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more driving
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Manama
proposal to increase
the number of driving
instructors has been discussed
during a meeting of the
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs,
Defence and National Security
Committee yesterday.
The council had presented
the same proposal more than
ten times, during the previous
eight years, but no official
action has been taken yet,
said the committee’s Deputy
Chairman Jamal Bu Hassan.
“According
to
the
directorate, there are around
400 instructors at the school.
As many as 774,371 driving
licences had been issued in
2014, indicating that the
existing 400 instructors are
going through an immense
pressure,” he said.
He further added that
the school lacked adequate
regulations.
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Premier says conflict and terrorism are delaying development
Manama
rime Minister HRH
Prince
Khalifa
bin
Salman Al Khalifa has
affirmed that achieving
peace, security and stability
required an international will,
understanding and strategic
partnership.
Receiving the DirectorGeneral of the United Nations
Industrial
Development
Organisation (UNIDO) LI
Yong at the Gudaibiya Palace,
HRH the Premier said, he was
looking forward to a secure
and stable Gulf “where the
nations are united in order
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to enhance progress and
development.”
“The experiences of the
region, in particular, and the
world, in general, have proved
that conflicts and terrorism are
the main reasons behind the
delay of human development
projects and the obstacles
facing their completion.
Therefore, the International
Community should direct all
its potentials towards more
fruitful cooperation for the sake
of achieving a more prosperous
world,” he told Mr. Yong, who
is on a visit to the Kingdom
to take part in the First
International Entrepreneurs
Investment Forum, held under
HRH Premier’s patronage.
Prince Khalifa asserted that
the road to peace and prosperity
was not well-paved and needed
concerted international efforts
so that nations of the region
could focus on development.
The
Prime
Minister
underscored the Government’s
keenness to consolidate
cooperation and coordination
with UNIDO in a way that
contributes to supporting
its plans aiming to achieve
sustainable comprehensive
development.
Prince Khalifa with Mr. Yong.
Sunday rain adds colour to their business
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PIC BY MUHAMMED THASLEEM
here’s a group who is so
excited that they cannot
wait going down the streets and
splash the rainwater, out of joy.
Of course, they are not kids.
Meet these cab drivers, street
hawkers, coffee shop owners
and umbrella sellers, they are
all cashing in on the rain.
When
the
Kingdom
received slight drizzles,
umbrellas of various colours,
displayed at various shops at
Manama Souq, were selling
like hotcakes.
The umbrella sellers were
eagerly waiting for the rainy
days to boost their dull
business.
“We have purchased
umbrellas for sale last month
and we were waiting for the
rains. However, the sale was
good due to the unexpected
rain,” said Abdurahman S, an
umbrella seller at Manama.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
‘CLERICS VITAL
IN DEFENDING
ISLAM’
Prince Khalifa receiving the members of Al Asfoor family.
King Hamad with Mr. Yong
Green economy forum begins today
Manama
is Majesty’s Personal
Representative
and
President of the Supreme
council for Environment (SCE)
HH Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad
Al Khalifa will patronise the
launch of International Forum
on Green Economy and
Technologies today.
Receiving the Director
General of United Nations
Industrial
Development
Organisation (UNIDO) LI
Yong, who was on a visit to
Bahrain, His Majesty King
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
highlighted Bahrain’s interest
in hosting the forum that aims
at casting light on the latest
global trends.
HM the King underlined
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the keenness of the Kingdom
in promoting aspects of
cooperation with UN agencies
in the interest of boosting
Bahrain’s development process. King Hamad also pointed
out Bahrain’s achievements
in the field of education and
underscored the importance
of the establishment of
vocational training centers
to develop the youth’s
capabilities in all areas. Meanwhile, Mr. Yong
applauded The Youth Economic
and Social Integration and
Entrepreneurship Programme,
which is a pioneering model
created by Bahrain and has
been adopted by the UNIDO
in more than forty countries of
the world.
Manama
P
rime Minister HRH
Prince Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa stressed
that religious clerics played
a big role in confronting
attempts to tarnish the image
of Islam and Muslims.
Receiving the members
of Al Asfoor family led by
Shaikh Abdul Hussain Al
Asfoor, HRH the Premier said
defending Islam was a duty.
“We are proud of the efforts
of religious clerics in Bahrain
in revealing Islam’s tolerance
and rejection of violence,
terrorism and subversion of
nations,” the Premier said.
Prince Khalifa emphasised
We are proud of the efforts of
religious clerics in Bahrain in
revealing Islam’s tolerance and
rejection of violence, terrorism and
subversion of nations.
- Prince Khalifa
that all components of the
Bahraini society would remain
united and homogeneous,
pointing out the importance
of
communication
in
maintaining cohesion.
The Prime Minister lauded
the tightly-knit social texture,
paying tribute to the famous
Bahraini families for their key
role in maintaining national
unity.
During the meeting,
the Premier also extended
condolences to the Al Asfoor
family on the demise of Shaikh
Ahmed bin Khalaf Al Asfoor.
The Premier praised the
role of Al Asfoor family,
recalling with respect late
Shaikh Ahmed and his
contributions in serving
national and religious
issues.
Dozens arrested in Niger
Libyan policemen stand next to a burnt car at the site of an
explosion outside the Algerian embassy on Saturday.
Yemen kidnapping,
Libya blast condemned
Manama
ahrain condemned the
kidnapping of Yemeni
President’s aide and the blast
that targeted the Algerian
Embassy in Libya yesterday.
On the kidnapping of the
Office director of Yemen’s
president and SecretaryGeneral of the National
Reconciliation
Dialogue
Conference Ahmed Awadh
bin Mubarak, the ministry
of Foreign Affairs said, such
terrorist acts was aimed at
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undermining the political
process in the Republic of
Yemen, and destabilise security
and stability.
In another statement, the
ministry denounced the blast
that targeted the Algerian
Embassy in Libya stating,
“Such a criminal blast is
deemed a blatant violation of
all international norms and
laws that stipulate affording
the necessary protection to
all diplomatic missions and
ensuring they are not targeted.”
Niamey
Police in Niger yesterday
fired tear gas and arrested
dozens at a banned opposition protest, a day after deadly riots over a depiction of
the Prophet Mohammed in
French weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Around 300 demonstrators gathered in the centre
of the capital Niamey for a
long-planned march on parliament, defying a ban on
demonstrations announced
on Saturday.
The protesters responded
to the tear gas by throwing
stones at the police and burning tyres but later dispersed
peacefully, an AFP correspondent reported.
Some 90 protesters were
arrested but there were no
injuries, Hamidou Garba, governor of the Niamey region,
said on state TV channel Tele
Sahel. CASHING IN
ON RAINS
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DTNN
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PICS BY MUHAMED THASLEEM
The sky wore a splendid look during yesterday’s rains.
eople
experienced a
fall in the temperature
yesterday as spells of rain
lashed the Kingdom. While
many residents complained of
inconvenience due to massive
traffic snarl ups, few others
were happy due to a sudden
push to their businesses.
From cab drivers to street
hawkers, coffee shops and
umbrella sellers, made merry
out of yesterday’s rain. As the
rains were pounding the city,
verandas of various shops on
the streets of the city were
occupied by the denizens.
“Nowadays, business has
come down as there is a less
number of tourists. But during
the rains, we get customers
as they avoid walking to their
destination,” said a taxi driver
to DT News.
Meanwhile, the umbrella
sellers were eagerly waiting for
the rainy days to boost their
dull business. The colourful
umbrellas were displayed
across the Manama Souq
yesterday noon.
“We
have
purchased
umbrellas for sale last month
and we were waiting for the
rains. However, the sale was
good due to the unexpected
rain at the peak time,” said
Abdurahman S, an umbrella
seller at Manama.
The
embroidery
and
colourful umbrellas were the
favourite choices for women
while men were more into
the traditional black ones.
The umbrellas with cartoon
characters and whistle were
also an attraction among the
kids.
The cost of umbrella ranged
from BD1 to BD5. Chinese
umbrellas to imported kinds
of umbrellas were on sale at
the outlets.
“The costly umbrellas are not
meant for the rains in Bahrain.
The expatriate community
purchases those while they
leave for their home-country,”
added Abdurahman.
Meanwhile,
many
pedestrians pulled out their
winter coats and caps to save
themselves from the rain.
Mr. Abdurahman also added
that the skull caps, beanies
and mufflers were in a great
demand during the rains.
“I wish it rains everyday or
throughout the year because
we would get good business,”
said a peanut seller on the
street, who travelled from
Hidd to Manama to make
some bucks.
Branch of tree falls on car
A
branch of a tree fell on a car at Manama as the rain was
coupled with heavy winds also. However, no injuries
were reported. The incident occurred at 5pm. “We suddenly
heard a noise and a branch was over a car. But, there were no
people nearby,” said a taxi driver.
He also added that the stretch is always busy and it is a
miracle that none was injured in the incident.
The cab drivers at Manama also asked the authorities
to prune the branches of the trees on the spot to avoid the
repetition of such incidents.
Business was also brisk at
tea and coffee shops across
Manama. Most of the denizens
preferred to shelter at the
nearby tea shops to get some
hot snacks after piping hot tea.
Meanwhile, the owners
of blanket and jacket selling
outlets across the Manama
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opined that the mercury level
will come down after the
showers.
“We are expecting a good
business as the temperature
will decrease. Presently,
there is no enough sale for
the jackets and blankets,” said
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HEPATITIS PATIENT DIES
AT DETENTION CENTRE
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A
convict, suffering from
viral Hepatitis disease,
has passed away at a detention
centre in the Kingdom.
The
Southern
Governorate’s acting Chief
Prosecutor, Nawaf Al Awadhi
said that the prosecution
immediately
moved
to
the
Reformation
and
Rehabilitation Directorate
and conducted the necessary
examination of the detention
centre and the body of the
deceased.
