Chicago gathering by address-ing those present as ‘Sisters and Brothers of America’ and that word, that sentence, forced the people to clap for long time,” he said.

Modi also remarked on how Swami Vivekananda had con-nected with the people in the USA by tapping the bonds of humanity and showed that mankind can rise to greater heights.

He said that if the September 11 message given by Swami Vive-kananda had been accepted by the world, then an episode like 9/11 would not have occurred.

Turning to healthcare, Modi said there was consciousness now among the people about its holis-tic and preventive aspects.

The world is asking for some-thing more from medical science, he said while noting that “it has begun to think about good health rather than depending on (the use of ) medicines”.

“If you look at successful doc-tors, you will fi nd very few among them who focus on the illness of a patient; they focus on the root cause behind the ailment by understanding the person before him, including his psycho-logical state.

“A poor patient comes to see a doctor, who knows that he cannot make payment and, if he decides to treat him, then even 20 years later, that poor patient will return to that doctor and repay him be-cause the doctor had treated not just his illness but accepted him for what he was,” said Modi. - PTI

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi said

what 40 people are

doing in Parliament

is not in the spirit

of democracy and

Parliament has

to function

Some people have

been gripped by the

disease known as

agitation just for

vested interests

Narendra ModiPrime Minister

GARNERING SUPPORT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with BJP

leaders BC Khanduri and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank waves at crowd

during a rally in Rishikesh on Friday. - PTI

BHUBANESWAR: Modi government cannot brush aside opposition and impose any measure without proper discussion in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said on Friday after Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi accused Congress of holding back India’s devel-opment march by stalling Parliament.

Criticising BJP for ac-cusing Congress of blocking GST Bill, he said, “Parliament should function, but it needs discussion. It is not like RSS shakha. India is a country with diversity and not a closed system where decisions can be imposed.”

“The BJP-led government

must realise that Parliament is a forum for discussion and nothing can be imposed without allowing opposition to express its voice and views.

It should not brush aside opposition,” the Congress Vice President said.

He was speaking on a day Modi accused Congress of in-dulging in “negative politics”, saying 40 MPs were “conspir-ing” and “blocking” parlia-mentary process, thereby holding back India’s develop-ment march.

Claiming that the BJP leadership did not believe in consensus and discussion, Ra-hul Gandhi said the Modi Gov-ernment expected Congress to

function like a ruling party.“Being an opposition

party, Congress needs to express its views in Parlia-ment as it represents the people and their voice. But, the BJP is not allowing us to present our voice,” the AICC Vice-President said adding senior Congress leaders were prevented from placing their views on GST.

Maintaining that Congress had initiated GST, he said the GST bill has two-three funda-mental shortcomings like the maximum tax slab of 25 per cent and the dispute resolu-tion mechanism and there should be proper discussion to address these issues. -PTI

Parliament can’t be run like RSS shakha: Rahul

Can’t implicate

‘innocent’ Tytler

in a 1984 riot

case, says CBI

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday described Congress leader Jagdish Tytler as “innocent” in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case, saying it cannot implicate him to satisfy someone’s “ego”.

The riot victims have fi led a protest petition against the clean chit already given thrice to Tytler by the CBI, alleging that there was ample evidence to prosecute him and the agency was favouring him.

Complainant Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed in the riots, in her protest petition has challenged the closure report and sought court’s direction to CBI to probe the matter fur-ther to bring on record available incriminating evidence against the accused.

Seeking to dismiss with heavy cost the protest petition fi led by riot victims, CBI said that dur-ing its investigation, it has been established that Tytler “was not involved in the incident of attack which took place at Gurdwara Pul-bungash on November 1, 1984”.

“It is further submitted that CBI cannot falsely implicate an inno-cent person merely on the basis of charged sentiments and to satisfy the ego of some elements who are adamant to falsely implicate Jag-dish Tytler. During the course of investigation and further probe, it has been established that Jagdish Tytler was not involved in the inci-dent of attack which took place on Gurdwara Pulbangash on Novem-ber 1, 1984,” CBI said. - PTI

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Opinion polls predict

win for ‘grand alliance’

NEW DELHI: The “grand alli-ance” of JD(U)-RJD-Congress is projected to win between 116 and 132 seats in the 243-member Bi-har Assembly for which elections were announced, according to a opinion poll taken by India TV channel.

The BJP-led combine includ-ing LJP, RLSP and HAM, has been projected to win within a range of 94 to 110 seats, according to the poll conducted by C-Voter, according to a press release is-sued by the channel.

C-Voter said the projections were based on a methodology based on random stratifi ed sam-ple of 10,683 interviews covering all the Assembly constituencies during the last week of August and the fi rst week of September.

The margin of error is 3 three per cent at the state level and 5 per cent at the regional level, the poll agency said.

In the 2010 Assembly elec-tions, JD(U) and BJP had won 206 seats by going together in an alliance while Lalu Prasad’s RJD-led alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan could win only 25 seats.

However, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA com-prising BJP, Paswan LJP and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP won

in 174 Assembly segments. The Lalu-Nitish combine could win only in 51 Assembly segments in the face of Modi wave.

‘Nitish best choice for CM’On the question of who is the best chief minister, a whopping 53 per cent respondents favoured incumbent Nitish Kumar, while only 18 per cent preferred BJP leader Sushil Modi and only 5 per cent preferred Lalu Prasad and Shatrughan Sinha.

Percentage wise, the Lalu-Nit-ish-Congress combine is project-ed to win 43 per cent votes this time, while the BJP-led combine is projected to win 40 per cent votes. Seventeen per cent went to ‘others’. Fifty six per cent re-spondents said the present elec-tions will be a vote for change, while 44 per cent said ‘no’.

Fifty two per cent respond-ents wanted a change in chief minister, while 48 per cent said ‘no’. Seventy per cent respond-ents wanted to change their present MLAs.

On the question of who will work for Bihar’s development, 36 per cent favoured the BJP-led combine, while 25 per cent favoured Lalu-Nitish-Congress alliance. - PTI

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12 convicted, one acquitted in Mumbai train blasts case

MUMBAI: Nine years after se-rial bomb blasts in trains rattled Mumbai killing 188 people, a spe-cial court here on Friday convict-ed 12 accused, all allegedly having links with banned SIMI, holding fi ve of them guilty for murder which could attract death penalty.

Delivering the verdict, the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Judge Yatin D Shinde held 12 of the 13 accused guilty while acquit-ting one of them.

The convicts were allegedly linked to the banned Students Is-lamic Movement of India (SIMI).

The accused were found guilty of charges under IPC, Explosives

Act, Unlawful Activities Preven-tion Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and In-dian Railway Act and those under MCOCA. Five of the accused were found guilty of murder (IPC 302).The court also found all the 12 ac-cused guilty under Section 3 (1) (i) of MCOCA, which could also at-tract capital punishment.

ConvictedThose convicted on Wednes-day are Kamal Ahamed Ansari (37), Tanvir Ahmed Ansari (37), Mohd Faisal Shaikh (36), Ehtesh-am Siddiqui (30), Mohammad Majid Shafi (32), Shaikh Alam Shaikh (41), Mohd Sajid Ansari

(34),Muzzammil Shaikh (27), So-heil Mehmood Shaikh (43), Zamir Ahmad Shaikh (36), Naveed Hus-sain Khan (30) and Asif Khan (38). During the investigations, 13 accused, all of them Indians, were arrested and brought to trial.

The chargesheet fi led by Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) in No-vember 2006 had named 30, 17 of them absconding and out which 13 are said to be Pakistan nation-als. The absconding include Azam Chima, an alleged Lashker-e- Taiba member. Arguments for the quantum of sentence are likely to begin on Monday.

The ATS chargesheet had said that Improvised Explosive De-

vices (IEDs) were made in a room in Govandi in suburban Mumbai. Seven RDX bombs had exploded in the fi rst class coaches in many suburban trains on July 11, 2006, killing 188 people and injuring 829.

In the trial that ran for eight long years, the prosecution ex-amined 192 witnesses, including eight Indian Police Service (IPS) and fi ve Indian Administrative Service (IAS) offi cers as well as 18 doctors. The defence lawyers ex-amined 51 witnesses and one per-son was called as a court witness.

The blast occurred within a span of 10 minutes between Khar Road-Santacruz, Bandra-Khar Road, Jogeshwari-Mahim Junc-

tion, Mira Road- Bhayander, Matunga- Mahim Junction and Borivali. The MCOCA judge had concluded the trial on August 19 last year. The examination of wit-nesses resumed after two years since the Supreme Court had stayed the trial in 2008.

Before the stay, the prosecution had already examined a police of-fi cer. The Supreme Court vacated the stay on April 23, 2010.

Of the 13 accused arrested by ATS between July 20, 2006 and October 3, 2006, 11 had given statements admitting to their in-volvement in the blasts but later retracted.

The case took a twist when the defence lawyer sought to call IM co-founder Sadiq Sheikh as de-fence witness after he told the police in 2008 that IM members were responsible for all the blasts that happened since 2005 includ-ing the train blasts.

The court had allowed to exam-ine Sadiq as a defence witness.

VerdictReacting to the verdict, former Mumbai police commissioner AN Roy, who had played a key role in the investigation, said he was happy that the court endorsed the chargesheet submitted after thor-ough investigations by Mumbai police and ATS.

“Investigations were done thor-oughly by the Mumbai Police and the ATS. To start with it was a blind case. We had no clue. But I am sat-isfi ed with the verdict. Out of the 13 accused who were tried, 12 have been convicted while one is acquitted,” he said. BJP, Congress and NCP awelcomed the verdict. On delay in completion of the trial, they suggested that terror cases should be fast-tracked. - PTI

Accused were found

guilty of charges

under Indian Penal

Code, Explosives Act,

Unlawful Activities

Prevention Act,

Prevention of Damage

to Public Property Act

and Indian Railway

Act and those

under Maharashtra

Control of Organised

Crime ActACCUSED: Police escort a suspect, centre, accused of involvement in serial commuter train blasts in

2006 at a court in Mumbai on Friday. An Indian court on September 11 convicted 12 people over a

series of bombings on commuter trains in Mumbai that killed around 190 people in 2006. - AFP

Six Indians die

in coalition air

strikes in Yemen

NEW DELHI: Six Indians have been killed after their boat came under Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen, External Aff airs Ministry said on Friday.

The six were among seven na-tionals who were initially reported missing when two boats, ‘Mustafa’ and ‘Asmar’, carrying a total of 21 Indian nationals, came under aer-ial attack on September 8.

“It is now regrettably informed that late at night on 10 September, the bodies of six of the missing per-sons present on the two boats were recovered and were brought to the Military Hospital.

“The families of the deceased have been informed, and their verbal consent has been taken for appropriate funeral rites to be performed in Hodeidah as per reli-gious practises,” MEA Spokesper-son Vikas Swarup said.

He also noted that the Indian embassy in Yemen’s Camp Offi ce in Djibouti has been constantly in touch with authorities and local contacts to ascertain more details.

One still missing“Of the remaining 15 Indians on the two boats, 14 are safe in Hodei-dah, and of these four are undergo-ing treatment in a local hospital. All the 14 are in regular touch with their families. One person is still missing, and the Mission is work-ing with the local authorities and contacts to ascertain his wherea-bouts,” he added.

Some media reports, quoting residents and fi shermen, on Tues-day had claimed that at least 20 Indian nationals were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition forces on fuel smugglers at Hodei-dah port.

India does not have an Embassy in Yemen which was shut down in April after evacuation of its na-tionals. - PTI

W A R - T O R N

Mukesh Ambani still richest Indian for fourth

year in a row in average year for billionaires

NEW DELHI: With a Rs160,950 crore ($24 billion) fortune, Reli-ance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani continues to be the richest Indian for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Hurun report.

“Mukesh Ambani (58) of Reli-ance holds on to his position as the richest man in India, with a per-sonal fortune of Rs160,951 crore, three percent less than last year,” Hurun Report India head Anas Rahman Juniad said here.

For the fi rst time, Wipro czar Azim Premji (69) slips out of top fi ve billionaires’ spot owing to his philanthropic donations, while Bengaluru-based biotech leader Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (62) is the only self-made woman in the top rich list, though her net worth declined six per cent to Rs6,143 crore. Shanghai-based Hurun re-port started off by listing the rich-est in China but has expanded to include India and global lists.

The China list was started in 1999 by Rupert Hoogewerf, a chartered accountant, who earlier worked with Arthur Andersen.

Average year“India had a mixed year with sec-tors like mobile phone and e-com-merce doing well, while others such as real estate and energy had a bad year. Overall, it was an aver-age year for entrepreneurs,” the report found.

According to the report, Lon-don-based SP Hinduja (81) and family of the Hinduja Group jumped to third rank from sixth in a year after their wealth shot up 43

per cent to Rs103,030 crore, HCL founder-chairman Shiv Nadar ranked fourth, the report noted.

With 33 per cent increase in wealth creation to Rs47,608 crore, Kotak Mahindra Bank vice-chair-man and managing director Uday Kotak (55) entered into the top 10 billionaires ranking.

IncreasedAs against 220 individuals last year, number of people with more

than Rs1,600-crore in personal wealth has increased 76 this year to 296. The combined wealth of India’s richest is a staggering $478 billion, equating to 22 per cent of the country’s GDP (gross domestic product).

Six per cent devaluation of ru-pee against dollar and a lackluster performance of key sectors such as steel, energy and real estate re-duced average wealth of the rich seven percent on annualised basis.

Data analytics major Mu Sigma founder Dhiraj Rajaram (40) is the fastest riser with wealth shoot-ing up a whopping 593 per cent to Rs.17,790 crore.

In contrast, wealth of 58 bil-lionaires declined, with some of them in the oil and gas sector, in which prices have declined by over 50 percent in a year. For instance, wealth of Ajay Kalsi (54) of Indus Gas slumped 242 per cent to hit the bottom of the rich list.

Mumbai richest cityMumbai continues to be richest city in the country with 29 per cent of billionaires residing, followed by Delhi with 19 per cent and Ben-galuru with eight per cent.

Manufacturing dominates the wealthy list with 15 per cent, fol-lowed by pharma at nine percent and real estate six per cent.

Ola Cabs co-founders Ankit Bhati, 28, and Bhavish Aggarwal, 29, are the younger self-made In-dians in the list, followed by tyre prince Rajiv Poddar (30) of Bal-akrishna Industries.

Wealth calculations are a snap-shot of net worth of living individ-uals as of July 31, when the rate of exchange to the dollar was Rs64.

Commenting on the report, Joy-alukkas chairman Joy Alukkas said India was adding more bil-lionaires, whose number had gone up to 124 from 109 last year and 59 in 2012.

“Of them 36 migrated from the country and have become non-res-ident Indians (NRIs), with wealth of three doubling every year,” Aluk-kas said, citing the report. - IANS

H U R U N R E P O R T

INDIA’S RICHEST: Mukesh Ambani (58) of Reliance holds on to

his position as the richest man in India, with a personal fortune of

Rs160,951 crore, three per cent less than last year. - AFP fi le photo

Bengal government to release Netaji fi lesKOLKATA: West Bengal gov-ernment on Friday announced it would make public the next 64 fi les relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose which could throw light on the mysterious disap-pearance of the nationalist leader in mid-1940s.

Chief Minister Mamata Ba-nerjee said there has been a long- standing demand for declas-sifi cation of Netaji fi les and 64 fi les on the freedom fi ghter lying with the state’s home department would be put in public domain from next Friday.

“A total 64 fi les are there with us. There may be one or two more fi les also which would also be put in the public domain. After properly reviewing all the fi les, we have decided to put them in public domain from next Friday (September 18),” she announced at the state secretariat.

Brave sonReplying to a question, she said “we don’t feel that there is any-thing related to internal security in the fi les. Everybody wants to know what happened to Netaji. He was a brave son of our soil and he was from Bengal,” she said.

Asked if the state would re-quest the Centre to declas-sify fi les it has in its possession, Mamata said “it is for the Centre to decide but we want the truth about Netaji to come out. It is for you people ( journalists) to fi nd out what happened to him.”

Asked whether the fi les to be declassifi ed could throw any clue about the alleged snooping on

Netaji’s nephew by the Congress government at the Centre from 1948 to 1968, Mamata said “you have the options. It is better for you to go through the fi les to get the answers.” The Chief Minister also announced that the record of the freedom struggle from 1937 to 1947 would be digitised in or-der to preserve history.

Welcoming the decision to declassify Netaji fi les, Krishna Bose, a former Trinamool Con-gress MP and Netaji’s family member, said there was no rea-son to hold back the fi les for 70 years after his disappearance.

Krishna Bose said “I welcome the decision and thank the chief minister for taking this decision. I feel that whatever is there in those fi les should be made public as it has been too long.”

All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), a party formed by Netaji himself in 1939, too demanded that all fi les lying with the Centre and other states should be made public.

“The BJP government should also declassify the fi les it has on Netaji and other state govern-ments which has fi les on Netaji should be made public,” AIFB general secretary said.

Recently some fi les relating to Bose, which were declassifi ed by the central government, had revealed that the Home Ministry had snooped on at least two of Netaji’s nephews when Jawahar-lal Nehru was the prime minister.

The fi les revealed that the In-telligence Bureau had kept a tap on the relatives of Netaji between 1948 and 1968. - PTI

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

A total 64 fi les are there with us. There may be one or two more fi les also which would also be put in the public domain. After properly reviewing all the fi les, we have decided to put them in public domain from next Friday (September 18)

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal chief minister

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Karachi’s new generation seeking to revive nightlifeKARACHI: Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest and most diverse city, was once home to a famous nightclub scene where luminaries from the world of jazz played to packed crowds eager for a taste of West-ern culture.

Today, a new generation is seeking to revive the partying traditions of their parents and grandparents -- albeit behind closed doors.

At a luxury hotel in the metropo-lis of 20 million -- better known for bitter political acrimony, gang violence and bloody turf wars -- it is after midnight and the private party has just started.

In a room decorated with chan-deliers, several hundred guests are letting their hair down. The music is loud and the bar is busy.

A young female DJ, tanned and tattooed, is in control of the beats. Men dressed in suits and ties chain smoke as they listen to the electro-funk of Daft Punk, as women strut across the dance fl oor.

The partygoers are from a gen-eration that tasted the freedom of a foreign university and over-seas travel before returning home to Pakistan.

The party was not advertised — and from the street you would never know it was happening —to avoid the attention of suicide bombers and extremists.

