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SATURDAY, October 3, 2015 / 19 Dhul Hijja 1436 AH timesofoman.com wtimesofoman.com facebook.com/timesofoman twitter.com/timesofoman blog.timesofoman.com ISO 9001:2008 Certifi ed Company
MUSCAT: His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Joachim Gauck of Germany on his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the president and his country’s people further progress and prosperity.
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent also a cable of congratulations to President Alpha Conde of the Republic of Guinea on the occasion of his country’s Independence Anniversary.
In his cable, His Majesty ex-pressed his sincere congratula-tions along with best wishes to President Conde and his coun-try’s people. -ONA
C A B L E S
OMAN‘Pre-marital test to stop genetic disorders’
1Prospective couples have been advised by the Health Minister to take pre-
marital tests to help prevent genetic disorders. >A3
INDIAIndia pledges cut in carbon emissions
2India has promised to shave a third off the rate at which it emits
greenhouse gases over the next 15 years. >A5
LIFESTYLEHow to create young scientists
3It’s never too early to introduce children to science. It’s up to
parents to enhance their exposure to science, technology, engineering and math subjects outside the classroom. >B5
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
Five Omanis killed as vehicles collide head-on in IbriREJIMON [email protected]
MUSCAT: Five Omani nationals were killed in a tragic road acci-dent in Ibri on Thursday evening.
“It was a head-on collision be-tween two vehicles in which fi ve persons were killed,” said an offi -cial from the Royal Oman Police (ROP) .
Sources in Ibri said the acci-dent had occurred at Mukhniya in Ibri at around 7pm.
“Four (of the victims) were burnt to death at the accident spot itself and the fi fth person,
who was thrown away from the car under the impact of collision, died on the way to the hospital,” sources said.
Bodies in hospitalWhile, the bodies of the four vic-tims, who were burnt to death, are being kept at the Ibri hospital, the body of the fi fth victim is at a hospital in Hajarmath.
“From the accident scene, we can say that overtaking caused the accident,” said sources in Ibri.
Royal Oman Police offi cials have also confi rmed the cause of accident.
T R A G I C A C C I D E N T Private clinics get role in fight against drugs
RAHUL DAS/TARIQ AL [email protected]@timesofoman.com
MUSCAT: Private hospitals in Oman can now treat drug abuse cases, according to the latest ministerial decision issued by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on September 22.
The ministerial decision listed operational regulations that have to be followed by private health establishments on how to treat and rehabilitate drug addicts and even laid down guidelines on how to obtain licences to operate a legal drug rehabilitation centre within their establishment.
According to offi cial data, the total number of drug addicts in the Sultanate till the end of 2013 was 4,079.
Putting the number of cases in 2015 at around 5,000, Dr. Mahmoud Zaher Al Abri, Secre-tary of the National Commission on Drugs and Psychotropic Sub-stances Aff airs, said many private hospitals are treating such pa-tients, but there are not licenced. “That is one of the reasons the Ministry has come up with such a regulation,” he said.
Offi cials said the ministry is working on a national plan to tackle the growing number of drug addicts in Oman. “The plan is aimed at addressing a
wide range of issues related to drug abuse in Oman, including prevention and rehabilitation,” they added.
Move welcomedPrivate hospitals have welcomed the move saying it will be great if they can share the burden.
“It will be a nice idea as they can share some load from the govern-ment hospital. Besides, the wait-ing time at government hospitals will come down,” the Medical Di-rector at Atlas Hospital in Ruwi, Rajagopal T. Naganathan, said.
He, however, said the hospi-tal hadn’t decided on whether it would open a drug rehabilitation centre. “We have to go through the circular and then we will de-cide whether we want to open such a centre or not,” he said.
According to a ministerial de-cision, a health establishment is prohibited from treating drug abuse cases unless it has a proper licence issued by the relevant authority.
The ministerial decision also laid down the foundation for three types of rehabilitation cen-tres, namely the daytime reha-bilitation centre, recovery hostels
and addiction and rehabilitation hospitals.
“All these types of medical centres will serve the purpose of receiving and treating patients and rehabilitating them psycho-logically, socially and practically; while also determining the length of the service that must be pro-vided,” it said.
According to the offi cial direc-tive, a patient’s stay at a daytime rehabilitation centre must not exceed a full day of treatment, while the recovery hostels and de-addiction and rehabilitation hospitals must help the patients to get back into the community.
Recovery hostelsThe decision also stated that recovery hostels could be con-sidered one of best ways for ad-dicts to recover as they provided patients with an opportunity to interact with other addicts and learn from each other’s experi-ences. “Patients will also undergo group therapy, much like NA (Narcotics Anonymous) meet-ings in two halls, as well as regu-lar physical exercises, which help sweat out toxins and reduce the urge for taking drugs,” it added.
Health ministry has
laid down rules for
private hospitals
to treat drug abuse
cases. This will
ease the burden of
government hospitals
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New street opening to ease traffi c on Sultan Qaboos HighwayTimes News Service
MUSCAT: A new street linking 18 November Street, Sultan Qaboos Highway and Muscat Expressway has been partially opened, Mus-cat Municipality announced on Thursday.
“This is an important project because it connects major streets to one another,” said the Muscat Municipality in a tweet.
Apart from connecting roads, this street will also lead to the Sul-tan Qaboos Grand Mosque.
“This connection will provide easy access to all streets as well as ease traffi c in case of congestion,” added the tweet.
M U S C A T M U N I C I P A L I T Y
Michael Fallon praises Oman for promoting peace, securityTimes News Service
MUSCAT: British Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fal-lon praised the Sultanate’s eff orts in solving a number of issues and crises and its contributions to strengthening security and stabil-ity in the region.
Fallon described the Sultanate of Oman as the friend of all coun-tries in the region.
In an interview, he hailed the prominent role played by the Sul-tanate towards settling the Yemeni Republic crisis by getting involved all the warring parties in a dialogue to end the crisis.
He asserted that his visit to the Sultanate was part of a move to develop bilateral ties between the two countries in several fi elds, es-pecially in areas related to security and defence and searching for oth-er fi elds that contribute to pushing those ties into wider horizons.
Duqm PortFallon added that he had also vis-ited the Duqm Port to view the progress made in infrastructure development at the port, stress-ing the importance of the port, not only for the Sultanate, but also for the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. >A3
B O O S T I N G T I E S
MUSCAT: Offi cial talks between Oman’s Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs, Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib Al Busaidi and Michael Fallon, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Defence, were held at Oman’s Ministry of Defence.
The leaders reviewed coop-eration in the military fi eld between the two countries and the means for promoting them, in addition to discuss-ing a number of matters of common concern. The ses-sion was attended by some top offi cials. >A3
Military ties reviewed
STRATEGIC TIES: Gen. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Nu’amani, Minister
of the Royal Offi ce received Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for
Defence in the United Kingdom and his accompanying delegation,
within the framework of his current visit to the Sultanate. -ONA
A heavily-armed man walked into a college classroom and opened fi re after asking students’ religion, killing at least nine people and wounding 20 others. >A10
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PICTURESQUE PICNIC SPOTBandar Khayran is a picturesque location close to Muscat,
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ALAWI TAKES PART IN A SERIES OF MEETINGS AT UN HEADQUARTERSYousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Aff airs, took part in the GCC countries’ meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Alawi also participated in the meet-
ing of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held at the UN Headquarters. The Minister Responsible for Foreign Aff airs also participated in the talks between the GCC countries and India on
the sidelines of the GCC countries’ meetings in New York. -ONA
‘Pre-marital test vital to prevent genetic disorders’
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MUSCAT: Prospective couples have been advised by Oman’s Health Minister to take pre-marital tests to help prevent genetic disor-ders, which also exert a fi nancial and emotional strain on families.
Pre-marital tests are ‘very important’ and the test is avail-able not only in Muscat, but also in other regions, Health Minister Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saeedi said after inaugurating a 16-month genetic counselling course at the National Genetic Centre on Wednesday.
According to the centre, the existing pre-marital tests are cur-rently limited to inherited blood disorders, but there is a proposal to make screening available for all
genetic disorders known in Oman in the future.
Speaking to the Times of Oman, the minister said training counsel-lors to support those aff ected by ge-netic disorders is very important.
“If we manage to prevent some of these diseases, that would be extremely worthwhile,” Al Saeedi said, adding that the people who received training during this course would be the focal point for the centre in other governorates to raise public awareness about these disorders.
First-of-its-kindAccording to him, this is the fi rst-of-its-kind programme to be start-ed in the region.
The minister added that the National Genetic Centre has been cooperating with international centres and would be happy to en-hance its cooperation with centres in the region and other interna-tional centres.
In a speech at the inauguration event, Dr. Anna Rajab, director of the centre, explained the activities of the centre and highlighted the importance of genetic counselling, saying it will be benefi cial for fami-lies and the community.
The existing pre-
marital tests are
currently limited
to inherited blood
disorders, but there
is a proposal to make
screening available
for all genetic
disorders known in
Oman in the future
Health Minister Dr. Ahmed bin
Mohammed Al Saeedi.
Oman tourism captains get updates on global trendsTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Staycation, glamping, mancation or being a locavore are some of the travel trends that are becoming increasingly popular, according a tourism expert.
To mark World Tourism Day 2015, the Oman Tourism College (OTC), which off ers programmes in the tourism and hospitality fi elds, organised a talk and panel discussion focusing on the World Tourism Organization’s (UN-WTO’s) theme “One Billion Tour-ists: One Billion Opportunities,” at its campus.
OTC Dean, Dr. Abdulkarim bin Sultan Al Mughairi inaugurated the function, which was attended by industry captains in the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors, other invited guests and students.
Internationally renowned guest speakers shared the latest trends and challenges existing in the tourism and allied sectors.
Dipra Jha, Professor-in-res-idence at The Venetian-The Palazzo, Las Vegas, and Assistant Professor at University of Ne-braska, US, spoke about “Experi-ence Design: A New Paradigm in Hospitality and Tourism,” which was followed by a talk on “The Expectation Economy: Metrics and Methods for Marhaba,” de-livered by Peter J. Starks, dean of the Hague Hotel School, and chief executive offi cer (CEO) of the Red Global Group.
Jha spoke about the latest trends and developments in the tourism and hospitality sectors. He focused on concepts, such as guest experience, economic dis-tinction models, moments of truth and the experience ecosystem.
Experience-basedThe tourism and hospitality in-dustry is moving away from be-ing service-based to experience-based, he said, citing global examples, and stressed on the importance of eff ectively engag-ing guests and creating a ‘WOW’ experience as a means of taking the business forward in a highly competitive industry.
He also spoke on latest tour-ism trends, including staycations, glamping, mancations, being lo-
cavore, bespoke experience and psychographics. “Oman has so many odds stacked in its favour, such as a rich and diverse nature, and an ancient and unique cul-ture,” he noted.
Starks spoke about strategies to convert expectations into op-portunities, online reputation management, ROTI (return on training investments) and other key topics in the tourism industry.
A panel discussion on “How to relate UNWTO’s Tourism Day theme of 1 billion tourists: 1 bil-lion opportunities to Oman” en-sued, where Jha, Starks, Gautam Broota, CEO of Zahara Tours and Nabil Al Zadjali, executive as-sistant manager at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel shared their insights on the topic.
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Supreme Council for Planning reviews growth prospectsMUSCAT: In its meeting on Thursday, the Supreme Council for Planning reviewed economic performance indicators and ex-pected growth for this year in light of global economic develop-ments and stimulating measures for the private sector.
During the meeting, hosted by Chairman Dr. Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, who is also the Minis-ter of Commerce and Industry, the amended estimates for the 9th fi ve-year plan (2016 to 2020), the projects forwarded from the current fi ve-year plan, prioritis-ing them in implementation and
the necessary measures needed to implement them as per their respective timelines were also discussed.
The Council also reviewed the standards of some government institutions’ readiness to adapt to e-governance and the steps taken by the government institutions within the e-Oman strategy.
The Council also stressed on the importance of completing this project to enhance public perfor-mance and facilitate the provi-sion of services to benefi ciaries effi ciently.
It also reviewed a proposal to
develop old markets and their surrounding areas to maintain the identity of these markets and enhance their social and eco-nomic roles in partnership with the private sector during the next fi ve-year plan.
The Council also discussed requests to approve a number of projects. It also discussed precau-tionary procedures and measures to address the decline in oil prices in world markets and its eff ect on the state’s general budget.
It also discussed other topics and took appropriate decisions in that regard. -ONA
C H A I R E D B Y M I N I S T E R
Britain values its defence ties with Sultanate: Fallon
Commenting on defence coopera-tion between the two countries, Fallon said the two sides have had continuous discussions and con-sultations to develop cooperation in these fi elds, including by wel-coming Omani students to Brit-ish military colleges, in addition to holding joint training sessions between the armed forces of the two countries.
Typhoon aircraftHe added that Britain has in the last few years supplied the Royal Air Force of Oman with Typhoon fi ghter aircraft and diff erent training aircraft, in addition to re-cently supplying the Royal Navy of Oman with a number of vessels.
Fallon also confi rmed the strength of British relations with Arab countries in general and the
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in particular, explain-ing that Britain considers all GCC countries as strategic allies.
Syrian crisisOn the Syrian crisis, he said Syria is witnessing one of the biggest crisis that needs collective eff ort to end the crisis, achieve a politi-cal solution, and put an end to all terrorist organisations.
He also touched upon the Syr-ian refugee crisis and the eff orts of Britain and the European coun-tries the thousands of refugees fl owing into Europe.
The British diplomat also mentioned the Palestinian is-sue, stressing that it remained a priority for the country despite the emergence of other issues in the region. -ONA
C L O S E C O O P E R A T I O N
The meeting was attended by Lt. Gen Ahmed bin Harith Al Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF), Air Vice Marshal Mattar bin Ali Al Obaidani, Com-mander of the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO), the British Ambassador to the Sultanate and a delega-tion accompanying the Fallon. -ONA
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REGIONBattle with IS is destined for all Iraqis. But it’s not their battle alone but the whole world’s, because terrorists target with their dark ideology all humanity, its culture and morals.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, Iraq’s leading cleric
IRAQIS HOLD PROTEST AGAINST CORRUPTIONIraqis demonstrate against corruption in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Friday. Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in the Iraqi capital and several other cities, urging the government to deliver on its
promised reform package aimed at tackling corruption and improving services. — AFP
Russia asked to halt strikes in Syria outside IS areas
BEIRUT/MOSCOW: Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the IS militants it said it was tar-geting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West.
The US-led coalition that is waging its own air war against IS called on the Russians to halt strikes on targets other than IS.
“We call on the Russian Fed-eration to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its ef-forts on fi ghting ISIL,” said the co-alition, which includes the United States, major European powers, Arab states and Turkey.
“We express our deep concern with regard to the Russian mili-tary build-up in Syria and espe-cially the attacks by the Russian Air Force on Hama, Homs and Idlib since yesterday which led to civilian casualties and did not tar-get IS,” it said.
IS group is one of many fi ght-
ing against President Bashar Al Assad. Washington and its West-ern and regional allies say Russia is using it as a pretext to bomb other groups that oppose Assad. Some of these groups have re-ceived training and weapons from foreign countries, including the United States.
Frosty talksPresident Vladimir Putin held frosty talks with France’s Fran-cois Hollande in Paris, Putin’s fi rst meeting with a Western leader since launching the strikes two days after he gave an address to the United Nations making the
case to back Assad. Friday prayers were cancelled in insurgent-held areas of Homs province that were hit by Russian warplanes this week, with residents concerned that mosques could be targeted, said one person from the area.
“The streets are almost com-pletely empty and there is an un-announced curfew,” said the resi-dent, speaking from the town of Rastan which was hit in the fi rst day of Russian air strikes. War-planes were seen fl ying high above the area, which is held by anti-As-sad rebels but has no signifi cant presence of IS militants.
IS also cancelled prayers in
areas it controls, according to activists from its de facto capital Raqqa. A Russian air strike on Thursday destroyed a mosque in the town of Jisr Al Shughour, cap-tured from government forces by an alliance of insurgents earlier this year, activists said.
Moscow said on Friday its lat-est strikes had hit 12 IS targets, but most of the areas it described were in western and northern parts of the country, while IS is mostly present in the east.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its Sukhoi-34, Sukhoi-24M and Sukhoi-25 warplanes had fl own 18 sorties hitting targets
that included a command post and a communications centre in the province of Aleppo, a militant fi eld camp in Idlib and a command post in Hama.
The UK-based Syrian Obser-vatory for Human Rights, which monitors the confl ict with a net-work of sources on the ground, said there was no IS presence at any of those areas.
‘IS militants killed’Russia has however also struck IS areas in a small number of other attacks further east. The Obser-vatory said 12 IS militants were killed near Raqqa on Thursday, and planes believed to be Russian had also struck the IS-held city of Qarytayn. Russia has said it is using its most advanced plane, the Sukhoi-34, near Raqqa, the area where it is most likely to en-counter US and coalition aircraft targeting IS. As Hollande hosted Putin in Paris, both men looked stern and frosty-faced in the yard of the Elysee palace, exchanging terse handshakes for the cameras.
An aide to Hollande said they “tried to narrow diff erences” over Syria during talks that lasted more than an hour.
Hollande laid out France’s con-ditions for supporting Russian intervention, which include a halt to strikes on groups other than IS and Al Qaeda, protections for civilians and a commitment to a political transition that would remove Assad. Putin’s decision to launch strikes on Syria marks a dramatic escalation of foreign in-volvement in a four-year-old civil war in which every major country in the region has a stake. — Reuters
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Russians to halt
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Top cleric of Iraq calls for a global war against IS
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s most power-ful cleric called for a global war against IS on Friday, a day after the prime minister said he would wel-come Russian air strikes against the group on Iraqi soil.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, who has a huge following and can often infl uence government thinking, was speaking through an aide after nationally televised Fri-day prayers.
“Battle with IS is destined for all Iraqis,” said Sistani.
“But it’s not their battle alone but the whole world’s, because terrorists target with their dark ideology all humanity, its culture and morals.”
He added: “It’s essential to join together all eff orts and expand the parameters of countering this movement.”
The United States has led air strikes against IS in Iraq, as well as in Syria, for more than a year, but Baghdad has repeatedly called for engagement and air support for Iraqi forces trying to regain territory against the ultra-hard-line group.
Russia began bombing raids in Syria on Wednesday against groups fi ghting the forces of Presi-dent Bashar Al Assad, which in-clude IS.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Thursday his gov-ernment would welcome Russian air strikes against IS in Iraq, and was receiving information from both Syria and Russia on the group.
Abadi, asked by France 24 tel-evision whether he had discussed air strikes with Russia in his coun-try, said: “”Not yet”. — Reuters
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Yemen’s government denies TV report on relations with IranADEN: A spokesman for Yemen’s Saudi-backed government denied a television report on Friday that it had decided to break off diplo-matic relations with Iran.
“The cabinet has not discussed until now the matter of severing diplomatic relations with Iran and no decision was taken,” spokes-man Rajeh Badi said, comment-ing on the unsourced report from state-owned Aden television.
Saudi-led coalition forces have been battling the Houthis for the
past six months to try to restore President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi to power.
Bahrain, a member of the coali-tion, recalled its ambassador from Iran on Thursday.
Six months of civil war and hun-dreds of coalition air strikes have killed more than 5,400 people in Yemen, according to the United Nations, and exacerbated wide-spread hunger and suff ering.
Rights groups have accused both sides in the war of carrying
out indiscriminate attacks on resi-dential areas. The Saudi-led coali-tion denies abuses and says it will acknowledge mistakes if and when it makes them.
Global inquiryThe United Nations backed a Saudi-led resolution on Friday to support Yemen in setting up a na-tional inquiry into human rights violations, having ditched an at-tempt led by the Netherlands to mandate an independent UN in-
vestigation. Human Rights Watch, criticising the move, said Yemeni authorities had neither investi-gated nor prosecuted serious in-ternational crimes committed since 2011, “nor has the Saudi-led coalition investigated possible war crimes by its forces”.
The confl ict has stirred a hu-manitarian crisis, with more than 5,000 people killed, including 500 children, and 21 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
The Netherlands gave up on a
draft resolution for a UN-backed investigation earlier this week af-ter an unprecedented rival resolu-tion was presented by Saudi Ara-bia, on behalf of a group of Arab States, and Yemen.
BackingHuman Rights Watch said the United States and Britain, both al-lies of Saudi Arabia, had given only tentative backing to the Dutch resolution. “By failing to set up a serious UN inquiry on war-torn
Yemen, the Human Rights Council squandered an important chance to deter further abuses,” Philippe Dam, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in Geneva, said in a statement. But Yemen’s Human Rights Minister Ezzeldin Al As-bahi called the resolution for a na-tional inquiry a “balanced text”.
He described it as “a very good starting point for an independent national institution that would seri-ously investigate all violations of hu-man rights all over Yemen.” — Reuters
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BADLY HIT: Residents inspect damage from what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to
Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad on the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus on Friday. – Reuters
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India pledges 33-35% cut in carbon intensity by 2030
NEW DELHI: India has prom-ised to shave a third off the rate at which it emits greenhouse gases over the next 15 years, in a long-awaited contribution towards reaching a deal to slow global warming at a UN climate summit in December.
The world’s third-largest emit-ter and last major economy to submit plans ahead of the Paris summit did not, however, com-mit to any absolute cuts in carbon emissions.
Of the top two polluters, China has promised its emissions will peak by around 2030, and the United States is already cutting, but India says its economy is too small and its people too poor to agree to absolute cuts in green-house gases now.
Instead, India said it aimed to
cut carbon intensity by between 33 and 35 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels and to grow to 40 per cent the share of power generated from non-fossil fuels.
India’s plan balances the need for a low-carbon future with the need to lift millions out of poverty and industrialise quickly, Envi-ronment Minister Prakash Ja-vadekar said.
“Although the developed world has polluted the world and we are
suff ering, India will be part of the solution,” he told journalists on Friday after submitting the pledg-es to the United Nations.”We want to walk on a cleaner energy path.”