The prosecution also
ordered the forensic doctor
of the public prosecution to
examine the body in order to
determine the cause and date
of his death.
The doctor will also
determine whether there was
Monday, January 19, 2015
The prosecution also ordered
the forensic doctor of the public
prosecution to examine the body
in order to determine the cause
and date of his death.
any foul play involved in
the incident, Mr. Al Awadhi
added.
Witnesses and officials at
the detention centre were
being questioned as part of
the investigation, he added.
The preliminary medical
report indicated that the
death was natural, and that
the final report of the cause of
the death was being prepared,
the acting Chief Prosecutor
said.
Thief sentenced to
one year in prison
T
Mr. Al Awadhi also
ordered that the body of the
deceased be handed over to
his family for burial.
he High Criminal Court
has sentenced a man to
one year in jail for theft.
The defendant, who was
not present in the courtroom
during the pronouncement
of judgement, was found
guilty of stealing two smart
phones, including a Galaxy
Note 2 and a Galaxy Note 3
from a local mobile shop on
February 4, 2013.
The defendant is said to
have had pretended to buy
a phone for his wife. He
reportedly asked the clerk
in the shop to give him the
phones in order to show
them to her, claiming that
she was sitting in the car.
But he immediately fled the
The defendant, who was
not present in the courtroom during the pronouncement of judgement, was found guilty
of stealing two smart
phones, including a Galaxy Note
2 and a Galaxy Note 3 from a local
mobile shop on February 4, 2013.
spot with the phones. The
accused was caught following
police investigations, and
his identity was confirmed
via the shop's CCTV camera
footages. LMRA official spared jail
A
n inspector of the Labour Market
Regulatory Authority (LMRA), accused
of corruption, has been spared a jail term. The
Bahraini defendant is accused of forging and
rigging official documents and receiving bribes
from employers to conceal their violations.
Earlier, he was held guilty by the High
Criminal Court. However, he was handed
down a suspended one-year jail sentence. The Bahraini was reportedly caught after
the Inspection Department of the LMRA had
received several complaints from citizens
that inspectors were receiving bribes from
employers and business owners not to note
their violations in their reports.
It’s claimed that the convict was caught
in a sting operation carried out under the
supervision of the Ministry of Interior.
According to court files, he was assigned to
inspect a coffee shop, where four unregistered
employees were working. He, however, didn’t
record this violation as he had negotiated a
bribe with the owner. He was later nabbed and
referred to the court.
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Driving school
FOCUS ON INCREASING
NUMBER OF INSTRUCTORS
Muhannad Mansour
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G
eneral
Directorate
of Traffic Director
General Shaikh Nasser bin
Abdulrahman Al Khalifa
attended Parliament’s Foreign
Affairs, Defence and National
Security Committee’s weekly
meeting yesterday.
During
the
meeting,
the officials discussed a
parliamentary proposal to
increase the number of the
driving instructors.
The committee’s Deputy
Chairman, Jamal Bu Hassan
explained to DT News
yesterday that the council had
presented the same proposal
more than ten times, during
the previous eight years, but
no official action has been
“According to the directorate, there are
around 400 instructors at the school.
A total of 774,371 driving licences
were issued in 2014, indicating that
the existing 400 instructors are going
through an immense pressure”
-Mr. Bu Hassan
taken yet.
He added that Shaikh Nasser
had promised to provide a
report of a comprehensive
study, to be reviewed in
another meeting by March 1.
It will include the figures of
driving licences and learning
licences issued during the past
ten years, Mr. Bu Hassan said.
“According
to
the
directorate, there are
around 400 instructors at
the school. A total of 774,371
driving licences were issued
in 2014, indicating that the
existing 400 instructors are
going through an immense
pressure,”
the
Deputy
Chairman said.
He further added that
the school lacks adequate
Mr. Bu Hassan (middle), fellow MPs and Traffic officials during yesterday’s meeting.
regulations and monitoring
of these instructors. “The
directorate issues and renews
instructors’ licences, but what
about health conditions and
teaching capabilities of the
instructors? We must have
specific regulations in this
regard,” the MP said.
Bahrain’s Lebanese community
denounces Nasrallah statements
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C
alling it as a blatant
interference in the
internal affairs of Bahrain,
the Lebanese community in
the Kingdom has condemned
the recent comments made
by the Hezbollah General
Secretary, Hassan Nasrallah.
A delegation of the
local Lebanese community
released
a
statement
yesterday in front of the
Embassy of Lebanon in
the Kingdom, urging the
Lebanese government to take
steps in order to address the
impact of such statements.
Handing
over
the
statement to the Lebanese
Members of the Lebanese community in Bahrain.
Shaikh Nasser yesterday
reaffirmed that the directorate
is not considering the change
or dismissal of the existing
400 Bahraini instructors, but
the directorate is currently
studying the matter of adding
private training firms to
accommodate a huge number
of learners.
In a statement to DT News
on January 7, Shaikh Nasser
had confirmed that a new
driving learning curriculum
will be introduced this year
and a proposal to privatise
the training process was
being studied.
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the delegation said, “The
Lebanese community living
in Bahrain reacted with pain
on what Nasrallah said.”
Emphasising on their
keenness for the security
and stability of Bahrain, the
members of the delegation
pointed out that they did
not feel alienated from their
homeland, and they were
not subjected to any form of
prejudice and discrimination,
while staying in Bahrain.
“In the last couple of years,
we have witnessed that a lot
of anger, misery and pain
has been caused to Bahrain.
The unjust attempts to divide
the country and its unity,
by serving foreign agendas,
should be discontinued
immediately,” the delegation
urged.
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Emergence of Modi. Resurgence of India.
I
t is not even eight months since he took
over as the Prime Minister of India,
but the way Narendra Modi has been
making waves, is simply astonishing. The
global attention he has drawn is totally
unprecedented.
His trips to USA, Japan and Australia,
saw him garnering foreign investment
that was hitherto unthinkable, and his
meetings with the leaders of those nations
are renewing and revitalising India’s foreign
policy.
His receiving into India, the major heads
of state like President Xi Jinping of China
and President Vladimir Putin of Russia,
gave a fresh new impetus to mutual
cooperation, and they are re-establishing
and reconstructing socio-economic
relations.
And to meet that man in person, once
again, last week, was a special joy and a rare
privilege.
I was attending the Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas (PBD) Convention, the flagship event
of India’s Ministry of Overseas Indian
Affairs (MOIA) , for the 13th consecutive
year.
With the aim of connecting India with
its vast overseas diaspora, this PBD is held
every year, always during 7-9 January. This
year, it was held in the beautiful city of
Gandhinagar in Gujarat, the Prime
Minister’s home state.
On January 8, there was a lunch invitation
- from the Prime Minister himself - for
all the previous recipients of the ‘Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman’, the highest award
given by the Indian government to overseas
Indians, and presented by the President of
India. As a former recipient of the award – I
was awarded in 2009 - I too had the honour
of being a part of this intimate group which
enjoyed a short but wonderful time of
interaction with Prime Minister Modi.
He talked with us and he laughed with
us.
When I mentioned to him that the
situation of Indians in the Arabian Gulf is
not the same as of those living in the lap of
luxury in western societies, he listened with
keen interest .
And when I said he should visit Bahrain
and the rest of the Gulf, he laughed and said
that the opposition is already calling him a
‘pravaasi’ Prime Minister! He said his many foreign visits earned
him the nickname, ‘overseas’ Prime
Minister, and that he will not be travelling
much now.
However, he will seriously consider
visiting the six GCC countries, perhaps,
over a three-day period. On that day, when our lunch meeting
with the Prime Minister ended, my mind
went back a couple of years, to 2011.
I had first met the honourable Prime
Minister of India in 2011 at his house
in Ahmedabad, when he was the Chief
Minister of Gujarat. It was when I had
received the Vision Foundation Award, and
when he had spoken to the awardees.
My friends would recall that, after
spending more than one hour with him
- and after having seen and read earlier,
about the development that Gujarat state had achieved under his leadership - I was so
awed and inspired that I kept telling them he
would be the Prime Minister one day. Of course within an year or so after
my privilege of meeting him in 2011, he
was announced as the Prime Ministerial
Candidate of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)
for 2014 elections.
He then won the elections with a massive
mandate in May 2014. And well, the rest is
history – in the making.
The PBD was followed by the seventh
edition of ‘Vibrant Gujarat’, one of the most
high profile events ever to be held in India. It
was inaugurated by Modi on Jan 11. I was captivated not only by the inspiring
speech he gave to the huge assembly
then, but also by the praises the world
leaders showered on him for his visionary
leadership.
Notable speeches were from the UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US
Secretary of State John Kerry, World
Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Prime
Ministers of Bhutan and Macedonia;
and also speaking there were many
Industrialists and billionaires from India
- including the Ambanis, Birlas, and
Adanis, and heads of notable industrial
houses in Japan, Australia, USA, and
many other countries.
The head of the World Bank said
that India can contribute to International
community’s dream of eliminating world
poverty, under Modi’s leadership.
John Kerry said President Obama is
eagerly looking forward to visiting India
next week, as the Chief Guest for the
Republic Day Celebrations to be held
on 26 January in Delhi.
Obama, incidentally, would be the first
US President to be the Chief Guest for
India’s Republic Day, and also the first
sitting US President to visit India twice.
Democracy, demographic dividend and
demand are the three Ds making India an
ideal destination for investment, he said.
In a short span of seven months, he said,
we have been able to change the atmosphere
of despair and uncertainty.
“My Government is trying to generate
confidence. India’s presence as well as its
rich past is being recognised worldwide.