Before the creeping of hardlin-ers from the late 1970s that fun-

damentally altered the country, Pakistan’s nightlife was legendary.

Golden-eraThe golden-era began in the 1950s and rolled on until pro-hibition in 1977, which was fol-lowed by a slew of policies that

drastically altered society.Beverages fl owed freely in

downtown bars and American jazz musicians Dizzie Gillespie and Duke Ellington played to huge crowds. Clubs such as Excelsior, Oasis, Samar, Club 007 all com-peted to be the place to be seen by

Karachi’s hip young crowd. “We used to have a good night-

life with bands and dancing but it’s gone,” recalls Imtiaz Moghal, the manager of the Metropole Hotel, once one of Karachi’s hottest night-spots, but which now lies semi-der-elict as it awaits renovation.

“It is a haunted house,” he said as he wandered through crumbling remnants of the once-grand hotel. Gesturing at the carpark, he said: “That used to be a club and a disco. It hurts to think about it now.”

In Karachi’s heyday, politi-cians, young people, belly danc-ers, foreign diplomats, the cabin crew of foreign airlines and mu-sicians from touring Southeast Asian orchestras were all swept up together in the melee of the city’s nightlife.

“The order of music was that you would warm up and then play some more popular songs, and (then) you played the louder music... towards the end of the evening you wind down because people had romantic intentions,” recalls former band-member Leon Menezes.

Old timesFrom 1970 to 1975, sporting long hair and oversized sunglasses, Me-nezes’ band The In Crowd was one of Karachi’s most popular.

The group played at the 1972 inauguration of president Zulfi -kar Ali Bhutto, father of Pakistan’s fi rst female prime minister Bena-zir Bhutto.

The elder Bhutto was a regular at many of Karachi’s nightspots and was known to enjoy his drinks.

Menezes, now a teacher at a Ka-rachi business school, recalled the day of the inauguration as an “in-credible piece of history”.

“In the afternoon we were walk-ing into his house to set up and there was Mr Bhutto... I was carry-ing an amplifi er and a guitar in one hand. And I said, ‘Good afternoon, sir’. And he said, ‘Good afternoon’. I said, ‘Sir, will there be dancing?’ He said, ‘I don’t know but (if there is) please don’t hide yourself.’”

Five years later, he banned alco-hol, before being overthrown and ultimately hanged by the military government of general Zia ul-Haq.

Private aff air“That completely changed the ho-tel industry in all of Pakistan,” said Happy Minwalla, owner of Metro-pole Hotel. “Karachi was all about entertainment, about fun, about people doing things. Sadly the situ-ation has changed.”

Prohibition was the death knell for the clubs, but it did not eradi-cate the thirst for a nightlife.

Today, most parties happen behind the closed doors and high walls of private homes.

Pilot Akeel Akhtar turns his home into a club twice a month for a select group of guests with Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and modern hits blaring out.

“This is a private place, we don’t put (it) on any social media, Facebook, we don’t advertise it at all. It is just between friends,” he explains, as he pulls out his electric guitar to the delight of his guests. - AFP

P A R T Y I N G T R A D I T I O N S

AWAITING RENOVATION: Pakistani manager of the Metropole Hotel Imtiaz Moghal gestures from the

roof of the now-closed hotel in Karachi in this photograph taken on August 22, 2015. Karachi, Paki-

stan’s biggest and most diverse city, was once home to a famous nightclub scene where luminaries

from the world of jazz played to packed crowds eager for Western culture. - AFP

‘Sentencing of Ali Shah political victimisation’

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari expressed concern on Friday over sentencing of PPP MPA Syed Ali Nawaz Shah by an accountability court, terming it a misuse of judicial process for ‘po-litical victimisation’.

Shah, who is PPP’s MPA from Sindh belongs to Umerkot district and has also served as a federal minister in the cabinet of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The MPA has been sentenced for fi ve years in jail in a case reg-istered against him nearly fi fteen years ago in 2001.

“It is strange that according to the case profi le, Ali Nawaz Shah has been sentenced to fi ve years in jail for the compensation paid to him by the state for his property in 2001,” the former president said, in a statement.

“If this becomes the norm and judicial processes are misused and manipulated to secure convictions of political opponents things will go too far,” the party’s co-chairper-son added.

Zardari went on to add that Shah has a good reputation in all politi-cal circles and his sentencing has brought to the fore how federal institutions are being manipu-lated for political victimisation in provinces.

The former president pointed out that the manner in which the date of pronouncing verdict was delayed also raised questions about the fairness of the trial as guaranteed under Article 10-A of the Constitution introduced as a result of the 18th constitutional amendment.

Further, Zardari warned the fed-eral government against the natu-ral and inevitable consequences of this regressive policy of political witch-hunting and victimisation.

“The federal agencies must not go too far and land themselves in a quagmire from which they may fi nd it diffi cult to extricate them-selves,” he said.

On Thursday, an accountability court in Karachi ordered jail term of fi ve years for the sitting PPP MPA in Sindh, Ali Nawaz Shah.

The court also ordered impris-

onment for two of Shah’s accom-plices, former lawmaker Syed Khadim Ali Shah and bureaucrat Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah for four and three years respectively.

The verdict announced that the aforementioned were found guilty of causing millions of rupees’ loss to the national exchequer by draw-ing funds in the name of fake and fi ctitious land acquisition.

The judgment also bans the convicts from holding any public offi ce for 10 years, during which they cannot contest any elections, nor can they secure any job in the government.

Banks will not provide them with any kind of loan during this time, the judgment added.

The inquiry of the embezzle-ment of funds was initiated in 2001 by the National Accountabil-ity Bureau (NAB) and took around nine years to conclude as a formal case. NAB registered a case against them in 2010.

The trial of the case was con-ducted for fi ve years, during which a suspect, Qutb Shah, died of natu-ral causes.

According to the prosecution, the convicts, in collaboration with each other, prepared bogus pow-ers of attorney of land purchased for Left Bank and Right Bank Out-fall Drains, known as LBOD and RBOD, around River Indus.

Nawaz, 73, has a long politi-cal resume with the PPP since its formation until now, having had numerous stints as a federal and provincial minister, senator and member of provincial assemblies.

He was also imprisoned a num-ber of times during political move-ments, mostly during General Zia’s regime and Nawaz Sharif ’s past government.

In the past general elections, he was elected from the PS-65 constituency in his native town Mirpurkhas.

Reacting on the court decision, Sindh information minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said that Nawaz has never been involved in corrup-tion and he is an uncontroversial, respected stalwart of the party. “We respect the court decision but will challenge it before a higher court,” he said. - Express Tribune

Former president

Asif Ali Zardari

says it is strange

that according to

the case profi le, Ali

Nawaz Shah has been

sentenced to fi ve

years in jail for the

compensation paid to

him by the state for

his property in 2001

Remittances by overseas citizens up by 5.4 per centKARACHI: Overseas Pakistan-is sent remittances amounting to $3.19 billion in the fi rst two months of 2015-16, which trans-lates into a year-on-year (YoY) increase of 5.4 per cent, accord-ing to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday.

Remittances amounted to a little over $3 billion in the same months of the preceding fi s-cal year. On a month-on-month basis, however, remittances re-corded a decrease of 8.2 per cent in August, SBP data shows.

Pakistanis based in foreign countries sent home $18.4 billion in 2014-15, which translated into a YoY increase of 16.5 per cent.

Infl ows from Saudi Arabia were the largest source of remit-tances in July-August.

They amounted to $957.7 mil-lion in the last two months, up 12.5 per cent from the corre-sponding period of last year.

Remittances received in July-August from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) increased 7 per cent to $686.6 million on a year-on-year basis. Infl ows from the UAE had registered the largest increase (26.1 per cent) from any major remittance-sending coun-try in 2014-15, SBP data shows.

Remittances from the United States and the United Kingdom remained $454.9 million and $438.6 million, respectively, in July-August. The YoY change in remittances from the US and the UK has been -6.8 per cent and 2 per cent, respectively.

Remittances from Gulf Coop-eration Council (GCC) countries, excluding Saudi Arabia and the UAE, clocked up at $391.6 million in July-August, which is 16.9 per cent higher than the remittances received from these countries in the same months of the preced-ing fi scal year.

Remittances from Kuwait in July equalled $125.6 million while those from Oman, Bahrain and Qatar amounted to $128.4

million, $78.9 million and $58.6 million, respectively.

This means the overall share of the GCC countries in Pakistan is almost 64 per cent.

Many analysts fear remit-tances from these countries may dwindle going forward, as their governments begin to scale back infrastructure spending in the wake of a sharp fall in global oil prices. Remittances received from Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan and ‘other countries’ last month amounted to $97.26.

Remittances had grown 13.7 per cent in 2013-14, compared to YoY increase of 16.5 per cent in 2014-15. - Express Tribune

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If this becomes the

norm and judicial

processes are misused

and manipulated to

secure convictions of

political opponents

things will go too far

Asif Ali ZardariFormer president

We respect the court decision but will challenge it before a higher court

Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Sindh information minister

Many analysts fear

remittances from GCC

countries may dwindle

going forward, as their

governments begin to

scale back infrastructure

spending in the wake

of a sharp fall in

global oil prices

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On August 4, I argued that, viewed through the lens of supply and demand, the surge of refugees into Europe was a tragedy

that wouldn’t “go away anytime soon, and for a simple depressing reason: The economics of this tragic situation call for a comprehensive collaborative solution, but the best the political system is able to come up with is a piecemeal, weakly coordinated approach.”

This diagnosis was confi rmed over the past fi ve weeks, as several European nations pursued narrow national responses. While some of these were admirable -- including Germany’s decision to open its borders, embrace the refugees and approve funds to support their orderly and productive resettlement -- other nations’ reactions were scattershot, or repressive and heartless. Now, the continent’s political leadership is seeking a more unifi ed strategy, centred on mandatory quotas, that aims to spread the burden among member countries.

On paper, this is a valid response to an imbalance between supply and demand that has been amplifi ed by the initial coordination failures and that cannot be solved through either national policy responses or by relying on the market’s normal equilibrating mechanism.

This new strategy, however, will prove challenging to put into eff ect and, more fundamentally, won’t address the underlying causes of the refugee infl ux, unless it is supplemented with several other policies.

Moreover, in the absence of a more comprehensive solution, the crisis also could become another test of Europe’s commitment to its common values, which has yet to recover fully from the damage infl icted by Greece’s economic and debt meltdown. Already there are proposals to scale back passport-free travel within the “Schengen Zone,” a European achievement that was deemed irreversible not so long ago.

In simple economic terms, the proposed mandatory quota system can be viewed as an attempt to seek greater balance by forcing the creation of supply in response to excess demand. If these steps are bolstered by resources to support and develop the human capital of the refugees -- which is what Germany says it is committed to do at the national

level -- there is the potential to productively expand Europe’s labour force, which will be confronted by signifi cant aging and other demographic challenges.

But these moves, however attractive, won’t be easy to implement.

On the supply side, some countries -- such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia -- are strongly opposed to a mandatory quota system. Other nations are likely to join them. That rejection would make it very hard for European offi cials to secure the national political support the measures need to succeed, even if Germany, the region’s powerhouse, strongly backs the plan.

The challenge on the supply side comes from the refugees themselves. After dangerous journeys from their homelands, and having endured signifi cant hardship, some of the migrants are likely to demand a say in where they will be resettled.

Their choice of destination will be based on their perception of the host country’s social and fi nancial environment. And they will demand to be sent to places where they believe they can more easily form connections (with family, friends or established national immigrant communities).

This is already the case with some refugees in Denmark who are seeking to get to Germany or Sweden; and in Greece and Hungary, where many refugees are resisting being registered, a step that would preclude travel to Western European countries. European leaders would be justifi ed in arguing that “beggars cannot be choosers,” but accommodating the refugees’ requests could help ease the longer-term integration of the new arrivals.

At best, the quota system will provide much-needed, but short-term, relief for a humanitarian tragedy. But a sustainable solution also must include measures that reduce the supply of refugees by improving the unbearable conditions in the lands they are fl eeing. And, on the demand side, it would involve the wider acceptance throughout Europe of Germany’s recognition that an admirable humanitarian response also can bring longer-term gains for the host economies.

Most of Europe remains far from agreement on such durable solutions for either side of the equation. - Bloomberg View

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it a point to look at the driver to ensure that his head is up and is not indulged in texting. This is a kind of addiction with grave consequences we see all around. WhatsApp is a remarkable application to stay in touch eff ectively, however, its mis-use is the problem. Perhaps, it shouldn’t be totally free as it is today. For a change, I am eagerly looking forward to the day when they will make this some kind of a paid app so that this gross misuse and addiction will come down.— Dr M. S. Aziz, Al Rusayl

Corporates must sponsor Fatma When I see Omani star, Fatma Nabhani, winning any tournament I feel happy. She is unlucky that she has not been professionally trained. The authorities concerned should have noticed her talent and sent her to a good academy like Nick Bolterri in US. Then, by this time, she would have joined the top 10 seeds. Nick’s fees is around $60,000. Any corporate house could have sponsored her and she

would have brought laurels to her country. Fatma can realise her dream by improving her ranking and get a chance of participating in Rio Olympics. — A. M. A. Al Ansari, Azaiba

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‘Moscow is sending advanced anti-aircraft missile to Syria’

NEW YORK/MOSCOW: Mos-cow is sending an advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Syria, two Western offi cials and a Rus-sian source said, as part of what the West believes is stepped-up military support for embattled President Bashar Al Assad.

The Western offi cials said the SA-22 system would be operated by Russian troops, rather than Syrians. It was on its way to Syria but had not yet arrived.

“This system is the advanced version used by Russia and it’s meant to be operated by Russians in Syria,” said one of the sources, a Western diplomat who is regular-ly briefed on US, Israeli and other intelligence assessments.

A US offi cial separately con-fi rmed the information.

The Russian source, who is close to the Russian navy, said the delivery would not be the fi rst time Moscow had sent the SA-22 system, known as Pantsir-S1 in Russian, to Syria. It had been sent in 2013, the source said.

“There are plans now to send a new set,” the source said, without detailing how far along the pro-cess was.

However, the Western diplomat said the version of the SA-22 on its way to Syria was newer than pre-vious missile systems deployed there. Syrian offi cials could not be reached for comment.

The United States has been leading a campaign of air strikes in Syrian air space for a year, joined by aircraft from European and regional allies including Brit-ain, France, Jordan and Turkey. US forces operating in the area are concerned about the potential introduction of the weapon, the diplomat said.

US offi cials say they believe Moscow has been sending troops and equipment to Syria, although they say Russia’s intentions are not clear.

Lebanese sources have told

Reuters that Russian troops have begun participating in combat operations on behalf of the As-sad government. Moscow has not commented on those reports.

Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Min-ister Sergei Lavrov said Russia was sending military equipment to Syria to help the Assad govern-ment combat IS fi ghters, and had sent experts to help train the Syr-ian army to use it.

Undermine justifi cationHowever, the dispatch of ad-vanced anti-aircraft missiles would appear to undermine that justifi cation, since neither IS nor any other Syrian rebel group pos-sesses any aircraft.

Lavrov also said coordination was needed between Russia’s military and the Pentagon to avoid “unintended incidents” around Syria. Russia was conducting pre-planned naval drills in the eastern Mediterranean, he said.

This year has seen momentum shift against Assad’s government in Syria’s 4-year-old civil war, which has killed 250,000 people and driven around half of Syria’s

23 million people from their homes. An ally of Damascus since the Cold War, Moscow maintains its only Mediterranean naval base at Tartus on the Syrian coast, and protecting it would be a strategic objective.

Recent months have also seen talk of a new role for outside forc-es in Syria, with NATO-member Turkey proposing the creation of a “safe zone” free from both IS and government forces near its Syrian border.

Even if Russians operated the missiles and kept them out of the hands of the Syrian army, the ar-rival of such an advanced anti-aircraft system could also unset-tle Israel, which in the past has bombed sophisticated arms it suspected were being handed to Assad’s Lebanese guerrilla allies, Hezbollah.

An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment on the mis-sile system. A senior Israeli de-fence offi cial on Thursday said Israel was in contact with Mos-cow and would continue its policy of stopping advanced weapons reaching Hezbollah.

“We have open relations with

the Russians who have come to save Assad in the civil war. Along with this, we will not allow our sovereignty to be compromised or the transfer of advanced or chemi-cal weapons (to Hezbollah). We are following the developments and keeping open channels with Moscow.”

Russian navy drillsMeanwhile, Russia has stepped

up naval training exercises off the Syrian coast in recent months and is preparing to hold more drills, according to several sources, be-haviour likely to fuel US asser-tions that Moscow is building up its forces in the region.

A squadron of fi ve Russian na-val ships, equipped with guided missiles, has set off to conduct manoeuvres in Syrian territorial waters, including possibly fi ring rockets, a source close to the Rus-sian navy told Reuters on Friday.

“They will train to repulse an attack from the air and to defend the coast, which means fi ring ar-tillery and testing short-range air defence systems, “ the source said, adding that the exercise had been agreed with the Syrian gov-

ernment. The Russian navy has stepped up its activity near Syria in recent months however, hold-ing more exercises in the Mediter-ranean since May than during the whole of 2014, according to the Russian defence ministry.

“We have been seeing a lot of Russian activity in the area this year,” a Cypriot source, who moni-tors naval and aerial activity, told Reuters on Friday.

Russia on September 3 gave notice of several rounds of navy drills with rocket fi ring tests in the sea near the Syrian city of Tartus, where it has a naval facility, and near Latakia, from September 8 to October 7, according to the Cypri-ot aviation authorities and inter-national governmental databases of notices for airmen (NOTAM).

That, it said, meant that three fl ight paths would have to be briefl y closed. Russia’s defence ministry said the navy held drills in the Mediterranean in May, June and August.

The guided missile cruiser Moskva, fi ve warships and three supply ships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet had taken part in the most recent drill, it said. — Reuters

Western offi cials said

the SA-22 system

would be operated

by Russian troops,

rather than Syrians.

It was on its way

to Syria but had

not yet arrived

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE: Syrian refugees covered with dust arrive in the eastern Jordan town of Ruwaished where they were welcomed and

checked by the authorities after a 120-kilometre drive from a makeshift camp on the border with Syria on Thursday. The latest batch of

refugees from neighbouring Syria will be sent from Ruwaished, around 380 km from the capital Amman, to various refugee camps and

temporary settlements across the country. — AFP

Japan looks for 24 missing in aftermath of fl oods

JOSO CITY (JAPAN): Japanese authorities were on Friday grap-pling with the aftermath of mas-sive fl ooding that killed at least three people, as thousands of res-cuers frantically searched a shat-tered community for almost two dozen still missing.