Coal to dominateIndia said it needs $2.5 trillion by 2030 to achieve its plan, but Ja-vadekar did not say if its pledges were contingent on greater fund-ing from the richer world.
India, often acting as the voice
of the developing world, plays an important role in global climate talks and some environmental groups welcomed its plan.
“India now has positioned itself as a global leader in clean energy, and is poised to play an active and infl uential role in the interna-tional climate negotiations this December,” said Rhea Suh at the New York-based Natural Re-sources Defence Council.
Close to 200 nations will meet
at a UN summit to agree a deal to slow man-made warming by keep-ing temperature rises below a ceil-ing of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
More than 140 countries have submitted plans, but experts say the pledges are not enough to keep the planet from warming beyond the threshold and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
New Delhi stressed in its sub-mission that coal would continue to dominate future power gen-eration. Environmentalists fear India’s emissions will jump as the use of cars, air travel and air con-ditioning grows among its 1.2 bil-lion people.
“The scale of expansion of an-other 170 to 200 gigawatts of power from coal is baffl ing. This will set back India’s development prospects,” said Pujarini Sen of Greenpeace India.
Greater resourcesIndia’s target for carbon intensity falls well short of China, which pledged at the end of June to re-duce its carbon intensity by 60 percent to 65 per cent by 2030.
At a previous UN summit in 2009, India had already commit-ted to reduce its emissions inten-sity by 2020 by 20 per cent to 25 percent from 2005 levels.
Preliminary estimates indicate India would need to spend around $206 billion between 2015 and 2030 to adapt to the eff ects of cli-mate change, the submission said.
“India’s climate actions have so far been largely fi nanced from domestic resources. A substantial scaling up of the climate action plans would require greater re-sources,” it added. - Reuters
Environment
Minister Prakash
Javadekar said
India’s plan balances
the need for a
low-carbon future
with the need to
lift millions out
of poverty and
industrialise quickly
AMBITIOUS TARGET: In this photograph taken on March 20, 2015, smoke rises from the Badarpur
Thermal Power Station in New Delhi. India, the world’s third biggest carbon-emitting country, said
October 2 it was ‘confi dent’ it could cut its emissions intensity by 35 per cent by 2030 in the run-up
to a key conference in Paris later this year. - AFP
Smartphone apps becoming new nanny for Indian childrenNEW DELHI: With technology fast becoming an integral part of people’s lives, parenting has also undergone a sea change in the last few years.
In nuclear families, parenting apps are helping couples raise their off spring in a much more ef-fi cient and secure way.
Today there are a number of smartphone apps to make parents’ life simple and more organised as far as kids are concerned.
For example, the “mycity4kids Family Organiser” app helps par-ents search for right activities and content related to their kids.
Launched in October 2010, “mycity4kids” has become an in-dispensable mobile platform for
several mothers. “The idea for ‘mycity4kids’ struck me when my kids were six and two, respectively. Like other parents, we also used to dwell on how diffi cult it is to fi nd appropriate things to do or places to go to where our kids could ac-quire new skills or just have a fun time,” said Vishal Gupta, the co-founder of the app.
The USP lies in the app’s unique mother-focussed content around which it has built the largest com-munity of parents.
“We would like to become the indispensable mobile platform for today’s multi-tasking mother by giving her access in one place to everything she needs and can learn from the shared experiences of
other parents,” explained 40-year-old Gupta who lives in Gurgaon.
The app off ers highly utilitarian features like a “Family Calendar”, to-do lists, upcoming events, kids
resources and parenting blogs that parents can access on the go to share their parenting responsibili-ties actively with others.
“Being the fi rst-movers in this
category, we had to face many challenges in its initial stages and to create a unique business mod-el,” Gupta added.
This app is available for both Apple and Android users for downloading. The app currently caters to parents in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mum-bai and Pune. Soon, it will expand its reach in other cities.
In the last one year, “myci-ty4kids” website has received 20 million page views by nearly 3.5 million parents. There are some other apps too for parents.
For instance, “Family Tracker” helps parents track the wherea-bouts of their children and keep a
tab on their activities inside home or while they play in the neigh-bourhood park.
Considering child safety as a main concern, another app “Northstar” provides a platform for parents and schools which can be used to track the location of school buses. This mobile app is used to keep track of the children’s location as they commute between school and home.
There are also apps like “Dr. Panda’s Hospital” that teach kids how to nurture pets at a young age and help them become sensitive to others. Another app named “10 Monkeys Multiplication” helps children master tables from two to 10 in a fun and engaging way. - IANS
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Government to introduce panic button in cell phones for the safety of womenNEW DELHI: For women’s safe-ty, the government is considering introduction of a panic button in cell phones and has asked all mobile phone manufacturers to work out the feasibility of such a feature, Women and Child Devel-opment Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Friday.
“When we asked for sugges-tions about what precautions can the girls take to keep themselves safe and escape out of emergency situations, we were fl ooded with ideas including wearing special-ised necklaces, bracelets and rings which had certain SOS mes-sage sending features.
“Why should we do that? Are women prisoners so they always have to move with these devices? How can we ensure availability, aff ordability and usage of these devices among rural women,” the minister said while addressing a ‘Student Parliament’ on issues faced by girl students.
She said considering the limita-tions of these devices, the govern-ment has come up with an idea of having inbuilt panic button in all cell phones.
“The phones will have a panic button which will be GPS con-nected. We are in conversation with phone manufacturers and the proposal is likely to be execut-ed in few months,” Maneka said.
The administration is of the view that emergency response apps can take too long to access
in a rush and confi guring one of the existing buttons on a phone for the task would be much sim-pler and quicker, he said, noting that pressing the panic button will send an SMS to a set of numbers that will also provide location information.
Talking about the various schemes rolled out by the NDA government, Maneka said the fo-cus is on initiatives such as ‘beti bachao’, ‘beti padhao’ and reser-vation for women posts in police stations to ensure an eff ective in-
terface between the complainants and the police.
“The problem is not with schemes, we have enough of them.The task is implementation and we are focussing on the same,”she said. The three-day parliament, which kick-started on Thursday is being organised by the BJP’s student wing, Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and students representing universi-ties across the country are taking part in the event to discuss issues faced by them and draw the gov-
ernment’s attention towards the need for safety and development plans for them.
While fi rst day was dedicated to tribal students at a seminar enti-tled, ‘Tribal Student-Youth Parlia-ment’, the remaining two days are for ‘Women Student Parliament’ and ‘North East Student-Youth Leaders Parliament’. The report on issues resulting from the dis-cussions of the three student par-liaments will be handed over to the ministries concerned in the form of a memorandum. -PTI
S T E P I N R I G H T D I R E C T I O N
SU-30 pilots focusing on beyond visual range combat
NEW DELHI: IAF’s Su-30 fi ght-er plane pilots are focusing on beyond visual range combat and night fl ying capabilities even as they gear up for the installation of the ‘game changer’ BrahMos mis-siles, with a strike range of nearly 300km, in the aircraft.
They are also looking forward to the plane’s next generation ‘Super 30’ version which will have ad-vanced avionics.
Explaining the concept of the beyond visual range (BVR) fi ghts, senior IAF (Indian Air Force) offi -cials at a forward base close to the border with Pakistan explained that future wars are unlikely to have close combat fi ghts like in wars in 1965 or 1971.
“Nowadays, the fi ghter jets are very modernised with state-of-the-art radar systems. What mat-ters now is BVR which means that one can engage with the enemy in air without actually seeing him.Once the enemy is locked in, a BVR missile is fi red,” Wing Command-er Sharad Sharma said.
The BVR missiles carried by Sukhoi currently have a range of about 50-70km.
But what will truly turn the tide is the integration of the supersonic missile BrahMos with the Sukhoi.
Fighter pilots at the base, one of the newest of the Sukhoi, say that the BrahMos will be game changer.
“Imagine, one can fi re a missile nearly 300km away from the tar-get. Installations across the border can be targeted by our fi ghter jets without even crossing the border,” a senior pilot explained.
Two Sukhois will be used for the tests which will be completed in the next one year. - PTI
F I G H T E R P L A N E
The USP lies in the app’s
unique mother-focussed
content around which
it has built the largest
community of parents
The phones will have a
panic button which will be
GPS connected. We are in
conversation with phone
manufacturers and the
proposal is likely to be
executed in few months
Maneka GandhiWomen and Child Development Minister
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It is a blot on our culture and such incidents do not have a place in a civilised society. If somebody says it was pre-planned, I don’t agree with it. It is an accident and it should be probed by CBI or state and guilty should be punished. Innocents should not be victimised in the name of investigation
Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State for Tourism and Culture
AIMING FOR WORLD RECORDStudents of Venkat International School attempt to make the world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Ma-
hatama Gandhi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti at Kanteerava stadium in Bengaluru on Friday. 4,605 students together took
part in the event. The nation on Friday remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary with President Pranab
Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and other leaders paying fl oral tributes to him
at his memorial in New Delhi. -PTI
Political slugfest continues over Dadri killing DADRI/LUCKNOW: As ten-sion simmered in Bishada where a man was lynched on Monday night over allegedly eating beef, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma on Friday sought punishment for those guilty without “victimis-ing” the innocents, while AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi said the victim was killed because of his religious persuasion.
Four days after Bishada vil-lage on Delhi’s outskirts in Uttar Pradesh was rocked by the brutal killing of Mohammed Iqlakh, it witnessed an unending parade of politicians, who sympathised with the victim’s family and sought to cool frayed tempers as communal tension smouldered.
Sharma, also the local MP, persisted with his refrain that Iqlakh’s bludgeoning to death by the lynch mob was an “accident” which should not be given a com-munal colour and over which there should be no politics.
“It is a blot on our culture and such incidents do not have a place in a civilised society. If some-body says it was pre-planned, I don’t agree with it. It is an acci-dent and it should be probed by CBI or state and guilty should be punished. Innocents should not
be victimised in the name of in-vestigation,” Sharma, Minister of State for Tourism and Culture said at Bishada where he con-soled the bereaved family.
Owaisi, who too paid a visit to the distraught family, could not disagree more when he described the killing as “a pre-planned mur-der”, actuated by the victim’s reli-gious persuasion.
The sharp-tongued Hyderabad MP attacked both Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi and the state’s Samajwadi Party government for the incident that has triggered a nation-wide outrage.
We had expected that the least the Prime Minister, who talks of ‘sabka saath-sabka vikas’ (inclu-sivity)’, would tweet to condole Iqlakh’s murder.
As political rivals locked horns over the incident, Bishada con-tinued its uncomfortable tryst with media spotlight, while re-maining under the protective shadow of the gun.
Contingents of Provincial Armed Constabulary and state police were strategically de-ployed across the village where prohibitory orders banning as-sembly of fi ve or more people continued to be in force. - PTI
B L U D G E O N I N G T O D E A T H
Modi seeks youth support for BJP-led NDA in Bihar
BANKA (Bihar): Attacking Bi-har chief minister Nitish Kumar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he is “too arrogant” to be trusted with governance and asked people to back develop-ment agenda of BJP to change the state’s fortunes.
Addressing his fi rst public rally after announcement of assembly polls, Modi wooed the youth and the poor promising to address the issue of migration for employ-ment and told them that the so-lution to all their problems lie in development.
The prime minister also took a dig at his rivals for doubting the delivery of the fi nancial package for Bihar announced by him.
“Some people are raising ques-tions on the Rs1.65 lakh crore package announced by me. They
are asking whether it will come or not. Should a single rupee be given to the present government. Will it reach you?
“Even if I give it, his (Nitish’s) arrogance is so much that he may even return it. I am worried that even if I give the Rs1.65 lakh crore to the state, he will announce that he does not require this money as it has been given by Modi. I cannot trust him,” he said, recalling that an ‘angry’ Kumar had returned the Rs5 crore relief announced by Gu-jarat for the fl ood-aff ected in Kosi.
The prime minister also asked former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who shared the dais with
him, whether he can trust Kumar after he ousted him from the top job in the state some months after having appointed him.
“Nobody can trust him after what he did to Jitan Ram Manjhi. People of Bihar cannot trust him,” Modi said.
He also countered the attack of his rivals on his announcement of a huge package for Bihar, saying he was not doing any favour to Bihar as has been alleged.
“The government in Delhi is not doing any favour to anyone. This is the right of Bihar and its people, which I am trying to provide un-like in the past. I am fulfi lling the
responsibility entrusted to me,” he said, adding, “This is not Modi’s money, it belongs to Bihar and its people”.
Holding that Bihar has seen all kinds of ‘isms’ like fuedalism, cap-italism, separatism and dynasty-ism, he said, “it is time that people of the state should vote for ‘vikas-vaad’ (development).”
Appealing to youth to turn up in large numbers to cast their vote for NDA in the ensuing Bihar as-sembly polls, he said stressing that Bihar’s development was linked to the country’s progress.
Citing a World Bank report on ease of doing business, he said
that Bihar continues to lag behind at 27th place among Indian states unlike Jharkhand which was ruled by BJP after bifurcation, progressed from 29th to 3rd place.
Modi also talked about meeting a delegation of people from Bihar in the US during his recent visit and said they were more worried about changing the fortunes of their home state.
Refraining from making any mention of the contentious res-ervation issue on which BJP is on the backfoot after RSS chief Mo-han Bhagwat’s remarks, the Prime Minister chose to keep the focus of his speech on development.
Modi also made no mention of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who has repeatedly targeted him on the reservation issue and castigated BJP chief Amit Shah on the issue of communalism.
“These days a lot of games are being played in the name of the poor,” Modi merely said.
He said that the country cannot move forward unless Bihar moves forward and promised that it was his government’s responsibility to do so.
“I have come to seek only one thing from people of Bihar. The nation cannot move forward as long as Bihar does not develop. It is our responsibility to develop Bihar to see the nation’s progress.
“You take the decision once, I will always stand by you. I prom-ise I will be ready to serve Bihar all the time and will prove that that the change in the country will begin from Bihar. We have to take Bihar to new heights.That is why I have come here to seek your votes on development and law and or-der,” he said. - PTI
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi wooed
the youth and the
poor promising to
address the issue
of migration for
employment and told
them that the solution
to all their problems
lay in development
GARNERING SUPPORT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves along with HAM(S) chief Jitan Ram
Manjhi, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and other NDA leaders during an election rally in Banka on
Friday. - PTI
Stronger dollar drains more than $2b from India’s forex reservesMUMBAI: A strengthening dollar, coupled with continued outfl ow of foreign funds and interventions by the country’s central bank to stabilise the rupee drained more than $2 billion from India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves, offi cial data showed on Friday.
Overall the forex declined by $2.04 billion to $349.97 billion in the week ended September 25.
“In the week under review, the dollar had strengthened against the major non-dollar currencies especially the Euro and the Pound by over 1 per cent.
“This has translated into the plunge in foreign reserves,” An-indya Banerjee, associate vice president for currency derivatives with Kotak Securities, said.
The Indian reserves consist of
nearly 20-25 per cent of non-dol-lar currencies.
The individual movements of these currencies against the dollar impacts the overall reserve value.
InterventionAccording to Banerjee, the inter-vention by the Reserve Bank of In-dia (RBI) to stabilise the rupee also receded the foreign reserves.
“RBI is very active in defending the rupee and breaking any down-ward trend in rupee value. It is this defence that has kept the rupee, as one of the best performing curren-cy so far in the year,” Banerjee said.
The RBI is known to enter the sport markets to either sell or buy dollars to keep the rupee in a stable orbit. Other major factor for the decline in reserves was the outfl ow
of foreign funds from the Indian equity and debt markets.
The data with the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), showed that the foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) off -load-ed Rs.1,251.03 crore or $190.39 million in equity and debt markets from September 21-24.
The reserves had previously risen by $631.5 million to $352.02 billion in the week ended Septem-ber 18. Before that the reserves had augmented by $2.35 billion to $351.38 billion in the week ended September 11.
However, the reserves had also declined by $2.88 billion in
the week ended September 4 to $349.03 billion.
The data furnished by the Re-serve Bank of India (RBI) in its weekly statistical supplement showed that the foreign currency assets (FCAs) had plunged by $1.98 billion to $326.57 billion in the week under review.
Largest componentThe FCA constitutes the largest component of India’s forex re-serves. It consists of US dollars, major non-dollar currencies, secu-rities and bonds bought abroad.
“The FCA expressed in US dol-lar terms includes the eff ect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies such as the pound sterling, euro and yen held in reserve,” the RBI said in its sta-
tistical supplement. During the week under review, the country’s gold reserves remained stagnant. The country’s gold reserves had de-pleted by $214.8 million to $18.03 billion during the week ended September 4.
The special drawing rights (SDRs) in the week under review were lower by $48.3 million at $4.04 billion.
The country’s reserve position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also edged down by $11.8 million to $1.31 billion. -IANS
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IIT-Khargpur
pre-placement
off ers on the rise
KOLKATA: Pre-placement off ers have increased by more than 50 per cent this year at IIT Kharagpur, an institute offi cial said on Friday.
Compared to 92 such off ers last year, IIT students have so far got 142 pre-placement off ers (PPOs) this season, said Prof S. K.Barai, Chairman of Career Development Centre at the IIT.
The number of companies mak-ing PPOs has also crossed hundred this year, he said, adding that stu-dents went for internship in areas of core engineering, IT and fi nance.
The highest package off ered till now is Rs25 lakh, according to him.
“The trend for opportunities at IIT Kharagpur is increasing every year. With the increasing number of PPOs we believe that compa-nies really like the talent that IIT Kharagpur is off ering,” Barai said.
Placement session will begin from December. - PTI
The data furnished by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
in its weekly statistical supplement showed that the
foreign currency assets (FCAs) had plunged by $1.98
billion to $326.57 billion in the week under review
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Six die as two
vehicles collide
in Rajasthan
BIKANER: Six persons includ-ing two women were killed when a jeep in which they were travel-ling collided head-on with a tanker here on Friday.
The incident occurred near Nokha on National Highway-89.
They were on their way to their village and the tanker was coming from Bikaner in Rajasthan, police said. The tanker driver escaped af-ter the incident. Police further said that investigation is underway and eff orts are on to nab the driver. - PTI
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Inflation dips to 1.3%; some experts see deflation signs
ISLAMABAD: Infl ation in Paki-stan continued to drop, falling to a low of 1.3 per cent in September, sparking at least some economists to warn of the risk of defl ation.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the indicator that captures prices of 481 commodities every month, rose by just 1.3 per cent
in September on a year on year basis, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statis-tics (PBS) on Thursday. It was the lowest level since July 2003.
Although much of the reduction in infl ation was attributed to steep decline in commodity prices, even core infl ation, which strips out the eff ect of volatile food and energy prices, was lower.
Core infl ation clocked in at 3.4
per cent on a year-on-year basis in September, a decline of 0.6 per cent over the previous month.
Negative trendThe steady decline led some econ-omists to argue that the govern-ment should abandon austere fi scal policies and undertake an economic stimulus to prevent the economy from spiralling into defl ation.
“The government is not taking its own infl ation fi gures serious, which suggest the country has en-tered a defl ationary period,” said Ashfaque Hasan Khan, Dean of School of Social Sciences and Hu-manities at the National Univer-sity of Science and Technology.
But while fi scal policy may re-main austere, monetary policy has become far more accommodating.
The State Bank of Pakistan has
recently cut interest rates to a 42-year low of 6 per cent in order to support growth and keep the out-look for future infl ation consist-ent with the target.
However, the reduction in dis-count rate is not helping, as there is little credit left for the private sector to borrow.
While the CPI is in disinfl ation, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is already depicting defl ationary trends and was negative by almost half percentage points for ten con-secutive months.
The negative trend in whole-sale prices may spill over to retail prices. The WPI-based rate of in-fl ation contracted by 3.1 per cent in July-September period of this year as compared to the previous year, according to the PBS.
The CPI-based infl ation rate for July-September period also remained at 1.7 per cent, suggest-ing that overall infl ation rate for the current fi scal year 2016 will remain far below the offi cial target of 6 per cent
.According to the PBS, prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages dropped by over 1 per cent in Sep-tember over a year ago. Perishable food prices decreased over 8 per cent on a year-on-year basis in September. - Express Tribune
The steady decline
led some economists
to argue that the
government should
abandon austere
fi scal policies
and undertake an
economic stimulus to
prevent the economy
from spiralling
into defl ation
Media blackout of MQM to continueISLAMABAD: As the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) waits to hear the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision on the media ban on its chief Altaf Hussain, the fed-eral government has decided in principle to continue a ‘blackout’ of the party on all forums for the foreseeable future.
It will also persist with its policy of not accepting the res-ignations of the party’s lawmak-ers, sources privy to the develop-ment said. The move comes as the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) once again urged Senate chairman and speakers of legislative assem-blies to not accept resignations of MQM lawmakers.
Separately, a senior PML-N of-fi cial has also suggested that the government may soon restart the stalled negotiations with the Ka-rachi-based party.
While the LHC will on Friday decide whether to lift a media ban on MQM chief’s speeches, the senior PML-N source added that they had decided on continu-ing the ‘blackout’ of the party re-gardless of the court’s decision, following consultations with all stakeholders of the ongoing Kara-chi operation.
Sources in PML-N said that the court-led media ban on MQM had proven benefi cial for the ongoing security operation. They added that the MQM failed to achieve its target of collecting hides on Eid
Al Adha and that the party’s sec-tor and unit in-charges had by and large stopped their activities.
They added that the blackout will support eff orts of law en-forcement agencies to catch tar-get killers in and outside Pakistan.
Meanwhile, senior PML-N leader MNA Talal Chaudhry said that if the LHC lifts the ban on Al-taf’s speeches on television, it was up to the channels to decide what they should broadcast since me-dia was independent and that the government cannot dictate terms.
The government had recently urged heads of Senate and legisla-tive assemblies once again to not accept resignations of MQM’s law-
makers. MQM is the fourth largest party in the National Assembly by Seats, and is the second largest party in the Sindh Assembly.
On August 12, MQM lawmak-ers had submitted their resig-nations from assemblies citing reservations over the Ranger-led operation in Karachi.