Countries are coming forward to work with
us,” he said.
“We are changing fast. India is growing
fast. India is moving faster than expected.
We are ready more than ever before.” Modi
affirmed.
With corruption charges on several
ministers of the previous government, and
with a slowdown in the economic progress
the task ahead of him did not seem easy,
when he came to the helm of the affairs.
But from the way he is steering the ship,
he does not merely ‘seem’ to be the captain
in-charge. He really is. PRICE OF THREE
FINGERS, BD350!
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H
ow much is a finger
worth?
Baffled?
Ask GOSI, it has fixed the
price of three fingers at BD350!
That’s what it has turned
out to be when the fingers
of an Indian got chopped off
following a factory accident in
May, 2013.
The mishap happened when
the fingers of Stanley Thomas,
who had been working as
machine operator in a private
factory in Sitra, got stuck in
the sheering machine.
Mr. Thomas was immediately
rushed to Salmaniya Medical
Complex (SMC) and had
to undergo two surgeries at
various intervals in 2013.
“It was a fateful day.
It happened in a split of a
second. My life got changed.
It was very painful and I still
face the difficulties of living
without fingers,” Mr. Thomas
told DT News.
Mr. Thomas and his
company have been following
up with the GOSI for his
compensation for the past
one-and-a-half years. Finally,
Mr. Thomas managed to get a
meagre amount of BD350 from
GOSI.
Meanwhile, the HR Manager
of the factory said they were
trying their best to sort the
issue.
“GOSI had released the
amount in October 2014, a year
and a half after the incident.
They have informed us to go for
an appeal. We haven’t accepted
the amount and are going for an
appeal,” the manager said.
The victim is still working
with the same company and the
long wait has failed to dampen
his spirits.
“I have a letter from GOSI
which states that the injury had
occurred while performing my
duty. I don’t know how long I
have to wait for my justice, I
am determined to fight till the
end,” Mr. Thomas said.
It was a fateful day. It
happened in a split of
a second. My life got
changed. It was very
painful and I still face
the difficulties of living
without fingers.
- Mr. Thomas
Letter from GOSI stating the injury as a work place accident.
GOSI had issued the amount in October 2014, a year and a half
after the incident. They have informed us to go for an appeal.
We haven’t accepted the amount and are going for an appeal.
- Manager of the factory in Sitra
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SPREADING SMILES BY
RENOVATING HOUSES
Monday, January 19, 2015
Mohammed Zafran
news@dt.bh
T
he season five of home
renovation project of
Ayadi Relief Fund came to
a close last Saturday with an
award distribution ceremony
in Isa Cultural Centre Hall
where all the volunteers were
honoured.
A total of BD150,400 was
spent on ‘Baitkum Baitna’
project since it was launched
18 months ago by the Ayadi
Relief Organisation. The
project has now successfully
run for five seasons, with
each season lasting up to four
weeks.
Season five of the project
was launched on the first
week of December last year.
Houses of four families from
Muharraq, Budaiya and
Hamad Town were renovated
at a cost of BD28,000 during
this season, offering the
families a decent living.
Baitkum Baitna, dubbed as
‘Your home is Our home,’
comprises four teams – Team
Wahed (one), Team Farah
(joy), Team Jood (generosity)
and Team Amana (integrity)
with 12 members and two
supervisors in each team.
The volunteers are involved
in restoring the houses and
Four houses have been renovated in
the season five of home renovation
project of Ayadi Relief Fund
Before
A volunteer painting a house.
enhancing the standard
of living of the families. A
total of BD7000 was spent
by each team, while Ayadi
Relief Organisation provided
BD500 for each team. Rest
of the funds were managed
with corporate sponsorship
and donations.
An Ayadi relief spokesman
told DT News that the aim
of the project is to develop
altruism among Bahraini
youth. “The project also
aims at motivating youth to
take part in voluntary works
through actively involving
them in the project. The
project
emphasises
on
delivering assistance in
an interactive approach,
which is not just confined
to
renovating
houses,
but understanding their
problems and help them
discover
talents,”
the
spokesperson said.
Baitkum Baitna project
manager Noora Ali said
that the houses were in a
After
A picture of a garage.
dilapidated state as they were
too old. “Most of the houses
were about 70 years old. So, a
huge effort was needed from
the volunteers to renovate
them. The volunteers worked
extremely hard to renovate
the houses,” the project
manager said.
The minister at the school.
Minister visits Hunainiya school
Manama
inister of Education, Dr.
Majid Al Nuaimi has paid a
visit to the Hunainiya Secondary
School for Boys, where he
took stock of the progress of
work in the construction of the
school building, being built in
association with the Ministry of
Works.
The minister confirmed that
the BD5 million worth school
M
would be able to accommodate
up to 1300 students.
The school includes the
standard requirements for
green buildings, which involve
insulation of thermal ceilings,
walls and glasses. The school
will also include vinyl floors
and ceilings that control the
noise.
Additional facilities include
multi-purpose laboratories
and fitness lounges with the
provision for students with
special needs.
The
minister
was
accompanied
by
Undersecretary of Resources
and Services, Shaikh Hisham
bin Abdulaziz Al Khalifa and
Assistant Undersecretary for
Planning and Information,
Nawal Al Khater, along with a
number of officials.
Roads Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning, Huda
Fakhro met the Muharraq police station chief, Major Fawaz Alhassan, in an attempt to enhance
partnership between the two parties. During the meeting, a number of issues relating to traffic
safety and traffic congestions in Muharraq were highlighted.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
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HEALTH TO ALL
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Dear Editor,
Universal coverage, or universal
health coverage, is defined as
ensuring that all people can
use the promotive, preventive,
curative, rehabilitative and
palliative health services they
need, of sufficient quality to be
effective, while also ensuring that
the use of these services does
not expose the user to financial
hardship.
This definition of UC embodies
three related objectives:
• Equity in access to health
services - those who need the
services should get them, not
only those who can pay for them;
• That the quality of health
services is good enough to
improve the health of those
receiving services; and
• Financial-risk protection ensuring that the cost of using
care does not put people at risk
of financial hardship.
Universal coverage brings
the hope of better health and
protection from poverty for
hundreds of millions of people
- especially those in the most
vulnerable situations.
Universal coverage is firmly
based on the WHO constitution
of 1948 declaring health a
fundamental human right and
on the Health for All agenda
set by the AlmaAta declaration
in 1978. Achieving the health
Millennium
Development
Goals and the next wave of
targets looking beyond 2015
will depend largely on how
countries succeed in moving
towards universal coverage.
The way health systems are
financed is a critical determinant
for reaching universal coverage
since they determine whether
health services exist and are
available and whether people
can afford to use health services
when they need them.
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A file photo of rain in
Manama.
Annual
misery
continues
unabated
Yesterday was the first
time the rain came
down this year in any
real
quantity
and
despite all the promises
by various officials and
government
bodies
after the deluge of
November
2013,
nothing much seems
to
have
changed
regarding improving
and maintenance of
roads prone to flooding. I have seen, on
occasions,
reports
that some roads have
been improved by the
‘gravel type’ format.
However, a short trip
to the big supermarket
on the main road in
Adliya meant having
yet again to wade
through the annual
flooded Isthmus of
Road 2735 Area 327 to
get the shopping affair.
Since I first arrived to
my present residence
via ‘dry land’ in 1983,
the same problem
occurs annually and
it is really frustrating
that year in and
year
out
despite
Municipality tankers
clearing the excess
water after heavy rains,
the same problem
persists with no one
in higher authority
seemingly
taking
any
responsibility
and addressing the
problem.
I suppose my cousin
the Loch Ness Monster
could come across for a
holiday and maybe its
presence may cause a
stir and get something
done about our annual
misery?
Swamp Monster
MIDDLE EAST 9
Monday, January 19, 2015
UAE youths happy: Survey
Abu Dhabi
outh in the UAE
believe they are
happy and healthy,
according to the results
of a nationwide survey
conducted last year.
The survey, with the
participation of almost
Y
Cargo
flight shot
down
T
Beirut
he Syrian wing of al-Qaeda,
the Nusra Front, said
it shot down an army cargo
plane filled with food and
ammunition overnight in the
northwest of the country.
The Nusra Front said the
downing happened near the
army-controlled Abu al-Duhur
military airport in Idlib.
Syrian state television quoted
a military source as saying the
plane crashed due to “weather
conditions and heavy fog” on
Saturday evening. The crew
had died as the plane crashed
while attempting to land at the
Abu al-Duhur military airport
in Idlib province.
Several Syrian air force jets
have been shot down in Syria’s
civil war, which erupted after
the government cracked down
on pro-democracy protests in
2011.
2,000 young Emiratis
from across the UAE, was
commissioned in 2014
by Al Bayt Mitwahid
Association.
Those surveyed were
broken down into two
groups; 15 – 17 year olds
and 18 – 24 year olds. The
US, UK TEAM UP TO
COMBAT IS THREAT
London
ritish Foreign Secretary
Philip Hammond and US
Secretary of State John Kerry
will host a meeting in London
on Thursday of members of the
coalition against the Islamic
State group, officials said.
The one-day talk will involve
foreign ministers from about
20 countries, including Arab
states to discuss progress so
far on tackling the Islamist
militants who occupy swathes
of territory in Iraq and Syria.
A British official confirmed
the meeting will take place at
Lancaster House in central
London, a fortnight after
B
Israel
apanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe flew into Tel
Aviv on Sunday at the start
of a three-day official visit
to Israel and the Palestinian
territories.
He flew in from Jordan to
begin the final leg of a six-day
tour of the Middle East aimed Shinzo Abe
at promoting regional stability
Travelling with him is
and peace as well as boosting a 100-strong delegation of
economic ties.
government officials and
J
Philip Hammond and John Kerry
deadly attacks in Paris by three
gunmen claiming to act on
behalf of Al Qaeda and the IS.