The heaviest rain in decades pounded the country in the wake of Typhoon Etau, which smashed through Japan this week, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Hundreds of thousands were ordered to leave their homes and at least 22 people -- including a pair of eight-year-old children -- were still unaccounted for on Friday evening in disaster-struck Joso city, which lies about 60 kilo-metres (37 miles) outside Tokyo. Another person was missing in a northern prefecture.

Death toll feared to riseRyosei Akazawa, a member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet, acknowledged that emer-gency personnel still do not know the whereabouts of the missing, as fears grow that the death toll will rise.

“We are in a situation where we have yet to confi rm where these missing people are, “ said Akazawa, the Cabinet Offi ce’s state minister, after visting the devastated area.

Parts of Joso, a community of 65,000 residents, were destroyed Thursday when a levee on the Kinugawa river gave way, fl ood-ing an area that reportedly spans 32 square kilometres (12 square miles) and includes 6,500 homes.

Dramatic aerial footage showed whole houses being swept away by raging torrents in scenes ee-rily reminiscent of the devastat-ing tsunami that crushed Japan’s northeast coast four years ago.

Desperate Joso residents waved towels as they stood on balconies trying to summon help, while military dinghies ferried dozens of people to safety, and helicopters plucked individuals from rooftops.

Hundreds of people are believed to still be trapped in buildings, while more than 600 had been res-cued in Ibaraki prefecture, where Joso is located, by Friday evening.

Some frightened Joso resi-dents took to social media on their smartphones to beg for help as the muddy brown waves swirled around their doomed houses, while trees were uprooted and cars bobbed in the dirty water. — AFP

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Turkey descends further into bloodshed amid killings, air strikes in southeastDIYARBAKIR (TURKEY): Kurdish militants shot dead a waiter and wounded three police offi cers in a restaurant in south-east Turkey on Friday, as the re-gion descended further into the worst bloodshed it has seen since the 1990s.

Turkish jets bombed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq for a fi fth straight night, while the leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition accused security forces of a shoot-to-kill policy in another town, Cizre.

Amidst a largely bleak security picture and despite a bomb blast targeting security forces, a Turk-ish offi cial said on Friday that a controversial 8-day round-the-clock curfew in Cizre would be lifted on Saturday morning.

Hundreds of militants and members of the security forces have died since hostilities re-sumed between the PKK and the state after the collapse of a cease-fi re in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012 to end a three-decade confl ict.

Erdogan promiseThe government resumed air strikes against the PKK two months ago in response to what it described as a sharp escalation in attacks on the security forces and shootings in urban centres. Presi-dent Tayyip Erdogan has prom-ised the fi ght will go on until “not one terrorist is left”.

“If this war were to last another 100 years, the PKK would still be there and the Turkish army would still be there,” Selahattin Demir-tas, head of the pro-Kurdish Peo-ples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said in a speech at a party meeting.

“Fingers should be taken off the trigger. The guns must fall silent to allow for conditions to resume negotiations.”

The PKK, deemed a terror-ist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, began an insurgency in 1984 that has killed 40,000.

Breakdown of the ceasefi re co-incides with worsening confl ict

in neighbouring Syria and Iraq and the rise of IS, which has been blamed for a July bombing in Tur-key that killed 30.

More than 15 planes struck PKK targets in Qandil, Zap and Avashin in the mountains of northern Iraq for fi ve hours early on Friday, one security source said.

At least 60 PKK fi ghters were killed in the air strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets which hit 64 targets in the group’s camps across the region, broadcaster NTV and other Turk-ish media reported, citing secu-rity sources. The fi gures could not immediately be confi rmed.

In the restaurant attack in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast, a waiter was shot in the head as he served bread to a table of po-lice offi cers, one of whom was critically wounded, other security sources said.

The 22-year-old waiter had returned from compulsory mili-tary service two months ago, the sources said.

Further south, the decision to lift the Cizre curfew came despite tensions persisting in the town of 100,000, with fi ve members of the security forces wounded by a bomb blast on Friday. — Reuters

I N S U R G E N C Y

If this war were to last another 100 years, the PKK

would still be there and the Turkish army would

still be there. Fingers should be taken off the trigger.

The guns must fall silent to allow for conditions

to resume negotiations

Selahattin DemirtasHead of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, Turkey


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HONG KONG DISNEYLAND TURNS 10Children queue up to take photographs with balloons of Mickey Mouse before the 10th anniversary ceremony of Hong Kong

Disneyland in Hong Kong, China, on Friday. -Reuters

Singapore’s ruling party set for big winSINGAPORE: Singapore’s ruling party looked set for a landslide vic-tory in Friday’s snap general elec-tion, reversing setbacks suff ered in 2011, an offi cial sampling of ballots showed.

Initial results released by the Elections Department showed the People’s Action Party (PAP), which has been in power for 56 years, thumping the opposition in most districts with wide margins.

The PAP needs 45 seats to form the next government. It held 80 seats in the previous parliament.

As the early results were be-ing released, jubilant support-ers chanted “PAP, PAP” at a sta-dium where Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was expected to appear later.

The mood was sombre at a rival gathering of the main opposition Workers’ Party (WP).

There was no doubt the PAP would win, but the victory margins it established in the early count showed a marked improvement over results in 2011, when its share of votes cast plunged to an all-time low of 60 per cent.

A six-member ticket led by Lee in central Singapore was winning

78 per cent of the vote, up sharply from 69 per cent in 2011, accord-ing to the early count.

Most MPs are elected as part of geographic clusters. David Black, managing director of local re-search fi rm Blackbox, said: “Our polling all year showed likelihood of PAP bouncing back. The only surprise was the extent of it.”

The PAP led Singapore, a former British colonial outpost, to indus-trialised status in just one genera-tion but was criticised for jailing dissidents and using defamation suits to cripple the opposition.

The early results were tabulated from 100 ballots taken at random from each of the polling stations, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.

The PAP appeared to be set for a massive win in the four-seat East Coast district, with a 61-39 result against the WP in the early count.

The WP was banking on victory in the district to expand its strong-hold in the nearby district of Alju-nied, which it had wrested from the PAP in the 2011 elections.

In the fi ve-member Aljunied ward, the WP was ahead by a slim 52 percent of the vote. -Reuters

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Migrants defying law of Hungary, says PM

BUDAPEST/GENEVA: Hun-gary’s prime minister angrily ac-cused illegal migrants on Friday of “rebelling” against the rule of law in his country as security forces across Europe struggled to control record fl ows of hungry, scared refugees.

The United Nations called for the swift creation of large-scale re-ception centres in frontline states such as Hungary and Greece, and one UN agency warned that mil-lions more refugees could arrive in Europe if Syria’s civil war con-tinues to rage.

Many of the tens of thousands of refugees now trekking from Greece via the Balkans and Hun-gary towards western Europe are fl eeing the Syrian war in search of sanctuary, above all in more wel-coming and generous countries

such as Germany and Sweden.German Foreign Minister

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his country, which expects to take in 800,000 asylum seekers this year alone, had fi nite resources and urged other European countries to do much more to share the burden.

Citing security concerns, Aus-tria partially shut a highway linking Vienna and Hungary on Friday. Some 8,000 people had crossed the border on Thursday and a further 3,600 arrived over-night, Austrian police said. The

rail link to Hungary also remains shut due to “massive overburden-ing” by the migrants.

Hungary is racing to construct a fence along its border with Ser-bia by early October to help stem the tide. It also plans to imple-ment much tougher immigration rules from next week.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fi ery populist who has framed the crisis as a battle to preserve Eu-rope’s prosperity and “Christian identity”, angrily criticised the behaviour of the mostly Muslim

migrants who have been fi lling up central Budapest and disrupting traffi c along roads running west-ward to Austria.

“They seized railway stations, rejected giving fi ngerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care... They rebelled against Hungarian legal order,” Orban told reporters.

“From the 15th, Hungarian au-thorities will not forgive illegal border crossings,” he said.

Housing unitsMore than 170,000 migrants have crossed into Hungary from non-EU Serbia so far this year. Many try to avoid being regis-tered in Hungary for fear of be-ing stranded there or returned to the country later in their journey across Europe.

In Geneva, the UN High Com-missioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was sending pre-fabricated housing units to provide tempo-rary overnight shelter for 300 families in Hungary but also ex-pressed concern over Budapest’s tough approach, including the possible deployment of troops to tackle the crisis.

“Obviously we expect authori-ties to respect rights of refugees whether they are the police or army,” said UNHCR spokesman William Spindler. -Reuters

Hungary is racing

to construct a fence

along its border

with Serbia by early

October to help

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Seven killed in blast at Nigerian campYOLA: At least seven people were killed and 20 others injured in a blast at a camp for people dis-placed by the Boko Haram confl ict in northeast Nigeria, the coun-try’s main relief agency said on Wednesday.

A homemade bomb planted in-side a tent went off shortly before 11:00 am (1000 GMT) at the Mal-kohi internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near the Adamawa state capital, Yola.

“So far seven persons lost their lives and 20 persons were injured in the bomb blast,” a spokesman for the National Emergency Man-agement Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti, said in a statement.

“Among the injured, seven were treated and discharged while 13 persons, including four NEMA offi cials, are still receiving treat-ment at (the) Federal Medical Centre, Yola.”

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram have previously hit “soft” civilian targets with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or suicide attacks.

Adamawa state police spokes-man Othman Abubakar initially gave a lower toll of two dead and seven injured, while the Red Cross said three had been killed and nine injured.

Suleiman Mohammed, director of response, relief and rehabilita-tion at the Adamawa State Emer-gency Management Agency, said fi ve were killed and 20 injured.

The Adamawa state governor,

Jibrilla Bindow, was reported as telling a meeting of northern gov-ernors that some of the many chil-dren at the camp were among the dead. Lionel Rawlings, head of se-curity at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), which is based in Yola, confi rmed student volun-teers were slightly injured by fl y-ing debris.

“None was in direct contact with the explosion but there was fl ying shrapnel. We dodged the bullet,” he said.

Homemade bomb Abubakar and Mohammed both said the blast was caused by an IED left by tents in the sprawling camp, which is just outside Yola to the south and near an army base.

Security had been tight after hundreds of women and children held hostage by Boko Haram were brought to the camp after they were rescued by the military ear-lier this year. -AFP

C A M P F O R D I S P L A C E D

ESCAPE FORM CIVIL WAR: A Syrian refugee family reacts after

arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing

the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a infl atable dinghy on Friday. -AFP

Internally Displaced People at

Madagali camp in Nigeria.

United Nations opens up race to select world’s top diplomatUNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly on Friday de-cided to shake up the selection process for the next secretary-general, lifting some of the secrecy shrouding the choice of the world’s top diplomat.

For the fi rst time candidates are being asked to present their resumes and lay out a vision for the job of UN chief, under a resolu-tion adopted by consensus in the 193-nation assembly.

The choice of the UN chief has

for decades been the purview of the fi ve permanent Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- in a selection process kept mostly be-hind closed doors.

Ban Ki-moon, who steps down at the end of 2016, was chosen by the Security Council which for-warded his name to the General Assembly for endorsement.

Under the new rules, the council and assembly will start looking for candidates now by sending a joint

letter to all 193 nations inviting applications and explaining the se-lection process.

Interested candidates must have “proven leadership and manageri-al abilities, extensive experience in international relations, and strong diplomatic, communication and multilingual skills,” according to the resolution.

Their names will be circulated to the assembly along with full resumes. In a fi rst, the General Assembly will conduct “informal

meetings” with candidates to ask about their vision for leading the world body.

“We have started the race to fi nd the person fi t for one of the most important jobs in the world,” said British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft.

MilestoneThe next secretary-general will preside over an organisation with more than 40,000 employ-ees, pushing forward a new anti-

poverty agenda to be adopted this month and possibly a historic deal on climate change to be decided in December.

European Union diplomat Ger-ton Van den Akker called the reso-lution a “milestone in enhancing the transparency and inclusiv-ity of the selection process” for Ban’s successor.

The secrecy surrounding the choice of the secretary-general has long been a thorn in the side of countries that do not sit on the

Security Council and non-govern-mental organizations.

While the measure opens up the selection process, the Security Council will still submit only one name to the General Assembly for approval even if the candidate’s credentials will likely be well-known to member-states.

Debate on choosing the next UN secretary-general has fo-cussed on appointing a woman for the fi rst time, after eight men in the job. -AFP

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Oman, Bahrain battle for GCC U-19 crownMUSCAT: The Sultanate’s football squad will be looking to bring home a second GCC crown in as many weeks when the national under-19 will clash with Bahrain in the fi nal of the GCC Under-19 Champion-ship in Doha on Saturday.

Oman under-19 team will be hoping to emulate the junior na-tional squad who were crowned the GCC under-17 champions on August 29 when they defeated Saudi Arabia 5-3 via penalties in the fi nal, which was also played in the Qatari capital.

On Thursday, Rasheed Jaber-coached Oman under-19 squad booked their place in the summit clash in sensational style when, despite being reduced to ten men, they twice fought back from a goal defi cit before overcoming the fan-cied Saudi Arabia 5-4 in sudden death penalty shootout.

In the second semifi nal played on the same day, Bahrain edged Kuwait by a solitary goal.

According to information re-ceived from the Oman Football Association (OFA), fi nal will be

played from 9.00 p.m. Oman time while the third place play-off be-tween Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is scheduled to start at 6.00 p.m.

Oman, who launched their cam-

paign with a 1-0 loss to Kuwait, stormed to semifi nals with a stun-ning 4-2 victory over hosts Qatar. They displayed the same aggres-sive approach in their semifi nal

victory over Saudi Arabia, which impressed coach Rasheed Jaber.

“I am very satisfi ed with the per-formance of the players,” he said in his post-match comments af-

ter their semifi nal victory against Saudi Arabia.

“It was a diffi cult match played against a formidable team under hot and humid conditions. It was a big challenge. Credit to the play-ers they have shown lot of charac-ter and concentration to fi ght back and win the match,” he said.

Rasheed Jaber also said such performances augur well for the future of Oman football.

“It is good to see these players go through those tense situations and come out with fl ying colours. I am sure such situations will help them develop their game both individu-ally and as a team,” he added.

“This tournament will help us to judge the potential of this team and prepare them for the forth-coming AFC under-19 champion-ship qualifi ers,” he said.

Humaid Al Jabri, an OFA board member, while lauding the players thanked the fans for supporting the team from the fi rst match and the coaching staff for their eff orts, which he hoped will lead to the team being crowned champions.

F O O T B A L L

READY FOR CHALLENGE: Oman face another big challenge in fi nal against Bahrain. – Supplied photo

Aussies to miss

opener Warner

in Bangladesh

SYDNEY: Australia will be forced to blood an entirely new opening partnership in Bang-ladesh next month after David Warner was ruled out of the two-Test series with a broken fi nger on Friday.

Warner, whose opening part-ner Chris Rogers retired after the recent Ashes defeat, sus-tained the injury in a one-dayer against England last week and a hand specialist in Sydney has confi rmed he will not be fi t to make the trip.

“It’s really disappointing,” said Warner, who was recently appointed vice captain under new skipper Steve Smith.

“I never want to miss a match for Australia but I’ll be doing everything I possibly can to get back as quickly as possible.”

The 28-year-old is, however, expected to be ready to face New Zealand in the three-match se-ries on home soil in November, which includes the fi rst ever day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval.

“David has been told that the fracture will take at least four weeks to stabilise and a further two weeks before he can start batting and catching again,” said Cricket Australia’s Pat Howard.

“He will be reviewed by the specialist at the end of the month to determine when he can resume playing. Ideally we’d like him to play the Sheffi eld Shield round beginning on 27 October as preparation for the New Zealand series.”

With the Test retirement of all-rounder Shane Watson and the death of Phillip Hughes at the end of last year, Australia have a dearth of experienced openers at their disposal.

The tourists play a warm-up match in Fatullah on October 3 before Tests against Bangladesh in Chittagong (October 9-13) and Mirpur (October 17-21). - Reuters

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Morgan, Willey help England level series against Australia

LONDON: Eoin Morgan and Da-vid Willey shone as England held their nerve to beat Australia by three wickets in a tense fourth One-day International (ODI) in Leeds on Friday and level the se-ries at 2-2.

Captain Morgan hit 92 and Wil-ley launched John Hastings for six to take the hosts to their target of 300 with 10 balls to spare, setting

up a deciding match in Manches-ter on Sunday.

Glenn Maxwell was Australia’s standout player, plundering 85 off 64 balls and sharing a fourth-wick-et partnership of 137 with George Bailey (75) after Willey had taken three early wickets.

The touring side slumped to 215 for seven before Matthew Wade (50 not out) and Hastings (34 not out) clubbed 84 in the last eight overs to lead Australia to a com-petitive total of 299 for seven.

Watched by British Prime Min-ister David Cameron, England lost Alex Hales early but Jason Roy (36), James Taylor (41) and Ben Stokes (41) helped Morgan keep up with the required run rate.

Morgan struck two sixes and eight fours and looked to be lead-ing his side to their target until he was brilliantly caught one-handed by Maxwell at backward point off Pat Cummins. Jonny Bairstow chipped in with 31 and Liam Plun-kett 17 off 10 balls before he fell

to another superb piece of fi eld-ing from Maxwell, who knocked the ball up before falling over the boundary and took it one-handed as he leapt back on to the fi eld.

Moeen Ali (21 not out) and Wil-

ley (12 not out) kept cool in mount-ing tension at Headingley, the latter ending the match in spec-tacular style with a powerful strike over long-on to complete a trium-phant return to the side. - Reuters

Captain Morgan

hit 92 and Willey

launched Hastings for

six to take the hosts

to their target of 300

with 10 balls to spare

AUSTRALIAJ. Burns b Willey 2A. Finch c Bairstow b Willey 15S. Smith lbw Willey 5G. Bailey c&b Plunkett 75G. Maxwell b Ali 85M. Marsh c Willey b Plunkett 17M.Wade not out 50M. Stoinis c Rashid b Ali 4J. Hastings not out 34Extras (lb-8, w-3, nb-1) 12Total (7wkts, 50 overs) 299Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-25, 3-30, 4-167, 5-210, 6-210, 7-215.Bowling: Willey 8-0-51-3 (w-1); Wood 9-0-65-0 (nb-1); Plunkett 8-0-47-2 (w-1); Stokes 5-0-25-0 (w-1); Rashid 10-0-63-0; Ali 10-0-40-2.