Former National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq followed gov-ernment’s policy of not accept-ing MQM’s resignations while Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani followed directions from Pakistan Peoples Party’s Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari to not accept MQM’s resignations.
Senate Chairman Raza Rabba-
ni had set a deadline of October 5 for ruling on MQM’s resignations.
But sources said that both, the government and the PPP leader-ship, have approached Rabbani and successfully urged him not to accept resignations of MQM’s eight senators.
Almost all parties in Parlia-ment, except PTI, have asked Ja-miat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s Fazlur Rehman to convince MQM to withdraw their resignations and return to the assemblies.
While the JUI-F leader held several rounds of talks with the MQM, talks have been stalled since the fi rst week of September. - Express Tribune
M Q M R E S I G N A T I O N S
STEEP DECLINE: A vegetable vendor sells carrots at a market in Lahore. Some experts warn of defl a-
tion risks, core infl ation dips to 3.4 per cent. - AFP fi le photo
‘Economic corridor to boost employment’FAISALABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will not only strengthen Pakistan economically but also address social issues such as poverty, food security and create employment opportunities, said University of Agriculture Faisal-abad (UAF) Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan.
He was addressing a ceremony held to celebrate the National Day
of People’s Republic of China. Khan said that China has proven its mettle in technological ad-vancement, adding that the CPEC would go a long way in guiding Pakistan to a new horizon of de-velopment. “China has become the hub of research activities and is surpassing the US,” said Khan, stressing on the need to learn from each other’s experiences.
He also told the audience that
500 students would be sent to China for education, adding that the UAF was working with 13 Chinese institutes in areas of re-searches and academia.
Parliamentary Secretary on Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan said, “Under the CPEC, as many as $48 billion are being in-vested by China.
“The government inherited tre-mendous problems and tangibles
steps are being taken to combat challenges.
“For the purpose of CPEC, no loan is being taken as the invest-ment would be made by the Chi-nese companies. The route is-sue has also been resolved. Two big dams are being constructed to address the issue of electric-ity shortfall. It is likely that after CPEC the GDP growth will be pushed to 6 per cent.” -Express Tribune
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‘Never called Benazir before her arrival in Pakistan’
KARACHI: Refuting American journalist Mark Siegel’s testimony in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that he never spoke or made any menacing calls to Benazir Bhutto before her arrival in Pakistan, Ex-press News reported.
The former president said that he could “clearly see the conspir-acy” behind the accusations, add-ing that he started using a mobile phone in April 2009, almost two years after Benazir was killed.
Musharraf also questioned whether Farooq Naek, former president Asif Ali Zardari close confi dante, was fi t to represent Siegel in court, while demanding that Zardari also be summoned in the case.
Talking to Express News, Mush-arraf said he regretted the ‘false’ accusations made the American journalist.
On October 1, American jour-nalist Mark Siegel said in his testimony that days before she travelled to Pakistan, slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto received threatening phone calls from the then president Pervez Musharraf, warning her of threats to her life should she choose to return before the 2007 elections. - Express Tribune
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reservations over the
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When President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed cy-berweaponry rules of the road at
their recent White House news conference, it represented a landmark for a new fi eld. Inter-national cybersecurity has come of age. When intelligence offi cials testifi ed before Congress about the major threats to the United States just a few years ago, cyberwar was barely men-tioned; now, it’s at the top of the list.
Whenever countries confront a disruptive new technology that they cannot control, they eventually seek arms-control agreements. In the nuclear era, it was 18 years after Hiroshima before the fi rst such agreement was reached. Today, cybersecurity is at a similar point. Al-though the modern Internet was born in the 1970s, it was only during the past two decades that it became an indispensable enabler of eco-nomic and military activity that benefi ts us while also making us insecure.
With the advent of cloud computing and the “Internet of Things,” the area of vulnerability is rapidly expanding.
Is cyber arms control the answer? Not if it’s modelled on the treaties of the nuclear era. Those agreements spelled out in great detail how to manage large, costly, observable weap-ons and included monitoring procedures that Ronald Reagan summarised with the adage “trust, but verify.” Cyberweapons, by contrast, can be as simple as a few inexpensively ac-quired lines of code. They are available to state and non-state actors and can be hard to distin-guish from benign online activity. It can also be diffi cult and time-consuming to determine who is behind their use. The “verify” portion of any cyber-control agreement would be extremely problematic.
But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to reach agreements on rules limiting behaviour. States could agree not to attack certain aspects of the civilian infrastructure of another country in peacetime. In fact, such a recommendation was included in a July report of a UN group of gov-ernmental experts, which Obama and Xi agreed to have a bilateral group of senior experts ex-amine. The UN group also recommended that
governments accept a responsibility to help any state seeking assistance with a malicious attack; pledge not to interfere with the opera-tion of emergency response teams created by other states to deal with attacks; and seek to build confi dence by increasing the transpar-ency of their cyberpolicies. The two presidents also discussed establishing hotlines to facilitate high-level communication during a crisis.
Critics scoff at vows such as “no fi rst use” of cyberweapons against certain civilian targets. What is to prevent cheating?
The answer is self-interest. If states feel vul-nerable, and worry about the unintended con-sequences of going on cyberoff ence, they may fi nd that peacetime pledges of self-restraint are in their mutual interest.
A norm of self-restraint could also help with dangerous “zero-days,” or undiscovered cod-ing vulnerabilities that take their name from the amount of time that programmers have to act to stop a malicious outsider from exploiting the opening. Governments and non-state ac-tors tend to hoard information on such fl aws as deterrents or for possible use in future attacks, and they fetch high prices on black-market Web sites. But if the United States unilater-ally adopted a norm of responsible disclosure of zero-days to companies and the public after a limited period, it would destroy their value as weapons - simultaneously disarming ourselves, other countries and criminals without ever having to negotiate a treaty or worry about veri-fi cation. Other states might follow suit. In some aspects, cyber arms control could turn out to be easier than nuclear arms control.
Such steps are not panaceas that would pro-duce cybersecurity. We would still have to con-tend with cybertheft of intellectual property; corruption of the supply chains that provide the chips that go into our computers and devices; the disruption of undersea cables; spies or dis-loyal insiders; and many other threats. But it is worth remembering that the fi rst nuclear-arms control agreements - the Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 - did not solve all of the problems of controlling nuclear weapons. Rather, they started a process. Perhaps Obama and Xi’s modest beginning will do something similar. - Special to The Washington Post
Speed limits on the roads need to be lowered This refers to the online story, Interconnected street opened (Octo-ber 2). The construction of the road and the intersection is a right move. However, I cannot understand why the speed limits are so high in the Sultanate. With a high volume of traffi c even on high-ways wouldn’t it be better to reduce speed limits by at least 20kph?
In my opinion, this is required as many drivers zigzag between vehicles at high speeds, which can cause accidents. — Susan Walters, Ruwi
Lauren will help his brand not to lose its trademark styleThis refers to the online story, Ralph Lauren to Step Down, (October 2). He is indeed one of the greatest names in the fashion industry. It is nice to know that he will continue to work as a mentor, which will greatly help evolve the style under the new boss. This is so, as in busi-ness if the founder is working, his meth-odologies and portrayal of the product never lose focus. — Parvin Humayun, Muscat
State of aff airs in US abysmalThis refers to the online story, Gunman kills nine in Oregon college in United States, (October 2). Yet another shooting in America shows that the state of aff airs in the countryis abysmal. President
Barack Obama has shown the world how not to resolve an existen-tial problem. — Jamshed Hidayaullah, Muscat
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CRASH SITE: A US drone aircraft lands at Afghanistan’s Jalal-
abad Airport. A US C-130 military transport plane crashed in
Jalalabad on Friday. – AFP
Some Afghan Taliban holed up in Kunduz
KABUL: Taliban fi ghters were holding out against Afghan troops in Kunduz on Friday, a day after government forces recaptured most of the northern city that had fallen to the militants in their big-gest victory of a 14-year insurgency.
In Badakhsan province in Af-ghanistan’s northeast, the Tali-ban took control of Warduj dis-trict late on Thursday after heavy fi ghting, according to Nawid Forotan, a spokesman for the pro-vincial governor.
Residents in Kunduz, a strategic city of 300,000 that fell to the Tali-ban in a stunning pre-dawn attack on Monday, said that while most Taliban fi ghters had fl ed, some were holed up in civilian homes fi ghting the army.
AtrocitiesThe Taliban have been accused of extrajudicial killings, raping, tor-turing, looting and setting fi re to government buildings during their three-day occupation of Kunduz, the Afghan president’s offi ce said in a statement on Friday.
“Afghanistan is committed to legally prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes, and to that end, as-signs a civilian commission to as-sess the losses sustained as a result of the Taliban presence,” the state-ment said.
At least 60 people have been killed in the fi ghting as of Friday,
according to a Health Ministry spokesman. He said hospitals in Kunduz had treated about 466 wounded.
FearAhmad Sahil, a producer for local Afghan television in the city, said many people were still too afraid to leave their houses.
“The Taliban who knew Kunduz left the city already, but many for-eign fi ghters could not fl ee and are hiding in people’s homes in some parts of the city centre and are still resisting,” Sahil said on Friday.
Hamdullah Danishi, acting governor of Kunduz province, de-scribed the capital as calm, and said there was “no major fi ghting”.
He acknowledged, however, that the insurgents had not been com-pletely driven from Kunduz.
“Taliban are still in civilian houses and buildings,” Danishi said. “They are using civilians as
human shields.” The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was increasingly concerned about the welfare of citizens inside the city and the lack of medical sup-plies and personnel.
“We are very short-staff ed in the hospitals,” said Peter Esmith Ewoi, an ICRC doctor working in the city. “The medical staff in the city cannot get to the hospitals be-cause of the on-going fi ghting.”
Emergency suppliesThe ICRC said it has emergency medical supplies ready to be fl own in as soon as security at Kunduz airport improves.
In a worrying sign for govern-ment forces struggling to contain a growing militant threat, the Tali-ban made territorial gains else-where in the country, although on a smaller scale than the brief sei-zure of Kunduz.
“Our forces did not get rein-
forcements on time,” Forotan said of the loss of Warduj district in Badakhshan.
“Taliban were in big numbers, therefore our forces retreated.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said militants killed 50 soldiers and gained control of 28 checkposts in a district of Badakh-shan province that has been fought over for years.
It occupies a strategic position along a highway to the border with Tajikistan and also shares a border with China and Pakistan.
The attack started when Taliban militants raided checkpoints in several villages, overrunning re-inforcements and seizing control late in the afternoon, according to a government report. The po-lice headquarters in Warduj fell at around 6pm it said.
At least two police were killed in the battle, while three others were reported missing. — Reuters
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Refugees vulnerable to winter coldLONDON: Vulnerable migrants and refugees arriving in the West-ern Balkans are facing the onset of heavy rains and cold weather, with many unprepared for bitter winter conditions, the Red Cross has warned.
Sea crossings to Greece’s shores have fallen this week because cool-er, windier weather is making the journey more dangerous, though numbers could pick up again if conditions improve, the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Average temperatures in winter months in the region frequently fall below freezing, posing health risks for people who have already travelled thousands of miles, often with limited access to food and ba-sic necessities.
“The arrival of winter will push people’s coping skills to their lim-its,” Simon Missiri, acting direc-tor for Europe of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said in a statement on Thursday.
The numbersIn the last seven days, 25,000 peo-ple have arrived in Serbia, includ-ing families with small children, many sleeping outside despite heavy rain, the federation said. More than half a million migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean this year, almost 400,000 of them via Greece. Many arrivals in Greece have then pro-
ceeded to travel through Macedo-nia and Serbia in an eff ort to reach western Europe.
Around 6,600 people arrived in Greece on September 25 alone ac-cording to the UNHCR.
The following day there were 2,200 arrivals, and just 1,500 ar-rived on Thursday, because of windy, cold weather.
With heavy rains falling on Ser-bia in the past week there is a risk of the humanitarian situation de-teriorating, said Vesna Milenovic, head of the Red Cross in the coun-
try. “We need more support to be prepared for winter. We are dis-tributing raincoats and stocking winter relief supplies such as ther-mal foil blankets, thermoses, warm winter clothing and footwear,” she said.
The Red Cross has launched emergency appeals to help 675,000 vulnerable migrants in Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary, Italy and Greece.
Since Hungary tightened its borders to block off routes to migrants, tens of thousands of
people have also fl owed into neigh-bouring Croatia.
The huge movement of peo-ple fl eeing poverty and war in the Middle East and Africa to come to Europe via the Western Bal-kans is stirring memories of wars in the region during the 1990s, which also triggered a European refugee crisis.
UNHCR is planning for at least 1.4 million migrants and refu-gees to fl ee to Europe across the Mediterranean this year and next. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Turkish forces kill 10 Kurdish rebelsDIYARBAKIR: Turkish securi-ty forces killed more than 10 sus-pected Kurdish militants amid intensifying clashes in the coun-try’s southeast, while 44 people were arrested in Istanbul on sus-picion of links with the rebels, of-fi cials and media reports said.
The exact death toll from clashes in Silvan, a town in south-eastern Turkey’s Diyarbakir province, was not immediately clear. A security source said it exceeded 10 people - all mem-bers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).1 Turkey’s crackdown on the PKK began in July after a 2 1/2-year-old cease-fi re collapsed and has escalated ahead of a snap national election on November 1. More than 120 security personnel and hundreds of militants have been killed.
DetainedAmong those detained on Friday were district offi cials of the Peo-ples Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing grouping accused of having links with the hardline PKK, Hurriyet newspaper said. An HDP spokesman had no im-mediate information on the ar-rests, and there was also no com-ment from Turkish police.
The HDP on Friday presented its election platform in which it renewed a promise to seek a set-tlement to the 31-year war with
the PKK. “Despite everything, we say peace,” HDP Co-Chairwom-an Figen Yuksekdag said. “We want a grand peace.”
HDP district offi cials have been detained in previous po-lice raids in the predominantly Kurdish southeast. The HDP ac-cuses the government of seeking to punish it for its success in the inconclusive June election that deprived the ruling harliners-rooted AKP of its single-party majority in parliament.
Opinion polls show the AKP may at the November 1 election regain some nationalist voters who abandoned the party over its eff orts to end the strife with the PKK, including negotiating with the group’s jailed leader Ab-dullah Ocalan.
Among the 44 people arrested were union members and for-mer district mayors, Turkish media reports said. Authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew on Sil-van, where two soldiers were shot dead by suspected PKK militants on Thursday as they left for work. The army has repeatedly clashed with the rebels in Silvan in the re-cent weeks.
Deemed a terrorist organisa-tion by Turkey, the United States and European Union, the PKK launched its armed campaign for a Kurdish homeland in south-eastern Turkey in 1984. — Reuters
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US military plane crash at Jalalabad airfield kills 11WASHINGTON: A US military transport plane crashed at an air-fi eld in Afghanistan shortly after midnight on Friday (1930 GMT on Thursday), killing all 11 people on board, the US military said, de-scribing the crash as an accident.
The cause of the crash at Jalal-abad airfi eld was under investi-gation, a spokesman said, refus-ing to rule out the possibility that there may be dead or wounded on the ground.
First responders were on the scene, he said.
Six US military service mem-bers and fi ve civilian contractors who were employed by the US-led international force in Afghan-istan were killed in the crash.
Taliban claimA spokesman for the Taliban mili-tant movement seeking to topple the government said its fi ghters had shot down the aircraft, but the US military said there were no reports of enemy fi re at the time. A statement from the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Airfi eld described it as “an acci-dent,” without off ering details.
The crash came hours after Afghan troops recaptured the centre of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on Thursday amid fi erce clashes with Taliban mili-tants, three days after losing the provincial capital.
The Taliban have been fi ght-ing to regain power since being toppled by a US-led intervention in 2001.
Sharp fallThe number of US deaths in Af-ghanistan has fallen sharply after the United States wrapped up its formal combat mission last year, although US special forces and US airstrikes were involved in this week’s counter-off ensive in Kunduz.
In 2011, Taliban militants shot down a US military Chinook heli-copter, killing all 38 people on board. Taliban spokesman Zabi-hullah Mujahid said on Twitter that its fi ghters shot down the plane, saying “15 invaders and a number of slave soldiers were killed”. The insurgents typically claim responsibility for any coa-lition air crash. — Reuters
A F G H A N I S T A N
STRICT VIGIL: Afghan security forces sit on top of a vehicle as they patrol outside of Kunduz city, in
this fi le photo on Thursday. – Reuters Files
HARSH CONDITIONS: Migrants and asylum seekers take rest after crossing the Greece-Macedonia
border near Gevgelija, on Friday. – AFP
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Gunman kills nine in US college
ROSEBURG (OREGON): Resi-dents of a quiet Oregon town strug-gled to comprehend the carnage left by the latest US mass shooting as investigators puzzled over what drove a young gunman to kill nine people in a college classroom be-fore he died in an exchange of gun-fi re with police.
The Thursday late-morning shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, a former timber town of 20,000 on the western edge of the Cascade Mountains, ranked as the deadli-est mass killing this year in the United States.
StormedThe gunman stormed into a class-room in Snyder Hall on campus, shot a professor at point-blank range, then ordered cowering stu-dents to stand up and state their religion before he shot them one by one, according to survivors’ accounts. Seven people were hos-pitalised, three of them listed as critical. The killer died after ex-changing gunfi re with two police offi cers who confronted him.
The gunman was not identifi ed by local authorities, and Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin vowed never to utter his name. But a law enforcement source confi rmed media reports naming the suspect as Chris Harper-Mercer, 26.
In a photo posted on what was believed to be his MySpace pro-fi le, a young man with a shaved head and dark-rimmed eyeglasses stares into the camera while hold-ing a rifl e.
At the White House, a visibly angry President Barack Obama challenged Americans across the political spectrum to press their
elected leaders to enact tougher fi rearms-safety laws. He lashed out at the National Rifl e Asso-ciation gun lobby for blocking re-forms and lamented how common mass shootings had become.
‘Numb’“Somehow this has become rou-tine. The reporting is routine. My response here, at this podium, ends up being routine,” he said. “We’ve become numb to this.”
Residents at an apartment house a short distance from cam-pus where the suspect lived rec-ognised him from photos and de-scribed him as edgy.
A man identifying himself as Ian Mercer, the gunman’s father,
spoke briefl y to a throng of report-ers and camera crews outside his home in Los Angeles on Thursday night. “It’s been a devastating day, devastating for me and my family,” he said, according to a transcript provided by KNBC-TV.
Authorities off ered no motive for the shooting. Hanlin, the coun-ty sheriff , said an investigation was underway by homicide detec-tives and federal agents. Residents of Roseburg, about 260 miles (420 km) south of Portland, were left to ponder the how and why of the violence. Accounts from survivors were chilling.
Stacy Boylan, the father of an 18-year-old student who was wounded but survived by playing
dead, told CNN his daughter re-called seeing her professor being shot point blank as the assailant stormed into the classroom.
“He was able to stand there and start asking people one by one what their religion was,” Boylan said, relating the ordeal as de-scribed by his daughter.
“’Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them.... ‘If you’re a Christian, stand up. Good. Because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,’ and he shot and killed them. And he kept going down the line, doing this to people.” Scores of people hud-dled at a sombre candlelight vigil in a park on Thursday night. “We need to start loving each other as
people... or our nation is going to start falling apart,” said Michael Sprague, 35, a businessman who lives in the Roseburg area.
Flurry of killingsThe violence in Roseburg was the latest in a fl urry of mass killings in recent years across the United States and the deadliest so far in 2015. It surpassed the nine killed in a gun battle between motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas, in May, and the nine who died in the rampage at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June.
Not counting Thursday’s in-cident, 293 mass shootings have been reported this year, accord-ing to the Mass Shooting Tracker
website, a crowd-sourced data-base kept by anti-gun activists that logs events in which four or more people are shot.
The violence has fuelled de-mands for more gun control in the United States, where owner-ship of fi rearms is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and for better care for the mentally ill. Those grieving at Thursday night’s vigil said they were still trying to understand the tragedy. “You know, there’s all this stuff in the news and with politics going on about the Second Amend-ment and gun control,” said Ken Shemel. “It’s like, ‘Come on, guys, just give us a second to breathe,’ you know?” — Reuters
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Hurricane Joaquin pounds BahamasNASSAU: Hurricane Joaquin pounded the Bahamas for a sec-ond day with powerful winds and waves on Friday, but it was not ex-pected to be a major threat to the US East Coast, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
An easterly shift in the fore-cast track of the slow-moving Joaquin spared the Carolinas, New York and New Jersey, where Superstorm Sandy killed more than 120 people and caused $70 billion of property damage in Oc-tober 2012.
Forecast models“The forecast models continue to indicate a track farther away from the United States East Coast and the threat of direct im-pacts from Joaquin in the Caro-linas and mid-Atlantic states ap-
pears to be decreasing,” the NHC said. Despite the more favourable outlook, the Miami-based US forecasters said Joaquin could still cause fl ooding from South Carolina to New England.
CatastrophicA potentially catastrophic Cate-gory 4 hurricane on a scale of 1 to 5, Joaquin was predicted to make a sharp northerly turn on Friday before gradually losing strength over cooler water.
The third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, Joaquin was about 45 miles (70 km) south of San Salvador island in the Baha-mas, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (215 kph), the NHC said. The storm was moving northwest at only three miles (5 km) per hour.
The governors of New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland all de-clared states of emergency and announced various measures, including the mobilization of Na-tional Guard troops, in prepara-tion for the storm.
“I cannot stress enough that we are talking about the real possibility of deadly fl ooding in many areas around our state,” North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory told a news conference on Thursday.
There were no immediate re-ports of deaths or injuries from the Bahamas, but photos posted on social media showed major fl ooding on Aklins and Long Is-land in the archipelago, with roads under water and waves crashing against the walls of
houses. Schools and business were closed on several islands in the path of the storm.
“People are all getting ready, shuttering up their houses, go-ing to the store for plywood,” said Chris Gosling who runs a voluntary ambulance service in Eleuthera, population 8,000.