“This will be an important
opportunity to take stock and
top business executives from
Japanese firms which are
world leaders in their field.
It is the first visit by a
Japanese prime minister to
Israel in nine years.
Abe, who was re-elected as
premier last month, began his
trip in Cairo where he pledged
$2.5 billion in humanitarian
and development aid for
countries affected by violent
expansion of the Islamic State.
assess the progress made so
far in our joint efforts to tackle
ISIL’s poisonous ideology,”
Mr Hammond told the Daily
Telegraph newspaper, using an
Jerusalem
An Israeli helicopter carried out a
strike
Sunday
against “terrorists” in the Syrian
sector of the
Golan Heights
who were allegedly preparing an attack on Israel, an Israeli security source said.
The source said the strike took place near Quneitra, close
to the ceasefire line separating the Syrian part of the Golan
Heights from the Israeli-occupied sector, confirming a report by
Lebanon’s Al-Manar television.
The source could not provide details about the identities of the
targets or the nature of the attack they were allegedly preparing.
The Israeli army would not comment.
Now Middle East grapples with hearing woes
figure is higher than the three
per cent figure released by the
World Health Organisation.
“We cannot ignore the
region’s hearing problem,
because it will lead to a lifetime
of burden for millions of
people suffering from hearing
loss,” said Dr Hussain Abdul
Rahman Al Rand, Assistant
Undersecretary at the Ministry
of Health, UAE.
alternative name for IS.
“The key active partners in
the coalition, including our
Arab partners, will gather in
London to decide what more
we need to do to degrade and
defeat ISIL.
“It’s vital that we consider
what more we can all do to
tackle the issue of foreign
fighters, to clamp down on
ISIL’s financing, to step up
humanitarian assistance and
continue our co-ordinated
military campaign.”
The meeting comes after
US President Barack Obama
and Prime Minister David
Cameron met in Washington.
Israeli helicopter strikes Syrian Golan
Sound Proof
A
that young Emiratis are
happy and optimistic
about their future. The
group aged 15 – 17
rated their happiness on
average at 8.9 out of 10,
while 18 – 24 year olds
rated their happiness at
8.5 out of 10.
For world peace
Japan PM begins 3-day
trip to Israel, West Bank
Dubai
t least one in 25 people
in the Middle East region
are affected by some degree
of hearing difficulty, said a
top official, adding that this
survey was representative
of the UAE youth in
terms of gender and
Emirate, with a margin of
error of 2.8% for 18 – 24
year olds and 4.9% for
15 – 17 year olds at a 95%
level of confidence.
The survey concluded
He was commenting on
a recent survey conducted
by Austria-based Med-El, a
leading provider of hearing
implant systems, on hearing
loss in the Middle East.
Free after
15 years
Doha
Qatari who was held in
the United States since
2001, part of the time as an
“enemy combatant”, has been
released and returned to Doha
on Saturday, a family member
said.
Ali bin Kahlah al-Marri called “a present and grave
danger to US national security”
in a 2003 presidential order
signed by then-president
George W Bush - was in good
health and had been welcomed
at Hamad International
Airport by family and friends,
a nephew said.
A
Oman Air flight in minor
accident at Zanzibar airport
Muscat
An Oman Air aircraft had a
minor accident at the Zanzibar
International Airport on
Sunday, delaying the onward
flight to about four hours.
“There was a very minor accident on the Zanzibar Airport
runway but after routine
checks the same aircraft carried on to Dar-Es-Salaam and
finally to Muscat without any
problems,” Osama Bin Karim
Al Haremi, Oman Air’s Head
Of Corporate Communications
and Media, said.
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MIDDLE EAST
Monday, January 19, 2015
Kuwait will host a third
donors conference
to raise funds for UN
humanitarian operations
in Syria. A team of the
biggest 15 donor states
will meet in January
- Kuwait foreign minister
Sheikh Sabah Khaled Sabah
Espionage
trial: Morsi
slams prez
Cairo
usted Egyptian president
Mohamed Morsi gave
evidence Sunday for the
first time his espionage trial,
launching into a tirade against
his successor whom he accused
of removing him in a “coup”.
Morsi, Egypt’s first freely
elected president, was toppled
by former army chief and now
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
in July 2013 after mass protests
demanding the Islamist’s
resignation after just one year
in office.
O
There is no other way
than direct negotiations.
Unilateral steps will not
solve the conflict, but just
give more power to the
extremists
- Israeli President
Reuven Rivlin
KURDISH FORCES
RESIST IS ATTACKS
Kobane dreams crushed
Beirut
nce poised to overrun the
Syrian town of Kobane,
the Islamic State group has
suffered a damaging blow to
its ambitions at the hands of
Kurdish fighters and US-led
warplanes.
The setback in the mainly
Kurdish town on the SyriaTurkey border has knocked
the momentum out of the
jihadists’ advance and dashed
their hopes of a swift expansion
of their territory, analysts say.
In mid-September, IS began
a seemingly relentless march
towards Kobane, in a drive to
consolidate its grip on a long
O
A file photo of Kurdish fighters in Kobane.
stretch of the strategic northern
border.
But Kurdish forces have
recaptured most of the town
in recent weeks, backed by a
US-led air campaign in Syria
Even after one year,
Iraq fails to retake city
Baghdad
year after ISIL fighters captured
Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the
country’s Shia-led government remains
incapable of mounting a major offensive to
retake the city or any of the key areas still
held by the group.
In January last year, Fallujah, 70
kilometres west of Baghdad, became the
first major city to fall to ISIL. This was
followed by a summer campaign that
seized the country’s second-largest city,
Mosul, and Saddam Hussein’s hometown
A
Israel uncover first Daesh
sleeper cell, arrest seven
Jerusalem
Israel has claimed to have
uncovered the first in-country
Daesh sleeper cell. The cell consists of seven Arab citizens ages
22 to 40, including a lawyer who
will be representing himself in
court.
They will be tried for planning attacks against Israel and
liaising with insurgent groups
in Syria.
The challenge has shifted
since Al Qaeda’s hey day
under Osama Bin Laden.
It’s much looser than we
have seen before. It’s not
the same as in the days of
9/11
- Europol chief
Rob Wainwrigh
of Tikrit, along with most of northern and
western Iraq.
Iraq’s military has made a partial
recovery following its collapse in the face
of ISIL’s summer blitz. With the aid of
US-led air strikes, it has now recaptured
large areas of territory in Diyala province,
north-east of Baghdad, as well as the Jurf
El Sakhr region, south-west of the capital.
In November, Lieutenant General
Abdul-Wahab Al Saadi — recognised
as one of the best generals in the Iraqi
army — led some 250 men on a 30-day
campaign that liberated Beiji, a city and oil
refinery north of Baghdad.
that began on September 23.
Now IS holds just 20 percent
of Kobane and faces the
prospect of losing it entirely,
according to the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights.
Around 1,600 people have
been killed in the fighting, at
least 1,000 of them jihadists,
but IS has continued to pour
in reinforcements in a bid to
win the high-profile battle for
the town.
“Kobane has become a
huge symbol. Everyone knows
Kobane, it’s where the Kurds
stopped IS,” said Kurdish
affairs analyst Mutlu Civiroglu.
F
Chahine.
Some fans took
selfies on their
mobile
phones
with film stars
and
politicians
who attended the
funeral.
“Faten Hamama
was an exceptional
E
Kuwait
Lord Mayor of the City
of London Alderman
Alan Yarrow on Sunday
stressed the importance
of establishing investment
partnerships
between Kuwaiti and
British businessmen.
Lord Yarrow, accompanied by a high ranking delegation of British
businessmen and representatives of financial and investment institutions, met with
chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(KCCI) Ali Al-Ghanim.
Fans bid farewell to actress Faten Hamama
years old, died
on
Saturday
aged 83, after a
career spanning
seven
decades
and almost 100
films alongside
masters of Egypt’s
film
industry,
including Youssef
Cairo
gypt will reopen the Rafah
crossing with Gaza for
three days starting Tuesday, for
the third time since it was shut
in late October after a deadly
suicide bombing, security
officials said.
The crossing, the only access
point to the Palestinian Gaza
Strip not controlled by Israel,
was to be reopened last week,
but the decision was postponed
after an Egyptian police officer
working at the terminal was
kidnapped and killed.
The reopening of the crossing
will allow Palestinian students
who have been stranded on
either side to travel through the
frontier, a security official said.
The terminal was shut by
Egypt after a deadly bombing
in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30
soldiers in late October.
It was later reopened twice.
London Mayor urges partnerships between
Kuwaiti, British businessmen
Curtains down
Cairo
ilm fans bid an emotional
farewell
Sunday
to
Egyptian actress Faten
Hamama, a star of Arabic
cinema and ex-wife of Omar
Sharif, who was buried at her
family cemetery in Cairo.
Hamama, who made
her screen debut at seven
Egypt to
reopen
Rafah from
Tuesday
ambassador for Egypt...
she spread love and beauty
wherever she went,” said
former Arab League chief
Amr Moussa, who attended
the funeral.
Prime Minister Ibrahim
Mahlab said Egypt’s arts
scene had “lost one of its
principal pillars”.
Six Hezbollah fighters
killed in Israeli strike
Beirut
Six Hezbollah fighters were
killed Sunday in an Israeli air
strike on the Syrian side of the
Golan, including the son of
assassinated senior commander Imad Mughniyeh.
The deaths were announced
after an Israeli security source
told AFP that an Israeli helicopter conducted a strike against
“terrorists” near Quneitra.
Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.
If the (economic) objective is no longer justified or sustainable, we
should stop the exercise.