ENGLANDJ. Roy c Finch b Cummins 36A. Hales lbw Cummins 0J. Taylor c Wade b Marsh 41E. Morgan c Maxwell b Cummins 92B. Stokes b Marsh 41J. Bairstow c Wade b Maxwell 31M. Ali not out 21L. Plunkett c Maxwell b Cummins 17D. Willey not out 12Extras (lb-3, w-8, nb-2) 13Total (7 wkts, 48.2 overs) 304Fall of wickets: 1-1, 73-2, 89-3, 180-4, 238-5, 261-6, 282-7. Bowling: Pattinson 9-0-73-0 (nb-1, w-2); Cummins 10-0-49-4 (nb-1, w-2); Hastings 6.2-0-56-0; Marsh 9-0-52-2 (w-2); Maxwell 10-0-54-1 (w-2); Stoinis 4-0-17-0.

S C O R E B O A R D

TENSE FINISH: David Willey, left, and Moeen Ali leave the fi eld after

leading England to victory in their fourth ODI against Australia. – AFP

Pennetta stuns Halep to enter her maiden Grand Slam fi nalNEW YORK: Flavia Pennetta crushed Romanian second seed Simona Halep 6-1, 6-3 to kick off a packed day of action at the US Open on Friday with an stunning upset that put the Italian into her fi rst Grand Slam fi nal.

Pennetta, 33, entered the contest as the clear underdog but the 26th seed showed her experience and was not overwhelmed on the big stage having reached at least the quarterfi nals at Flushing Mead-ows in six of the last seven years.

“It’s amazing. I didn’t think to be so far in the tournament,” said Pennetta, who will play either compatriot Roberta Vinci or top-seeded Serena Williams in Satur-day’s fi nal. “Today I think I played really well.”

After rain forced offi cials to postpone the women’s semi-fi nals by a day, the clash had an under-card vibe to it as it preceded the match featuring Williams, who is two wins away from sweeping the year’s four Grand Slams. Pennet-ta, playing in her 49th grand slam, needed 59 minutes to get by Halep and secure a long-awaited berth in the fi nal of one of the sport’s four blue riband tournaments.

Aside from her US Open re-sume there was little to hint at a US Open fi nal by Pennetta, who by her own admission had an un-impressive run-up to the year’s fi nal Grand Slam that included

second-round exits in Toronto and Cincinnati and a fi rst-round loss in New Haven.

“I just tried to play every match the best I can from the fi rst one. Try not to think too much about the draw, just play match by match,” Pennetta said after her win.

“I tried to be focused on what I have to do all the time when I get on the court and here I am, so I’m very happy.”

With the crowd still fi ling into Arthur Ashe Stadium Pennetta grabbed the fi rst break of the match to go up 3-1 and then pulled away from an out-of-sorts Halep.

Halep’s problems followed her

into the second set as Pennetta broke again to take the early ini-tiative before the feisty Roma-nian fi nally began to push back breaking the Italian and surging into a 3-1 lead. One of the WTA Tour’s best counter punchers, Halep tried to go on the attack but a calm Pennetta would not crack and swept through the next three games to regain momentum and a 4-3 advantage.

Serving to stay in the match, Halep fought off one match point before her resistance collapsed, Pennetta fi nishing off her oppo-nent with stinging forehand win-ner. - Reuters

U S O P E N

UPSET: Flavia Pennetta of Italy celebrates after defeating Simona

Halep of Romania in the women’s singles semifi nals of the US

Open in New York on Saturday.

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PDORC FELICITATES OMAN NATIONAL CRICKET TEAMCricket team of the PDORC’s RAH Club recently organised a felicitation ceremony in honour of Oman national cricket who

clinched a berth in the ICC World T20 Championship after their participation in the ICC World T20 Qualifi er in Scotland/

Ireland. The ceremony was initiated and organised my Sabah Al Fadhil, Manager of PDO Cricket Team and was attended by

Khalid Khabouri, President of RAH PDO Club and Madhu Jesrani, General Secretary of Oman Cricket, along with Oman national

team members and support staff . During the ceremony, Zakir, captain of PDO cricket team, invited national team starts for their

autographs on cricket bats which were presented to PDO cricket team members. Meanwhile, PDO team vice-captain Shiv Gupta

said: “I thank the national team for giving their precious time and signing on bats which was presented to our teammates. We

also assure that we will accompany the national team in 2016 on their Indian tour.” — Supplied photo

Doping claims overshadow ‘clean athlete’ Mayweather’s ‘finale’

LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather steps into the ring on Saturday for what he says will be the last time, but the fi nal defence of his wel-terweight world titles has been overshadowed by accusations he violated anti-doping rules.

The unbeaten pound-for-pound king was forced onto the backfoot on Thursday after it emerged that he had received an injection of vita-mins and minerals on the eve of his superfi ght with Manny Pacquiao in May, breaking World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) regulations. The United States Anti-Doping Agency leapt to Mayweather’s defence and the man himself said he was “very proud to be a clean athlete.”

It is hardly the buildup the American would have wanted for his showdown in Las Vegas against the unheralded Andre Berto, with Mayweather going for the magic 49-0 — equaling the record of heav-yweight legend Rocky Marciano.

Mayweather, 38, the self-styled

“TBE” (“The Best Ever”) is the heavy favorite for the bout at the MGM Grand — Berto has lost three of his last six fi ghts.

Mayweather says that he wants to write his name in the history books before he hangs up his gloves — not that many believe he will really retire and there have been growing rumours of a re-match against Pacquiao.

Mayweather’s critics — and there are plenty of them — accuse

the American of ‘bigging up’ the quit talk to drum up interest in a fi ght against Berto that has threat-ened to become a box-offi ce fl op: there were still hundreds of tickets available on Thursday.

The claims of doping will only give Mayweather’s critics more ammunition.Mayweather, the highest-earning sportsman in the world, insists this is it and told re-porters in the build-up to the week-end showdown that he would be

going for a knockout win — some-thing he has not done since 2011.

“You have fi ghters that may be faster than me, there are fi ghters that may hit harder than me, you have fi ghters who are very athletic, but you don’t have a fi ghter who can make adjustments like me,” he told the fi nal pre-fi ght press conference.

“It’s never personal for me, it’s al-ways business. Everyone fi ghts for what they fi ght for. My thing is this: I keep my eyes on the prize. I don’t focus on things outside the ring. I focus on the guy in front of me.”

He added: “I want my legacy to be of a remarkable fi ghter inside the ring and a great businessman outside of it.”

Virgil Hunter, Berto’s respected coach, talked of “personal stuff ” between the two fi ghters.

Nothing to lose But there has been a noticable lack of trash-talking between the pair and their press conference was notable for the absence of rancor — though they attempted to inject a bit with an old-fashioned faceoff .

Mayweather’s critics have rub-bished the fi ght — for which Berto will pocket $4 million — as just another example of him dodging the best opponents in a packed welterweight division where qual-ity is not in short supply simply to embellish his record.

His fans counter that as the best

boxer of his generation and one of the best defensively of all time Mayweather has earned the right to pick exactly who he chooses.

The alarmingly slow ticket sales, however, and reportedly poor tele-vision pay-per-view orders suggest many have had enough of a man who has never been shy to show off his immense wealth and has spent time in jail for one of a strong of do-mestic violence incidents.

Mayweather says he is wary of Berto, 32, whose career has stalled in the last three years after shoul-der surgery and a failed drugs test. Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) has nothing to lose, says Mayweather.

And despite the widespread criticism leveled at Mayweather for cherry-picking a man whose recent record is poor, Berto — an Ameri-can of Haitian heritage — is not al-together the dud some have made him out to be. He is a two-time world champion who possesses a big heart, though the doubters fear he has nev-er been the same since surgery.

Berto says he, too, is going for the knockout.

“At the end of the day, I have to be able to take my game to a whole other level. Sometimes you need that opponent to get you to that point, and Floyd is the one,” said Berto, eyeing up one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.

“He has a great IQ, but one shot can change it all.” - AFP

The unbeaten pound-

for-pound king was

forced onto the

backfoot on Thursday

after it emerged that

he had received an

injection of vitamins

and minerals on the

eve of his superfi ght

with Pacquiao in May

I want my legacy to

be of a remarkable

fighter inside the

ring and a great

businessman

outside of it

Floyd MayweatherWelterweight champion

Pacquiao wants Mayweather punished, demands rematch

GENERAL SANTOS: Philip-pine boxer Manny Pacquiao called for punishment and a re-match on Friday after his fi erce rival Floyd Mayweather was ac-cused of violating anti-doping rules in the build-up to their me-ga-fi ght in May.

The eight-division world champion, who lost a unanimous decision to Mayweather in Las Vegas, urged Nevada sports of-fi cials to “impose the appropri-ate sanction” on the unbeaten American.

Mayweather and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USA-DA) have both insisted the boxer’s actions were legal after it emerged he was injected with vitamins and minerals before the fi ght.

But Pacquiao questioned why USADA only informed the Ne-vada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) about the infusion three weeks after the bout, by which time Mayweather had already re-ceived a USADA exemption.

“Are they hiding something? For the sake of fairness and for the good of the sport, NSAC must be consistent,” he told reporters at his home in the southern Philippines.

“If needed, the NSAC should impose the appropriate sanction to sustain its credibility and to show the world they did not give preferential treatment to the Mayweather camp,” he added.

A report on the SB Nation sports news website said Mayweather had broken World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations by having an IV infusion at his home in Las Vegas on May 1, the day be-

fore the fi ght. WADA guidelines say IV infusions are prohibited because they can be used to mask performance-enhancing drugs, increase plasma volume levels and distort the values of an ath-lete’s biological passport.

But a USADA source said that because Mayweather obtained a therapeutic use exemption, no of-fence had been committed under WADA rules.

Pacquiao also said he was treated unfairly because the Ne-vada body refused to let him use a USADA-approved painkiller for the fi ght, when he was carrying a shoulder injury.

“That is why I want a rematch. One without any injury and with fair play. No favouritism. Not one where the Mayweather camp gets to dictate all the terms and condi-tions,” he said.

Doping allegations have been at the heart of the fi ghters’ long-run-ning feud, which has not abated since Mayweather won their only meeting for the World Boxing Or-ganisation welterweight title.

The richest fi ght in boxing his-tory took years to become reality, partly because of Mayweather’s insistence that Pacquiao comply with a strict drug-testing regime.

Mayweather later accused Pacquiao of using performance-enhancing drugs, prompting a lawsuit which was settled out of court.

After Mayweather’s victory on points, he branded Pacquiao a “sore loser” for revealing his injured torn rotator cuff injury, which later needed surgery. - AFP

A P P R O P R I A T E A C T I O N

United’s De Gea signs new contractMANCHESTER: Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea, who came within minutes of join-ing Real Madrid last week, signed a new four-year contract with the English Premier League club on Friday. The announcement caps a remarkable turn of events after the Spain international was on the verge of signing for the Spanish giants only for the transfer to col-lapse because of paperwork arriv-ing past the permitted deadline.

United announced on their of-fi cial Twitter account: “David de Gea has signed a new four-year contract at #mufc with an option to extend for a further year.”

De Gea, 24, said: “I am delighted to be starting this new chapter in my United career.

“I have always enjoyed playing with these great players in front of our fantastic fans. Manchester United is a special club and Old

Traff ord is an ideal place for me to continue to develop my career.

“I’m looking forward to putting a diffi cult summer behind me and concentrating on working hard to improve and help my team-mates to be successful.”

The news of an extension was understandably well received by United manager Louis van Gaal, who said: “I am absolutely delight-ed David has signed a new contract. He is one of the best goalkeepers in world football. I am very pleased

that he will be part of the team for many years to come.

“David made a very important contribution to our performance last season and he has been the club’s Player of the Year for the last two seasons.

“He is a popular player who is keen to learn and enhance his game. At such a young age for a goalkeeper, he has many years ahead of him,” added Van Gaal.

That De Gea has committed his future to the Premier League giants is all the more remarkable given the events of the past few months.

The Spaniard, long courted by Real, was on the brink of a move to Madrid worth between 30 and 40 million euros and involving Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas in part-exchange.

But the deal collapsed at the last minute, with a Spanish Profession-al League (LFP) spokesperson tell-

ing AFP that De Gea had not been registered as a Madrid player.

The Spanish club subsequently released a statement accusing United of sending the necessary documents after the deadline had passed in Spain.

In a statement of their own, Unit-ed laid the blame at Madrid’s door, adding: “The club is delighted that its fan-favourite double Player of the Year, David de Gea, remains a Manchester United player.”

De Gea hasn’t played for the Premier League club this season after being dropped by van Gaal, who claimed the player had told him he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to play while the transfer saga dragged on.

But with his future now cleared up De Gea could be set to return to the United team in time for Satur-day’s showdown at home to fi erce rivals Liverpool. - AFP

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BRAZIL ECONOMY JUNKED, PRESIDENT ON ROPESThe downgrade by S&P’s, one of the main rating agencies, strips Brazil of its investment-grade status and leaves President Dilma Rousseff ’s government on life support, risking an investor rush for the exits, analysts said. >B2

US producer prices data point to tame infl ation pressuresWASHINGTON: US producer prices were fl at in August, point-ing to benign infl ation pressures that could weigh on the Federal Reserve’s decision whether to hike interest rates next week.

The unchanged reading in the producer price index last month followed a 0.2 per cent gain in July, the Labor Department said on Friday. The drag on producer prices from lower crude oil prices and a strong dollar was off set by an increase in profi t margins for apparel, footwear and accessories retailing. In the 12 months through August, the PPI fell 0.8 per cent af-ter a similar decline in July. It was the seventh straight 12-month de-crease in the index.

Tame infl ation despite a rapidly tightening labour market poses a

dilemma for Fed offi cials who are contemplating raising rates for the fi rst time in nearly a decade.

Job openingsThough job openings are at a re-cord high and the unemployment rate is at a 7-1/2-year low, wage gains have been lackluster. That has helped keep infl ation well be-low the Fed’s two per cent target.

The US central bank’s policy-setting committee meets on Sep-tember 16-17. The likelihood of a lift-off in the Fed’s benchmark overnight interest rate has been di-minished by recent fi nancial mar-ket volatility, which was sparked by concerns over China’s economy.

US stock index futures extended losses after the PPI data, while the dollar added to gains against a

basket of currencies. Prices for US government debt rose.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the PPI dipping 0.1 per cent last month and falling 0.9 per cent from a year ago.

Producer infl ation is likely to remain muted in the near term af-ter a report on Thursday showed import prices fell 1.8 per cent in August, the largest drop since January. The index for fi nal goods fell 0.6 per cent last month, with a 7.7 per cent decline in gasoline prices accounting for nearly two-thirds of the drop. There also were decreases in the cost of jet fuel, grains, light motor trucks, and iron and steel scrap.

Wholesale food prices rose 0.3 per cent in August as the impact of an avian fl u outbreak early this

year continued to linger. Food prices slipped 0.1 per cent in July. Wholesale chicken egg prices rose 23.2 per cent last month after fall-ing 24.2 per cent in July.

Volatile trade servicesThe volatile trade services compo-nent, which mostly refl ects profi t margins at retailers and wholesal-ers, shot up 0.9 percent in August after rising 0.4 per cent in the prior month. Almost half of the increase in August was attributed to a 7.0 per cent surge in margins for ap-parel, footwear and accessories re-tailing. A key measure of underly-ing producer price pressures that excludes food, energy and trade services edged up 0.1 per cent in August after rising 0.2 per cent in July. — Reuters

E C O N O M Y

Crude oil at $20 a barrel possible: Goldman Sachs

MELBOURNE: The global sur-plus of oil is even bigger than Goldman Sachs Group thought and that could drive prices as low as $20 a barrel.

While it’s not the base-case scenario, a failure to reduce pro-duction fast enough may require prices near that level to clear the oversupply, Goldman said in a re-port e-mailed on Friday.

The bank cut its forecast for Brent and WTI crude through 2016 on the expectation that the glut will persist on Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) production growth, resil-ient supply from outside the group and slowing demand expansion.

“The oil market is even more oversupplied than we had expect-ed and we now forecast this sur-plus to persist in 2016,” Goldman

analysts including Damien Cour-valin wrote in the report. “We continue to view US shale as the likely near-term source of supply adjustment.”

Goldman trimmed its 2016 es-timate for West Texas Intermedi-ate (WTI) to $45 a barrel from a May projection of $57. The bank also reduced its 2016 Brent crude prediction to $49.50 a barrel from $62. WTI for October delivery fell as much as $1.16, or 2.5 per cent, to $44.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange and is head-ing for a weekly decline. Prices are down 16 per cent this year. Brent for October settlement is 3.6 per cent lower this week.

Oil in New York has slumped more than 25 per cent from its June closing peak amid signs the glut will persist. Leading mem-

bers of the (Opec) are sustaining output, while Iran seeks to boost supply once international sanc-tions are lifted.

US stockpiles remain about 100 million barrels above the fi ve-year seasonal average. “We now believe the market requires non-Opec production to shift from our prior expectation of modest growth to large declines in 2016,” Goldman said. “The uncertainty on how and where that adjustment will take place has increased.”

The US pumped 9.14 million barrels a day of oil last week, al-most three million barrels above the fi ve-year seasonal average, according to data from the En-ergy Information Administration (EIA). While the EIA this week cut its 2015 output forecast for the nation by 1.5 per cent to 9.22

million barrels a day, production this year is still projected to be the highest since 1972.

US output will need to decline by 585,000 barrels a day next year and other non-Opec production will need to fall by 220,000 bar-rels a day for the global surplus to end by the fourth quarter of 2016, Goldman said. Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran will drive supply growth from Opec, the bank said.

Shale oil production in the US will drop nine per cent next year as a crude price below $50 a barrel “slams brakes” on years of growth, the International Energy Agency

(IEA) said in its monthly market report on Friday. Output is fore-cast to fall by 385,000 barrels a day next year to 3.9 million barrels a day. Total non-Opec supply will drop by 500,000 barrels a day next year, according to the IEA.

Opec, the supplier of 40 per cent of the world’s crude, has produced above its 30-million-barrel-a-day quota for the past 15 months. Ira-nian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has vowed to increase output by one million barrels a day once sanctions are removed as the nation seeks to regain mar-ket share. — Bloomberg News

While it’s not the

base-case scenario,

a failure to reduce

production fast

enough may require

prices near that

level to clear the

oversupply, Goldman

said in a report

e-mailed on Friday

‘APEC to refrain from competitive devaluation’

CEBU (Philippines): Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation (Apec) group said on Friday they were committed to addressing weak-nesses in their economies but stressed they would not seek to gain a competitive edge by weak-ening their currencies.