Joaquin’s hurricane-force winds, which extended 50 miles (80 km) from its centre, were forecast to miss the larger Baha-mas islands and the main cities and cruise ship ports of Freeport and Nassau.
Storm surges may push water as high as 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.6 meters) above normal tide lev-els in the central Bahamas, the NHC said, with up to 25 inches (63 cm) of rain possible in some areas. — Reuters
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British boy, 15, gets life sentence for inciting attack
Atlas rocket blasts off with Mexican satellite
LONDON: A 15-year-old boy, thought to be the youngest Briton to be convicted of a terrorism of-fence, was given a life sentence on Friday for inciting an attack on a World War I commemorative event in Australia from his bed-room in northern England.
The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, pleaded guilty in July to sending messages online encour-aging an attack on police offi cers at an event in April to mark Anzac Day - a day of remembrance for military dead in Australia and New Zealand. He was just 14 at the time.
The discovery of the boy’s ac-tions sparked a massive police operation in Melbourne, which led to the arrest of fi ve teenagers who were planning an IS-inspired at-tack on an event to mark the cen-tenary of the Gallipoli landings, Australian authorities said.
British police said had the plot not been uncovered, it was likely someone would have been serious-ly injured or killed. “From the early communication we could read, it was obvious the Anzac Day memo-rial service was going to be a target,” said Detective Chief Superinten-dent Tony Mole of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit. “People will be understandably be shocked by the age of the boy. However, this should not detract from the horror of what he was planning.”
The boy from Blackburn, who had admitted a charge of inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism, was sentenced to life in a youth detention centre and will have to serve a minimum of fi ve years. Manchester Crown Court heard he was initially arrested by police on suspicion of making threats to kill his teacher. When detectives examined his phone they found extreme images. — Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL: An un-manned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from a seaside launch pad in Flor-ida on Friday to put a communica-tions satellite into orbit for Mexico.
The 195-foot (59-meter) tall rocket, built and fl own by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, lifted off at 6:28 am EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Launch was delayed 20 minutes to allow time for a wayward boat to clear away from the rocket’s fl ight safety zone.
Perched on top of the rocket was the Boeing-built Morelos-3 com-munications satellite, a duplicate of a spacecraft lost during a Rus-sian Proton rocket launch in May.
It was the 100th launch for ULA since its formation in 2006, all of which have been successful.
Morelos-3 was due to be put into orbit 22,300 miles (35,888 km) above Earth about three hours af-ter liftoff . The satellite is designed to provide cellular voice, data, In-ternet and video services for Mexi-can national security and civilian services over the next 15 years.
Mexico is paying Boeing about $1 billion for a three-satellite system, collectively known as MEXSAT. The contract, announced in 2010, includes two ground sites, net-work operations systems and user terminals. The launch marked a rare commercial mission for ULA, which typically fl ies US military and NASA science missions.
ULA is designing a new rocket, called Vulcan, that it says will be less expensive to build and fl y. The company faces its fi rst competi-tion for the US military’s launch business, with privately owned SpaceX now certifi ed to fl y defense and national security satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket. — Reuters
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In a photo posted on what was believed to be his MySpace profi le, a young man with a shaved head and dark-rimmed eyeglasses stares into the camera while holding a rifl e.
UNSUSPECTING VICTIM: First responders transport an injured person following a shooting incident at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on Thursday. The
late-morning shooting rampage ranked as the deadliest mass killing this year in the United States. – Reuters/Michael Sullivan/The News-Review
DANGEROUS STORM: Fisherman Dominick Manfredini prepares to fi sh at daybreak at the pier at Myrtle Beach State Park as heavy
rain falls in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Friday. – Reuters
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2015
England must beat Australia to avoid early exitCARDIFF: The Pool A maths are complicated and the permutations many, but hosts England go into Saturday’s showdown with Aus-tralia knowing defeat means an exit from the Rugby World Cup in the opening round for the fi rst time.
A week after their shock 28-25 de-feat to Wales stopped their campaign in its tracks, the hosts must rouse themselves for yet another high pressure encounter at Twickenham.
“It is a huge game,” England coach Stuart Lancaster said on Thursday. “We respect the quality of opposition but we know we can beat them.”
England have indeed won four of their last fi ve matches against Australia but Lancaster, and his opposite number Michael Cheika, are aware that World Cups are markedly diff erent from June and November tours. The match (kick-off 1900 GMT) renews a rivalry that has taken in two World Cup fi nals, resulting in one win apiece, and is traditionally presented as a clash between Australia’s backline Cavaliers and the muscle-bound Roundheads of England’s pack.
Both teams have moved to aug-ment their traditional strengths and address their weaknesses in the run-up to this tournament, however, and it could be the suc-cess or otherwise of those eff orts
that will decide Saturday’s match.Lancaster has talent out wide
and has brought more creativity into his backline with the recall from injury of Jonathan Joseph at outside centre and the relegation of rugby league convert Sam Bur-gess to the bench.
It is, however, still on the for-wards that England will pin their hopes of a victory that would keep alive their bid to win a sec-ond World Cup. Cheika was giv-en a wake-up call when he fi rst took charge of a Wallabies side at Twickenham last year and Eng-land showed him that the weak-
ness in the Australian pack was no mere perception but a potentially decisive fact.
He has since overhauled his front fi ve but acknowledges that the success or otherwise of his work can only be properly judged after Saturday’s match.
“I know they think we’re weak in the forwards,” Cheika said.
“The only place things are go-ing to be diff erent is on the fi eld on Saturday night and that’s where we’ve got to show our colours. Talk’s cheap, you know.”
A key confrontation could be in the back row where Australia’s
world class openside fl ankers Da-vid Pocock and Michael Hooper will take on an England loose trio without a recognised “fetcher”.
England, for their part, will hope the combined muscle mass of Tom Wood, skipper Chris Robshaw and Ben Morgan will help overwhelm the Australians.
Wales and Australia meet at Twickenham in their fi nal Pool A game on Oct. 10, while England take on Uruguay in Manchester later the same day in what the en-tire host nation, and the tourna-ment organisers, will be hoping is not a dead rubber. - Reuters
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Duminy does it for S. Africa
DHARMSALA: Rohit Sharma’s 66-ball 106 went in vain, as Jean-Paul Duminy and A.B. de Villiers played a blinder of an innings to steer South Africa to a comforta-ble seven-wicket win over India in the fi rst Twenty20 International (T20I) at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Sta-dium here on Friday.
Duminy (68 of 34 balls, 1x4 7x6) and Farhaan Behardien (32 of 23 balls, 4x4 1x6) remained unbeaten as South Africa chased down In-dia’s challenging score of 199/5 in 20 overs to post 200/3 in 19.4 overs.
While de Villiers (51 of 32 balls) started the proceedings for the visitors in the run chase, Duminy and Behardien stitched an unbeat-en 105-run stand for the fourth wicket to script a memorable vic-tory for the visitors and thus help South Africa go 1-0 up in three-match series.
South Africa got off to a fl ying
start scoring over ten an over in the fi rst seven overs.
But batsman Hashim Amla (36) who was looking set ran himself out in the eighth over, handing In-dia their breakthrough.
But the wicket didn’t bother his partner, de Villiers who went on scoring freely and helping his side maintain a steady run rate.
But just after completing his half-century, he tried to step put off the bowling off Ravichandran Ash-win but the clever spinner bowled a lot slower and the ball brushed his back thigh and defl ected on to the stumps.
Skipper Faf du Plessis (4) didn’t trouble the scoring too much as he went back cheaply putting the visi-tors in a bit of trouble in a chase of 200. The team was 95/3 in 11th over then. But Duminy and Behar-dien played sensibly, using all their experience to build on a match winning partnership to take the visitors home.
For India, Ravichandran Ash-win (1/26) was the pick of the bowlers.
Earlier after being sent into bat, India received a setback when opener Shikhar Dhawan (3) was run out while trying to steal a sin-gle after a misfi eld.
His valiant dive wasn’t enough to save his wicket as India were re-duced to 22/1 in 3.1 overs.
The other opener Sharma (106, 12x4, 5x6) though tried to shake off the disappointment and hit some lusty blows to rev up India’s run rate, which reached 50 in 6.4 overs.
Kohli (43 of 27 balls, 1x4, 3x6) also joined the act, hitting a con-secutive six and a four at the start of the eighth over off pacer Chris Morris.
Sharma reached the 50-run mark in the ninth over, guiding a wide delivery off pacer Kyle Abbott to the boundary.
The Sharma-Kohli 138-run sec-
ond wicket partnership enabled India to launch a no-holds-barred charge in the death overs.
Sharma began the charge scor-ing boundaries almost at will.
The 28-year-old right-hand-er brought up his century with a majestic six over long on off pacer Merchant de Lange in the 15th over.
Kohli also achieved a personal milestone in the process, becom-ing the fi rst Indian to score 1,000 runs in T20 internationals.
Though fi rst Kohli and then Sharma departed in the same over, dismissed by Abbott, India were fi rmly placed to post a strong total.
Abbot was South Africa’s most successful bowler picking up two wickets for 29 runs.
Abbott (2/29) was the pick of visitor’s bowlers. - IANS
Duminy (68 of 34
balls, 1x4 7x6) and
Farhaan Behardien
(32 of 23 balls,
4x4 1x6) remained
unbeaten as South
Africa chased down
Rohit Sharma
inspired India’s
challenging score of
199 for 5 in 20 overs
to post 200 for
3 in 19.4 overs
106runs from 66 balls
12 fours, 5 sixes
ROHIT
SHARMA
HARD WORKOUT: Australian players at a training session. – Reuters
Worst period in my career, says Chelsea managerLONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he is go-ing through the worst period of his managerial career with his team winning just four of their 11 matches this season.
The Premier League champi-ons currently sit 14th in the table after seven games, having just won twice in the league.
It is the kind of position they regularly occupied before the ar-rival of billionaire Roman Abra-movitch in 2003, but one that younger Chelsea fans are unused to seeing them in.
Chelsea, who kept 17 league clean sheets last season, have kept just one so far against Ar-senal, and have conceded 14 goals. Only Sunderland, who are bottom, have let in more in the league.
No team has allowed their op-ponents more shots on target than Chelsea, while Saturday’s opponents Southampton have allowed the fewest in the league this season.
“I defi ne this as the worst pe-riod in my career. It’s a fantastic
experience, even though I don’t want to repeat it again,” Mour-inho told reporters at the club’s training ground at Cobham, south of London.
“Players know when they make mistakes. I don’t know what it’s like in your offi ces, but nobody seems to care about your mis-takes,” he said.
Mourinho refused to be drawn on the subject of Eva Carnero, the former fi rst team doctor who quit after being criticised by the man-ager. Although he was cleared by the FA of discriminatory charges against the doctor, FA chairman Greg Dyke said on Thursday Mourinho was in the wrong and should have apologised.
“I’m not going to comment, one day I will but not today,” the 52-year-old said.
Branislav Ivanovic has been heavily criticised for his perfor-mances this season, but Mour-inho continued to back the player, saying the Serbia international is the best right-back in the league, but conceding that his form must improve. — Reuters
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MATCH WINNER: JP Duminy
celebrates . – AFP
INDIAR. Sharma c Morris b Abbott 106S. Dhawan run out (de Lange/de Villiers) 3V. Kohli c Duminy b Abbott 43S. Raina lbw b Morris 14MS Dhoni not out 20A. Rayudu run out 0A. Patel not out 2Extras (lb-2, w-8, nb-1) 11Total (5 wickets; 20 overs) 199Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-160, 3-162, 4-184, 5-184Bowling: Kyle Abbott 4-0-29-2, Kagiso Rabada 4-0-32-0, Merchant de Lange 4-0-47-0, Chris Morris 4-0-46-1, Imran Tahir 3-0-35-0, Jean-Paul Duminy 1-0-8-0SOUTH AFRICAH. Amla run out 36AB de Villiers b Ashwin 51F du Plessis b Aravind 4JP Duminy not out 68F. Behardien not out 32Extras (lb-5, w-4) 9 Total (3 wickets; 19.4 overs) 200Fall of wickets: 1-77, 2-93, 3-95Bowling: Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-40-0, Sreenath Aravind 3.4-0-44-1, Mohit Sharma 4-0-40-0, Axar Patel 4-0-45-0, Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-26-1
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Yahya claims gold for Oman
Sports Reporter
MUSCAT: Oman made a golden start, thanks to lifter Yahya Al Kiyumi, to their campaign in the Asian Bench Press Championship, which got underway at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex.
After the grand opening cer-emony on Thursday, the action proper started on Friday, with the women’s competition in the morn-ing session and the men’s event in the evening.
The focus, however was indeed on the men’s -66kg category in the evening, with Yahya Al Kiyumi bringing cheers for the hosts with a golden lift of 190kg.
Adding to the cheers in the same category was Khalifa Al Jamahi, who lifted 100kg to pocket the bronze. The silver medal in the event was bagged by Iran’s Kinoh Rstbadi, who had to be content with a lift of 189kg. The Iranian, however, in his quest to clinch the
gold tried to lift 192kg, but failed in his attempt.
The championship was inaugu-rated by chief guest Khalfan bin Saleh Al Na’abi, Advisor at the Ministry of Sports Aff airs.
The hosts are represented in the competition by 18 players at the three categories namely men, youth and juniors to get advanced posi-tive and achieve positive results. 84 sportsmen and women from 12 countries are taking part in the event. Oman also clinched a silver medal on Friday, when Abdulma-jeed Al Battashi lifted 120kg in the -59kg category.
In the morning, India’s Nidhi
Patil (57kg) lifted 82.5 kg to win the gold, while Pakistan’s Twinkle Suhaila too claimed a gold medal in the open women’s event.
Indian men too had their share of medal haul on the opening day.
Meanwhile, gold medal winner Yahya thanked all the supporters and Ministry of Sports Aff airs for the success.
“I thank coach Ahmed Al Has-sani for the achievement and I must say that it was a tough com-petition from the Iranian,” said a cheerful Yahya.
The competitions continue with the heavyweights entering fray on Saturday.
The focus was indeed
on the men’s -66kg
category in the
evening, with Yahya
Al Kiyumi bringing
cheers for the hosts
with a golden
lift of 190kg
CHAMPION LIFTER: Oman’s gold medal winner Yahya Al Kiyumi, centre, and bronze medal winner
Khalifa Al Jamahi, left, during the medal ceremony. – Times of Oman / JUN ESTRADA
SUCCESSFUL LIFT: Oman’s Yahya Al Kiyumi lifts 190kg to win
Oman’s fi rst gold. – Times of Oman / JUN ESTRADA
The Wave makes stunning startMUSCAT: Leigh McMillan let team grit do the talking when The Wave, Muscat opened their bid for the Extreme Sailing Series’ Istan-bul crown with a clean sweep of seven podium places plus a fur-ther four from Stevie Morrison on Oman Air.
Winners of the fi rst Istanbul event in 2012 and now intent on making Extreme Sailing Series history by winning four consecu-tive Acts in a season, McMillan and his crew of Nasser Al Masha-ri, Sarah Ayton, Ed Smyth and Pete Greenhalgh quickly hit their straps, posting a resounding 188m victory in the fi rst race.
This was followed immediately by two more bullets and then a fourth win in Race 5 and with three other podium places to count, The Wave, Muscat closed the day with a healthy nine point lead over SAP Extreme Sailing Team with three days racing remaining.
“We were very happy with the way we sailed today and it was great to get a few wins under our
belt,” McMillan said. “The condi-tions were awesome and we were consistent but there is a long way to go yet and we have to focus on the next four days.”
As they raced down the Bospho-rus Strait with Europe on one side and Asia on the other, the Extreme 40 crews experienced fresh but shifty winds which provided clas-sic racing conditions.
“It was very enjoyable because although it was shifty, we had
fl at water and because it is a big course, we were able to make sure our boat handling and team work were up to scratch. I would say our teamwork was exceptional,” said Al Mashari.
“We hope for more of the same tomorrow though it would be nice to have a little more sunshine.”
Racing on the open water race course close to the entrance to the Bosphorus felt like ‘normal sail-ing’ said Oman Air skipper Stevie
Morrison, who enjoyed one of his best days of the season with three second places and a third to lie in fourth place overnight.
“This bigger course gives us time to think which feels slightly more like normal sailing and that suited us nicely. It was a great days racing and we are looking forward to tomorrow because the condi-tions are forecast to be the same.”
Live coverage of the Extreme Sailing Series Istanbul starts on Friday at 14:30 local time (GMT+3) with live 3D graphics and frequent Twitter updates @extremesailing @OmanSail.
Further west in the Mediterra-nean, Nathan Outteridge and his crew on Sultanate of Oman, who are standing in for McMillan for the fi nal event in the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour in Marseille, were ly-ing in third place, 11 points behind leaders Alinghi, with everything to play for going in to the penultimate day tomorrow. The team needs a top three in Marseille to win the season title.
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GOOD BEGINNING: The Wave, Muscat, dominating opening day.
Albert survivesMUSCAT: Albert V.R., the top seed in the Open Men’s Singles event at the National Bank of Oman (NBO)-sponsored Annual Badminton Tournament organ-ized by the Indian Social Club Muscat survived a scare before advancing to the third round.
Prasad Kulkarni made life dif-fi cult for Albert who was nursing a sore back before the seasoned campaigner got his act together and rallied from a game down to win with fi nal scores of 14-21, 21-10, 21-17. Prasad maintained a marginal lead throughout the fi rst game and with some brilliant all-round play, denied Albert any chance of a comeback. The ex-perienced Alber bounced back to win the second game.
He could not repeat the hero-ics of the second game as Prasad kept him on his toes. Alber held a 12-6 lead but Prasad rallied to re-duce the diff erence to 16-14.
It was vintage Albert thereaf-ter as he gained game point with a brilliant placement and Pras-ad’s next forehand return went
long to hand the game to the top seed. Third seed Percy Pereira marched into round three with a comfortable 21-7, 21-6 victory over Ramesh Ekambram.
The duo of Sujil Alwin and Babu Said to ghrough their fi rst round veterans doubles match af-ter a convincing 21-6, 21-11 victo-ry over Shaji Thomas and Rajan Philips, Sunil Kumar and Shibu John rallied to defeat K. Sashin-dran and Haridas 14-21, 21-17, 21-18, the team of VA Francis and Yogesh Narula beat Ameenuddin and Rajeev Kumar 21-16, 21-9 and the duo of Vinod VT and VD Sajeev defeated Dr. Moiddin and Dr. Basheer 21-16, 21-11.
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Pacifi c countries extend talks in bid to clinch trade dealATLANTA: Trade ministers from a dozen Pacifi c nations meeting in Atlanta extended talks on a sweep-ing trade deal until Saturday in a bid to get a fi nal agreement on the most ambitious trade pact in a generation. Offi cials extended talks originally scheduled to wrap up on Thursday in a determined eff ort to produce a breakthrough on the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership, which would liberalise trade in 40 per cent of the world economy for a region stretching from Vietnam to Canada.
No one wants to leave“No one wants to leave without an agreement,” Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told Reuters after a second plenary session of top offi cials from all 12 nations. “The good news is that we
will not leave here without one.” Observers pointed to progress on autos, Canada’s pledge to compen-sate farmers hurt by imports and signs of a possible compromise on patent protection for new drugs as evidence of advancement - al-though that remained a key stick-ing point. “We are starting to see the path to an agreement and have agreed to make fi nal eff orts,” Japa-nese Economy Minister Akira Am-ari told reporters.
Several offi cials said a fi nal deal could come quickly depending on the outcome of bilateral talks on intellectual property protection for medicines and trade in dairy and autos.
Amari said the monopoly period for biologic drugs, which are made from living cells, was the most dif-fi cult issue remaining. TPP coun-
tries have protection periods rang-ing from 12 years in the United States to fi ve years in countries including Australia and Chile.
A deal would be a legacy-defi n-ing achievement for US President Barack Obama. But the trade deal is seen as a threat by an array of interest groups from Mexican auto workers to Quebec dairy farmers to cancer patients who worry that it could push the cost of new thera-pies out of reach.
Congressional concernsIn a reassertion of concern in Con-gress, a group of US lawmakers from both parties sent a letter to US Trade Representative Michael Froman and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday.
“We urge you to take the time necessary to get the best deal pos-
sible for the United States, work-ing closely with us,” said the letter signed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch as well as the senior Democrats on those two committees.
Several Republicans attacked a new US proposal to ensure govern-ments would be free to enact anti-smoking measures without fear of legal action by tobacco companies.
That could prevent companies like Philip Morris and Japan To-bacco from using rules to protect foreign investors to challenge pub-lic health measures but falls short of the sweeping measure anti-smoking groups had hoped for.
Guajardo further said that talks on auto trade had progressed but were not over yet. — Reuters
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Unemployment rises in Spain
MADRID: Pace of job creation in Spain continued to slow in Sep-tember as the country heads into the fi nal months before a general election pegged on employment.
The number of unemployed Spaniards rose by 26,087, the La-bour Ministry said, adding to two consecutive months of rising job-lessness. On a seasonally-adjusted basis, unemployment fell by 9,746 people. Adding to the mix data was social security sign-ups, a measure of staff , which rose for the month, albeit at a lower pace.
“On a seasonally-adjusted basis, it was a good month,” said Miguel Cardoso, chief Spain economist at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA in Madrid, adding that most jobs came from the education sector, coinciding with the start of the school year. “The question is whether this helps reverse the trend from the previous months, or the pace of job creation slows as the economy decelerates going into the second-half.”
Unemployment typically rises in September as temporary sum-mer workers are laid off when the tourist season comes to a close. Even so, from a year earlier, job-less claims were 353,608 lower, the biggest September drop since offi cial records began.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is entering the fi nal months of his four-year term, with elections due Dec. 20. Rajoy has pegged his re-election campaign to faster growth and job creation, promising to have 20 million people at work by the end of his second term from the current 17 million.
Earlier this week, the Bank of Spain reined in the government’s growth forecast, pointing to an economic slowdown. — Bloomberg News
E C O N O M Y US payrolls rise less than projected in September
WASHINGTON: Payrolls rose less than projected in September, wages stagnated and the jobless rate was unchanged as people left the workforce, signalling the glob-al slowdown and fi nancial-market turmoil are rippling through the world’s largest economy.