We reached that point
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- Swiss Central Bank Chief
Thomas Jordan
Monday, January 19, 2015
Bank Alkhair names CEO
Manama
ahrain-based Bank Alkhair, an
Islamic wholesale bank, Sunday
appointed Ayman Sejiny as Group Chief
Executive Officer.
He will be responsible for overseeing
the day-to-day operations of the Bank
and for developing and executing the
Group’s strategy. His appointment has
been approved by the Central Bank of Ayman Sejiny
Bahrain.
Prior to his appointment as CEO of Bank Alkhair, Mr. Sejiny
was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of
Barclays Saudi Arabia. He was also one of Bank Alkhair’s founding
members and previously held the position of Board Member and
Chief Executive Officer of Alkhair Capital Saudi Arabia (formerly
Unicorn Capital Saudi Arabia) and Board member of Unicorn
Bahrain from July 2002 to September 2009.
B
eGovt 2015 award
deadline extended
Manama
he organizing committee
of the eGovernment
Excellence Award 2015, held
annually under the patronage
of Deputy Prime Minister,
Chairman of the Supreme
Committee for Information
and
Communication
T
Technology, HH Shaikh
Mohammed bin Mubarak Al
Khalifa announced that the
deadline for nominations
have been extended to
February first. The award
is accepting nominations
through the website www.
egovaward.bh.
Of course there are differences about how we
can do that. But it’s not
as if we have an endless
amount of possibilities
- EU Central Bank President
Mario Draghi
SABIC Q4 SLIPS
ON SINKING OIL
Profit down 29pc, misses estimates
Riyadh
alling global oil prices
dragged down the net
income of Saudi petrochemical
giant SABIC by 29 per cent
in the fourth quarter, the
company said on Sunday.
SABIC, the largest publicly
traded firm in the Gulf,
reported net profit of 4.36
billion riyals ($1.16bn) for the
three months to December.
That compared with 6.16bn
riyals in the same quarter a
year earlier.
“The decrease in net income
is mainly attributable to lower
average sales prices, partially
offset by lower costs for certain
feedstocks (raw materials),”
a statement from Saudi Basic
F
A general view shows the headquarters of Saudi Basic Industries
Corporation (Sabic) in Riyadh.
Industries Corp said.
The result was lower than
the mean estimate of 5.39bn
riyals forecast by seven analysts,
GCC boards not effective: Survey
Dubai
he boards of companies in
the Gulf Cooperation Council
(GCC) nations are seriously lagging
behind their peers when it comes to
effectiveness, revealed a survey.
The fourth biennial Gulf Board
Effectiveness Survey published by
GCC Board Directors Institute (BDI)
Sunday pointed out, “Despite positive
progress, a strong majority still believe
that GCC boards are not as effective as
they should be.”
T
The study also stressed that there is a
greater need for gender diversity, which
now stands at less than 1 per cent of
board seats.
“Sixty per cent of those surveyed
said that boards in the Gulf were only
moderately effective with a further 12pc
finding boards all together ineffective,”
said the 40 question survey that polled
board directors from across the six
GCC countries to find out the corporate
governance practices.
Issues relating to Board Composition
& Directors’ Capabilities, lack of Formal
Evaluation and Renewal Processes and
ineffective Board Dynamics continued
to be the three most cited barriers to
effectiveness.
Always Ahead
“Corporate governance and board
efficiency have come a long way in
the Gulf but again, this year, BDI’s
survey reveals the need for ongoing
development,” said BDI Chairman,
Mutlaq Hamad Al-Morished, who is
also former Chief Financial Officer of
SABIC and the recently appointed CEO
of Tasnee.
The survey also calls for the need
to have more international and
independent board members to help
bring more quality into discussions.
BBK wins best Customer Experience Overall Website award
Manama
ank of Bahrain and
Kuwait (BBK) has won the
prestigious award for “Best
Customer Experience Overall
Website” in the 10th Annual
Customer
Experience
Benchmarking
Index
2014 held in Dubai last
month.
Customer Experience
Benchmarking
Index
Mr. Bucheery
B
2014 (CEBI 2014) is the most
extensive customer experience
benchmarking study in the GCC
and has benchmarked 63 of the
GCC’s Retail Banks.
Commenting on the award,
BBK’s
Chief
Executive,
Abdulkarim Bucheery said: “We
were the first local Bank in the
Kingdom of Bahrain to launch
an internet banking website and
we would like to continue to be
the innovators in the Bahraini/
GCC competitive market with a
continued focus on alternative
banking channels.”
Ali
Ehsan,
Chief
Representative, BBK Dubai
Representative Office received
the award on behalf of BBK in a
ceremony held at Burj Al Arab in
Dubai in December 2014. Ethos
Integrated Solutions organized
the event.
according to data compiled by
Bloomberg.
Full-year net profit was
23.43bn riyals, a drop of seven
per cent from the 25.28bn
reported the previous year.
Mohamed Al-Mady, the
company’s vice chairman and
CEO, called the year-end profit
figure “a good result for us.”
“It’s going to be very difficult
to judge the 2015 situation, just
because of crude oil,” Mady told
reporters, adding: “We are used
to this cycle of petrochemicals.”
Mady said the firm, which
only sells steel domestically, had
studied possible expansion in the
sector but “any company would
think twice” about such a move
with steel prices sinking. (AFP)
Entrepreneurs
investment forum
Manama
The
United
Nations
Industrial
Development
Organization in cooperation with the General Union
of Chambers of Commerce,
Industry and Agriculture for
Arab Countries, the Islamic
Development Bank and the
Arab Bank for Development in
Africa are organising the First
International Entrepreneurs
Investment Forum on January
20th at 09:30 am at the Al
Noor Ballroom at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel and Spa.
The event will be held under
the patronage of Prime
Minister HRH Prince Khalifa
bin Salman Al Khalifa.
Regional and international
dignitaries, senior officials
will be participating in the
event along with 650 entrepreneurs from 75 countries.
The event, according to the
organising committee would
act as a platform for the business leaders to develop partnerships and business linkages.
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BUSINESS
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The company also said that
prepaid subscribers can visit
any Menatelecom branch and
receive their package for as low
Manama
roadband
service
provider, Menatelecom,
announced that customers
could now purchase their
prepaid broadband top-up
vouchers through SADAD
kiosks.
The prepaid broadband
service caters to customers
cards up to 30 days from the
start date of use.
Top-up vouchers are also
available at all Menatelecom
branches located at the GOSI
Complex, Muharraq, Country
Mall - Budaiya, Isa Town
Mall, KFH Automall in Sitra,
Enma Mall, and the newest
branch in Seef Mall.
as BD10 with 2GB worth of free
downloads upon subscription
which includes a WiFi device
and tablet for a one off price
of BD25. The service could
be enjoyed with no contracts,
no monthly fees and no
cancellation or reconnection
fees. Menatelecom has recently
extended the validity of prepaid
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Dubai
ulf stock markets rose on
Sunday after companies
published mostly positive
quarterly earnings and oil
prices extended gains. Saudi
Arabia’s biggest listed company
gained despite poor earnings, a
fresh sign that the market may
have bottomed.
Saudi Arabia’s equities
benchmark rose 0.9 per cent
and Saudi Basic Industries
(SABIC) climbed 1.1pc to 79.25
riyals after falling as much as
1.1pc in the opening minutes.
In Bahrain, the bourse edged
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Trust Re appoints
Kamal
Tabaja COO
Manama
Trust Re, Sunday, named
Kamal Tabaja as its Chief
Operating Officer, effective
December 2014.
Kamal, a Fellow of the
Chartered Insurance Institute
(FCII) UK, is now formally
part of Trust Re’s Executive
Council which currently comprises the CEO, Deputy CEO,
Corporate Services Officer
and Planning & Business
Development Officer.
up 0.4pc to 1,433 points helped
by gains mostly in the banking
and realty sector.
Dubai’s bourse added 1.5pc.
Emirates NBD, Dubai’s
largest bank, jumped 2.2pc in
thin trade after it reported an
82pc leap in fourth-quarter
HDFC among
world’s top 50
New Delhi
anked at the 45th position,
the private sector bank is
ahead of global majors Credit
Suisse, DBS Group, and
Standard Chartered with a
market capitalisation of USD
40.58 billion.
In the top 50 list compiled
by Relbanks, SBI has been
ranked at 51th with market
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capitalisation of $36.40 while
ICICI Bank with $33.42bn is
55th.
With more than 70 million
customers and over 9,000
locations and a market cap
of $284.39bn, Well Fargo of
the USA is the largest bank
in the world based on market
capitalisation. It is the second
largest in the US by deposits.
net profit, broadly in line with
analysts’ forecasts.
Abu Dhabi’s index climbed
1.7pc as shares in National
Bank of Abu Dhabi surged
4.2pc.
Doha index rose 0.5pc, while
Egypt’s index slipped 0.3pc
to 9,531 points after failing
for a second straight day to
break through major technical
resistance at 9,572-79 points.
In Qatar, the index edged up
0.5pc to 11,916 points. Kuwait
exchange added 0.8pc to 6,651
points, while Oman index rose
1.1pc to 6,591 points.
Technovation
forum in Dubai
Manama
Dr. Jassim Haji, a Bahraini technology expert and executive,
will be chairing second day
of World Airport Technovation
Forum in Dubai. Airport
Technovation World Forum is
a platform dedicated to the
Airlines and Airports technology which together enhance
the Air Travel experience and
are essential in building the
world’s best airports.
The Future
Underwater trains in Atlantic on way!
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London
nderwater trains may soon be a
reality under the Atlantic and may
link Manchester and New York.
The “underwater Concorde” is among
several wacky proposals submitted for
inclusion in the group’s report, The Great
North Plan, the Daily Star reported.