“We will refrain from com-petitive devaluation and resist all forms of protectionism,” ministers from the 21-member group said in a statement at the end of a meeting on the Philippine island of Cebu.

“We maintain our commitment to strengthen economic growth and promote fi nancial stability in the Apec region,” they said, even as they conceded risks to growth remained signifi cant.

Growing concernThe Cebu meeting took place amid growing concern about the slow-down in China, the world’s sec-ond-largest economy, and recent swings in global fi nancial markets following its devaluation of its yuan currency last month.

China has insisted that the de-valuation was not part of a curren-cy war, but was aimed at making its exchange rate refl ect market conditions more closely. “The ex-change rate movements in the past month is totally because of techni-cal reasons and factors, and will not aff ect the stability of fi nancial markets in the future,” the vice minister, Shi Yaobin, told a press briefi ng. Apec members include the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Cana-da, and together account for 57 per cent of global production and 46.5 per cent of world trade. — Reuters

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Weak construction data adds to signs of UK growth coolingLONDON: The amount of new housing built in Britain fell for the fi rst time in more than two years in July, despite rising house prices, driving a broader decline in construction that adds to signs that the country’s economy is slowing.

The offi cial fi gures on Friday contrast with bumper profi ts reported by house-builders and follow weak manufacturing fi g-ures which have raised questions about whether growth is cooling as the Bank of England comes nearer to raising interest rates.

House-building in July was 2.5 per cent lower than a year earlier, the fi rst fall since March 2013, and the slowdown looks set to continue with the volume of or-ders for new housing at its lowest since early 2013.

Private commercial work, such as building shops and offi c-es, also fell, and overall construc-tion output in July was down by 0.7 per cent on the year, the fi rst fall since May 2013 and bucking

economists’ expectations for a 0.6 per cent rise.

Disappointing data“This indicator continues the theme of disappointing data for Q3, which includes weaker (purchasing managers’) surveys, disappointing industrial produc-tion and tentative evidence that retail sales were soggy,” said Alan Clarke, head of European fi xed in-come strategy at Scotiabank.

Britain’s economy has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years, chalking up an above-average 0.7 per cent ex-pansion in the three months to June, but most economists ex-pect a modest slowdown in the third quarter of 2015.

At the same time, Bank of Eng-land Governor Mark Carney has said that the decision over when to raise interest rates for the fi rst time since 2007 is likely to come into sharper focus around the turn of the year.

A survey published by the BoE

on Friday showed that nearly half of Britons expect inter-est rates to rise in the next 12 months, the highest proportion since May 2011.

Some BoE policymakers wor-ry that even though infl ation is near zero at the moment, it could rebound rapidly due to limited spare capacity in the British economy, pushing annual price growth above its two per cent tar-get in the next couple of years.

Following the construction data, one industry expert blamed restrictive immigration rules for making it hard to attract skilled building workers from outside the European Union.

“There is a chronic housing shortage and although we wel-come government plans to build 200,000 new homes by 2020, there is no chance of that number being built unless desperate skills shortages in the industry are ad-dressed,” said Michael Thirket-tle, chief executive at consultants McBains Cooper. — Reuters

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FULLY LOADED: A Mediterranean Shipping container is loaded onto

a truck in the Seagirt Marine Terminal at the Port of Baltimore in

Baltimore, Maryland. Tame infl ation despite a rapidly tightening

labour market poses a dilemma for Fed who are contemplating rais-

ing rates for the fi rst time in nearly a decade. - Bloomberg fi le picture

BANK’S PROJECTION: Goldman trimmed its 2016 estimate for

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to $45 a barrel from a May projec-

tion of $57. The bank also reduced its 2016 Brent crude prediction

to $49.50 a barrel from $62. - Bloomberg fi le picture

LONDON: Oil prices fell more than two per cent on Friday after Goldman Sachs and Germany’s Commer-zbank both slashed their crude forecasts, citing over-supply and concerns over China’s economy.

Price projectionsJoining a long list of banks cutting price projections, Goldman Sachs on Friday lowered its 2016 forecast for United States crude to $45 from $57, and said it saw 2016 Brent prices at $49.50, down from its earlier $62 forecast.

“The oil market is even more oversupplied than we had expected and we forecast

this surplus to persist in 2016,” Goldman said in a note entitled “Lower for even longer”.

The United States bank said crude oil prices could fall as low as $20 a barrel, although this was not its “base case”.

Brent downBenchmark North Sea Brent was down $1.10 at $47.79 a barrel by 1245GMT. US crude was down $1.25 at $44.67.

Oil prices have collapsed over the last year, taking Brent down from almost $120 a barrel in the middle of 2014 to a low of almost $42 last month. — Reuters

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Brazil economy downgraded by S&P, president on ropesRIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil wants to party as next year’s Olympics host, but a credit downgrade to junk status means the world’s sev-enth largest economy will be nurs-ing a terrible hangover instead.

The downgrade by Standard & Poor’s, one of the main rating agencies, strips Brazil of its in-vestment-grade status and leaves President Dilma Rousseff ’s gov-ernment on life support, risking an investor rush for the exits, analysts said on Thursday.

Just a few years ago, Latin America’s biggest country was in carnival mode as one of the BRICS group of emerging giants, winner of hosting rights to both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, and lauded for lifting 40 million people from poverty.

But S&P’s decision late Wednes-day confi rms that the samba has stopped. With deep recession, the country’s fi rst ever defi cit budget, a corruption scandal of surreal proportions at state oil company Petrobras, and political paralysis, S&P didn’t have to look far to jus-tify its “speculative” rating.

Brazil’s score is now even lower than Russia’s, which faces power-ful Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

“You have got an economy that has really hit the skids,” said David Rees, senior markets analyst at re-search house Capital Economics in London.

“The only way they are going to get out of that situation is through a reform drive, but the political sit-uation suggests that there is very little chance of that happening.”

Giant sucking sound Brazil saw economic growth

peak at 7.5 per cent in 2010 during a global commodities boom.

But much like Russia, Brazil has been hit hard by the plummeting value of oil and other raw materi-als, as well as drop in demand from BRICS kingpin China.

The embezzlement and bribes scandal centered on oil giant Petrobras, and Rousseff ’s politi-cal weakness, already made Brazil a riskier bet. What Brazilians fear next is the giant sucking sound of institutional investors, like pen-sion funds, quitting the country.

“If another rating agency also lowers Brazil, then very probably we’re going to see institutional in-vestors obliged to pull their money out,” analyst Andre Leite at TAG Investimento said.

“The market is very nervous,” Andrei Perfeito, an analyst at Gradual Investimentos, said af-ter the Sao Paulo stock market

opened 2.2 per cent lower. In a further blow to morale in Brazilian industry, S&P announced late on Thursday that it was also slashing ratings for dozens of state-owned corporations and infrastructure entities. These notably included Petrobras, downgraded to junk status. The national currency, the real, fell 1.35 per cent to a 13 year

low at 3.85 to the dollar, down al-most 31 per cent on the year.

Political capitulation Finance Minister Joaquim Levy, a liberal economist brought in to salvage the economy with auster-ity measures, put on a brave face.

“Brazil is a country that is not on the brink of a crisis,” Levy said, urging rapid reforms.

Analysts are less generous, de-scribing the loss of Brazil’s healthy credit rating as refl ecting far deep-er loss of confi dence in Rousseff and her ruling Workers’ Party or PT. The PT has transformed Brazil since Rousseff ’s predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva came to power in 2003, using the commodities boom and consumer consump-tion, mixed with massive social spending, to reduce poverty and stimulate what then appeared to be a durable model.

But Rousseff can no longer pay the bills and, with single-digit pop-ularity ratings, has been unable to push through the “adjustments” Levy wants. Some in Congress even want her impeached.

Political analyst Gabriel Petrus, at Barral M Jorge consultants, said opponents now have Rousseff over a barrel — so weak that she will abandon the PT project in return for cooperation.

“It’s not the end of the govern-ment, but it’s the end of a project.... There is no other way out,” he fur-ther added.

“It’s not a question any longer of keeping power or staying as presi-dent of the republic, but of keeping Brazil as a credible country.”

Luiz Carlos Mendonca de Bar-ros, a minister under former presi-dent Fernando Henrique Cardoso, went even further.

The credit downgrade “acceler-ates her end,” he told Estadao daily. “It ended her government.”

S&P’s reasoning for the down-grade highlights “spillover eff ects” from the seemingly ever-expand-ing Petrobras corruption scandal.

Petrobras lost $2.1 billion in a scheme where top Brazilian ex-ecutives and politicians are said to have robbed the company by cook-ing up infl ated construction con-tracts in exchange for bribes. — AFP

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Odds rise on Bank of Japan extra stimulus for October

TOKYO: With Japan’s economy struggling to gather momentum after a contraction last quarter, more than a third of economists see the central bank expanding monetary stimulus next month, according to a Bloomberg News survey.

Eleven of 35 respondents see the Bank of Japan (BOJ) step-ping up its easing on October 30, while two forecast a move as early as next week, the September 7-10 survey shows. Barclays, Credit Agricole and JPMorgan Chase — which predict the BOJ will hold off until next year — see growing risk of action on October 30. The central bank last expanded asset purchases in October 2014.

Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is under pressure as the BOJ’s infl a-tion gauge languishes at zero, and declines in production and spend-ing sap a rebound from a contrac-

tion last quarter. A slowdown in China, which has sparked turbu-lence in global markets, also risks hurting exports. The October 30 meeting — when the central bank releases updated projections — would be a “good opportunity” to boost stimulus, says ruling party lawmaker Kozo Yamamoto.

“The China shock has changed the whole picture,” said Hajime Takata at Mizuho Research In-stitute, one of the two economists who forecast added easing at the September 14-15 meeting. “Even it doesn’t move next week, it will have to take action soon. As in the early 2000s and in 2007, it’s always been external shocks that have destroyed Japan’s recovery.”

The domestic picture is also a challenge, with households re-luctant to step up spending even amid rising wages, and companies failing to respond fully to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s calls for sustained capital spending in-creases. Economists have stead-ily trimmed their forecasts for growth in 2015 as disappointment with Abenomics spreads.

Investors should be aware of the risk of the BOJ conducting “emer-gency” easing at its September 14-

15 meeting, said Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities econo-mist Naomi Muguruma.

While her main scenario is for the BOJ to add to stimulus on Oc-tober 30, it’s unclear whether the central bank can stay on hold un-til then, given China’s currency devaluation last month, volatile stock markets and weaker-than-expected economic indicators

in Japan, she wrote in a note. In the previous Bloomberg survey of economists, 12 of 37 predict-ed expanded easing on October 30, while none forecast action in September. Sixteen said they didn’t expect the BOJ to add any more stimulus in the future, ac-cording to the July 27-August 3 survey, with the number falling to 13 the latest poll.

Kuroda last October increased the asset-purchase program he introduced in April 2013, aiming to drive infl ation to two per cent in about two years.

The BOJ chief said on Thursday that recent economic data have been “mixed,” though chances are high that the economy will grow this quarter.

While the central bank projects consumer price gains will pick up to its two per cent target around the six-month period through September 2016, a change in the BOJ’s infl ation outlook may be unavoidable, depending on oil prices, Kuroda said in parliament.

The BOJ won’t reach its price target in that time frame, accord-ing to all 34 economists who re-sponded to a question in the sur-vey on that goal.

JPMorgan economist Masaaki Kanno sees economic growth slowing to 0.9 per cent in the sec-ond half of 2015 from 1.7 per cent in the fi rst six months of the year. While he sees January as the most likely timing for a boost in BOJ stimulus, chances of a move on October 30 have risen to as much as 45 per cent from as much as 35 per cent, he said.

Some BOJ offi cials see a grow-ing likelihood the central bank will cut its infl ation outlook and again delay the time frame for reaching its goal due to the drop in oil prices, people familiar with the discussions have said.

Krugman WorriesOffi cials at the same time are placing increasing weight on an alternative infl ation gauge that excludes fresh food and energy, which shows consumer prices rising 0.9 per cent in July, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are pri-vate. Any need for further stimulus will be determined by the next few months’ economic data, they said.

Some data have indicated in-fl ation expectations are turning downward. The number of arti-cles mentioning “price rise” in fi ve major Japanese newspapers fell to 248 in August from a peak of 718 in March 2014, indicat-ing companies are fi nding condi-tions less conducive to announce price hikes, according to Yasunari Ueno, an economist at Mizuho Se-curities Co. — Bloomberg News

Eleven of 35

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the September

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which predict the

BOJ will hold off

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see growing risk of

action on October 30

Defl ation risk in China grows, data suggests

BEIJING/WELLINGTON: The risk of defl ation in China is grow-ing, data suggested on Thursday, as policymakers tried to reassure markets that the economy can stay on track and state banks were sus-pected of intervening in off shore markets to bolster the yuan.

Some foreign central banks are increasingly worried about the impact falling Chinese prices and a weaker yuan could have on their economies, following a surprise devaluation in the currency last month.

Since then investors have been betting the yuan, or renminbi, could fall further, refl ected in a wide spread between the off shore and more-tightly controlled on-shore rates.

On Thursday afternoon though a surge of buying sent the off shore rate up more than one per cent, in what market sources said was a move by Chinese state-owned banks to curb speculation against their currency.

Rattled global marketsSliding Chinese stock prices and currency have rattled global markets and prompted a fl urry of policies and intervention by authorities to steady the world’s second-biggest economy.

Earlier, New Zealand’s central bank governor Graeme Wheeler said the yuan devaluation had left them concerned about the risk China may let it slide further.

“We’ve seen authorities basi-cally say they want to stabilise the renminbi, but if there were to be a very substantial depreciation in the renminbi it would certainly export defl ation around the rest of the world, so everybody is looking closely at China,” he said at a press briefi ng following an interest rate cut in New Zealand.

The defl ation threat was under-lined by data showing that Chi-nese manufacturers cut prices at their fastest rate in six years, with the producer price index (PPI) down 5.9 percent in August from a year earlier, though consumer prices are rising for now.

“The risk for China is still defl a-tion, not infl ation,” said Kevin Lai, chief economist for Asia, exclud-ing Japan, at Daiwa.

“PPI defl ation will eventually fi lter down to aff ect CPI, and ag-gregate demand will continue to be weak,” he added. — Reuters

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MAKING A POINT: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff gestures dur-

ing a meeting with businessmen in Brasilia, on Thursday. - AFP

Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan. - Bloomberg fi le picture

The China shock has changed the whole picture.

Even it doesn’t move next week, it will have to take

action soon. As in the early 2000s and in 2007,

it’s always been external shocks that have

destroyed Japan’s recovery

Hajime TakataEconomist, Mizuho Research Institute

Asia markets dip at end of weekHONG KONG: Asian markets mostly slipped on Friday but end-ed a volatile week in relative calm after China unveiled a series of steps to shore up its economy and reassure investors, but fears of a US interest rate hike kept nerves on edge.

Higher-yielding, or riskier, currencies such as the Malay-sian ringgit and South Korean won benefi ted from a more up-beat outlook, which followed a positive lead from Wall Street,

while the Australian dollar edged higher. The safe-haven yen, con-sidered a go-to asset in times of turmoil, retreated. Analysts said world markets seemed to be set-tling after a roller-coaster ride since China last month devalued its yuan currency, sparking con-cerns about the world’s number two economy — the main driver of global growth — and its leaders’ ability to control the crisis.

The broadly upbeat sentiment comes after Beijing sought to re-

assure investors it was able to maintain high growth, and an-nounced a plan to speed up ma-jor construction projects and cut taxes for small and medium-sized enterprises.

A set of capital controls to pre-vent a fl ight of cash were imple-mented this week, while analysts said a rise in the off shore yuan on Thursday suggested the central bank had intervened to prop it up. China is to release data on sales and investment on Sunday. — AFP

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Chinese trainmaker plans to double its overseas sales

NEW YORK: New York’s ageing subway system is an irresistible draw for Yu Weiping, vice-presi-dent of CRRC Corp, China’s big-gest maker of railway equipment, who says he rides it every time he visits.

“I can’t help thinking about when we can replace all these noisy old subway trains,” Yu said in an interview in New York on Thursday. “After leading the world for 100 years, US subway and train systems need upgrading.”

CRRC plans to double over-seas contracted sales to as much as $15 billion in the next fi ve years, Yu said. He last week at-tended the ground-breaking ceremony for the company’s

planned 150,000-square-foot (13,940-square-metre) plant in Springfi eld, Mass, that will assem-ble new cars for Boston’s subway.

State-owned trainmakersCSR Corp and China CNR Corp, the nation’s two state-owned trainmakers, combined in May to form CRRC, which competes with Germany’s Siemens and France’s Alstom for rail contracts world-wide. China’s government in March identifi ed rail as one of 10 focus industries in a blueprint to transform China into an advanced industrialised economy, and has used rail companies to project political infl uence abroad in addi-tion to winning major orders.

The company’s shares rose as much as 3.2 per cent early on Fri-day and closed up 0.4 per cent at HK$9.71. That beat the Hang Seng Index, which fell 0.3 per cent on the day.

Fast trackChina had built more than 17,000 kilometres (10,563 miles) of high speed railway networks by July, according to the offi cial Xinhua News Agency. It also has been targeting emerging markets in Af-rica, Latin America and Southeast Asia — often with sales pitches from Premier Li Keqiang — as it seeks to project infl uence in de-veloping economies.

Predominantly focused on the

local market, Beijing-based CRRC is beginning to expand overseas. The company generated 88 per cent of sales domestically in the fi rst half of the year, according to a statement last month.

Its revenue from mainland China increased 0.9 per cent, as sales in overseas markets jumped 61 per cent.

Yu said he spends two-thirds of his time annually abroad look-ing for deals, as CRRC seeks to go global, and said the Springfi eld plant is a showcase for the com-pany’s US expansion.

The trainmaker is in touch with additional US cities with subway-building plans, Yu said, declining to elaborate.

“We believe there is certainly demand for high-speed rail and subways in the US,” Yu said. “As long as they need us, we’ll help build and deliver. This is a huge market.”

Boston orderThe $567 million Boston deal that CNR won before the merger last year was China’s fi rst major rail contract in North America, and was 50 per cent cheaper than Bombardier’s bid.