The addition of 142,000 jobs followed a revised 136,000 gain the prior month that was lower than previously estimated, a La-bour Department report showed on Friday in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 96 economists called for a 201,000 advance. The jobless rate held at 5.1 per cent, and wage growth was unchanged.
The weak report vindicates the Federal Reserve’s decision to de-
lay an interest-rate increase last month. Cooling overseas markets, a stronger dollar and lower oil prices that are hampering exports and manufacturing raise the risk that employers will hesitate be-fore taking on more staff .
Weaker-than-expectedA weaker-than-expected report “would chip away at confi dence about the strength of the expan-sion,” Ryan Sweet, a senior econo-mist at Moody’s Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said before the report. “It may be a signal that there was a knee-jerk reaction by businesses to the market volatil-ity,” he further added.
Employers added workers in in-dustries including retailing, edu-
cation, and leisure and hospitality.Payroll estimates of 96 econo-
mists in the Bloomberg survey ranged from gains of 149,000 to 256,000 after a previously report-ed 173,000 advance for August.
The unemployment rate, which is derived from a separate Labor Department survey of house-holds, was projected to hold at 5.1 percent, the lowest since 2008, ac-cording to the survey median.
Revisions to prior reports cut a total of 59,000 jobs from payrolls in the previous two months.
Private employment, which ex-cludes government agencies, rose by 118,000 after a 100,000 gain the prior month. Government pay-rolls rose by 24,000. Employment at state and local agencies is often
infl uenced at this time of the year by swings in the education sector related to the timing of the school year. There may be some payback after the surge in local govern-ment education payrolls in recent months, Ted Wieseman, an econ-omist at Morgan Stanley, said in a note before the report.
Factory payrolls fell by 9,000. Manufacturing and mining have been hurt by cutbacks in drill-ing and exploration following the plunge in oil and commodities prices. Exports also are weaken-ing amid a China-led slowdown in global growth.
Retailers increased payrolls by 23,700. Employment in leisure and hospitality rose 35,000.
The participation rate, which
indicates the share of the work-ing-age people in the labour force, decreased to 62.4 per cent from 62.6 per cent. That was the lowest since October 1977.
The average work week for all workers fell to 34.5 hours from 34.6 hours.
Average hourly earnings were unchanged from the month be-fore, the report showed.
They increased 2.2 per cent over the 12 months ended in Sep-tember, the same year-over-year change as in August. They’ve post-ed a two per cent gain on average since the current expansion began in mid-2009.
Among the few positive signs in the report was a fi gure showing more full-time job opportunities. Americans working part time who would prefer a full-time position decreased to 6.04 million, the few-est since August 2008, from 6.48 million.
UnderemploymentUnderemployment rate — which includes part-time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want to work but have given up looking — dropped to 10 per cent, the lowest since May 2008, from 10.3 per cent.
The gap between the unemploy-ment rate and the underemploy-ment rate is one reason Fed Chair Janet Yellen and other policy makers have said they’ll increase interest rates only gradually. In a speech last week Yellen said there are still people seeking full-time work who could be pulled back into the labour force if the jobless level fell further. — Bloomberg News
Addition of 142,000
jobs followed a
revised 136,000
gain the prior month
that was lower
than previously
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Department report
showed on Friday
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BP executives visit Iran with an eye to new opportunitiesLONDON: BP offi cials met with Iranian oil executives late last month in Tehran as the British company seeks to return to the country once sanctions are lifted.
“BP has met with oil indus-try offi cials in Iran recently,” a company spokesman said in an e-mail. “The details of those dis-cussions are confi dential. We have said for some time that we would be interested in reviewing opportunities in Iran once sanc-tions permit it.”
Although BP wasn’t part of a business group that travelled to Tehran with UK Foreign Secre-tary Philip Hammond in August when he opened the British em-bassy, CEO Bob Dudley said in June the company would be “very much” interested in investing in Iran when sanctions are lifted. The company is “fully in compli-ance” with sanctions until then, the spokesman said.
BP, which has worked in the Middle East since 1908, are in-terested in Iran because it holds the world’s fourth-largest oil re-
serves and biggest gas deposits, according to the company’s data. Iran earlier this year came to an agreement with the US and other world powers to curb its nuclear programme. Lukoil, Russia’s sec-ond-largest oil producer, plans to sign a deal on exploration and production with Iran following changes in the nation’s tax laws, the company’s billionaire CEO Vagit Alekperov said on Friday. Eni, Italy’s largest oil producer, is interested in returning to Iran
once sanctions end as long as it can fi rst recover investments made in the country, CEO Clau-dio Descalzi said July 30.
Iran plans to increase crude output by two million barrels a day and natural gas production by about seven billion standard cubic feet from about 50 energy projects that will be off ered to in-vestors at a conference in Tehran next month, National Iranian Oil Managing Director Roknoddin Javadi said. — Bloomberg News
P O S T S A N C T I O N
CRUCIAL PACT: US Trade Representative Michael Froman (centre)
takes a break from negotiations on the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership
(TTP) trade treaty in Atlanta. — AFP
LONG WAIT: Job seekers view information at a booth during a Job Fair Giant career fair in Sterling
Heights, Michigan, US, on Wednesday. - Bloomberg fi le picture
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Major machinery makers smell opportunity in China
BEIJING: The world’s largest makers of tractors and combines are fi nding a rare opportunity for growth in China despite a sharp slowdown in the world’s No. 2 economy, with big farm machines in demand as the rural labour force shrinks and plot sizes grow.
For manufacturers like US-based AGCO and Deere & Co and Italy’s CNH Industrial, Chinese demand for big machines could help to off set weakness in North America and Europe, where farm incomes are declining with global commodity prices.
The trend also contrasts with stalling sales in construction equipment and passenger cars,
which have been hit by the slow-ing Chinese economy.
Powerful equipmentDriving this binge on bigger, more powerful equipment to till larger farms is a combination of labour migration to the cities, land re-forms and government subsi-dies that is spurring consolida-tion of the country’s vast small landholdings.
“People are just getting ready,” said Alexious Lee, head of China industrial research at invest-ment bank CLSA, pointing to the widespread move towards larger farms.
“Whether from the dealers or
the fi nancing side, everyone is skewing towards this angle.”
The average farm in China was smaller than a football fi eld in 2012, but still nearly 900,000 “family farms” had an average size of 13.3 hectares (33 acres), ac-cording to data from China’s agri-culture ministry.
While these family plots were still less than a tenth of the aver-age US farm, further expansions in size are expected as Beijing urges more effi cient agriculture and takes steps towards reform-ing land rights.
Several thousand state and co-op farms of about 3,500 hectares each also need bigger tractors and
combines to cultivate and harvest their agribusiness-size plots.
Total sales of 100-129 horse-power (hp) tractors in China in-creased 38 per cent in the fi rst half of 2015 compared with the same period last year, according to AGCO, owner of the Massey Ferguson brand.
And even though overall farm equipment sales for AGCO and others in China were fl at through the fi rst half of the year, long-term prospects look brighter.
Asia-Pacifi c accounted for only fi ve per cent of AGCO’s $9.7 billion in revenues last year, but the company — which recently opened its fi fth factory in China —
is targeting $1 billion in sales from the overall region before 2020 and expects its China business to quadruple by then.
Co-ops and subsidiesThe slowdown in agricultural sales in the United States and oth-er markets is probably too big for China to counter alone, although CNH International expects “sig-nifi cant acceleration” in the coun-try overall, said Luca Mainardi, head of agriculture construction operations in China for CNH International.
“The main growth is from coop-eratives, which have been grow-ing rapidly in number the last fi ve years thanks to Chinese govern-ment support,” Mainardi said.
CNH sells tractors of 140-230 hp in China, the high end of the market, and just started pro-ducing combines there. Main-ardi reckons there could be about 5,000 co-op farms in China, with their number growing by 15-20 per cent each year.— Reuters
For manufacturers like US-based AGCO
and Deere & Co and Italy’s CNH Industrial,
Chinese demand for big machines could
help to off set weakness in North America
and Europe, where farm incomes are
declining with global commodity prices
15 T-Mobile consumers’ data hacked
LONDON: T-Mobile US said about 15 million consumers who fi lled out credit applications with the wireless carrier may have had their personal information stolen by hackers.
The breach happened when at-tackers gained access to a database containing T-Mobile’s informa-tion that was run by Experian, the credit-tracking fi rm, the car-rier said on Thursday. The hack-ers stole names, addresses and social security numbers. People who submitted credit applications from September 1, 2013, to Sep-tember 16, 2015, were aff ected, T-Mobile said.
“Obviously I am incredibly an-gry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian, but right now my top concern and fi rst focus is assisting any and all con-sumers aff ected,” John Legere, T-Mobile US’s chief executive offi cer, wrote in a letter to consumers.
Experian shares dropped 4.4 per cent to 1,028 pence at 8:50am in London after earlier falling as low as 1,018 pence, the lowest level since December 2014. Deutsche Telekom, the parent of T-Mobile US, added one per cent to 15.21 eu-ros in Frankfurt. T-Mobile US rose 0.8 per cent to $40.13 in New York on Thursday. — Bloomberg News
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Britain regulator plans 2018 deadline for insurance compensation claimsLONDON: Britain’s fi nancial services industry regulator said on Friday it intended to set a 2018 deadline for retail borrowers to claim compensation for being mis-sold repayment insurance, draw-ing a line under Britain’s costliest consumer fi nance scandal.
Over the last fi ve years banks have already set aside more than 28 billion pounds ($42 billion) to meet compensation claims from customers sold payment protec-tion insurance (PPI) policies.
PPI policies were supposed to protect borrowers in the event of sickness or unemployment but were often sold to people who would have been ineligible to claim.
But the Financial Conduct Au-thority (FCA) said on Friday it planned to introduce a deadline for further PPI claims, as more than 20 billion pounds has already been paid out to over 10 million consumers.
“We take the view that a dead-line... would help bring fi nality and certainty in a way that advances the FCA’s operational objectives of securing an appropriate de-gree of protection for consumers and protecting and enhancing the integrity of the UK fi nancial sys-tem,” the regulator said.
The British Bankers’ Associa-tion, which has been lobbying for
a deadline, had no immediate comment.
Ending inertiaThe watchdog said it aimed to is-sue a consultation by the end of the year, and set the deadline two years from the rules coming into force. The new rules would not come in before spring 2016, so consumers will have until at least spring 2018 to complain, it said.
Normally there is an automatic
deadline of three years on com-plaints about fi nancial products but none was set with PPI as many customers were unaware they had bought the product.
The watchdog said that it was an appropriate time to set a dead-line as rules on PPI claims have been in place since 2010 and sur-veys showed most people were aware of possible compensation.
A deadline could help end some of the “inertia” being seen as some
consumers are not bothering to make a claim, the FCA said. It could give no fi gures on potential remaining claims.
A high and growing proportion of PPI claims now go back a dec-ade or more, with the evidence to back them becoming increasingly “stale” or patchy, the FCA said.
The FCA said that sales of loan insurance fell dramatically af-ter early 2009 and the current rules and guidance about making a complaint have been in place since December 2010.
The regulator said the time lim-it would also apply to complaints being contemplated following a landmark ruling last year by the Supreme Court, which suggested there might be an additional cause for complaint.
The court found that Paragon Personal Finance breached the Consumer Credit Act by failing to tell a customer the charge for their policy included a big commission paid to Paragon and a broker.
If the ruling was applied to all PPI claims, banks may need to pay out billions of pounds more in compensation.
The watchdog will consult on rules and guidance about how fi rms should handle PPI com-plaints in light of the so-called Plevin judgment by the Supreme Court. — Reuters
M I S - S O L D R E P A Y M E N T I N S U R A N C E
Japan’s household spending picks up
TOKYO: Japan’s household spending rose in August for the fi rst time in three months and the availability of jobs improved to its best in more than two decades, which could temper concerns that the economy has fallen into a recession.
The 2.9 per cent annual in-crease in household spending in August was more than the median estimate for a 0.4 per cent year-
on-year increase and followed a 0.2 per cent annual decline in July as consumers bought more cars.
A separate survey from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) showed corporate infl ation expectations weakened slightly last quarter, which could bolster the argument that the central bank will ease monetary policy at the end of this month when it updates its long-term economic forecasts.
“Household spending and the tight labour market are a positive sign that the economy is chug-ging along,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior economist at Mizuho Se-curities. “I don’t expect the BOJ ease when it meets next week. The BOJ is likely to lower its con-sumer price forecasts at the end of the month, so it faces a test of credibility if it doesn’t ease policy then,” he added. — Reuters
A U G U S T D A T A
STRONG DEMAND: Thousands of state and co-op farms of 3,500
hectares need bigger tractors and combines to cultivate and har-
vest their agribusiness-size plots. - Bloomberg fi le picture
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PPI CLAIMS: Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday it
planned to introduce a deadline for further payment protection
insurance claims, as more than 20 billion pounds has already
been paid out to over 10m consumers. - Bloomberg fi le picture
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Six new luxury watches that wowed at ‘Watches & Wonders’NEW YORK: While Baselworld and SIHH are the two biggest trade shows in the world of luxury wrist-watches, they’re not the only ones. This week Watches & Wonders arrived in Hong Kong, bringing the fi rst big burst of new watches since March.
Most of the headline-making watches are either gem-encrusted or high-complication items made mostly for marketing. But I’ve sifted through the more outland-ish off erings and found six that are understated and highly-wear-able. These are the new releases that matter.
IWC Portofi noRolex might have the best-known day-date watch out there, but it certainly doesn’t have the monop-oly. The new Portofi no Day & Date has an oversized date window at 12 o’clock, as well as a circular day-of-the-week indicator at 3 o’clock. A running seconds dial at 6 o’clock and a power reserve metre at 9 o’clock balance the dial out, so things don’t look lopsided.
The eight-day power reserve (that’s 192 hours) means you can put this into regular rotation with your other watches and not have to reset the day and date every time you strap it on.
The massive 45-millimeter di-ameter size and dressier dial don’t quite sync up for me, but if larger watches are your thing, this Porto-fi no is a nice mid-level complica-tion. From $13,300
Heritage ChronométrieThis is another take on Mont-blanc’s popular Heritage Chrono-métrie Dual Time (like the one Robot star Rami Malek wore, here) adapted to the Vasco da Gama theme that has developed across the brand’s limited releases this year. With only 238 pieces made, Montblanc adds a red gold crown and bezel to the standard steel case, giving you the look of gold without the weight and price of a
solid gold watch. The dial has also been spruced up with a stars motif tucked into the 24-hour dial at 12 o’clock and a 3D globe illustration in the seconds register at 6 o’clock.
These elements are taken from the much more expensive models in the collection and make this watch look more complicated than it is. It’s a little more in-your-face than the all-steel version with the plain dial, but it’s still easy enough to wear day in and day out.
A. Lange & SöhneThe basic time-only 1815 is one of the simplest watches in Lange’s line-up, as well as one of the best. It has a handsome, easy-to-read dial, sharp hands, and a versatile 40mm case.
The movement inside exempli-fi es what German watchmaking is all about, with the large plate on top, the engraved balance cock holding the spring and wheel, and the high degree of decoration on
every surface. This special edi-tion commemorates the would-be 200th birthday of the brand’s founder and is made in Lange’s proprietary “honey gold,” which has a warm hue similar to that of the German silver used in the movement. There are only 200 of these, each individually num-bered, and I can’t imagine they’ll last very long in the boutiques. $33,500.
Panerai Radiomir 1940Not every Panerai is big enough to use as a dinner plate. These mod-els use the familiar Radiomir 1940 shape with angular edges and stur-dy lugs, but it comes in a 42mm diameter instead of the more com-mon 45mm and 47mm sizes. You can opt for either steel or red gold, and both are powered by Panerai’s in-house P.1000 movement, which is hand-wound and has a three-day power reserve. While these might be Panerai’s “entry level” watches, they punch far above their weight class and off er good value in both aesthetics and mechanics.
Piaget Limelight StellaUnderstatement isn’t very com-mon in the world of women’s watches. The more diamonds and the brighter the colours, the more watchmakers seem to think wom-en will want the watch.
With the Limelight Stella, Pia-get takes a diff erent approach. This watch is all about admiring the large moon-phase complica-
tion that takes up most of the top half of the dial. Little details such as the star on the back of the sec-onds hand and the subtle textures in the dial make this a watch you want to keep looking at in search of more, and it all sits in a curved, 36mm case.
The only glitz present is a fairly discrete wave of diamonds under the moon-phase disk that doesn’t overwhelm the rest of the watch. This is Piaget we’re talking about though, so if you need more dia-monds, you can opt for a diamond bezel as well.
Cartier Mysterious HourCartier invented the “mystery clock” in the late 19th century and recently resurrected it in wrist-watch form. The signature style has hands anchored in the centre of a transparent dial, so it looks as if they’re fl oating in mid-air. (In reality, the mechanics are hidden around the edges.) Here, Cartier adapts an asymmetrical version to fi t in a palladium Clé-style case. The contrast between the exposed mechanisms on the right and the totally see-through dial on the left (it’s tough to see in this photo be-cause of the white background, but your skin would show through the dial) is really stark and gives the watch an element of dynamism.
If you’ve got hairy wrists, it’s probably best to steer clear, but otherwise this is a watch that will baffl e everyone you meet. $68,500. - Bloomberg News
L U X U R Y W A T C H T R A D E S H O W
GM sees double-digit growth for next year
MILFORD, (Michigan): Gen-eral Motors (GM) told Wall Street on Thursday that its recovery is gathering momentum with im-proving margins, strong brands, new markets for high-tech vehi-cles, and prospects for stronger profi ts in coming years.
The No. 1 US automaker said it is targeting an increase in earn-ings per share to between $5 and $5.50 per share before items, from the $4.50 per share that Wall Street analysts expect for this year. GM earned $3.05 per share in 2014 before items.
GM said it will increase its return to investors by stronger profi t margins in China and North America, as well as operating effi -ciencies and share buybacks.
An improving US economy and rapid jobs growth have put 2015 US car sales on track for sales of more than 17 million. GM, the market leader, has shown a 4.2 per cent increase in the US market through September, which is ex-pected to be in line with industry growth when that fi gure is known later on Thursday.
In an annual presentation to investors in the Detroit suburb
of Milford, Michigan, GM said its pre-tax global margins target is 9 percent to 10 percent by “early next decade.”
The Detroit-based automaker, which reported a 12-per cent rise in US September sales, has had a diffi cult time convincing Wall Street of its value and its shares have fallen below $30 recently, well short of its 2010 initial public off ering of $33 per share.
That IPO came a little over a year after GM emerged from a government-funded bankruptcy
in which the company pared four of its brands and much of its US dealership network.
GM said it will have revenue of $155 billion this year as well as global margins of 6.8 per cent and a 24 per cent return on invested capital. Shares rose 1.3 per cent to $30.42 on the New York Stock Ex-change, while the broader market was down slightly. The company will save about $5.5 billion in the next three years in effi ciencies in manufacturing, administration and purchasing, which will pay
for investments in technology and brand development.
The savings through 2018 will “more than off set” the technology and brand investments, GM said.
Some $2 billion of the savings will be on materials GM uses for its vehicles, said Mark Reuss, the company’s global product chief.
GM Chief Executive Mary Barra said the company will develop its autonomous vehicle programme by having its employees at its pri-mary technical centre in Warren, Michigan drive a fl eet of plug-in hybrid 2017 Chevrolet Volts.
“We will redefi ne customers and their personal mobility,” said Barra. Barra spoke with Reuters about this eff ort earlier this week.
She said this eff ort “starts with connectivity” that will be used to advance its autonomous vehicles. It will also include an electric bi-cycle that the company expects to be sold in densely populated glob-al cities. It plans to launch a city-wide car sharing service in the US in early 2016, expanding eff orts to compete for revenue from con-sumers who want to pay for using cars instead of owning them.
Barra said GM executives will update investors on its plans in China and India later on Thurs-day. GM plans for 39 per cent of its global sales to come from new or refreshed vehicles, up from 26 per cent this year. It said that the share of those new vehicles will be 40 per cent of its total sales in 2017, 31 per cent in 2018, and 40 per cent in both 2019 and 2020.
Barra said she has not had any further contact with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV . Several months ago, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne sent Barra an email saying he wanted the two com-panies to merge, a notion Barra has consistently said she and the company’s board of directors are not interested in.
GM said it expects $9 billion to $10 billion of annual free cash fl ow by 2020. -Reuters
GM said it will
increase its return
to investors by
stronger profi t
margins in China
and North America,
as well as operating
effi ciencies and
share buybacks
Nevada ‘patent troll’ fi ghts Google, Samsung in courtLONDON: Across the river from Reno’s district, above an Italian restaurant, you can fi nd the little-known company that says it “in-vented the mobile Internet.”
Unwired Planet has 16 employ-ees and no products. What it does have is a portfolio of more than 2,000 patents, mostly acquired from Ericsson, which it says on its website are “considered founda-tional to mobile communications.” The Nevada-based fi rm wants more than just recognition.
Starting next week it takes on three of the world’s biggest tech-nology companies — Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies and Google — in a London court-room for six sprawling patent tri-als that will last more than a year.
For the phone-makers, the cases are little more than a nuisance. They say in court documents that Unwired Planet is seeking exces-sive licencing fees for patents that aren’t even valid. If approved, the intellectual property could be worth hundreds of millions of dol-lars in royalties to Unwired Planet, which is currently valued at about $85 million.
Proprietary gadgetsAs smartphones became ubiqui-tous, so did legal disputes about who invented the roughly quarter of a million proprietary gadgets in every handset. The emergence of fi rms that exist solely to acquire patents and wring money out of them by threatening lawsuits has led to calls in the US for legislation to combat so-called patent trolls.
“It’s become a hackneyed term that’s used in a derogatory way,” Unwired Planet general counsel Noah Mesel said. He prefers the description “patent-licencing company.”