Director of Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR), Ed Cox asserted that
the north of England needs a pipeline
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of proposals for future investment to
not only ensure on-going investment,
but also shape the kind of economy the
north needs. The plan even envisages a
new railway tunnel under the Pennines
between Manchester and Leeds. Cox
explained that the north of England
needs a pipeline of proposals for future
investment to not only ensure on-going
investment, but also shape the kind of
economy the north needs.
IMF lauds
India’s fuel
subsidy cut
Washington
he International Monetary
Fund (IMF) has lauded
India’s efforts to cut fuel
subsidies, saying the fall in
global crude oil prices provides
a golden opportunity to reduce
energy subsidies.
While speaking about
the outlook for the global
economy in 2015, IMF
Managing Director Christine
Lagarde said that the drop in
oil prices provides a golden
opportunity to cut energy
subsidies and use the savings
for more targeted transfers to
protect the poor.
“We have recently seen a
successful decrease in fossil
fuel subsidies in countries such
as Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire,
Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia,
and Malaysia,” she said.
The government deregulated
diesel prices in October 2014.
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BUSINESS
MONDELEZ TO
INVEST $90M
Monday, January 19, 2015
New plant cornerstone laid, to create 300 jobs
Manama
ondelēz International, an
American multinational
confectionery,
food
and
beverage conglomerate, on
Sunday laid cornerstone for
the construction of its new $90
million biscuit plant in Bahrain.
The new plant, expected to
create as many as 300 direct jobs
by the end of the initial phase
and, through a multiplier effect,
help sustain over 1,000 more in
the local economy.
According to the company,
in the initial two-to three-year
phase, the plant will operate
four biscuit-manufacturing
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From left, US Ambassador, William Roebuck, Mr R. Alzayani and
Mr. Myers
lines producing – in addition to part of our journey to reinvent
Oreo, Ritz and belVita – Prince our supply chain around the
and TUC biscuits, as well Barni world to meet growth demands,
cakes.
while also reducing costs and
“This new investment is improving
productivity,”
said Daniel Myers, Mondelēz
International Executive Vice
President, Integrated Supply
Chain.
Industry and Commerce
Minister, Zayed R. Alzayani
stated: “We are very pleased to see
Mondelēz International moving
ahead quickly with construction
of this multi-million-dollar
facility that will make such a
valuable contribution to the
economy of Bahrain, and
create specialized trained
Bahraini labour opportunities
with the highest international
standards, we look forward to
the completion of construction
and full commercial operations
early next year.”
The current investment is
in addition to the $75 million
investment the company has
already made in Bahrain to
develop a Kraft Cheese and
Tang powdered-beverage plant,
which has been operational
since 2008.
With a production capacity
of 110,000 tons per year, the
existing facility employs more
than 240 people and has injected
over $250 million in the local
economy since construction
through wages, and purchase of
goods and services.
The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) has named Yasser Ahmed Saleh from the
Safety, Health and Environment Department as employee of the month for September 2014.
Mr. Salen was presented the award by the Energy Minister Dr. Abdulhussain bin Ali Mirza in
the presence of members of the GPIC Executive Management.
I’m going to play offence: Obama
Washington
arack Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday
in a State of the Union address that comes
as Washington undergoes a political seachange
and the US president readies to lock horns with
ascendant Republicans.
The annual speech, the most important in
the US political calendar, comes two years to
the day of his scheduled departure from the
White House in 2017, and the
American president does not
have an easy road ahead of
him.
Tuesday will mark the first
time since his election in 2008
that Obama will address a
Congress whose two houses
are entirely controlled by his
Republican adversaries.
“I’m not going to spend
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the next two years on defence; I’m going to
play offence,” a defiant Obama told Senate
Democrats, according to comments reported by
the website Politico.
His credo: It’s time for Americans to benefit
from the country’s economic growth after years
of decline. Unemployment has fallen below six
percent, the lowest numbers in over a decade.
“The economy is stable and is building
momentum. Now we have to
make sure that economy is
benefitting everybody,” Obama
said in Baltimore on Thursday.
Obama
has
already
announced some of his
priorities for the months
ahead: tax reform, easier path
to homeownership, improved
access to high-speed Internet
and free community college.
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BUSINESS
Monday, January 19, 2015
CHINA GROWTH
HITS 24YR LOW
New Normal
Beijing
hina’s annual GDP growth
slowed to its weakest rate in
more than two decades in 2014,
according to an AFP survey,
projecting further deceleration
in the world’s second-largest
economy this year.
The median forecast in a poll
of 15 economists saw the Asian
giant’s gross domestic product
(GDP) expanding 7.3 per cent
last year, down from 7.7pc in
2013.
That would be the worst
full-year result since the 3.8pc
recorded in 1990 -- the year
after the Tiananmen Square
crackdown.
The National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) releases the
official GDP figures for the
fourth quarter and the whole
of 2014 on Tuesday.
For this year, the economists
C
see growth slowing further to
a median 7.0pc, as Chinese
leaders proclaim a “new
normal” of slower expansion
and emphasise economic
reforms.
“China may introduce
many restructuring and
reform measures this year and
this may have some negative
impact on economic growth,”
ANZ economist Liu Li-Gang
said.
He said that they might
include changes to stateowned enterprises, financial
reforms such as interest rate
liberalisation and looser
restrictions on private banks.
China, a main driver of
global growth, was beset last
year by problems ranging from
weakness in manufacturing
and trade to financial worries
over rising debt levels and
falling real estate prices, which
have sent shockwaves through
the key property sector.
For October to December
2014, the survey saw GDP as
having risen a median 7.2pc
year-on-year.
That would be marginally
weaker than the third quarter’s
7.3pc, and the worst quarterly
result since the first three
months of 2009, when growth
logged a 6.6 per cent expansion
during the global financial
crisis.
Authorities appeared to take
last year’s performance largely
in their stride, sticking to a
scenario whereby the country’s
consumers take the lead in
underpinning expansion in
coming years, emphasising in
public statements the quality of
growth rather than its size.
Bahrain
post bags
top honour
Manama
inistry of Transportation
and Telecommunications
(MTT)’ Bahrain Post has won
the bronze medal in the 11th
International competition class
for issuing best postal stamps.
Assistant Undersecretary
of Postal Affairs Shaikh Bader
bin Khalifa Al Khalifa said that
the win, which comes for the
second consecutive year, is a
great end to a year of significant
achievements, and provides
strong motivation to continue
to innovate and develop postal
stamps in the Kingdom.
M
Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB) held its $200,000 Al Waffer Mega Raffle Draw in which
Umar Ahmed Malik was named as the winner. The draw, held on the January 9, 2015 was
part of a three-day fun filled activity organized by KHCB at Bahrain City Centre. The first
and second prize winners of the Al Waffer draw for December 2014 were Khalid Qasim
Rashed Fakhroo and Isa Ali Jasim Al Haddad, who won $5,000 and $3,000 respectively.
Also, 26 other cash prizewinners won $1,000 each and 11 others won $500 each.
Changing lives
Earlier inmates, now entrepreneurs
Cleveland
tanding in a prison chow
hall, Richard Chavez Jr.
outlines his past: violent felon,
former gang member, the
fourth member of his family to
go to prison. Then his future:
owner of a mobile counselling
youth service that goes where
the troubled kids are.
Arching a tattooed eyebrow,
Chavez credits an innovative
programme run out of the
Cleveland
Correctional
Facility, about 50 miles
northeast of Houston, with
helping him gather the skills
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to operate a business — from
character-building and how
to carry himself to writing
a business plan and finding
financing.
The
Prison
Entrepreneurship Programme
is based on a philosophy
that making inmates such as
Chavez business-savvy will
reduce the likelihood that
they will return to prison.
It emphasizes reforming
behaviour while also working
on a broader goal of reducing
the prison population.
With 1.5 million inmates,
the US has the world’s largest
prison population, and costs
are soaring at the federal and
state levels.
Since it began operating in
2004, PEP has graduated more
than 1,100 students. Graduates
have opened 165 businesses, at
least two of which are grossing
more than $1 million. Within
90 days of their release, nearly
all had found jobs. This year,
the programme is looking to
expand to a prison near Dallas.
Operating on about $2m
from private donations, PEP
uses a mix of permanent staff
and volunteers, including
some Texas business leaders.
There is no cost to the state.
Participants are selected
from within the Texas state
prison system. To be eligible,
they must have less than four
years to serve and not been
convicted of a sex crime.
The mountain of tariq – a
rock in the sea of finance
I
hope all of you have had a good end of 2014 and a great start
into the New Year. A new year is always an exciting time,
new ideas, new plans and new hopes. If one of your “New
Years Resolutions” is to start your own business and it should
involve something in the financial industry, why not have a
closer look at “The Mountain of Tariq” (Jabal Tāriq)?
What..? You have never heard of such mountain and don’t
know where it could be? I am almost certain you do, but
maybe just under a different name. I am, of course, referring to
Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, which is guarding the
entrance to the Mediterranean Sea near the southern tip of the
Iberian Peninsula. Most people imagine it as an independent
island, but it’s not and so shares its northern border with the
province of Cadiz in Spain.
The name Gibraltar is the Spanish derivation of “Jabal
Tariq” and refers to the territory’s most famous landmark, the
Rock of Gibraltar. It name is a tribute to General Tariq Ibn
Ziyad who was in charge of the first invasion into Iberia.
Gibraltar was Spanish until 1704 when an Anglo-Dutch
fleet in behalf of the Austrian Archduke captured it during
the war over the succession to the Spanish throne. In 1713 it
was given to England ‘for ever’, so that in return, the United
Kingdom would no longer participate in the war. Despite
several attempts of Spanish monarchs to regain control over
this southern most part of the peninsula, all attempts failed and
even two referenda (the last as recent as 2002) made it clear,
that Gibraltarians want to remain British to this day.