CRRC last month reported a profi t of 4.7 billion yuan ($737 million) for the six months ended June, its fi rst fi nancial report since the merger. Revenue was 93.2 billion yuan. — Bloomberg News

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nation’s two state-

owned trainmakers,

combined in May to

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competes with

Germany’s Siemens

and France’s Alstom

for rail contracts

worldwideQUICK SNAP: CRRC plans to double overseas contracted sales to as much as $15 billion in the next fi ve years. — Bloomberg fi le picture

Nissan to extend Leaf electric car driving range by 27% amid slumpTOKYO: Nissan Motor will extend the driving range of its Leaf electric car by 27 per cent, aiming to reverse a sales slide as Tesla Motors and Toyota Motor introduce new models for green vehicle buyers.

The 2016 Leaf, set to begin US sales this fall, adds an optional 30-kilowatt battery with a driv-ing range of 107 miles, up from 84 miles for the current model, the Japanese carmaker said in a statement on Thursday.

While the Leaf remains the world’s best-selling electric car this year, sales have fallen 15 per cent in the fi rst seven months as the model ages and cheaper gas reduces potential savings on fuel. Tesla has challenged Leaf with its longer-range Model S and faster charging, while Toyota’s fi rst revamp of the best-selling Prius hybrid since 2009 may also divert demand. “Consumers are responding quickly to the drop of

crude oil price and we are seeing electric and hybrid car sales los-ing momentum,” said Yoshiaki Kawano, a Tokyo-based analyst at IHS Automotive.

The starting price for Leaf re-mains $21,510 after a federal tax credit. The longer-range battery will be standard in two higher-trim versions that start at $26,700

and $29,290. The 2016 model also will off er a more user-friendly IT system and greater vehicle con-nectivity, according to the state-ment. — Bloomberg News

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Nestle opens its new

factory in Switzerland

ZURICH: Nespresso, Europe’s largest single-serve coff ee brand, is adding a factory in Switzerland to produce capsules specially de-signed for the US, where sales growth is exceeding that of its home continent.

Nespresso, owned by the world’s biggest food-maker Nes-tle, is showing “high double-digit” growth in the US, surpassing high single-digit growth in Eu-rope, Nespresso Chairman Pa-trice Bula said in an interview in Romont, Switzerland, where the coff eemaker inaugurated its third production centre on Thursday.

“The US expansion is going very well,” Bula said. “We have the growth we planned to have in Europe. Of course you have much more competition, and of course it’s a more mature market.”

Nespresso introduced its eight-ounce-serving VertuoLine coff ee machine to the $5 billion North American single-serve market last year to appeal to their preference

for bigger cups of coff ee. The fac-tory in Romont will be the only one producing pods for VertuoLine, Bula said. Nestle is spending 300 million francs ($308 million) on the Romont factory and has in-vested 1.1 billion francs in boosting Nespresso production in Switzer-land since 2002.

VertuoLine has helped boost sales in America as it can produce big mugs of coff ee, Nestle Chief Executive Offi cer Paul Bulcke said in an interview. The chain has more than 400 boutiques world-wide, of which 36 are in the US.

“North Americans are diff erent consumers,” Bulcke said. “They do drink espresso, but for special mo-ments in high-level restaurants.”

Nespresso has faced competi-tion from capsules made by Mon-delez International Inc. Nestle last year reached an agreement with France’s competition regulator to lift obstacles to makers of knockoff capsules for Nespresso machines. — Bloomberg News

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READY FOR THE ROAD: While the Leaf remains the world’s best-selling electric car this year, sales

have fallen 15 per cent in the fi rst seven months as the model ages and cheaper gas reduces poten-

tial savings on fuel. - Bloomberg fi le picture

Bangladesh clears Japan port, power plant proposal

NEW DELHI/DHAKA: Bang-ladesh may shelve an $8 billion deepwater port project it has been negotiating with China, a govern-ment minister said on Thursday, as it looks to pursue a nearby fa-cility fi nanced by the Japanese instead.

Such a decision would be a set-back for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt One Road” ini-tiative to build a network of ports and expressways and help expand trade, investment and infl uence in the region.

Dhaka has cleared Japan’s pro-posal to fi nance and build a seaport in Matarbari, located some 25 km from Sonadia, where Beijing had off ered to construct the country’s fi rst deep water port, Planning Minister Mustafa Kamal said.

He told Reuters that the Japan International Cooperation Agen-cy (JICA) had off ered 80 percent fi nancing on easy terms to build four coal-fi red power plants of 600 MW each and a port complex in Matarbari.

That off er prompted a review of whether the Sonadia project was needed at all. “Matarbari is designed in such a way that it will be comprehensive, with power plants, an LNG terminal and a port,” he said in a telephone inter-view. “Matarbari is suffi cient, we may have to give up the other port project,” he said, adding that the government was still reviewing the proposals.

Two leading Japanese com-panies, Sumitomo Corp and Marubeni Corporation, have bid to participate in the power plant con-struction project. — Reuters

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European Central Bank’s (ECB) quantitative-easing (QE) pro-gramme is showing results and of-fi cials must be patient as infl ation returns to the eurozone economy, Governing Council member Bost-

jan Jazbec said.“I think QE is working, that the results

are there and that all other options are off the table as we clearly have evidence that we are on the right track,” Jazbec, the governor of the Bank of Slo-venia, said in an interview in Ljubljana. “Monetary policy works with lags and we just need to be patient and wait for the results.”

Infl ation stuck Even with infl ation stuck at 0.2 per cent in July, far below the ECB’s mandate of close to two per cent, Jazbec’s comments dis-play a more relaxed tone now that the threat of a Greek exit from the euro has receded. Three weeks ago, just days after that scenario had been averted, ECB President Mario Draghi said offi cials have tools to re-spond to any unwarranted policy tight-ening and could use them if the price outlook deteriorated.

“We are on the right track to bring prices within the range that we see as fulfi llment of the mandate,” Jazbec said. “Of course, if we don’t bring in-fl ation within our mandate range, the clear message from the ECB was that we might continue” to buy bonds beyond September 2016, the current end-date for the QE programme, he said.

For Jazbec, there are “positive de-velopments” on infl ation and recent

data are in line with the ECB’s expectations of how QE should

work.While the infl ation rate held steady in July, core

infl ation, which strips away volatile ele-

ments such as e n e r g y

and food, accelerated to one per cent — the fastest in 15 months.

“I don’t think that we need any tools and any additional instruments at this point,” he said. “I don’t see any reasons why we should discuss any other alternatives for something that is obviously working.” The ECB is recovering from months of strained negotiations as Greece stood on the brink of default and of an exit from the

currency bloc. For Jazbec, brink-manship between the country

and its creditors hasn’t perma-nently damaged the euro’s

credibility. On the contrary, the crisis “proved that the

way the ECB functions may be the benchmark for other European insti-tutions, particularly the

European Commission.” This is because the “ECB

mimics the supranational attitude that proved to be very

diffi cult” among the region’s fi -nance ministers, he said.

At the eleventh hour, Greece com-mitted to extensive reforms in exchange for a new bailout agreement that prevent-ed its exit from the euro area. The coun-try aims to seal the deal with its creditors within the next two weeks, in time to receive funds to make a 3.2 billion-euro ($3.5 billion) payment to the ECB on Au-gust 20.

Emergency liquidityThe ECB left the level of emergency liquidity available to Greek banks un-changed on Wednesday. It was last raised to 90.4 billion euros on July 22. “The question on what will happen with Greece lies squarely with the Greek government,” he said. “At this point debt relief is not on the table. Of course, the question of the sus-tainability of Greek debt — and this is my personal point of view — comes after credible reforms are introduced and confi dence has been estab-lished.”

I think QE is working, that the results

are there and that all other options are off the table

as we clearly have evidence that we are on the

right track. Monetary policy works with lags and

we just need to be patient and wait for the results

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With children now back to school soon, par-ents’ to-do lists keep getting longer — shop-ping for clothes, shoes and supplies, going to

the doctor for yearly physicals or checkups, and making appoint-ments at the dentist, among other things. What is easily forgotten or put off is a yearly eye exam.

According to a survey conduct-ed by KRC Research on behalf of Think About Your Eyes, about 60 per cent of parents do not consider eye exams as a necessary part of children’s health check-up schedule. However, skipping these exams means children run the risk of being unprepared for school with an undiagnosed vision problem or eye disease.

While a cough or hurt ankle might trigger you to take your child to the doctor without hesita-

tion, eye problems are diffi cult to notice without proactive meas-ures. In fact, 84 per cent of parents in the same survey admitted they wait for a child to complain of a vision issue before taking them in for an eye exam. Children, however, especially those who have had vision problems for an extended amount of time, aren’t always able to recognise the prob-lem themselves.

Although some schools perform yearly vision screenings, it is im-portant for parents to know that these tests only gauge a child’s ability to see at a distance. A full vision screening from an eye care professional is needed to evaluate how well a child’s eyes function and how well they focus on items closer to the face. With increased up-close reading, such as that required when using a computer, this information is becoming

more critical. The American Opto-metric Association estimates that as much as 80 per cent of what children learn — reading, writing, computer work and day-to-day observation — happens through sight, so it’s more important now than ever to have children tested by an optometrist. According to the American Optometric Associ-ation, by age six (before they start school), children should receive at least three eye exams.

If you fi nd that your child does need glasses, the experts off er these tips for selecting the right eyeglass lenses:

* Bright refl ections and glare can cause irritation, eye strain, discomfort and damage to your child’s eyes. In addition to the right prescription, it is important to purchase lenses that protect against these visual distractions. UV lenses off er protection from

glare caused by sunlight, white-boards, fl uorescent lights, com-puter screens and video games.

* Skin isn’t the only part of the body that needs protection from the sun’s harsh UV rays. Choose lenses that shield the eye from UV exposure, in addition to tak-ing other preventative measures against sun exposure.

* Just like anything else you buy for your child, glasses need to stand up to the test of time. Sturdy frames are important, but the lenses inside your child’s frames are vulnerable and need protection as well. Lenses that are scratch and impact resistant will help ensure a clear line of sight. Some lenses for children, such as UV No-Glare lenses, also help repel water and smudges, making it easier to weather everyday wear and tear. With the variety of op-tions available, you can easily fi nd

the right lenses for your child’s vision needs.

How sight aff ects learning in children, teensAs children and teens gear up for another year of studies, parents should be aware of often overlooked obstacles that may hinder academic success: vision problems.

Challenges with learning and performanceFor children, the most common vision issues are known as refractive errors, such as astigmatism, farsightedness and nearsightedness.

These issues are more common than you may think – aff ecting 1 in 4 school age kids. Such problems, when left untreated, can hinder a child’s ability to learn in school.

Eye exams for every childAccording to the American Optometric Association, children should receive their fi rst eye exam by age 1, a second at age 3 and another before beginning kinder-garten. From then on, students should have a yearly comprehen-sive exam to evaluate their total vision. While some students may receive a yearly screening from a school nurse, the American Foundation for Vision Aware-ness reveals that such exams only identify 5 per cent of childhood vision issues.

If any of these warning signs are detected, parents or caregiv-ers should schedule an appoint-ment with an eye care profes-sional for a comprehensive exam to evaluate the child’s vision and identify any necessary treatment options.

— Family Features

GOOD VISION HELPS CHILDREN EXCEL IN SCHOOL

Complains frequently about headaches or tired eyes

Finds it diffi cult to copy material from the whiteboard

Avoids activities that require near vision, such as reading or homework

Avoids activities that require distance vision, including participation in sports or play activities

Sits too close to the TV or holds a book close to the face

Loses place or skips words while reading

Squints or tilts head to see better

Closes one eye to read, watch TV or see better in general

Writes uphill or downhill

Be aware of the signsAs a parent or caregiver, being aware of common health concerns in your children is part of your job. But are you aware of the warning signs for bad vision? Consider the following symptoms that indicate a child may have a vision problem:

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Absolutely Anything 2D (Comedy) (PG12)Cast: Kate Beckinsale , Simon Pegg11:45 am, 4:15 pmGold Class: 1:30 pmThe Transporter Refueled 2D (Action, Drama, Thriller ) (PG12)Cast: Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol10:15 am, 10:00 PM, 11:55 PMGold Class: 11:15 pmDragon Ball Z 2D (Action, Drama) (PG)Cast: Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa10:00AM, 3:15 PM

AZAIBAThe Transporter Refueled - 2D (PG12) Action, Crime, Thriller Cast - Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol12:00, 6:00, 11:15 PMHitman: Agent 47 – 2D (PG12) ActionCast – Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware12:30, 7:00 PMWelcome Back – 2D (12+) ComedyCast - Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar5:15, 10:30 PMZero Tolerance - 2D (12+) Action Cast - Dustin Nguyen, Scott Adkins,12:45, 11:30 PMDouble Barrel – 2D (12+) Action, ThrillerCast - Prithviraj Sukumaran, Aarya

2:30, 8:45 PMPaayum Puli – 2D (12+) Action, DramaCast – Vishal Krishna Reddy, Kajal Aggarwal3:30, 8:00 PMDragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’– 2D (PG) Cast - Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa2:30 PMYatchan – 2D (PG12) Action Cast - Aarya, Krishna Sekhar, Deepa Sannidhi4:15 PMAmerican Ultra – 2D (12+) Action, Comedy1:45, 7:45, 9:30 PMHero – 2D (PG12) Action, Drama, RomanceCast - Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 PM

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Screen 3Phantom (Action) – PGCast: Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif1.00, 9.45 PMWelcome Back (Comedy) – 12+3.45 PMHero (Action/Romance) – PG126.45 PM

SOHARThe Transporter Refueled - 2D (PG12) Cast : Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol3:45, 10:00, 11:45 PMWelcome Back - 2D (12+) Comedy, CrimeCast: Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar6:00 PMHitman : Agent 47 - 2D (PG12) Action, Crime, Cast: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware4:15, 11:55 PMThe Perfect Guy - 2D (15+) ThrillerCast: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy6:15, 11:30 PMAmerican Ultra - 2D (12+) Action, ComedyCast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart12:00, 2:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 PMThe Runner - 2D (12+) DramaCast: Nicolas Cage, Connie NielsenTimings : 2:45, 4:30 PMAbsolutely Anything - 2D (PG12) Comedy

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Simon Pegg2:00, 8:15 PMDragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ - 2D (PG) Cast: Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa3:00, 4:45 PMHero - 2D (PG12) Action, Drama, RomanceCast : Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty12:00, 8:45, 11:15 PMDouble Barrel - 2D (M) (12+) Action, Thriller Cast : Prithviraj Sukumaran, Aarya, Indrajith 12:15, 6:30 PMYatchan - 2D (T) (PG12) Action Cast : Aarya, Krishna Sekhar, Deepa Sannidhi12:00, 9:10 PM

BURAIMI

American Ultra – 2D (Action, Comedy) (12+)Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart3:00, 8:15, 10:00, 11:45PMThe Transporter Refueled– 2D (Action, Crime, Thriller ) (PG12)Cast: Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson4:45, 6:30, 9:30, 11:30PMZero Tolerance – 2D (Action) (12+)Cast: Dustin Nguyen, Scott Adkins3:15, 5:00, 11:30PMYatchan – 2D (Action / Comedy) (PG12)Cast: Arya, Kreshna, Deepa Sanndhi6:00PM

Double Barrel – 2D (Action/Comedy (12+)Cast: Prithviraj Sukumran, Arya8:45PMWelcome Back – 2D (Action / Thriller) (12+)Cast: John Abraham, Shruti Hassan; 3:15PM

SURThe Transporter Refueled (Action) (PG12) Cast: Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol6:30, 11:30 PMZero Tolerance (Action) (12+) Cast: Scott Adkins, Dustin Nguyen4:15, 11:45 PMDouble Barrel (Malayalam)(Action) (12+) Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Aarya, Indrajit.1:30, 6:00 PMWelcome Back (Hindi) (Comedy) (TBC) Cast: Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar2:00, 8:45 PMAmerican Ultra (Action | Comedy) (12+) 4:45, 8:15, 10:00 PM

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American Ultra (2D) (12+) (Action/Comedy) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart1:00, 6:15, 8:00, 9:45PMThe Perfect Guy (2D) (15+) (Thriller) Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy2:00, 10:00PMZero Tolerance (2D) (12+) (Action) Cast: Dustin Nguyen, Scott Adkins2:45, 11:55PMHero (2D) (PG12) (Action/Drama/Romance) Cast: Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty8:45, 11:15PMHitman: Agent 47 (2D) (PG12) (Action) Cast: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware10:30AMThe Transporter Refueled (2D) (PG12) 11:15AM, 4:30, 11:30 PMWelcome Back (2D) (12+) (Comedy/Crime) 12:15PM Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (2D) (PG) Cast: Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa10:30AM, 12:15PMEl Khalbos (2D) (TBC) (Arabic) (Comedy) Cast: Mohamed Ragab, Iman Al Assie6:45, 8:00PMDouble Barrel (2D) (12+) (Action/Thriller) Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Aarya, Indrajith4:00PMYatchan (2D) (PG12) (Action) 5:25PMPaayum Puli (12+) (Action, Drama) Cast: Vishal Krishna Reddy, Kajal Aggarwal3:00PM

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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Ask him for his laser gun

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M. S. Dhoni

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Nothing

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Honesty makes life so much easier

SHYLA looked at her half yearly exams report card. She didn’t know what to do with them. The marks she had got for her science and geog-raphy were atrocious. Marks in the other subjects too were not good.

Throughout the day she kept on thinking about it. She lazily walked out of the classroom as the bell rang. It was time to go home but she was nervous.

This had not happened for the fi rst time. She never took her stud-ies seriously and no matter what her parents said she would just not study.

Shyla was intelligent but not se-rious in life. Life was more about having fun for her.

Her mother often gave aff ection-ate reminders to her. “Shyla, we are not telling you to run after marks and grades. We just want you to be sincere towards your studies and gain knowledge,” she often said.

But Shyla hardly cared. She would just somehow fi nish her schoolwork and then never touch the books. Sometimes she would even copy from Natasha’s note-book before the classes. Natasha

was not aware of this. She had her basketball lessons in school thrice a week and those were the days when Shyla would steal her home-work books and copy.

One day Matt had caught her doing this and had warned her. “Please Matt, don’t tell this to any-one. I will be punished. I promise I will never do this again,” she had pleaded.

Since it was the fi rst time Matt thought of giving her a second chance. “Ok Shyla! I will not tell anyone but you too have to prom-ise me not to do this again. This is cheating and it’s wrong,” he said loudly.