“You can call us anything you like,” he said.
“We happen to be at the point in our business cycle where what’s left is a patent portfolio.”
Patent troll is “a loaded term,” said Stephen Haber, a political sci-ence professor at Stanford Univer-sity. “It might best be understood as ‘a patent licensing company that the speaker wants the listener to dislike.’”
Huawei said it would “vigor-ously defend its legitimate rights.” Spokesmen for Samsung and Google, which isn’t involved in the fi rst trial, didn’t respond to an e-mail and phone call seeking com-ment. How did a company most people have never heard of come to lay claim to elements found in virtually every smartphone?
“Unwired Planet at one point had 2,200 employees,” Mesel said in a phone interview. “We were in the innovation business.”
The company was once known as Openwave Systems which de-veloped mobile software before losing ground to rivals Nokia Oyj and Ericsson and selling its prod-ucts business in 2012 to focus on intellectual property.
In 2013, Ericsson agreed to transfer 2,185 patents to Un-wired Planet in return for a share of whatever the company could earn licensing them: 20 per cent of anything over $100 million and as much as 70 per cent for income above $500 million.
Unwired Planet says Samsung, Huawei and Google used Ericsson technology: esoteric but essential components that allow a mobile phone to connect to networks. “Things that only engineers talk about,” Mesel said.— Bloomberg News
L I C E N C I N G F E E S
ELEGANT MODELS: Most of the headline-making watches are either gem-encrusted or high-complica-
tion items made mostly for marketing. - Bloomberg fi le picture
MAKING A POINT: Mary Barra, chief executive offi cer of General
Motors. - Bloomberg fi le picture
Company will develop its autonomous vehicle
programme by having its employees at its primary
technical centre in Warren, Michigan drive a fleet
of plug-in hybrid 2017 Chevrolet Volts
Mary BarraGM Chief Executive
– Bloomberg fi le picture
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FEATURES AT U R DAY, O C TO B E R 3, 2 0 1 5
US exports to China rose to 8,560 metric tonnes last year, up 22-fold from 2009, US Department of Agriculture data show.
CHINA’S SURGING LOBSTER DEMAND
Every Sunday for the past seven months, about 60,000 live North Amer-ican lobsters packed in
wet newspapers and Styrofoam coolers make the 18-hour fl ight to Asia in a Korean Air Lines Co. cargo plane.
The 7,500-mile (12,000-kilom-eter) trip from Halifax, Nova Sco-tia, to Shanghai via South Korea has become a weekly routine this year with a surge in demand from China, where lobsters caught in North Atlantic waters are at least one-third the cost of compet-ing supplies. As a result, exports have skyrocketed from Canada and the US, the world’s top pro-ducers, and American prices are the highest ever. With no lobster industry of its own, China had re-lied mostly on Australian imports to satisfy growing demand as its middle class expanded. When
the catch began shrinking off Western Aus-
tralia, and a 2012
g l u t i n
the Gulf of Maine sent prices plunging in the US that year, it became more attractive for the world’s most-populous na-tion to buy from halfway around the world. “When the domestic market collapsed, we looked far-ther and farther” for buyers, said Stephanie Nadeau, who shipped 2.5 million pounds last year by air to China for The Lobster Co. in Arundel, Maine. “I never sold a lobster to China until 2010. It was the really low price and the dealer’s desperation here be-cause we had high catches and a god-awful economy. We had to move the lobster.”
Exports jumpUS exports to China rose to 8,560 metric tonnes last year, up 22-fold from 2009, US Department of Agriculture data show. Ship-ments already are up 12 percent in 2015.
It’s easy to see why. Chinese importers shopping on Alibaba.com can buy live Canadian lob-sters prized for their tail meat and big claws for $6 to $10 a pound, according to the website, compared with $20 to $33 for Australia’s Southern rock lob-sters - a diff erent species that doesn’t have claws. Increased demand from Asia provided a new outlet for US producers who saw prices drop after their catches expanded by 66 per-
cent in the decade through 2013 to 68,000 tonnes.
Buyers in Asia want their lob-sters live at markets and restau-rants. To survive the long trip, the sea creatures should arrive within 48 hours of being removed from water tanks, exporters say.
“You don’t get paid for dead lobsters,” Nadeau said. She added more refrigerated trucks and a storehouse in Canada with a tank to ensure stable supplies all year
round, including during the busy Chinese New Year.
More expensiveNot everyone is cheering the ex-port surge. US supply tightened this year as harsh winter weather slowed the catch in Canada and frigid ocean temperatures in Maine kept lobsters away from shallow waters where they’re trapped, delaying the summer harvest, according to Michael Gardner, president of Halifax- based Gardner Pinfold Consult-ing. Wholesale Canadian claw and knuckle meat is up 32 per-cent from a year ago, touching an all-time high of $22.75 a pound on July 31, according to research company Urner Barry, which has been tracking food prices since 1858. Steve Kingston, owner of The Clam Shack in Kennebunk-port, Maine, has had more diffi -culty securing the 1,000 to 1,500 pounds he needs every weekend. With costs up as much as 60 per-cent, he raised prices, though he said sales of lobster rolls are up 10 percent this year from last.
Rising demandFor now, there’s no sign of Chi-nese demand slowing, and North American supply is a preferred option after declin-ing numbers of baby lobsters reduced Australian supplies by almost half in the decade
through 2013, according to gov-ernment data. In the same period, exports to China fell 60 percent.China’s middle class may surge to 1 billion people by 2030 from about 150 million last year, boosting incomes that will drive demand for all kinds of higher-value foods, including crusta-ceans, said Abhay Sinha, a senior food and retail analyst at London-based researcher Technavio. The country already consumes 35 percent of the world’s seafood, and by 2019 will boost consump-tion of all crustaceans, including crab and shrimp, by 50 percent from last year. Lobsters are viewed as a sta-tus symbol in China, and their red colour is considered lucky, Sinha said. “Cooked lobster does the trick,” said Richard Wahle, a marine sciences professor at the University of Maine. – Bloomberg News
“I never sold a lobster to
China until 2010. It was
the really low price and
the dealer’s desperation
here because we had
high catches and a god-
awful economy.
Stephanie NadeauLobster trader for The Lobster
Co. in Arundel, Maine
It’s never too early to introduce children to science. In fact, research from the University of Pennsylvania shows that an early childhood fi lled with mental stimulation from educational tools results in more highly developed cogni-tive skills by the child’s teen years. While young children receive science,
technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in school, it’s up to parents to enhance their exposure to these subjects outside the classroom. Whether they are creating bridges with plastic bendy straws or conducting messy science projects involving baking soda and a plastic bag, here are some resources parents can turn toward to help cultivate a new genera-tion of scientifi c thinkers:
LOOK TO YOUR COMMUNITY Find local after-school programmes or clubs that focus on STEM education. Many of these extracurricular programmes are led by qualifi ed instructors and off er hands-on experience in several STEM fi elds, such as computer programming, biol-ogy or chemistry. Additionally, after-school programmes are excellent opportunities for children to socialise with others and make friends with similar interests.
TURN TO TECHNOLOGYSpark imaginative learning by integrating tech-nology into your child’s education. Tablets and other smart devices off er thousands of gam-ing applications that repurpose information in a fun and engaging way, captivating children
with quizzes, puzzles, 3-D gaming and more – all in the name of science. Tel-evision shows, such as Bill Nye the Science Guy and others featured on edu-
cational children’s networks, can also open your child’s eyes to the many fascinating and remarkable areas of STEM subjects.
CREATE YOUR OWN SCIENCE LABGet creative and browse Pinterest for crafty do-it-yourself STEM
projects for children. Incorporate one of your child’s favourite ac-tivities into a project that you can work on together, like creat-
ing a scientifi c model of their favourite animal. Additionally, these moments spent together will allow you to learn along-
side your children, ultimately creating a bonding experi-ence as you help them expand their minds.
ENTER INTO A SCIENCE COMPETITIONEncourage your child to enter a local or national
science fair, such as the Toshiba/National Sci-ence Teachers Association ExploraVision pro-
gramme, the only STEM-related competition of its kind that allows children to create
ideas for new technological innovations in response to current real-world issues. Hands-on, creative learning experience helps students grow their problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration skills. Family Features
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9:15PMGold Class : 6:15PMEtiquette for Mistresses : 2D (Tagalog) Cast : Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza4:15PM (TBC)Straight Outta Compton : 2D (Biography) Cast : Felix Gary Gray, Jason Mitchell6:45PMSicario (Action, Crime, Drama) (12+)Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin2:30PM & 11:45PMHotel Transylvania - 2 : 3D (Animation) (PG)10:30AMThe Intern: 2D (Comedy ) (PG12)Cast : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro12:15PM
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PINOCCHIO - 2D (PG) AnimationVoice Overs: Vica Kerekes, Marie Ludvíková, Pavel ReznícekTimings : 3:35 PM
SINGH IS BLING (Action / Comedy) Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta, Kay Kay MenonTimings: 1.00, 3.45, 6.30, 9.30 PM
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WITH LOVE
DHYANA NIDHEESH October 3, 2014
MOHAMED AFSHIN October 3, 2004
LIFESTYLEB7S AT U R DAY, O CTO B E R 3, 2 0 1 5
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1 Just scrape by 4 — du jour 8 Extremely luxurious 12 Hosp. professionals13 Lunar phenomenon 14 Dog-chow brand 15 Gestured 17 Means of shipping 18 Lessened 19 Cold, as an old house 21 Truckers’ radios 22 Aberdeen boy 23 Shop machine 26 Black mark 30 Intense anger 31 Come to the rescue 32 Dory mover 33 Ivories tickler 36 Shrewd 38 Fly ball’s path 39 Dawdle 40 Thin 43 Surface 47 Go sightseeing 48 Fatigued (2 wds.) 50 Low choir voice 51 Rock star, maybe 52 Sis’ sib 53 — hot and cold 54 Coral islets 55 Bask on the beach
Crossword Puzzle
Q u e s t i o n s & A n s w e r s
It’s better not to argue with...
My mother
If I had treasures I would
hide them...Under my pillow
cover.
One thing that puts me off ...
When I do not get TV remote
One movie/book I can watch/
read over and over again...
Watching Rush Hour movie
When I’m in doubt...
I browse Wikipedia
If I met an alien I would...
Scream
One person I would trade
places with (real or fi citional)
My dear brother
I go crazy when...I watch Ninjahatori
The scariest thing that I have done...Watched Conjuring
movie alone
The best way to my heart is...
Never give up
If I win a lottery...I will buy something
for myself and balance I would give
to poor.
If I have to describe myself
as a fl avour it would be...Chocolate
If I could go back in history,
I would like to meet...
Mahatma Gandhiji
Send your contributions to [email protected]. A good quality photo is compulsory. Lifestyle reserves the right to
publish the contributions.
MANIISH VIJAY
DOWN
1 “Cope Book” aunt 2 Rounded handle 3 Como — usted? 4 Moon, in poetry 5 Secures a contract6 Pub pint 7 Moved with an unsteady gait 8 Brass band event 9 Viking name 10 Narrow point of land 11 — cow!
16 Prickly sensation 20 Rear-end 23 Bottle edge 24 Christina’s pop 25 Mild brew 26 Morse signal 27 Prez after Jimmy 28 Fleming of 007 fame29 Give it a go 31 Cowl wearer 34 Like some escapes 35 1040 agcy.
36 Dromedaries 37 Made mellow 39 Bad, bad Brown of song 40 Iffy attempt 41 Vote 42 Traffic stopper 44 Sticks up 45 Meditation guide 46 Thames school 49 Mont. neighbour
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By Swati Dasgupta
One skill I would like to learn...
Gymnastics
Tea time
Double-trouble by Isidore
Matt was down with viral. He was feeling mis-erable since morning. His
father had already left for work and mother had gone to Muttrah veg-etable market to pick up a few es-sentials. He couldn’t sleep well last night because of his body ache and was feeling tired and sleepy.
“Oh! This fl u bug that’s going around has fi nally caught me,” he thought.
Matt wondered what his friends at school must have been doing. “I am sure they are enjoying Jia’s birthday,” he pondered.
“It looks like I have to be in the confi nes of the home for the next few days,” he mumbled on his own and went on to get a glass of water.
Matt had hardly taken the bot-tle in his hand when he heard some noise.
It was 10 in the morning and at that time most of the people would be out of their homes. “What could be the noise all about?” The noise of the clamour stopped after a while and Matt went back to his bed. He was feeling cold. He switched off the air conditioner and pulled up the blanket. His eyes were burn-ing. As soon as he closed his eyes he heard the noise again. This time the scream was louder and clearer.
Matt couldn’t resist his curios-
ity. He went to the balcony to check from where the noise was coming. The balcony from his room faced the main road and except for the few cars that raced during the busy morning hours there was no sign of any commotion.
The noise was coming from the apartment premises.
Matt was in a fi x. He really didn’t know what to do! He wanted to open the main door and see what the noise was all about but at the same time remembered his mother’s word of caution: “Matt do not open the door till I come in.”
“Mom would not like me doing this. I better listen to her,” with these thoughts Matt turned to go back to his room. But the cry got louder and now Matt couldn’t avoid it.
“What if someone is in need and wants help!”
Matt without thinking further opened the door. As soon as he opened it he saw smoke in the cor-ridors. “What’s this? From where is the smoke coming from,” he shouted aloud.
Matt frantically tried to fi nd out from where the smoke was coming from when he realised that it was just from the fl at opposite theirs. He pressed the fi re alarm bell on and again yelled for help.
“Oh God! Tulip must be inside with her caregiver,” Matt said.
Tulip was a cute little two-year-
old girl who would be at home with her caregiver at this time of the day. Her parents were working.
Matt knocked the door hard and even tried to open it but in vain. From inside he could hear the car-egivers cry for help.
“Please help us! There is a fi re in the house! The main door has got jammed and I am unable to come out with the baby.”
Hearing this Matt got hysterical. He couldn’t think of anything. All he knew was that under all circum-stances he had to rescue Tulip and
her caregiver. Neither could he un-bolt the door, nor did anyone hear his plea for help.
What if something happens to Tulip and her caregiver!
Matt decided not to panic further and thought hard to fi nd a way out. He suddenly remembered that all the fl ats in their building had an ad-joining passage that led towards the backside of the building. “I am sure I can get in from the window there and thus go inside the house,” he thought.
Luckily the window opened in
one push and Matt crawled inside the house. His head was throbbing in pain and he knew his temperature must have risen but it was not the time to think of personal problems. One small mistake on his part could harm Tulip and her caregiver.
He landed on the fl oor with a loud thud. The house was full of smoke and Matt coughed hard. He franti-cally searched for Tulip and her car-egiver and found them huddled in one corner of the room.
“Please help us,” cried her car-egiver tugging Tulip in her lap. Matt
was unable to reach to the main door because of the smoke. So with-out wasting time any further he told the caregiver to follow him. Within minutes he jumped out of the small window and pulled Tulip out to. But how could her caregiver creep out from the narrow space.
Matt was panic-stricken but soon he saw many people rushing for help. Somebody had even informed the fi re department and they broke open the main door to save Tulip’s caregiver.
Matt was feeling faint when he saw his mother rushing. She hugged her son and asked: “Hope you are fi ne dear and not scared.”
Matt gave a faint smile and said: “I am perfectly all right mum. I wasn’t scared I knew I had to save them at any cost.”
Most of the residents of the fl ats had arrived by then and each one thanked Matt for being so brave and for saving two precious lives. Tu-lip’s parents had tears in their eyes. They said: “Matt you are more than a hero. You are an angel and by doing this great act you have proved that we can make a huge diff erence in life by being brave and selfl ess. God bless you!”
Matt’s mother smiled hearing this. She thanked God for all his mercies and most of all for bless-ing her with a son who made her so proud. – [email protected]
Be brave and selfl ess in time of need
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LIFESTYLES AT U R DAY, O C TO B E R 3, 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
A N N G N R E G T R E V O R N L I O E O O E T E I D R I B O A C G S Z A T V A R N O L D S N K O R T A L R L V I P H I L O L B U O A R B O I I E C F E I A L O S E W A Y H S R W A K S U E T V C G D S K Y D P L C S S T A D N R N C S B A O D I E R S N I O O A T D B Y J O M F E U T F I J A I E O G R I W O O T F P F L O G G B U O O V R U I M A R K F R E D O B L N P L A Y E R E S N E A D N L D C H O L E I N O N E C M I Z E C R E N S H A W E N E G O A T
TelewordSudoku
Arnold, Birdie, Bobby, Byron, Championship, Clifford, Craig, Crenshaw, Crystal, Double, Doug, Faldo, Fred,
Gene, Georgia, Goalby, Goblets, Gold, Golf, Hole-in-One, Horton, Jack, Mark, Mickelson, Mize, Nicklaus, Phil,
Player, Private, Professional, Putting, Round, Salver, Sarazen, Silver, Snead, Tour, Trevor, Vase, Vijay, Watson,
Weir, Woods. Answer: Green Coat
CLUE: THE MASTERS SOLUTION: 9 LETTERS
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Afan Khan, Grade 9, ISM Tushrima Kelshikar, Grade 10, ISM
Vandan Thacker, Grade 8, Indian School Al Seeb
Srinidhi Rajesh, Grade 5, ISM
Alfred Benoy, Grade 2, ISM Vedika Jigar Sheth, KG 1 Middle East Nursery Anish Seth, Grade 4, ISG
My Sister
Zainab FatimaGrade VIIPakistan School Mussanah
I have a sisterWho is like a blister.She loves to fi ght with meBut sleeps at night with me.She always loves to playWith dolls and cars and clay.If I take anythingShe snatches it like lighting.She always tells meThat a queen she would be.She loves to play in rainAnd does not use her brain.She is always a trouble makerBut I still love her.She has many gutsAnd loves to eat nuts.She is always very naughtyBut thinks herself haughty.All my love is for herAs she is my little sister.
Stars
Ritika SunilGrade VIndian School Sur
The stars so highwith the world so highI twinkle in the skyIn the dark night skyI love to see the children in the EarthThey know my nameThey smile at meWhen I’m happy I twinkle in the sky.I’m a small little star that twinkles in the sky.My world is so highUp the skySo high so high.
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Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
3500 sqr mtrs open Industrial land
for rent in Rusail. Contact 99792181
1000 sqr mtrs store in Mabela in-
dustrial area. Contact 99792181
New 1 & @2 Bhk Flat in CBD opposit
Al maya supermarket.
Contact: 99792181
1 BHK fl at in Ruwi ( Honda Road).
Contact 99792181
2 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair.
Contact 99792181
Commercial cum residential new
building looking for one company,
location Muttrah near Police Station.
For more details contact: 99364735
/ 95729711
Twin villa 6BR hall, kitchen at
Al Ansab-2. Contact: 99747560 /
99444786
1BHK fl at with A/C AL Khuwair
250/- R.O. Contact: 99358589 /
95570288
02 BHK Commercial / residential
(with Split A/C) fl at at Honda road.
Contact : 99342733 / 99795241
2 BHK residential fl at opposite
to AL Nadha Hospital. Contact :
99342733 / 99795241
2 bedroom villa in Sidab.
Contact: 95755953 / 95555162
1BHK Ruwi & 3BHK Bosher. Contact: 99024730
2BHK new Amerat with AC 230/-
R.O. Contact: 99024730
House for rent 4BR family hall,
fi tting room, dining room, kitchen,
store with A/C & satellite reception
at Mawaleh south , behind Sultan
discount center rent R.O 550/-.
Contact: 93653311
600 SQT commercial fl at for rent
opposite Oman fl ourmill Darsait
more details. Contact: 91214849/
99364735
Shops for rent in Wadi Kabeer.
Contact: 99888390
Villa for rent - Al Seeb/Al Mawelah -
Block 5 - 4 bedrooms with
attached bathrooms , Majlis, 2 halls,
kitchen and storeroom.
split Ac and carpark -
Contact 99564616 / 99498448
2BHK with split AC near PDO Gate
No.2 Qurum available for immediate
renting. Contact : 94057023
2 BHK with split AC Al Khuwair -33
for residential & commercial use.
Contact : 94057023
New fl ats for rent in Darsait
Al Sahal. Contact: 99777351
Flats, shops for rent in Ruwi, MBD &
Mumtaz area. Contact 97293708
3BHK fl at Darsait Near I.D card Med-
ical 450/- R.O. Contact: 99358589 /
95570288
1, 2 BHK in Azaiba. Contact:
99385835 / 99428143
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rentals.
Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirt-
ing, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery,
Crockery, Glassware, Chafi ng Dishes,
Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Sys-
tems and spectacular lighting. Call
Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and
Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
ww.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
FOR HIRE
Trailor with driver for hire.
Contact: 92303774
Bobcat Grader and roller for rent.
Contact: 94584688
NRI
Plot for sale 10 cent plot facing the
lake for sale in Kollam town, 2 km
away from Mulangadakam temple.
Please contact: 00968 91271516
Old Goan Portuguese house for sale
location Parra Bardez North Goa
build-up area 150 sq mtr Total area
400 sq mtr price 1.85 CR negotiable
India. Contact: 919225903788 Oman.
Contact: 93277007
(call after 7 pm)
2BHK, 2 Baths, Split A/C, Wadi ka-
beer towards Al bustan, Near Indian
Elementary School.
Contact 99441193, 93004802
Room Al Khuwair R.O 120/-.
Contact : 97799175
1BHK Mumtaz R.O 250/-.
Contact: 97799175
1,2 BHK Darsait. Contact :
97799175
2BHK Ghubra RO 325/-.
Contact: 97799175
1BHK Ghubra R.O 275/-.
Contact : 97799175
2 BHK Wadi Kabeer R.O 300/-.
Contact : 97799175
Flat and show room for rent
Al Khuwair 33, Al Ghubrah, Darsait
and Jibroo. Contact: 24485240 /
24485241 / 93651633 / 92109563
1 & 2 bedroom fl ats available for
rent in wadi-kabir (opp: pencil bldg),
ideal for company staff / families -
bulk corporate deal possible.