The economy of Gibraltar had long been dominated by
the British navy, but has since shifted its focus to 4 major
segments: Financial Industry, Online Gambling, Shipping and
Tourism. Gibraltar has a low fixed corporate tax rate (10.0%)
and offers easy access to the rest of the European Union, which
helped attract a great number of (albeit virtual) investors.
It has a strong Financial Services Commission, which
regulates the markets and the establishment of the GFC
(Gibraltar Financial Center) within the Department of Trade
and Industry has helped to develop the financial sector even
more. Interestingly, this rather compact territory has 0.6 banks
per 1,000 residents, which is the world’s 5th highest bank per
capita ratio.
Given the time of year, next week, we are going to leave
cold and wintery Europe behind for now and head eastward,
into the Pacific Ocean to discover another interesting offshore
jurisdiction – The Marshall Islands.
Until then...your ASvW
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Monday, January 19, 2015
2014 was Earth’s
hottest year in
history
new study has recently provided a deeper insight
into how filthy mobile phones are that people
use in their daily life.
Students from the University of Surrey
reportedly revealed just how much
bacteria is on the phone and it’s pretty
gross.
Bacteria use all sorts of things
as vectors in order to transmit insects, water, food, coughs and
sneezes, or sexual contact.
Many of the phones showed
the biggest and clearest
blotch of bacteria growing
around where the “home”
button was.
Most of the bacteria is
harmless but disgusting.
And some diseasecarrying bacteria such
as the Staphylococcus
aureus has turned up
in recent years.
Expressing anger
during negotiations
cool at times
A
ccording to two separate analyses by NASA and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) scientists 2014 was Earth’s warmest year in
modern record since 1880.
The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record,
with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since
2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the
planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature
measurements by scientists at Goddard Institute of
Space Studies in New York.
While 2014 temperatures continue the planet’s longterm warming trend, scientists still expect to see year-toyear fluctuations in average global temperature caused
by phenomena such as El Nino. These phenomena
warm or cool the tropical Pacific and are thought to
have played a role in the flattening of the long-term
warming trend over the past 15 years.
B
ringing anger to the negotiating table may
at times be helpful as researchers have
found that suppressing anger about important
points may cause negotiators to lose the focus
of discussions.
“These findings cast doubts on the belief that
negotiators should always suppress their anger,”
said lead researcher Bo Shao from University of
New South Wales in Australia.
Through an online study, it was found that
negotiators did not necessarily become mentally
exhausted when they tried to suppress their anger.
Instead, they lost focus on the matters at hand if they tried
to quash their feelings about issues that were integral to the
discussions.
The same did not happen if the negotiators bottled up their
infuriation about an incidental matter.
‘Ghost particle’ seems to
prove ‘aliens’ do exist!
A
never-before seen
picture, revealing
a spectral-like ‘ghost
particle’ discovered in
debris gathered from
outer space, hints at
existence of aliens.
Researcher
Milton
Wainwright insists that the
particle resembling a chiffon scarf
with the width of a human hair
and a ghostly appearance, found
in dust and particulate matter
collected from the stratosphere, is
biological.
Wainwright added that they
can speculate that in its space
environment this ‘ghost particle’
is a living balloon which an alien
microscopic organism might inflate
with lighter than air gasses allowing
it to float in the air or the seas of an
unknown space environment.
He continued that they also
produce tiny dents we call impact
craters when they land on the
sampler so there is almost no doubt
of their space origin.
Irregular heart beat detected in
marine mammals
S
cientists have detected
high frequency of heart
arrhythmias or irregular
heart beats in bottlenose
dolphins and Weddell seals
during their deepest dives.
This shows that despite
their remarkable adaptations
to aquatic life, exercising
while holding their breath
remains a physiological
challenge
for
marine
mammals.
“This study changes
our understanding of
bradycardia (a marked
reduction in heart rate) in
marine mammals,” said
lead author Terrie Williams,
professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology at
University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz.
“We are not seeing lethal
arrhythmias but it is putting
the heart in an unsteady state
that could make it vulnerable
to problems,” Williams
added.
Cardiac
arrhythmias
occurred in more than 70
percent of deep dives.
Biosensor to help
machines smell
like humans
I
n a first, a researcher from the
University of Manchester has
created a biosensor that can help
machines smell the way humans
do.
The new generation of
biosensors with an acute ability
to sniff out problems can help
machines smell when food has
gone bad or how much pollution
is in the atmosphere.
“It has been challenging
to get machines to be able to
differentiate between smells
that are mirror images of each
other, which was a real barrier to
creating machines which are able
to smell as well or better than
humans,” explained professor
Krishna Persaud, lead author of
the paper.
To develop the biosensor,
Persaud along with colleagues
from University of Bari in Italy
utilised an odourant-binding
protein.
Such proteins are found in
the mucus of the nose that work
olfactory receptors helping us to
create our perception of smell.
Using a type of transistor
incorporating these proteins, the
scientists were able to measure
the unique changes in current
as the proteins reacted to odours
and record them.
The system is incredibly
sensitive with a detection limit
that approaches that of the
human nose.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa yesterday received the Director of the Royal Windsor Horse
Show, Brigadier Simon Brooks, currently on a visit to Bahrain. HM the King lauded the success of Royal
Windsor Horse Shows, held under the auspices of Queen Elizabeth II.
Minister of Labour and LMRA Board Chairman, Jameel Humaidan yesterday
Ambassador, Dr. Ahmed Al Dulaimi. They explored ways to consolidate bilateral
in the labour fields, and exchange of successful expertise in regional and intern
Golden Tulip Bahrain Hotel has donated a cheque to the Muharraq Society for Elderly in support of the charitable institution. General Manager of
the hotel, Abdul Rahim Al Sayed handed over the cheque to President of the Muharraq Society for Elderly, Amina Jalal. Executive Asst. Manager
of the hotel, George Issa was present on the occasion.
Batelco has entered into a partnership with the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) to support the LMRA’s efforts in regard to
foreign workers employed in Bahrain. Under the agreement, expat workers in Bahrain will benefit from a free Sim card service that aims
at keeping them in constant touch with the Authority. The agreement was signed by Batelco A/CEO, Muna Al Hashemi and LMRA CEO,
Ausamah Al-Absi at a conference held at the LMRA’s Headquarters yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister, Shaikh Moh
Khalil Al Sharif, Deputy Governor, M
deputy governor lauded the role, c
The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company
consultant Nadine Daher, who conducted a
company’s management and employees. T
Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery and a number o
enhance the skills of company employees an
tinct personality.
y received the Iraqi
relations, especially
national arenas.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Minister of Interior, Lt. General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa
yesterday paid a visit to Muharraq Governorate Police Directorate.
He was received by Chief of Public Security, Major General Tariq Al
Hassan and General Director of Muharraq Governorate Police. The
minister thanked all personnel of the department, hailing their
professionalism and round the clock efforts in protecting the
nation’s security.
Minister of Interior, Lt. General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa yesterday received the
MP Adel Al Asomi. They discussed issues of common interest to reinforce coordination and
cooperation between the Interior Ministry and the Parliament to achieve further security and
stability in the Kingdom.
hammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa yesterday received the Governor of Rotary District 2452 Club,
Mazin Ahmed Al Imran and former governor, Najad Al Atasi. During the meeting, the governor and
ontributions of Shaikh Mohammed in the establishment of Manama Rotary Club.
(GPIC) has hosted well-known image
professional training course for the
The course, attended by President
of Executive Management, served to
nd develop in them a unique and dis-
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Khalid Ali, a Bahraini, emerged the winner of a BD20,000 mega
shopping spree of City Centre Bahrain. “City Centre Bahrain’s
Winter Tales campaign underscores our commitment to delivering great moments for everyone, everyday through innovative and inspiring experiences,” said Duaij Khalifa Al Rumaihi,
Senior Mall Manager of City Centre Bahrain.
The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Zayed R. Al Zayani has met the Chinese
Ambassador, Li Chen. During the meeting, the minister stressed the importance of
mutual visits and positive initiatves between the two countries to achieve the aspiration of leaderships and governments in both countries.
Leading perfumery and cosmetics retailer, Al Hawaj Group held the New Year staff party
at the Diplomat Radisson Hotel, to recognise the staff’s valuable service and start the year
on a positive note. More than 250 employees and guests attended the event which featured motivational speeches from the management team, raffle draws, gift-giving to loyal
employees who have been with the company from five to thirty years, and distribution of
New Year perfume gift sets to all its employees. Chairman and Managing Director, Jawad
Al Hawaj, director, Prof. Dr. Abdulla Al Hawaj, general manager, Abdul Wahab Al Hawaj,
operations manager, Shyam Narayanan, HR officer, Dorothy Pilayre and retail manager,
Hazem Elrazek addressed the gathering on the occasion.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Starry
Birthday
The 5 Oscar
snubs of 2015
So the Oscar nominations for 2015 are out and as
usual, some deserving movies and people have been
ignored. We give you the 5 snubs, which should
have at least bagged a nomination.
LOGAN LERMAN
1. David Oyelowo
Category: Best Actor
January 19, 1992
A
merican actor, known for
playing the title role in the
fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson
films who appeared in commercials
in the mid-1990s, before starring
in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–
2005) and the movies The Butterfly
Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006).
Lerman gained further recognition
for his roles in the western 3:10 to
Yuma, the thriller The Number 23,
the comedy Meet Bill, and 2009’s
Gamer and My One and Only. He
played d’Artagnan in 2011’s The
Three Musketeers, starred in the
coming-of-age drama The Perks of
Being a Wallflower (2012), and has
supporting roles in the 2014 films
Noah and Fury.