Shyla nodded her head and vowed to never repeat her mistake. But she broke her promise in just two days. The night before she was so busy playing with the new vide-ogame that her uncle had gifted her that she forgot to do her maths homework.

“Maths teacher would be very annoyed.” Now what to do,” she thought hard.

She thought of taking Natasha’s notebook but then Natasha had not

come that day. Shyla quietly went to Aliya’s desk and took her maths notebook. In few minutes she jot-ted down the sums.

In maths period the teacher was quite surprised to see Aliya and Shyla making the same mistakes. Aliya was a hardworking student but often made careless mistakes in maths. The teacher had a doubt. She was aware of Aliya and Shyla’s weak points.

“How come Shyla you are having the same mistakes as that of Aliya,” she fi rmly asked.

“I don’t know mam. I worked so hard on these sums last night,” she pretended innocence. Aliya stood quiet. Matt was suspicious but he didn’t say anything.

As the period got over he ran to Shyla to fi nd out the truth but she refused to budge from her stand. “I have done it all by myself Matt. I don’t thing I need to give you an explanation,” she said rudely.

Shyla’s habit of lying contin-ued. Sometimes she would opt out of her physical training classes by complaining of stomach ache while at other times she would

tell tales of problems to escape the teacher’s scolding for not doing her lessons.

In the beginning everyone took her words seriously but gradually learnt that most of the time she was up to some lies.

The teachers had spoken about this to her parents many a times but nothing made a diff erence.

And that day when the results were out Shyla had all reasons to feel worried. What would she tell at home? She didn’t want to show her report card.

Shyla’s mom was anxiously waiting for her at home. “Shyla, how was your day?” she asked af-fectionately.

“It was ok mom. I am just a bit upset,” she said casually.

“You know I thought they would announce the results today but we were told that it would be given only after a week,” she said without any hesitance.

“Oh! Is it so!” her mom asked. “Yes mom, that’s why I am upset.

I am sure this time I would have done well,” Shyla said. Her mom kept quiet. Shyla heaved a sigh of

relief. “Thank God mom did not suspect anything.”

In the evening as she headed towards her study room she saw an envelope on her table with her name written on top.

Who could have written to me? She thought. “Maybe it’s Dina from Australia but why there are no stamps? And the handwriting is also diff erent.”

Curiosity took over Shyla and she hurriedly opened the envelope. It was a letter from her mother and it said: “Honey, I know that you must be feeling sad and discour-aged about your results and that’s what is making you tell these lies. I got to know about your results from Jamila. She had called to en-quire about you. Wish you had told me the truth. Lying is convenient but honesty makes life so much easier. People in life will really look up to you if you tell the truth.”

Shyla stared at the letter for hours. She knew she had hurt her mom and everyone who loved her by her lies. She went to bed with a promise in her heart. Never to lie!

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LIFESTYLES AT U R DAY, S E P T E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 1 5

All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically,

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

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

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

Answer to previous puzzle

SOLUTION

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Actress, Album, Alice, Athletic, Award, Band, Best, Blonde, Camera, Canadian, Canon, Charts, Complicated,

Cool, Dawn, Disney, Drums, Dyes, Fans, Film, Girlfriend, Gothic, Guitarist, Happy Ending, Image, Let Go, Media,

Music, Napanee, Necktie, Online, Popular, Punk, Radio, Rock, Rose, Singer, Skater Boi, Style, Talented, Teen,

Tomboy, Tours, Video, Vocal, Whibley. Answer: Black Star

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Devansh Mudgal Indian School Al Seeb Grade 8

Oman – The land of beauty and peace,Let it be any place but none compared it.It is God’s second heaven to be meant.Which fulfi ls the heart with nature’s scent.The country where is present endless golden sand,The country which is Lord’s land.The country where love is in mind and soul,The majestic country where bright colours enrol.Vast deserts are fi lled with dry dunes and imagi-nary oases. Where the nomads and the camels spend their life.The high mountains and hills with thorny bushes and scarce greenery,Which soar to take the blessings of nature.Splashing waves and tides are existing Oman,Fine streams and wadis are consisting Oman.After the sun sets in the low lighted dusk,The bright moon arises and shines Oman.When “hudhud” talks, the fl owers bloom,When “Oryx walks”, the trees wave,When the palm trees grow, the cultures bright-ens.And when the yellowish brown dates ripe, the taste enlightens.The country has prospered a lot, under the rule of His Majesty.The sign of Khanjar, shows dignity and pride.There are many places to be experienced by men and women.But there is nothing like Oman.

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Direct from the owner: for sale -

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Three 2 bedroom bachelor accom-

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Urgently required for leading Com-pany : Accountant between 5 to 10

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Required Beautician for a beauty

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Post Graduate researcher required. Contact 99229700

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED


IT

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Required Salesman for shop &

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with minimum 2 yrs experience.

Contact 98825805 / 98825806.


Required Marketing Manager

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Contact: 99674870

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from 9 AM to 1 PM

Urgently required female Staff Nurse with M.O.H. license & N.O.C. to

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Optician required who carry good

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Required Pharmacist with license.

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contact :+968 92584362 , mail CV to

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Medical CARE Centre, Multi Spe-cialty Clinic, Seeb, requires General Practioner, Medical Lab Technician & Pharmacist. Send CV at Email :

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call 97884856

Required Dentist, Endodontist, Orthodontist with MOH license.

Contact 99010755 for dental Centre

in Muscat Khuwair


Wanted GP doctor with MOH license

- Al Suweiq clinic - salary RO 1600/-.

Contact 97742491

Required Nurse with MOH license

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Contact: 99010755


Driver with Oman driving licence

needed. Visa available.

Gsm 942 888 63

REQUIRED URGENTLY Heavy Driv-er & Light Driver, Omani National.

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ested candidates may

Contact: 96203333

Project head (HVAC and fi refi ght-ing) 12-15 years of experience with

good project management skills.

GCC experience and driving license

is mandatory. Send CVs on

[email protected]

A Mechanical Engineer with sales-

manship experience of 5 years &

above preferable with Oman drivers

license and NOC.

Please forward your CV to

[email protected]

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

A new Multi-Purpose hall at Sohar

city is urgently looking for an Event Manager. Pls send your CV to

[email protected]

A Pest control supervisor required urgently /Call 92660005

Required Sales & marketing person for IT Company with minimum 2

yrs experience in Oman & with valid

Oman driving license.

Contact 98825805 / 98825806.


Required Salesman in Salalah very

good commission.Contact 92760281

Reputed buildings material company

looking for outdoor Sales Executive having valid Omani driv-

ing license with more than 2 years

local sales experience in Tiles / Sani-

tary ware. Fax your CV to 24798709 /

email: [email protected]

Accountant 35 years with 5 years

experience in Oman urgently seek-

ing suitable jobs accountant & Ass.

Admin& HR valid D/L N.O.C. Contact:

968 99176112 /968 91818124 Email:

[email protected]

Accountant Part time up to fi nali-

zation on monthly basis by Indian

CA. All reports, backlog account-

ing, bank loan help, tax & internal

Audit,aff ordable fee.92758370

25 yrs female Indian with B.Com

MBA looking out for a job in fi nance

/ marketing / HR fi eld with a work

experience of 1 year, 3 months at

Bank Muscat & 7 months at India.

Contact: 94657403 / 95537261

Indian male B.Com / PGDM 16 yrs

exp, 3 yrs prior Oman exp seeking

suitable placement in accounts/ fi -

nance/ admin/ logistics. #95587905

email : [email protected] on

visit visa

Accountant, 36 yrs, Indian male, 10

yrs UAE experience in Accountant,

Insurance currently on visit visa

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 96334958 / 95217432

Male Indian Accountant B.Com

7 years experience in Oman (account-

ing, fi nance, costing auditing) with

NOC and valid driving license looking

for suitable position. #96722257


M.Com female good knowledge in

computer and tally 4 years experi-

ence in accounts and Administration

seeks suitable placement on visit

visa. Contact: 96992431 / 99450130

Male, Finance Executive /

Sr. Accountant with Experience in

Oman having Graduate degree in

Commerce looking for suitable

position. Contact: 98570383


Jordanian Accountant (ACPA) with

more than 15 yrs experience in Oman

(Accounts, Purchase & fi nance.

Contact: 92881223


Accountant with more than 6 years

experience in SAOG company look-

ing for middle management position.

Strong English/Arabic correspond-

ence. Valid DL. NOC available.

Contact 91116924

Fresher looking for a career

opportunity B.Com good physique,

quick learner English speaking.

Contact: 93368464

Young, energetic 24 yrs, ACCA

fi nalist, Advanced diploma in

Accounting and business, seeking

suitable placement in accounts,

fi nance or audit. Contact: 92430152


Accountant 7Years Experience with

D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084

Part time Accountant available.

Contact : 93438100

Sales Executive urgently required

for a well-established business of

building material (tiles, kitchens, bath-

rooms and interiors) with selective

European brands. Candidate should

have industry knowledge and proven

local experience, a valid D/L & NOC.

Send CV to alrawahy.hafi [email protected]

Male, Finance Executive / Sr. Accountant with Experience in

Oman having Graduate degree in

Commerce looking for suitable

position. NOC available.

Contact: 98570383


Accountant Indian male B.Com

2 years experience currently on vis-

iting visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact : 94649272,


Part Time Accounting, Accounts

Finalization, Audit Preparation,

Internal Audit, Monthly Profi tabil-

ity Reports, Onsite Tally Training,

Contact : 96975454,

Email :[email protected]

Accounts fi nance Indian male 22 yrs

B.Com Tally ERP-9, 2 years work-

ing experience in India on visit visa


Contact: 95636987 / 94280567


Accounts fi nance Indian male 24

B.Com Tally ERP-9, 4 years work-

ing experience in India on visit visa


Contact : 95583953 /96392009


Senior Accounts and administration

executive, Indian, 20 years experience,

holding Oman license, seeks suitable

placement. Contact.95254864

Indian male, 27 years, BCom CA Inter,

Pursuing CA fi nal and MBA with 5

years work experience (2 years GCC),

currently working as a cost account-

ant seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 94390660

Finance Manager 22 years Oman ex-

perience and NOC. Contact: 91302906

/ 91335205

MBA Graduate 24 years Indian male,

1 year experience Accountant seek-

ing suitable job. Contact: 94083260


Indian CA 10yrs of Oman experi-

ence in treasury, fi nancial report-

ing, consolidation, ERP implemen-

tation in Trading, construction,

Oil & Gas sectors. NOC available.


GSM: 91310237

Male 29 yrs, 5+ experience, 4 yrs in

HME (Offi ce Assistant) 1 yr experi-

ence in accounts & marketing seek-

ing for suitable position.# 96505486

Pakistani Qualifi cation M.Com

(fi nance) experience 2 years as

Internal Auditor, 3 years as Finance

Manager. Contact: 00968- 91490367

Part time Accountant, up to fi na-

lization, looking for job after 5pm

(location prefer - MSQ to Al Hail).

Contact: 95694737

Indian 24 years MBA fi nance

2 years experience seeking suitable

placement. Contact: 98222753

Email - [email protected]

Wanted urgently need two Tailors who can make curtains.

Contact: 98962888

Agyal Al Huda School requires Maths & Science Teachers in

Al Azaiba. Contact 91409998 /

24492548 / 99637238

Digital Printing &Advertising fi rm

in Muscat urgently requires Male / Female Business develop-ment Executives with D/L.

Contact: 96348429


Sales man / interior designer

wanted for prestigious interior

design and offi ce furniture Supply

Company. Experience and drivers

license needed.

Excellent remuneration package.


Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light

license. Send your CV

[email protected]

12 yrs Oman experienced

Chief Accountant looking

for immediate placement.

Contact 99513082

13 years exp (7.5 years Gulf exp)

B.Com Graduate, looking for Account-

ant job, Contact -92957064 ,

NOC Available.

Accountant 4 yrs experience looking

for job. Contact 96182302 Email:

[email protected]

Indian male B.Com Graduate 24

years looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact: 97219505

Part time Accounting qualifi ed & ex-

perienced Accountant. #93858725

A Sri Lankan lady chartered

accountant with fi ve years experi-

ence (including article ship), on

family visa in Oman looking for a

suitable job. Contact: 91259845


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CATERING

ENGG. / TECHNICAL



DOMESTIC HELPER

DRAFTSMAN

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

IT

IT

MEDICAL

SALES / MARKETINGADMIN

MISCELLANEOUS

PROJECTS

Indian male, having 14 yrs of exp. in

Business Development/ Market-

ing with Omani D/L seeks business

development / Marketing Manager

post. Contact 968 93400177

10 yrs fi nancial products sales &

marketing experienced 5 years in

banking Indian male 32 yrs on visit

visa looking for suitable position.

Contact : 92882053

MBA Graduate having 23 yrs of

experience as Sales Manager in

building materials trading looking

for a suitable opportunity, release

available. Contact 92106768,


25 yrs experienced building materi-

als manager knowledge of Purchase

Marketing sales seeks suitable

placement. Contact 94663824 /

94305499

Indian male, with 5 yrs experience

of call centre in customer service &

sales looking for suitable position.

Contact 90198176

Indian female having more than 8

years of experience in oil and gas

sectors sales and marketing and 2

years as commercial manager look-

ing for a suitable post in Sohar area.

Now on visit visa. Contact 96311709,

Indian no 0091 9745541355,

Email Id:[email protected]

Sales man (food stuff ), Gulf experi-

enced, knows Hindi, Arabic .

Contact 99506977

Indian male looking for job in spare

parts BMW / Mercedes benz.

Contact: 95712035

Indian 15 years experience MNC

Sales Marketing Manager FMCH

Buildings looking for change with

D/L. Contact: 98796982

Business intelligence / Global Mar-

keting management specialist with

9 years of experience developing

brand value & managing overall pro-

jects to achieve business objectives

seeking suitable position on family

visit. Contact: 91902154

Male BA, with D/L, having 6 years

exp in Oman wanted suitable job in

Sales Inventory & procure.

Contact: 92191026

A professional commercial & Busi-

ness Developer (Sudanese) MBA &

PGD extensive experience (14 yrs in

marketing, sales and procurement)

for International companies with

residential permit & driving license.

Contact 94738839


MBA 15 years experience in Sales &

Marketing in telecom, FMCG, pres-

ently in India C/O Saif Kazi.

Contact : 99625957

Email Id: [email protected]

Indian male, experience Sales

Executive with D/L seeks suitable

placement. Contact: 97853426

MBA graduate having 6 years exp

in Sales & Marketing, presently

working in PEPSI, India seeks

suitable placement in Oman.

Cont : + 91 9895388937,


Indian male 25 yrs BBM Graduate

3 yrs of experience Sales / Market-

ing in Oman looking in suitable

placement. Contact : 93185316


Indian 41 years, 2 years Dubai ex-

perience Sales of banking insurance

products looking for suitable job.

Contact: 96564721

Have the previous experience in

building material sales fi eld and

also experience as store keeper,

with release paper & visa valid

upto 19/09/15. Contact: 96451129 /

95563071

Sales and marketing - male 27 yrs,

2 years experience seeking suitable

placement with Oman D/L.

Contact: 95642740


Indian male, 2 yrs exp. in Sales

with D/L seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92055093

Management Professional ac-

countable, responsible for profi t-

able management can handle the

entire operations, HR/Recruitment,

Business development & Sales &

marketing & etc, Great organiza-

tional skills with over 23+yrs exp. in

Bombay, Saudi Arabia, Dubai-UAE &

Oman(11yrs) as General Manager -

Publications, Printing,Media.

open to any industry,

can Join immediately w/NOC.

Contact : +968

98864706/99574638

Mail : [email protected]

SKILLED/ UNSKILLED

Building construction supervisor looking for small Omani company

to handle independently or suitable

placement in good company with

Oman D/L. Contact 93061107

Welder / fabricator, Gulf exp, 3G, 6G

ARC, GAS PH : 95068064

ARCHITECT

HSE Engineer Diploma in mechani-

cal eng, 6 yrs Gulf exp, NEBOSH,

OSHA with oman D/L & NOC avail-

able for urgent placement.

Contact 91258586.

Indian male, with 8 yrs exp. in

Oman (BA- Graduate) working as

a project Sales Coordinator, with

Oman D/L, looking for suitable job,

ready to join immediately with NOC,

open for Sales & Marketing also.

Contact 95245057

Indian Housemaid looking for full

time job with accommodation, 7 yrs

exp with European family. Prefer

European family. Contact: 92567618

Indian male having 8 years experi-

ence in Oman, working as a ware-

house in charge seeking suitable

placement. N.O.C available. .

Contact 96184236

House maid looking for job.

Contact: 99879576

Indian with 20 years experience

in food & beverage section in Hotel

fi eld seeks suitable managerial posi-

tion in a restaurant / hotel or cater-

ing unit. Contact : 91447407

Senior Manager Indian, 30 years in

FMCG Business in Oman looking for

better opportunity at management

level. Contact 99231513

Indian BE, BA diploma quality mate-

rial management 13 years experi-

ence procurement, stores, inventory

warehousing manager construction

industry on visit. Contact 90287850

22 years B.Com Graduate having

experience in trading of car accesso-

ries and also with valid GCC driving

license looking for a suitable job.

Contact 98504698

Facility / Project Management 5 yrs of exp holds BE (ECE) MBA,

Indian on visit visa looking for

suitable openings.

Contact : 98580569


Supervisor / Forman interior / elec-

trical with Oman driving license.

Contact: 98767559

Supervisor fabrication. 30 years

experienced in oil and gas industry

with thorough knowledge of PDO

procedures. contact 99365694,

92362946, 99208102

email: tapasroy21@yahoo. com

DESIGNER

DRIVER

Civil Engineer 7 years experience in

Oman. Contact: 92480604

B.Sc Civil Engineer Bangladeshi

male 6 yrs exp of building con-

struction drafting structural design

valid D/L seeking suitable position.

Contact :91220753,


Project Manger with B.E Civil 13

years experience including GCC hav-

ing driving licence, release and NOC

available looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 97068121

Since March 2010 in Oman as a

building Construction Site supervi-

sor with Oman D/L looking for

suitable placement or small Omani

Construction Co. Contact 93061107

Pakistani TV/ Radio broadcasting

engineer having 20 years experience

of installations, planning, project

handling, training & procurement

presently on visit visa # 93810402

Bangladeshi male BSc Engg in civil

total 3 yrs experience 2 yrs in Oman

looking for job.Contact : 94038642,


BTech Marine Engineer, Indian,

2 years experience, looking for

onshore marine/ mechanical jobs.