Contact: 97677170
500/1000 sqm industrial land with
compound wall at Misfah behind
Oman Oil fi lling Station.
Contact : 99342733 / 99795241
New deluxe villas at Madinat
Qaboos. Contact: 99369081
1,2 BHK fl ats in Wadi Al Kabeer.
Contact: 99369081
Furnished room for rent at
Al Khuwair R.O 225/- for family only.
Contact: 99251975
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 1 5 C3
5 Seater sofa with cushions Center
table and 2 side tables in excellent
condition for immediate sale.
Contact: 96027403
Shop for sale or rent at Ruwi City.
Contact: 99103077
Shop for sale in Sohar- Offi ce
purpose in the main centre of Sohar
Contact – 99437086
Muscat hill luxury 4 bedroom apart-
ment 209 sq. meters under construc-
tion for sale for RO 15000. only 10%
paid. Balance in easy installment.
Expected completion in
Jan 17. Contact: 98083217
Beauty Salon for sale in Azaiba
prime location behind Al fardan
building. With sponsor and 1 staff
and 1 ready visa clearance.
Contact: 95318629
Used Fabrication machinery for sale
: Fabrication machinery and tools
in excellent condition for immediate
sale. Contact 94652485/ 99273774/
99202278
Shop for sale in CBD area prime lo-
cation G. Floor + mezzanine low rent.
Contact: 90112434
Used air condition.
Contact : 97093793
Building material shop for sale at
Misfah near Oman Cement factory.
Contact : 99617464 / 95961577
Ice Cream & juices shop in Ruwi
good location for sale suitable for
beauty parlor also.
Contact: 92150455
Computer training centre for sale.
contact 94412557
Ladies parlor for sale at Ansab.
Contact: 98806430
For sale land in Amerat 3000 Sq.mt
with petrol pump permission.
Contact 99323957 / 92702891
FOR SALE ACC. AVAILABLE
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AMAZING PRICESConvert ANY type of Scrap into Money by selling us the scrapGreat prices are guaranteed
for our clients!Call this number now for
urgent response - 96059470
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AFFORDABLE QUALIFIED STAFF AVAILABLE:
Hurry and call this number now! 95967902
Our professionals give YOU:
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Hurry now and call this number 91494149
SITUATION WANT-M.V. FOR SALE
SITUATION WANT-M.V. FOR SALE
SITUATION WANT-M.V. FOR SALE
For sale BMW 730 Li, 2008 model,
3000cc, maroon colour with beige
interiors, 14500KMS, serviced
at dealer, single Owner driven,
R.O 5500. Contact: 95731861
/92265958
Nissan Altima 2005 automatic.
Contact: 99454425
Mitsubishi 10 ton Truck 2006
model company body, registra-
tion valid till May 2016 for sale.
Contact: 95150329
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* Subject to space availability
MATRIMONIAL
MATRIMONIAL
CHANGE OF NAME
LOST
RC, Keralite ( Kottayam) male,
27 yrs, Civil Engineer, working in
Muscat from decent family looking
for suitable alliance.
Contact : 95035953
NAIR GIRL, B.Tech (Civil) 23/163,
Pooram from Alappuzha (district)
working as a Civil Engineer with
Kerala Govt: on adhoc basis looking
suitable alliance from professionals.
Contact :95230285
RC Girl (Trissur) 28, 152 cm slim
(middle class) MBA, working in
Muscat seeking suitable alliance.
Contact: 93867447
A respectable Hindu kapu( Naidu)
family from Vijayawada A- P- India
invites alliances for their daughter
25 years old B.teh computer science
father working in Oman.
Contact: 95097913, 99744870
Email: [email protected]
31 years RC boy, M. Com MBA - work-
ing in Sohar - Seeks alliance from
Christian families -
Contact 94219830
Room for rent available in a fl at for
Executive bachelor at Azaiba behind
AL Meera Market with attached bath
with cot & A/c, rent RO 175/- per
month including water & Electricity.
Contact 96404166 / 97433992
Two bed rooms with 2 toilets and
sharing, Kitchen available near
Al Falaj hotel. Contact: 90269652
Large room furnished sep / entrance
Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99336206
Furnished room available in Ruwi
for bachelor. Contact: 93086584
2BHK available for offi ce Ghubra.
Contact: 99269751
Single exclusive room available
for Executive bachelor furnished
separate toilet, kitchen sharing Wadi
Kabir behind Golden Oasis hotel.
Contact: 99335145
Single room, bath Darsait R.O 140/-.
Contact: 93289652
Sharing accommodation for Indian
family Ruwi high street.
Contact : 99895616
A big room in available near Ham-
riya R/A for Muslim couple / small
family / Executive bachelor rent
150/- per month including W+ E.
Contact: 99495131
Accommodation available for
indian executive bachelor’s
(no kitchen).RO:125 including water
and electricity
Contact no. .. 98145825, 98949724
GOOD NEWS
Genuine Ayurvedic treatments &
massage, Ayurvedic clinic at
Al Khuwair. Contact: 24478618 /
97263637 / 93309131
FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know
more about Islam, please call:
99425598, 99250777, 99353988,
99253818, 99341395, and
99379133. For ladies: 99415818,
99321360, 99730723
Orvisit:www.islamfact.com
Ayurvedic Treatment for joint
pain, backache, paralysis, massage,
steam bath, obesity, spondylitis ,
IDEAL CARE Ayurvedic Clinic,
18 November Street, Azaiba
Contact: 99639695 / 98342990
Ayurvedic massage backache,
joint pain, neck pain etc.
Contact 98254909
Ayurvedic treatment for backache,
paralysis, arthritis etc & massage,
All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact
24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980
www.siddhayur.com
40 Feet Atlas Trailor 2010.
Contact: 99454425
Toyota YARIS. Model 2008. KM
69000. Expat driven, All services
at Toyota. Very clean. Rate: 2900.
Contact 99445675.
Lexus GX 460, 2013.
Contact : 99336093
MANPOWER
Leading manpower agency to hire Recruiter from India housemaids. Contact: 99226093,
Email: [email protected]
Bilal Uddin Mohammed has lost
Bangladeshi Passport
No. E 0862186. Finder please
handover to ROP
Mohammad Abdullah has lost
Bangladeshi Passport No. E 1690107.
Finder please handover to ROP
Announces company Muhannad bin Saleh bin Khalifa Al Mukhaini and partner trade solidarity and restricted the trade and industry department of the province of South
East under No. 1213362 it is in the
process of modifying its trade name
to Saleh bin Khalifa AL Mukhaini
company and partner trade solidar-
ity and on each of his objection to
that he has to submit reasons for his
objection to manage trade and in-
dustry of the province of South East.
Seeking alliance for our son from
Muslim families. Interested families
Contact: 99889590
CATERING
DAILY GUIDEC4 S AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 1 5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461
DESIGNER
DOMESTIC HELP
DOMESTIC HELP
DRAUGHTSMAN
EDUCATION
ENGINEER/TECH/MECH
ENGINEER/TECH/MECHADMIN
ACCOUNTANT
ACCOUNTANT
BEAUTICIAN
DRIVER
MEDICAL
SEC/OFFICE
MANAGER/SUP
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
SALES / MARKETING
DRIVER
Required heavy duty truck driver
holding Omani driving license w/ 5
years experience please
Contact 92001111
Driver with Oman driving licence
needed. Visa available.
Contact 94288863
Looking for an experienced house driver for an Omani family. Inter-
ested candidates may
Contact: 96203333
Urgently Required: MEP Engineer-
Degree holder and with 7 years
experience in building construction,
MUST have NOC and immediately
join. Apply, fax 00968–24605955,
emails [email protected],
Biomedical Engineer is required, preferably with Oman exp.
Contact: 99337840
Housemaid (exp 20 years)
looking for English, family.
Contact: 99564133 / 96534195
MISCELLANEOUS
Required Salesman, Store keeper,
Private driver, preferably with good
experience and communication
skills. Contact: 91408759 Email:
A leading Construction Company in Muscat urgently requires the
following candidates: - 1) Electrome-chanical Supervisors 2) Electrical Foreman 3) Plumbing foreman 4) Electricians 5) Plumbers. Send CV : [email protected]
or call 99344279
Building material Salesman, Electrician cum Plumber & C.C.T.V Technician. Contact: 99383044
Sir Lankan Secretary with experi-
ence in recruitment fi eld.
Contact: 92809528
Cooks & helpers for café. Contact: 95529970
Restaurant Staff urgently required Tandoor roti maker, waiter/ helper
required in restaurant in Saham.
Contact : 98029701 / 95821905
Required Catering Supervisor, Chef, Asst. Cook & Chapathi makers for a catering Company in
interior area. Apply with NOC.
SMS : 99242984
Light driver looking for job.
Contact: 93985153
Pakistani light vehicle driver hav-
ing 2 yrs exp. Contact: 96105925
Light driver looking for full time job.
Contact: 95154610
4 years exp driver need a job.
Contact: 94208089
Pakistani driver with car.
Contact: 91248202
Driver looking for job.
Contact 92303744
Light driver Pakistani age 24 years.
Contact: 97106232
Indian driver with experience in
Oman. Contact: 96255558
Looking for driver job.Contact
93650209
Bangladesh 24 years, 2 years expe-
rience. Contact: 97806144
Light driver with car Hyundai
Accent 2016. Contact : 94039796
Bangladeshi light driver (AG) 48)
expe, 14 years, need job & visa have
release paper transpire.
Contact 99165961
Driver. Contact: 95084826
Pakistani male light vehicle driver
looking for job.
Contact: 96474528
Driver with car. Contact :91452930
Wanted driver. Contact 95112461
An Omani Co. located at Muscat
start a new workshop with three
divisions: Steel, Carpentry and
Aluminum and looking for experts Supervisor and Foremen. The can-
didate must have minimum 10 yrs.
experience and
GCC driving license. Send C.V to
A 10 yrs successful steel workshop with 25 staff members, looking for an experienced Manager who has
to lead successfully, control overall
expenditures & deliver more oppor-
tunities to the Workshop. Successful
candidate will be paid as percent-
age of monthly workshop revenue.
Contact: 97080700
General Foreman. Required Fore-man (MEP) with 4 to 5 years experi-
ence for maintenance of building.
Having valid Omani driving license.
Contact: 94652485
E-mail: [email protected]
Required Sales Manager for a hotel
supply company with minimum
5 years experience.
Contact 92035162
Omani Receptionist required recep-
tionist, well presented with excellent
communications skills and telephone
manner, fl uent in Arabic and English
required for Ruwi offi ce. Candidates
should be familiar with MS English
and Arabic offi ce suite. Send CV and
covering email to
Wanted Accountant for an insurance
brokerage offi ce. Interested please
send CV on fax: 24601729
ADMIN
Indian diploma Civil Eng, 2 yrs
Infrastructure Projects (4G, Towers,
substation) landscaping & Auto
CAD. Contact: 94756183 Email:
Electrical Engineer (B.E) with 5
years experience (3 yrs in Gulf) NOC
available. Contact: 92119851 Email:
Resident Engineer B.E civil 25 years
exp 12 yrs in Architecture consul-
tancy having Oman Dubai D/L NOC
available. Contact: 95732453
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experi-
ence with constructions companies
- 1 years in Oman - qualifi ed as Site
Engineer & Planning Engineer.
Contact+968-94682217
B.E in Mechanical post Gradua-
tion Diploma in piping Engineering.
Contact : 94786570
Email: [email protected]
Automobile Engnr Indian with 7 yrs
experience 2 yrs Toyota and 5 yrs
Jaguar corporate experience looking
for suitable job in Oman. Contact im-
mediately: 93709706 currently on
visit visa for 10 days only
Civil Engineer Pakistani 12+2 years
Oman experience D/L required
placement. Contact: 94392616
Building site supervisor, since
March 2010 in Oman with Omani
D/L looking for suitable placement.
Contact: 93061107
Mechanical Engineer (UK ) 28
years, male looking for suitable
placement with valid Oman driving
license having 3.5 years experience
in Oman NOC available. Contact 968
97612297 immediate availability.
Email: [email protected]
Mechatronics (Electrical, Mechani-
cal) Engineer, 3 years of experi-
ence. Contact: 91234024 Email:
Indian male 29, having 7 years exp
in construction fi eld& Auto Cad in
Oman. Having valid driving license.
Fluent in English & Arabic. Looking
for suitable job in reputed fi rm.
Contact - 99650569
BE (Civil) Indian male with 20 years
experience with reputed consul-
tancy companies & working for one
of the prestigious project of Muscat
since 2008 seeks suitable position.
Contact: 92511428,
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, 24 having
knowledge in HVAC looking for suit-
able placement. Contact: 95434381
Email: shuhaibusman313@gmail.
com
Agriculture Engineer Egyptian in
Oman available till 10th Oct experi-
ence 5 years. Contact: 90155723
Electrical and Electronics Engineer with one year experience and GCC
licence holder seeking a job
mail – [email protected]
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
Urgently required Gulf experi-enced Beautician for a well known
parlor in Muscat. Send the details to
contact 0096896789862
Urgently required experienced Beautician. Contact 96616731 or
send CV to [email protected]
A leading Construction Company in Muscat urgently requires Draughtsman (Civil).
Send CV : [email protected] or
call 99344279
Required Graphic Designer (mini-
mum 2 years experience) Client Ser-
vice Executive with Omani license
(minimum 2 years experience) visa
available. Contact: 96727631 send
CV to [email protected]
Urgently needed female Dermatologist with minimum 5 yrs
experience. Send CV :
P.S. details of salary and benefi ts will
be sent after submitting the CV
Looking for pharmacist with a valid
MOH license to work in Bidbid. Send
CV to [email protected]
Required urgently General Physi-cian Gynecology, Pharmacist, LAB Technicians staff nurse. Contact: 95133572
Email: [email protected]
Wanted a Lab Technician with valid
M.O.H license and N.O.C to work in
a polyclinic. Salary R.O 450/- per
month (package).
Contact: 96493058 (2 pm to 4 pm).
Email: [email protected]
Wanted Nurse for dental centre in Mawaleh South & Qurum.
Contact 93431024,
Email : [email protected]
Required Pharmacies with license,
needed for clinic in Al Khoudh ,
Contact :+968 97696502 , mail CV to
Experienced Manager in HR, Ad-
ministration and Finance. More than
10 years gulf experience including
four years in Oman. Having Oman
Driving License and NOC
Contact 93264005
Indian female 24 years BE Elec-
tronics now in Oman visiting visa
searching job for any Administra-
tive Sectors telecommunicat-
ing, banking, teaching. Contact:
95935867 / 99536948 Email:
Indian male BBA Graduate 12 years
experience in Administration level
15 months exp in Oman having NOC
available looking for suitable place-
ment. Contact : 91458388
Indian Female MBA, 3 years expe-
rience in Admin MIS, family Visa.
Contact 98234427,
Indian male 25 years MBA (HR)
Now in Oman visiting visa search-
ing job for Administration, HR Cus-
tomer relation. Contact: 90196322 /
91049868 Email:
14 years of gulf experience in HR /
Admin & logistics fl uent in Arabic
/ English with D/L looking for suit-
able position. Contact: 95824598
Indian 17 yrs experience in Admin
and have knowledge in Accounting
seeks job. Have driving license and
release. Contact : 99573353
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
A leading institution in Muscat re-quires a Teacher for Indian Classical
Dance. The candidate should be well
qualifi ed and experienced. Send your
resume to [email protected]
A private School looking for an Eng-
lish teacher, preferable (Philipino
- Jordanian) Nationality for more
information. Contact: 98982088
Post Graduate researcher required. Contact 99229700
A well – known private School require English, Mathematics, Science, Computer and KG Teachers. Contact: 96910649
Email: staffi [email protected]
Wanted Sales man with valid Oman
driving license for an electrical
trading company.
Email: [email protected]
Required Graduate with Omani driving license preferably Indian
willing to travel outside Muscat.
Contact: 99454425
Required Salesman, Tailor & Barber. Contact: 96964767
Required experienced Sales & Marketing Executive for sports
club. Preference will be given who
has experience in Oman and valid
driving license. Please send your
CV to [email protected] or
Sales Incharge 5 years experience
(Oman) language English, Arabic.
Contact: 24566813 Email: hammad-
Sales man (Dairy) 2 years exp as a
Sales man with FMCG in GCC , Loca-
tion Muscat, Barka, Khaboura , Ibri,
Izki & Al Kamil, key skills Salesman
(Dairy) & Sales (Dairy) / business
development. Contact: Ahmed
Al Salami 96929227 Telephone:
26940215 Fax: 24811565 Email:
Looking for a Staff has experience
in Oman in real estate and real estate
valuation. Interested Contact:
mobile: 99109094
Email: [email protected]
Marketing Manager with Oman
experience & driving license.
Contact: 95766844
Looking for qualifi ed, good commu-
nication and computer skills candi-
date with experience for position of : Sales Manager to work in high-end
window tinting business. Minimum
academic requirements: bachelor’s
degree and own a driving license.
Kindly email your CV to
Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light
license. Send your CV
Part Time Accounting, Accounts
Finalization, Audit Preparation, In-
ternal Audit, Accounting System for
New Companies, #96975454,
email :[email protected]
Indian female B.Com Graduate
2 years Oman experience in tally
ERP 9 seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 95186652
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, WITH
13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman in
manufacturing, trading & con-
tracting Cos, capable of handling
all accounting, fi nance, bank-
ing, L/C, import, export & fi na-
lization seeks placement. NOC
Available. Call+968-98932752,
mail:[email protected]
B.Com (Indian Male) with 5 years
experience (2 years GCC) in Ac-
counts & Audit fi eld. # 95584531
Indian male, 34 years MBA fi nance,
having 9 years experience, looking
for suitable placement presently on
visit visa. Contact: 92914869 Email:
Indian female 28 years M.Com,
Accountant having 6 years experi-
ence in Accounts, fi nalization, Tally
currently on visit visa.
Contact : 95595083 Email:
Part time accountant, senior ac-
countant, doing all type of ac-
counting works, up to fi nalization.
contact.95254864
Indian male 23 yrs B.com having
3 yrs accounts exp in India looking
for suitable placement presently on
visit visa.#:94131842 / 93516968,
Email: [email protected]
Part time Accountant, up to fi na-
lization, looking for job after 5 pm
(location prefer – MSQ to AL Hail).
Contact: 95694737
ACCA fi nalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-
ate, Indian female, looking for full
time employment in Accounting
and Audit. +968 96964379,
Accounting B.Com male Diploma
in computerized professional Ac-
counting, professional & manual
accounting, 25 yrs, Indian, 25
yrs, Keralite, India. Contact:
0091 9746838659
Email: [email protected]
Finance Manager 26 years experi-
ence including 22 years Oman with
NOC. # 91302906 / 91335205
Accountant Indian female on visit
visa, degree B.Com exp Tally ERP-9
fi nalization of Accounts, Tax Ac-
counting, Stock maintenance, pay
roll, etc. # 91551164 / 91175456,
Chief Accountant, 12 years Oman
experience looking for suitable
position. Contact: 99513082
Accountant with 8 years U.A.E
experience, on visit visa, looking for
a job. Contact : 96166512
Senior Accountant 10 years experi-
ence, looking for accounts parttime
works and fi nalization works.
Contact: 96247295
Accountant 7 Years Experience
with D/L and NOC. #97712084
Indian male, 27years, MCom,
having 2years experience in Ac-
counts looking for suitable position.
Presently on visit visa. #93455055
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
Need a full time maid for cooking, cleaning and all household works.
Food and accommodation shall be
provided. In Mumtaz Residency
area, Ruwi. Immediate requirement.
Contact 91473100 between 0800hrs
– 2000 hrs.
Required one Waiter cum house boy for a Royal Omani family in
Al Khoudh. 2 to 3 years experience
candidates should send their CV on
fax no 24811352
or contact Mr. Tauqir Ahmed on
GMS no 92174983
Reputed metal fabrication company
seeks fabrication supervisor, structural steel fabricator, Machine maintenance Technician and Electrician. Contact: 99102383
Email: [email protected]
Urgently required a Indian Diploma
Civil Engineer with 1-2 years of
experience and should valid G.C.C
driving license.
Email: [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
ARCHITECT
Sr. Architect male 5 yrs exp having
NOC looking for suitable position.
Contact: 91546108
Email: [email protected]
Senior Architect, Indian male
15yrs exp. having DL& NOC, Look-
ing for suitable position.
Contact: 97239313 Email:
Jordanian Accountant (ACPA) with
more than 15 yrs experience in Oman
(Accounts, Purchase & fi nance.
Contact: 92881223
Email: [email protected]
ADMIN
Filipina, 10 yrs experience in
Fashion Retail, Shipment, Logistics,
Inventory, Warehouse Control and
Store Management is seeking
employment. Call +971565833126
or 97728418.
DRAUGHTSMAN
Indian Civil Auto cad Draftsman looking suitable placement 5 years
experience. Contact: 97465102
HOSPITALITY
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 1 5 C5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
MEDICAL
IT
SALES / MARKETING
MISCELLANEOUS
SECRETARIAL & OFIC.
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Omani female Arabic and English
speaking searching for job.
Contact 92387170
Procurement Manager: Indian male
(B.Com) having 6 more years of
purchasing experience in civil con-
struction & MEP sector is looking for
a suitable position(NOC available).
GSM:97700967
Project Manager (B.E. Arch) in
Interior décor fi t outs & MEP having
8 years experience looking for a
suitable post in a reputed fi rm. NOC
is available. Contact: 91528851
Sudanese procurement Manager three years experience in Oman.
Contact: 93391008
Senior Manager Indian, 30 years in
FMCG Business in Oman looking for
better opportunity at management
level. Contact 99231513
Dynamic result oriented hospitality
professional with 20 years of inter-
national exp. MBA in Hotel Manage-
ment, specializing in Hotel/Restau-
rant start ups, concepts & Franchise
development with proven records.