Contact-91991386,

[email protected]

Jordanian Mechanical Engineer, Expertise in Manufacturing, Design,

Steel Work, AutoCad, SolidWork

3D, Nesting/Plasma Cutting, Sales,

Speaking, Russian & English

GSM#90198575/99201710

HSE Engineer, NEBOSH IGC and IOSH

certifi ed with 2 years industry and Oil

& Gas experience looking for urgent

placement. Contact 91476537.

Pakistani diploma civil (Eng) 24 year

1.5 years experience in Pak)

2 years in (Oman). Contact: 97138320

Indian male 24, Diploma in Civil

Engineering 2 years experience as

Site Engineer on visit visa.

Contact 98023153

Civil Engineer (Diploma) with 7 + 5

years Oman experience in Interior QS

AutoCAD & Construction with Oman

D/L NOC available. #98085006

Shaiju K.S (30) M diploma in

Mechanical Engineering (DME)

work experience: 7 years, 9 months

as a tool designer and in tool room

(India) Hyderabad , on three months

visit visa. Contact: 92945232

A qualifi ed Iraqi Electrical Engineer

has more than 6 years experience in

HV, LV, GAS power plant and electri-

cal activities, resident in Oman look-

ing for job. Contact: 94750771

Indian male 23 yrs, B.E in Mechani-

cal 1.3 yrs experience as Mainte-

nance Engineer (India) (L & T ports)

profi ciency in AutoCAD seeking for a

suitable job on visit visa. #97794386


Indian male Electrical and Electron-

ics Engineer, 6 months experience

GCC driving license, transferable

visa. Contact: 93682181

Female Civil Engineer with 3.5 years

experience looking for job in Muscat,

profi cient in site execution, tendering

procedures billing, Quantity take off ,

budgetary control have knowledge

in AutoCAD, SAP, Word, excel, power

point. Contact: 97207212


Mechanical Engineer 22 yrs Indian

male currently on permanent visa

and valid Omani driving license

seeking for suitable job.

Contact : 91652927 / 99680181


Pakistani Civil diploma Engineering

experience 3 years in Oman building

construction, 2 years in Pakistan,

having driving license.

Contact 96512518 Email:

[email protected]

Indain male, 23 yrs, B.E in Mechanical post Graduation Diploma

in piping Engineering, seeking job in

relevant fi eld.Contact : 94786570


Instrumentation Engineer, nearly

4 yrs experience in oil & gas industry,

seeks job in Oman. Contact 90198210,


Indian male 25MBA having 4years

Gulf experience in Coordination with

contracting company .NOC Available.

Looking for(Store,Coordination,Admin

Backoffi ce) Jobs Ph:95405885

MSC Electronics Female, 24 years,

1 year experience in MR Scan

Testing on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact 91111675

Indian diploma Civil Eng, 2 yrs

exp. Infrastructures project (4G –

Towers, substation) landscaping &

Auto CAD. Contact: 94756183


DAE (civil) having 4.5 years

experience with driving license of

Oman, Seeking for suitable place in

construction fi eld NOC and release

available contact 96968554,

email- [email protected]

Indian male 27 years BE Mechani-

cal, 2 years experience in Training

AutoCAD Revit MEP PDMS Soft-

wares. Contact: 94183625

Civil Engineering Diploma 7 years

experience in building construing in

Oman with NOC. Contact `99512416

/96488479

D.A.E (Civil) Engineer + safety of-

fi cer course (OSHA & IOSH) for U.K

need the job. Contact: 97850996

Civil Engg, B.Tech fresher Indian

male currently on visit visa seeks

suitable placement.

Contact 91702450


Indian Male, IT Support Engineer,

2 yrs in Oman & 5 yrs Indian experi-

ence. Contact 97311847

Civil Engineer, 6 yrs experience

having Oman D/L, looking for a

suitable position. NOC available.

Contact: 93523507 / 95961336


B.Tech Electrical & Electronics with

1 year experience seeking for suit-

able job. Contact: 91 9497883413


Over 22 years of comprehensive

experience in overall construction ex-

ecution& management qualifi cation.

BE (Civil). Contact : +968 91816590

Civil Engineer (diploma) 3.5 yrs

exp, seeking for placement.

Contact: 95200650

Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need

suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.


C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech.

Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26

seeks placement. Contact : 91823331


Electrical and Electronics Engineer with one year experience and GCC

licence holder seeking a job

mail – [email protected]

SUPERVISOR: Indian male site

supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING)

25 years of experience with valid

Oman Driving license, seeking suit-

able placement.

Contact: 97498809, 93391910


Indian male, Supervisor Electrician

Diploma 8 yrs in Oman. NOC avail-

able. Contact 95057068,

[email protected]

Mechanical Engineer 23 having

knowledge in HVAC looking for suit-

able vacancy. Contact: 95434381


Indian male Civil Engineer with

Engineer with 2 years experience in

Building project is available currently

on visit visa. Contact: 92841583

SAP BW Analyst : Indian male, 26

yrs, B.Tech (CS & E) from ASET, New

Delhi, worked as a Business

Analyst in Software Industry.

Contact 98008127 / 92878708,

[email protected]

IT B. Sc Computer Science 3 yrs

exp in programming & web develop-

ment, networking & admin & CCNA.

Contact :99758186

CCNA MCITP Network support/

Network technician with 2 yrs expe-

rience Indian male having bachelors

degree on visit visa. #93080871,

email :[email protected]

Net work Engineer on visit looking

for immediate placement.

Contact: 95634573

IT Engineer, 6 yrs exp in software

projects & development (Java, PL/

SQL Unix) on visit visa. #99487493

Indian male 34 yrs M.Tech Indus-

trial biotechnology having teaching

experience seeking for job.

M. Ramkumar. Contact : 96674521,

0091-9940586051


Network System Engineer switch-

es, Routers, Servers, load balancers,

CCTV 5 years of exp holds B.E (ECE)

CCNA looking for good opportunity

Indian visit visa. Contact 91911792


Tunisian Master degree in

Computer Science, with experience

in creating websites in development

looking for a job in the Sultanate of

Oman currently in Muscat.

Contact 94745546


Indian male, 35 years, BBA with

IT diploma Holder with 13 years

experience in IT Tech, Support &

Administration seeking suitable

position. Contact : 94770019

Drafting (interior design), experienced,

knows autocad, 3D, PH : 99506977

Indian Civil Draftsman looking

suitable placement 5 yrs experience

(Gulf). Contact: 98064097

MEP design and Drafting, all kind

of shop drawing preparation and

detailed section drawings. Contact

: Mr Sandry Menon. Contact: (+968)

98471463 / 98471463

LMV Driver, 7 yrs exp. (Keralite).

Contact 97761606

Vehicle with driver 12 years in

Oman seeking suitable job.

Contact: 92762258

Bangladeshi want job, 6 years work

exp. in Dubai and Oman.

Contact: 93822195

Driver Pakistani available.

NOC available. Contact: 94356465

20 years experience. Contact : 94795033

Pakistani male light vehicle driver

looking for job. Contact: 96474528

Driver with car. Contact : 91452930

Wanted driver. Contact 95112461

Driver job wanted. Contact: 99343782

Car with driver or without cat

specially Companies.

Contact 97943750 / 97408900

Light duty driver 5 years exp in

Oman. Contact: 92602182

Driver available 24, HRS, car with-

out car. Contact: 98522914

Looking job LTV D with car.

Contact: 94436276 / 97433432

PHD Architect from Italy with

10 years experience speaks Arabic,

English & Italian looking for

Architectural job in Muscat.

Contact: 95543753

Email: [email protected] /

Front Offi ce Manager with 20 years

of expertise in Burj Al Arab, the ad-

dress & Sheraton seeks immediate

placement. Contact 92311830

HOSPITALITY

Mechanical and manufacturing Engi-

neer , age 26 yrs masters ( Singapore)

having 2 years Oman work experi-

ence with valid Oman driving license

on visit visa available immediately.

Contact: 95498953

Indian 22 years male, Mechanical

Engineer, B.Tech has done intern-

ships, born and brought up in Oman

with Omani driving license, seeking

suitable jobs. # 92791637 Email:

[email protected]

Indian mechanical Engineer 31

yrs, 8+ experience in sales & BD

including GCC, having Oman driving

license & NOC. Contact: 97116858


B.Tech Mechanical Engineer with

2 years experience in HV AC and

plumbing - nikhilchandpm@gmail.

com ; GSM: 97654489

Indian BE (MECH) aviation BE

degree diploma in material quality

management 17 years Navy aviation

13 years construction purchase stores

professional on visit.

Contact: 90205082 /98796982

Engineer with 3 yrs experience in

Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical

maintained fi eld on visit visa looking

for suitable job. Contact 99191535


Electrical Engineer, Indian male,

29 yrs having 5 yrs of experience in

industrial automation & utility

maintenance in India (MRF yres)


Contact 92789995, Email :

[email protected]

Btech computer science graduate

2015 passout.. Android application

marketing.. Having good communi-

cation skills and mindset to work in

a team. Contact 91024385

Indian male BE Mechanical currently on 2 yrs free visa with NOC

& local release. Looking for suitable

job in Muscat. Contact – 90296975 /

[email protected] Indian cook, tandoori cook

experience in India looking for a

cook job in hotel / restaurant, pres-

ently on India. Contact: 98744307

Filipino,29,Male, 5years experience:

Admin/Payroll/Finance/Document

Control. Excellent Communication/

MS Offi ce skills.

Contact: patrick110486@yahoo.

com/95057206

Indian male 12+ years experience

in Admin and hospitality services,


Contact : 99318958 Email:

[email protected]

Indian, 16 yrs experience in Admin

/ Offi ce management and have

knowledge in accounting seeks

job. Release available and have D/L.

Contact : 99573353

Filipina, 10 yrs experience in

Fashion Retail, Shipment, Logistics,

Inventory, Warehouse Control and

Store Management is seeking

employment. Call +971565833126

or 97728418.

Indian male MBA 33 yrs having 10

yrs exp seeking suitable placement

in Administration / HR/ Operations/

Coordination/ Logistics etc. Holding

valid D/L. Contact - 99054786

Indian male 2+yrs oman exp in HR.

joing immediatly. release available.

Contact :93671437

Indian Female MBA, 3 Year Experi-

ence in Admin MIS ,

Family Visa. Contact 98234427,

[email protected]

14 years of gulf experience in HR /

Admin & logistics fl uent in Arabic /

English with D/L looking for suitable

position. Contact: 95824598

Indian female 24 years BE Elec-

tronics now in Oman visiting visa

searching job for any administrative

sectors telecommunicating

banking teaching.

Contact: 95935867 / 99536948


Indian Dentist, MDS, having 10

years experience prometric passed

(70%) looking for job.

Contact: 97985325

B.Sc Indian male Nurse, 6.5 years in

emergency and OT, prometric 69%,

looking for suitable nursing job.

Contact- 90126959,

[email protected]

Indian female BSc Nurse with 4 years

experience with Oman prometric

64% looking for suitable placement in

capital area. Contact: 95847286

Lecturer in Nursing (MSc) special-

ized in OBG, 3 years experience, on

visit visa, seeking teaching opportu-

nities/ nursing educator. #90125347

Indian male, Audiologist and

Speech language pathologist,

5 years experience looking for job.

Contact: 98490687, 9597597067

mail- [email protected]

Indian male, MSc, MPhil, BEd Chem-

istry,2 Yrs Teaching experience and

having experience in lab analyst,

currently on visit visa, seeks suitable

post. Contact 90208673

ENT surgeon board degree & pro-

metric exam looking for a job in pri-

vate hospitals & medical complexes.

Contact: 91347226

OB/ Gynecologist board degree &

prometric exam looking for a job in

private hospitals & medical com-

plexes. Contact: 91347226

BE, ECE Mumbai university skills

in C, C++, windows, linux, controller

and processor RTOS, Electronics,

Networking, 6 months experience in

embedded software seeks place-

ment. Contact : 917774864736


CONTD ON PG 7

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Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise

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Marine Tours Contact- 98029602,

92808636

TOURS

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FOR HIRE

Volvo 12 Ton Truck for monthly

rent. Contact: 98713900


SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

Window & split unit A.C ser-

vicing & maintenance. Contact

93769089 / 95323517

Pest Control Treatments, Cockroaches, Ants, Rodents &

Termites, Ocean Center LLC.

Contact: 99344723/ 99357908

General cleaning &

Shampooing. Ocean Center LLC.

Contact: 99344723/99357908

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your

marble. #24793614/ 99314807

Used house & offi ce furniture

& electronic items. Contact:

99834373 / 96642500

Supply fi xing Wallpapers,

all carpets. Contact: 99834373 /

96642500

Building maintenance: Tiling,

painting etc. Contact: 99325827

One stop shop business services : Public Relation (PRO) formation new

companies, LLC companies, Investor

visa, business setup, prepare busi-

nesses & companies accounts, legal

services, representing you and your

company. Contact: Saleh : 96723485

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile pol-

ishing, pest control & anti-termite

treatment, general cleaning paint-

ing, Plumbing, Electrical, shifting.

Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading.

L.L.C. # 24810137, 99450130

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS-

99320217 /24788722

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet

& sofa shampooing, Contact

99314807/24792998

All maintenance & repairs. Contact Rizwan: 99429071,

RMPM Trading.

WEBSITE

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and man-

agement at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

COMPUTER CLASSES

A/C Technician, all refrigerator

items, installation.

Contact 92279370

Air condition maintenance split

and window A/C split a/c ducted

and package type units.

Contact: 98667326

General cleaning in buildings vil-

las all types interior, exterior, pol-

ishing dry cleaning carpets, rugs,

marble etc. Contact 94134784 /

98598280

Spoken English IELTS & Computer classes.

Contact: 92088325 / 24799938

SIT.WANTED

SIT.WANTED

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

House shifting & packing. Contact: 99657644 /98518013

Required SUB Contractors for

new projects. Contact: 99755534 /

96600581

Required investors for diff erent

projects. Contact: 99674870

SITUATION WANT-

ED

BUSINESS

DRIVING

SECRETARIAL / OFFICE

Indian male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and

purchase with good computer skills.

Having Driving license and NOC

available. Looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 99709336

TOURS & TRAVELS

Five years experience in Travel

fi eld ,BCom., IATA & pursuing MBA,

Presently working in the Travel

Desk of (ITC managed) Five Star

Hotel in India, looking for a suitable

position in the Middleeast.

pls contact 9470 5767

11 yrs experience in travel fi eld

B.Com, IATA, MCSE working for

Qatar Airways, Sales reservation

ticketing driving license & NOC

available. Contact 92954613

Indian female with MBA on visit

visa seeking immediate placement.

Contact - 968-93316493

27,male,ACCA fi nalist, have profes-

sional experience upto fi nalization

of accounts, statutory and internal

audit, expertise in using tally and

focus & oracle software, have 3.5

years experience in accounts till

fi nalization and statutory audit,

seeking for permanent replacement

,GSM-97654769,email id-

[email protected]

Sudanese male, 31 years, have 3

year Diploma in electrical engineer

, 6 year experience in construction

and electrical production plant .

Mobile No ; +96894549609

Indian male, B.com, MBA, having

5 years experience (3 years in U.A.E)

is currently seeking suitable

opportunities within fi nance/

accounts/admin dept.

Contact:93953613,

[email protected]

B.Com graduate, 11 years experi-

ence in Accounts, 9 years Oman

experience , Oman valid driving

license, looking for suitable post.

Mob:92758404 NOC Available.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, Indian

male,29 years.8 years experience

.Presently working in Oman as a

Senior Accountant with oman Driv-

ing license. NOC available. Seek

suitable opportunity.

GSM: 97705854

Two year experience in Oman,

experience in sales, purchase and

system admin, Having GCC license.

Contact number 97475860,

[email protected]

Indian Male, 32 yrs, MBA-HR, Train-

er & Faculty worked on Omanisation

& nationals development activities

with 10 yrs of experience seeking

suitable job. Contact : 93891401

[email protected]

Sudanese 29 male (Bsc computer

science,diploma computer engineer-

ing), 6 yrs. experience dba oracle pl-

sql , ms sql-server ,ms visual studio

vba,network Omani Driver licence

language English, Arabic

Tel: 91415886

Piping Design Engineer, Indian

male 27, looking for suitable place-

ment in Piping Design & Engineer-

ing. Having 7 years of experience in

AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS

(11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact :

97351786 / 96143708/97357143

Indian female, 24yrs, M.COM (Ac-

counts) having 3 yrs experience

in Accounts, HR, Administration,

Customer Service. Good Computer

Profi ciency seeking Suitable Posi-

tion. Visa Transfer/NOC Available.

Contact: 99654913

Indian male 27 years B.E & MS Me-

chanical Engineer working in Delhi for

last 4 years inJcb India pvt. ltd., seeks

placement in Oman. #93393768

Female MBA gold medalist, with

computer profi ciency, Oman driving

license looking for job opportunity

in event management companies in

Muscat. Ph : 99012949

Indian female B. Com MBA fi nance

,5 years experience in oman as an

account seeking suitable placement.

Contact 99044292

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male 23 years Graduate,

working as a sales coordinator cum

purchase & offi ce coordination 2 yrs

in oman Having oman license & NOC

looking for suitable job in Muscat

Email:yadhukrishnan08@gmail.

com, GSM:97475860

Indian Male 22 Years , Graduation

In Electronics Seeking Jobs In Su-

pervisory , Sales & Sales Co-ordina-

tion Fields , Good Communication

Skill Contact 96141317,

E-mail: [email protected]

DIPLOMA+B.E.(CIVIL ENGINEER),

Indian, 4 years of experience, cur-

rently on visit visa; Seeking Right

Position. GSM:91570703.

ME. Civil Engineer, Structural

Designer, 3 Years Structural Design,

6 Years Str. Engineer Experience,

Looking For Structural Designer

Position. Iranian Male. #93696929,


B-tech Electrical Engineer with

more than 2 years of experience in

erection and designing of HT and LT

electrical systems. Seeking for

suitable job in Muscat. #98269366.


Driver looking for job exp 2 yrs.

Contact: 98522914

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation for saloon car&

delivery van. Contact : 95530908

Transportation available. Contact -955 70 429

Transportation. Contact 99508282

Shifting transporting truck. Contact : 99008442

Transportation. Contact 99664703

Transportation. Contact

99508282

Transportation available. Contact: 99867456

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