Seeking for Challenging positions
in reputed groups as GM/COO/CEO/
Business Head. (NOC available)
Contact : 96059470
MSc Nurse specialized in OBG, 3
years experience-certifi ed ACLS,BLS,
on visit visa, seeking suitable oppor-
tunities Contact:90125347
An Indian female GNM Nurse hav-
ing 10 yrs experience in Indian with
Oman MOH license seeking suitable
placement currently in Oman.
Contact: 97895004
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Nurse, prometric
passed seeks suitable placement.
Contact 97284508I
33 years, Indian male Dentist hav-
ing 7 years of experience with MOH
license is seeking suitable place-
ment. Contact: 91559265
Email: [email protected]
Well experienced management
fi nance specialist having 18 years
experience available for placement.
Contact.95602518
23, Male, ACCA Affi liate, OBU Bsc,
2.5 years of experience in audit and
fi nance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for
permanent placement in similar
fi eld. Release NOC available. Contact:
#95140445, [email protected]
22, Male, Indian, BBA (Marketing),1
year experience in India, Looking
for suitable placement in Sales and
Marketing. #91897046,
Indian Male,27,ACCA Part
Qualifi ed,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in
receivables and credit control in
Oman looking for suitable place-
ments. NOC available.
Contact 9657 4343.
Indian Female, Science Graduate, 3
years Experience in Teaching back
home. Looking for a suitable job op-
portunity as a teacher, in Schools in
Muscat Region. Contact : 96431456
/ 95704814
Indian Male, 25, Chartered Account-
ant, working with ICICI Bank India.
On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying
with parents at Azaiba.
Ph: 24492638.
Email: [email protected]
Looking for a suitable job as Jr.
Accountant/ Jr. Administration in
a reputed company. NOC Available.
GSM # 93004738.
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, 8 years ex-
perience ,Oman driving licence,Noc
available. Seek Suitable opportunity.
GSM- 98184170
ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experi-
ence, presently working in Oman as
a Senior Accountant with oman Driv-
ing license. NOC available, seek suit-
able opportunity. GSM: 97705854
Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years
of experience in production fi eld
Contact: 91247222
Email:[email protected]
Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support,
Networking, Security systems, Serv-
er support, IT sales and marketing.
Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable
placement. Contact 91033395
Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having
4yrears of experience in MNC, hands
of experiences in recruitment and
administration, fl exible for
any suitable job placements
currently in visting visa.
Contact Tel : 98864639
Email : [email protected]
Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business
Management, 6 years in Oman.
Knowledge of MS Offi ce and Arabic
Language. Seeks suitable position.
Contact 93931935
Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Busi-
ness Development. experience in
Electromechanical and Irrigation
sectors. Contact no- +971558763220
email [email protected]
Indian male, with fi nance and Law
degree, having more than 25 years
of experience in Finance/ Accounts /
Audit (5 years of Oman experience)
seeks suitable placement. NOC avail-
able. Contact: 98421619.
E-mail: [email protected].
Indian male Executive Secretary
having vast experience in admin,
logistics & procurement well versed
with computer seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact : 99514286
Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com
Finance having 2.5 year experience
as a accountant & marketing execu-
tive looking for suitable placement.
Contact: 97670816,
E.mail: [email protected]
Indian female with MBA in fi nance
seeking immediate placement.
Contact: 968-93316493
Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experi-
ence with constructions companies
- 1 years in Oman - qualifi ed as Site
Engineer & Planning Engineer .
Contact+968-94682217
ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-
ing 4 years experience in accounting
& having well knowledge in tally.
Contact:968094535881,
0091 9037622048,
Email: [email protected]
31 year Indian male PG in HR ,with 5
yrs Professional experience in HR in
Construction Oil & Gas Oman seek-
ing for a suitable placement. Kindly
contact me on 93488914, email-
Sudanese/26/Bsc Computer Sci-
ence /3 years exp/skills Excellent
knowledge in operating systems
and maintaining computers Java
Programmer Web Developer Linux
SMS solutions Android developer/
email [email protected]/con-
tact no 944958080 and 99758186.
Civil Autocad Draughtsman part
time work for job mob :96023726
Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,
MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT sup-
port, networking and server support
valid Omani D/L seeking suitable
placement in IT/Network/Server
support. Contact 92607532
Indian B.E Computer Science graduate
2012 passout. 1 .5 yrs exp. in Account-
ing. Having good communication skills
and mindset to work in a team. Having
NIIT certifi cate in Diploma in Java
Technology. # 97767894
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 24 YEARS, B.Tech (Elec-
trical & Electronics), having 2 yrs.
exp as Electrical Site Engineer. Done
IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifi cations,
seeking for suitable placement in any
related industries.
Contact 98045482,
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, 24 years, HSE Engineer
having 2 years of Indian experience.
Done IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifi ca-
tions, seeking for suitable placement
in any related industries.
Contact 98045482
27, male, ACCA fi nalist, have pro-
fessional experience up to fi naliza-
tion of Accounts, Statutory and in-
ternal audit, expertise in using tally
and focus & Oracle Software, have
3.5 years experience in accounts till
fi nalization, seeking for permanent
replacement ,GSM-97654769,email
M. Tech VLSI design, B. tech Elec-
tronics and instrumentation, Indian
female,3 years teaching experience
for graduation level students,
seeking suitable placements .
Ph:00968 92904155.
Indian male 22yr BBA with LOGIS-
TIC Diploma, exp in tally and data
entry seeking in suitable placement.
Contact; 90151739
email shakeeb.mp280gmail.com
Mechanical Draftsman, Indian male
27, Diploma in Mechanical Engineer-
ing having 7 years of experience
in Auto CAD looking for a suitable
placement. Contact : 97351786 /
96143708 E-mail :
ACCA Affi liate, OBU Degree, 2.5
years experience in audit and
fi nance in Big6 fi rm, Looking for
permanent placement. NOC release
available. Contact: #95140445,
B.Tech EEE with 4+ years experi-
ence in the fi eld of it, networking,
ex-tonics etc. presently working in
Amazon India development centre as
a content quality associate seeking
for suitable jobs in Oman. Contact :
+91 9940514005, 93116402
email: [email protected]
MBA Finance with more than fi ve
years of experience in Finance & Ac-
counts including GCC, looking for a
suitable opening. Having UAE driv-
ing license. Contact no..91391802.
Senior Accountant. 8 Years experi-
ence. NOC available. Oman driving
license. Seek suitable opportunity.
GSM- 98184170
B.E Mechanical Engineer with 2
years’ experience in HVAC fi eld on
visit visa looking for suitable job.
Contact: 93442296
Email Id: [email protected].
MBA (F) B.COM Indian female
having knowledge of accounts with
Tally looking for full or part time
job. Presently on family visit visa.
Contact: - 96259171. Email: -
Indian Male, MBA, Talented
management expert having 6 year
experience at U.A.E, India and Oman
in luxury goods and Retail. Seeking
suitable openings in related or same
fi eld. Contact:92700670
Email: [email protected]
MBA Finance with more than fi ve
years of experience in Finance & Ac-
counts including GCC, looking for a
suitable opening. Having UAE driv-
ing license. Contact no..91391802
Indian 26M, B. Tech Computer Sci-
ence graduate, 3 years exp in India,
looking for suitable job in Muscat.
Contact : 93125669,
Email : [email protected]
Indian Male Nurse with Moh
licence & Noc seeking a job with
Family Status gsm:95817579.
E.mail:[email protected]
Part- Time Accountant, well experi-
ence senior accountant ,doing all
type of accounting works, Finaliza-
tion, Budgeting available.
Contact 98803439
Sudanese/Bsc IT/26/2 years expe-
rience/excellent Eng-Arb speaking/
Omani driving license/96387227/
MBA - (F), M.Com, B.COM. Indian
female having knowledge of accounts
with Tally looking for part time or full
time job. Presently on family visa.
Contact- 91892264.
mail: [email protected]
Indian male Accountant, 12 years
experience, looking for a full time
or part time job, experience in tally
also. Contact 98983122
Pakistani, Male, Pak, Exp 14 Years
in IT Trainer / Computer Teacher,
looking for a better position in Oman,
already working in Prestigious Con-
struction Company. # 95983711.
Indian Male (Diploma in electronics
Engineering and CCNA.) having 9
years of experience in Networking, 5
years’ experience in Oman. Looking
for a suitable Placement. NOC avail-
able. GSM- 93787098,
Email –[email protected]
INDIAN MALE 24 YEARS,B. Tech
(Electrical & Electronic).Having 2
years experience as Electrical Site
Engineer in Constructions. Done
IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifi cations.
Seeking for suitable placement
in constructions or in any related
industries. Contact no: 98045482,
Email: [email protected]
Admin, having 10+ years experi-
ence in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time
Keeper, in reputed companies. Pres-
ently working in Muscat.
Contact- 968 94369965
mail - [email protected]
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 95149624
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
Egyptian very good marketing and
sales skills experience 10 years in
tourism. Contact : 90155723
Indian male Accountant with 10
years experience in Oman available
for immediate joining with Oman
driving license NOC available. Con-
tact : 99881355 / 99720602
HSE Advisor (Indian) 30 years
Nebosh, 10SH & Diploma in fi re &
Safety 9 years Gulf experience in
construction, oil & gas.
Contact: 95568731
Email: [email protected]
SR. Land Surveyor Indian 7 years
GCC exp, 2 years IND. Exp, experi-
enced in building construction
(Oman driving license).
Contact: 97437307
Electrical Engineer Indian male 29
years, having 5 years of experience
in industrial automation and utility
maintenance in India (MRF Tyres),
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 92789995 Email:
Mechanical Engineer having 1 year
exp in Mechanical Supervising look-
ing for suitable job. # 92835957
Sudanese Telecom Engineer 5 years experience in Oman.
Contact: 93391008
Young Electrical Engineer looking
for suitable placement. Having spe-
cialization in electronics.
Contact 99227861
Project Manager (Interior fi touts
décor & MEP) B.E. Arch having 8 years
experience looking for a suitable posi-
tion in a reputed company. Local re-
lease is available. Contact: 91528851
M.Tech BE civil 9 yrs experience
Project Management Indian male
(34 yrs) with NOC seeks suitable
placement in construction industry.
Contact : 99156291 / 95281545/
00919579666999 (Whatsapp)
Email: [email protected]
HSE Engineer (Indian, 26 yrs),
B.Tech Mechanical, Nebosh, 5 yrs
experience in oil & gas construction.
Contact 94616721
B.E Arch with 8 years experience as
2 Project Manager in Interior fi touts
décor & MEP works looking for
suitable. Local release is available.
Contact: 91528851
Indian male diploma in Civil Engi-neering with 20 years experience
in interior fi tout with valid driving
license NOC and local release avail-
able. Contact: 98048410
Professional Civil Engineer 25 yrs
experience with N.O.C Management
and Supervision with D/L.
Contact: 97290338
Bangladeshi Diploma Civil Engineer
3 years experience in Bangladesh 2
years in Oman.# 93796905 / 97319361
Civil Engineer, Indian M 29 5yrs
exp. having DL & NOC Looking for
suitable position. Contact: 94576233
Email: [email protected]
Degree Engineer Civil, 6 years expe-
rience Oman D/L, N.O.C available for
a suitable position.
Contact: 93523507 / 95961336
Indian male BE civil project Engi-
neer 15 years Oman experience in
building projects with valid D/L NOC
available. Contact: 92178471
BE Electrical Engineer 8 years
experience 4 years in Oman with
Oman driving license. #96942032
Civil Engineer (Diploma) seeking
for placement. Contact: 95200650
Electrician 3 years experience in
Building lines in Oman and other
related experience also. NOC avail-
able. Stay till 29.09.2015. Contact:
94057129 / 95964419 Email:
Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need
suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.
Email: [email protected]
C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech.
Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26
seeks placement. Contact : 91823331
Email: [email protected]
SUPERVISOR: Indian male site
supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING)
25 years of experience with valid
Oman Driving lic
Contact: 97498809, 93391910
Email: [email protected]
Engineer with 3 yrs experience in
Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical
maintained fi eld on visit visa looking
for suitable job. Contact 99191535
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 /
Oracle ADF Developer, Msc (IT), 2
yrs of Experience in Software De-
velopment (Oracle ADF, sql, pl/sql),
Oracle OCA & SQL Expert, Currently
on visit visa. # +968 93755858 /
92141644 Email :
IT Engineer, MBA, PMP trained,
having Omani driving license,
18+ years of experience in software
industry, looking for a suitable
position. Contact: 91244967
B.Tech IT, 2 years experience, seek-
ing job as IT Support / Customer
and Technical Support, any suitable
jobs in Oman currently on visit visa.
Contact : 98960932
Email: [email protected]
Net working Technical with driv-
ing license NOC having 2 years
experience in data and telephone
structured cabling epabx and CCTV
installing looking for suitable.
Contact: 96027516
Indian male 25 years MCA, CCNA
Certifi ed MCSE2012 having 16
months experience in network and
system administration looking
for suitable placement. Contact
97703253 / 92365310 Email:
Software Engineer, 6 yrs exp in
software projects & development
(Java,PL/SQL Unix) on visit visa.
Contact: 99487493
Indian male, 29 yrs, B. Eng in CS,
CCNP, JNCIA, MCSA, MCITP, ISO/
IEC27002, 8 yrs exp in IT, Network-
ing and Server support. #98285401
Email: [email protected]
Filipino (male) 37yrs. old hav-
ing 8 years experience in
operation(shiping&logistics)
currently on visit visa looking for a
suitable job GSM:97121525
Filipino lady looking for Reception-
ist Sales girl having good experience
in Muscat. NOC will be available
ready to join immediately. Contact:
92664896 / 91107941. After October
1st week. Contact: + 639759460269
Indian male more than 8 years
experience in UAE in Offi ce , Sales
Marketing with good computer
skills having driving license looking
for suitable placement.
Contact : 99369081
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, U.K Post Graduate M.A,
MBA, 3 years Experience, looking
position within Marketing, Branding,
Business Development & PR.
Contact: [email protected]
BBA Graduate with 3 years experi-
ence in Sales & Marketing valid
Omani D/L looking for job.
Contact: 97378073 Email:
Indian male MBA having 4 yrs Gulf
experience in logistics and Counter
Sales currently on visit visa and
looking for suitable job.
Contact 96695541
Looking for Driver & Salesman
vacancy 10 years Oman experience
Oman license holding.
Contact 98234893
Indian male 30 yrs, B. Sc food
science and quality control 7 years
experience in G.C.C 3 years experi-
ence in laboratory related jobs, valid
Oman driving license.
Contact: 93405643
Wanted salesman job, with driving
license. Have exp. ins selling goods,
experience in shops special experi-
ence in car parts seeking any job
related to selling. Contact: 94162434
Indian male 35 years BBM, diploma
in A/C, 5 years experience as Sales
Executive in Oman with valid D/L
and NOC seeking suitable placement
in Muscat area. Contact : 92683606
Email: [email protected]
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 25 yrs BBM Graduate
3 yrs of experience Sales / Market-
ing in Oman looking in suitable
placement. Contact : 93185316
Email: [email protected]
HSE Offi cer (Indian) 26 years Nebosh,
diploma in fi re & safety council, 3
years experience (including 1 years
GCC) in construction. # 97058358
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, 29 years B.Tech
(E.C.E) and M.B.A with 1.2 years of
experience in Oman as Electronic
Engineer seeking for a suitable job
currently on visit visa.
Contact : 92085082
Email: [email protected]
50 years Indian male 15yrs experi-
ence as Manager in Steel and paper
Plant seeking suitable placement.
Kindly contact me on
+91 9840943638
Chartered Accountant, Indian male,
25, two years experience, on visit
visa. Staying with parents. Also has
B.com+computer Application.
Contact: 24492638/98164467.
Diploma in Civil Engineer. I have 6
year experience in Oman seeking for
suitable position Oman. #97415597,
email: [email protected]
8+ years experienced senior ac-
countant looking for a better place-
ment. Contact No. +968 92935684.
Email - [email protected].
NOC available.
Indian Male, 38 years, BE and MBA
in Marketing from UK seeks suitable
placement in the IT industry.
Call 91200413.
CCNP Network Professional with 6
years experience having Bachelors
degree on visit visa looking for
suitable job. GSM: 96760618 Email:
Indian male with 18 years of
Indian and Overseas experience in
hospitality industry, with excellent
cooking, operational, managerial
and communication skills seeking
a suitable job from reputed groups
and organizations. On a visit visa.
Contact: 95363751
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IT
CCNA MCITP Network support/ Net-
work technician with 2 yrs experi-
ence Indian male having bachelors
degree on visit visa.
Contact 93080871,
email :[email protected]
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
C6 S AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 1 5
RENT A CAR
RENT A CAR
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise
with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours Contact- 98029602,
92808636
TOURS
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
SITUATION WANT-CARGO
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 1 5 C7
SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
Split & widow unit A.C servicing &
repairing. Contact: 99557080
Split & window unit A.C servicing &
maintenance. Contact: 96236476
Window & split unit A.C servicing &
maintenance.# 93769089 / 95323517
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet
& sofa shampooing, Contact
99314807/24792998
A/C Technician installation
services. Contact : 92279370
House shifting & packing. Contact: 99657644 /98518013
General cleaning &
Shampooing. Ocean Center LLC.
Contact: 99344723/99357908
Used house & offi ce furniture & elec-
tronic items.# 99834373 / 96642500
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your
marble. #24793614/ 99314807
Air condition maintenance instal-
lation window AC, split a/c, ducted
AC and package type units.
Contact: 98667326
Window & split unit A.C ser-
vicing & maintenance. Contact
93769089 / 95323517
Pest Control Gulfa Intl .LLC. Contact: 92326955
Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
Pest Control Treatments, Cockroaches, Ants, Rodents &
Termites, Ocean Center LLC.
Contact: 99344723/ 99357908
Supply fi xing Wallpapers,
all carpets. #99834373 / 6642500
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
WEBSITE
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
SIT.WANTED
SIT.WANTED
SIT.WANTED
Diploma in civil engineering having
an experience 24years (20years
in Oman) experience in Estimator
/ quantity surveyor looking for a
suitable placement, willing to join
immediately Contact : 96328687
Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,
MCSA, MCSE, 2yrs + exp. in IT sup-
port, networking and server support
valid Omani D/L seeking suitable
placement in IT/Network/Server
support. Contact 92607532
Indian male, 14 yrs Experience in
Maintenance & Supervisor in hotel fi eld
( Electrical. Ac Mechanical & Plumber )
N O C available #95253640 .
email = [email protected]
ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8 Years Structural engineer ex-
perience, Looking for Structural
Designer, supervisor or site engineer
Position. Iranian male. #93696929,
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male 26 years MCA, MCSE
2012 certifi ed, Microsoft Exchange
Server Administration, having 1 year
experience in IT/System Administra-
tion looking for suitable placement.
Contact Mob : 00968 92745708
Email: [email protected],
Light duty driver, Young and honest.
Can speak Arabic, Hindi and under-
stand English. Release available.
Ph.92854775 / 93487450
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.
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control & anti-
termite treatment, general clean-
ing painting, 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
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation. Contact98505294
Transportation in Muscat.
Contact: 95530908
Transportation for saloon car&
delivery van. Contact : 95530908
Transportation. Contact 99508282
Transportation available. Contact -955 70 429
CLASSES
DRIVING
COMPUTER
We want regular fi nance on
short term or long term basis from
individuals of Omani nationals or
expatriates for trading business.
Contact: 99462591 or 93525028
Want regular fi nancing for profi table
small projects. Contact : 92162623
Required investors for diff erent
projects. Contact: 99674870
We will register LLC trade license
for foreign investors and do all
actions. Contact: 92833566
SITUATION WANT-
ED
BUSINESS
31 year Indian male PG in HR , with
5 yrs Professional experience in
HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman
seeking for a suitable placement.
Contact me on 93488914, email-
INDIAN MALE , MBA. Having 10+
years experience as Automotives
Sales Manager .Worked with M/s
TALWAR AUTO GARAGES PVT LTD
India’s Largest Selling Dealer for
VOLVO EICHER commercial vehicles
.Seeking for suitable Job in Oman.
Contact no: 98045482
Email: [email protected]
26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),
MBA(HR), Looking for suitable place-
ment in Finance/HR/Marketing. Con-
tact immediately. Contact 98176105,
Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+
experience in Administration/HR,
Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-
tor with good Computer skill, now on
Visit Visa ,looking for suitable posi-
tion. Contact: 90196235
29 years Indian female (MBA-
Finance) with 4 yrs experience in
Accounts, seeking suitable place-
ment in Accounts/Admin/HR. NOC
available. Contact:96141283
ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-
ing 4years experience in accounting
& having well knowledge in tally.
Contact:968 094535881,
0091 9037622048.
Email: [email protected]
ACCA fi nalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-
ate, Indian Female, looking for full
time employment in Accounting and
Audit. Contact +96896964379,
Admin, having 10+ years experience in
Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper, in
reputed companies. Presently working
in Muscat. Contact- 94369965 ,mail -
Indian male . 14 yrs experience in
maintenance & Supervisor in hotel
fi eld ( Electrical . Ac Mechanical &
Plumber ) N O C available
mob : 95 25 36 40 . email =
Indian male B.Eng. in
IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp.
in IT support, networking and server
support valid Omani D/L seeking
suitable placement in IT/Network/
Server support. Contact 92607532
ACCA Affi liate, Indian Male, Fresher,
looking for full time employment
in Tax and Audit.+968 91291520,
Indian Male, 24 years old recently
completed M.Tech in Off shore Struc-
tures from NIT Calicut, looking for
suitable position.
Contact : +91 9833 2485 68,
Email: [email protected]
Indian female with MBA on visit
visa seeking immediate placement.
Contact - 968-93316493
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 op-
portunities within fi nance/accounts/
admin dept.Contact:93953613,
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.
Contact: 93393768
Driver looking for job exp 2 yrs.
Contact: 98522914
Female MBA gold medalist, with
computer profi ciency, Oman driving
license looking for job opportunity
in event management companies in
Muscat. Ph : 99012949
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-
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, Indian
male,29 years.8 years experience
.Presently working in Oman as a
Senior Accountant with
oman Driving license. NOC available.
Seek suitable opportunity.
GSM: 97705854
Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
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