British actor David Oyelowo’s powerful
performance as American civil rights activist
Martin Luther King was considered one of the
year’s finest performances and yet it was ignored.
2. The Lego Movie
Category: Best Animated Feature Film
Perhaps one of the biggest in Oscar history,
the non-nomination of The Lego Movie has left
everyone baffled. The film was expected to be
shoo-in for the Best Animated Film winner. How
can a movie that was layered and inventive not be
considered at all?
3. Life Itself
Category: Best Documentary Feature
Roger Ebert is arguably the most influential
critic of his time. This documentary, based on his
memoir, was directed by acclaimed documentary
filmmaker Steve James, and received an enthusiastic
thumbs-up from critics. So, it was tipped to make it
to the short-list and the snub has surprised Oscar
watchers.
4. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Category: Best Music -Original Score
Reznor and Ross’s score for Gone Girl is filled
with eerie silences and a low industrial hum that
are effective in conveying how the lead couple’s
lives have become mechanical. Perhaps, it was not
considered because it is so understated.
5. Gillian Flynn
Category: Best Adapted Screenplay
Novelist Gillian Flynn did a great job in adapting
her own book into a film that never felt like it had
too many voice-overs and yet managed to convey
the inner feelings of its characters. Still not in!
Mumbai
ctress Shruti Haasan, who is gearing up for
the release of six films — four in Bollywood
and one each in Tamil and Telugu this year — says
she is excited about her sister Akshara Haasan’s
debut film Shamitabh. “I like the film’s trailer
very much. I am very excited for the whole team,
especially for my sister, Akshara. I’m very proud
of her and I wish the whole team all the best,” said
Shruti. Directed by R Balki, the film also stars
Dhanush, veteran Bollywood actress Rekha and Amitabh Bachcan in key roles.
A
Los Angeles
ilary Duff says she has no desire to be
a skinny person and is perfectly happy
with her figure.
The 27-year-old actress, who has twoyear-old son Luca, said she often
wants to lose up to 10 pounds.
“I just tell myself, ‘I’m 5ft 2in,
I’m really fit, killing it in the
gym, and doing crazy things.’ I
love to work out, but I’m just
not that concerned with being
the skinniest person. I’m not
a model; I’m an actress. I
always feel like I’m in the five
to ten pound struggle, but
my life is so busy. I’m just
not that concerned, really.”
H
Mumbai
ollywood Khiladi, Akshay Kumar, who is
leading Indian celebrity online support
for global Action 2015, says the campaign is
all about taking action to end poverty
and inequality, and providing equal
opportunities for all.
“Between the wealth on this planet
and all the overpaid millionaires, if
enough of us stand together and give
what we can, we literally can end
the pain and suffering in this world.
That’s the kind of statistics I think
people need to understand -this isn’t impossible, this
is 100 per cent doable,”
Akshay.
Actors, Sonam
Kapoor, Malaika
Arora
Khan,
Purab
Kohli
joined Akshay
in backing the
campaign along
with
author
Chetan Bhagat,
producers
Ashvini Yardi and
Ritesh Sidhwani,
TV personalities
Gautam Rode and
sportstars Yuvraj
Singh and Vijendra
Singh.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
New York
ctress Siena Miller says her
co-stars Bradley Cooper and
Mark Ruffalo give a lot of
love when they embrace
her.
The
33-year-old
actress shared screen
space with Ruffalo,
47, in Foxcatcher
and Cooper, 40, in
American Sniper.
“He’s a big hugger
and you feel so
good. Like a
bear, man. And
he gives a lot of
love,” she said
about Ruffalo.
And said Cooper
is a big time hugger!
A
Mumbai
A
nushka Sharma and Ranveer
Singh will soon be seen together
in Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne
Do. And we hear that the once
real life couple will scorch the
silver screen with their intense
lovemaking scene in this film.
Now we’re sure that this was a part
of the script, but did the couple’s
changed personal equation make
this a little uncomfortable?
When Zoya took her DDD team on
board everybody was speculating
if there would be discomfort
between the ex-lovers. Especially
since Ranveer’s ladylove Deepika
Padukone joined him.
Benedict Cumberbatch was back to his
antics at the recent Golden Globes. Here
are a few others who’ve made `guest
appearances’ in pictures...
Kolkata
ipasha Basu epitomises fitness,
sex appeal and willingness to go
beyond the ordinary.
The Bengali beauty has spent close
to 15 years in the Hindi film industry,
without working with any of the
top Khans - be it Shah Rukh, Aamir
or Salman. But she has no regrets
whatsoever.
Having starred in multiple horror
films, now she is looking at a comedy.
“I want to do a good comedy, not a
slapstick comedy. People have not seen
my funny side yet. I would like to do
that,” she said.
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Angelina Jolie photobombed byJack Black & Dustin Hoffman
DT News now gives you a chance to quiz yourself!
Through our Celeb pages we’ve introduced you to the world
of glitz and glamour, In & Out! So lets see how much you
know about the stars in limelight!
Clue: Famous for being Famous, exemplifying the
celebutante: a celeb not through talent or work, but through
inherited wealth and lifestyle, she is a model, actress and singer
from Beverly Hills.
To register your guesses and find out this Diva,
Benedict Cumberbatch photobombed
Meryl Streep and Margaret Cho during
the Golden Globes.
50 Cent recently shared his selfie with
Naomi Campbell in which Leonardo
DiCaprio seems to have photobombed
the pic.
Fancy designer dress be damned! The
actress was determined to photobomb pal
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Golden Globes-psychotic killer face and all! This is one of
Jennifer’s best pranks to date.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson does an awesome
photobomb to Miranda Kerr and Orlando
Bloom
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Happy guessing!
Madhuri dixit
The Dhak Dhak Girl was a leading actress of Bollywood
in the 1980s, 1990s and early-2000s, Dixit has been praised
by critics for her acting, beauty, and dancing. She was
awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian
award, by the Government of India in 2008.
She is also known for her dance sequences accompanying
Bollywood songs such as “Ek Do Teen” (from Tezaab),
“Humko Aaj Kal Hai” (from Sailaab), “Aaja Nachle”
(from Aaja Nachle), and “Ghagra” (from Yeh Jawaani Hai
Deewani).
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Ripley’s
Monday, January 19, 2015
HA HA...HEE HEE...HO HO...!
by John Graziano
A science teacher tells his
class, “Oxygen is a must for
breathing and life. It was
discovered in 1773.” A blonde
student responds, “Thank
God I was born after 1773!
Otherwise I would have died
without it.”
Q: What do you do when a
blonde throws a grenade at
you?
A: Pull the pin and throw it
back.
Q: What do you do when a
blonde throws a pin at you?
A: Run because she has a
grenade in her mouth.
What happens to a frog’s car
when it breaks down?
It gets toad away.
A husband and wife were
driving through Louisiana. As
they approached Natchitoches,
they started arguing about the
pronunciation of the town.
They argued back and forth,
they stopped for lunch. At the
counter, the husband asked the
blonde waitress, “Before we
order, could you please settle
an argument for us? Would you
please pronounce where we are
very slowly?” She leaned over
the counter and said, “Burrrgerrr Kiiing.”
A teacher is teaching a class
and she sees that Johnny
isn’t paying attention, so she
asks him, “If there are three
ducks sitting on a fence, and
you shoot one, how many are
left?” Johnny says, “None.” The
teacher asks, “Why?” Johnny
says, “Because the shot scared
them all off.”
YOUR STAR TODAY
ARIES
20th March - 20th April
Memories of past events that
caused traumas that you’re still dealing with could come to light today.
This is a positive development, as the release
of these old emotions could make it possible
for you to progress more quickly on material
and spiritual planes. You may feel lighter, and
you could experience a rush of joy.
LEO
20th July - 20th Aug
Practical matters involving
home and family might need
some attention today. This isn’t
anything alarming, Leo, just a few tasks
that you may have put off, such as house
cleaning or yard work. Get other members of your household to help. You have
other responsibilities to see to.
SAGITTARIUS
20th Nov - 20th Dec
Relatives or old friends, particularly seniors, who visit you today are
likely to awaken childhood memories that you’d long since forgotten. Some of
them might come as a shock, but they will all
release hang-ups that you’ve been trying to
expunge for a while. You might feel like you’ve
just dropped a ton of weight - and you have.
TAURUS
20th April - 20th May
Today you might see old and
new friendships and romantic
involvements reach a new understanding, Taurus. This creates a stronger
commitment between you and those who
care for you. This is a great day to execute
paperwork, particularly legal contracts.
VIRGO
20th Aug - 20th Sept
Matters involving your community might require your attention. This is likely to involve
communication in some way. Perhaps
you want to make some phone calls,
write letters, or place an ad or article in
a local newspaper.
CAPRICORN
20th Dec - 20th Jan
Today you might spend a lot of
time on the phone with friends,
some of them seniors. Your conversations will be loving, informative, and
revealing, Capricorn. As a result, you might
decide to attend some group events in your
community. A letter, check, or delivery that
had been delayed might finally arrive.
GEMINI
20th May - 20th June
An important project could require intense concentration today,
Gemini, and you’re in the right frame
of mind. You could be pleased with the results
and so could others whose opinions matter. Expect public acknowledgment of some
kind. A boost to your self-confidence is in the
works, perhaps even a raise in income.
LIBRA
20th Sep - 20th Oct
Financial matters might need
attention today. Bills may need
to be paid, checks deposited, and
budgeting worked out. Your powers of
concentration are high, Libra, so this is
a great day to do this, even though you’d
rather be doing something more interesting.
AQUARIUS
20th Jan - 20th Feb
Today you could resolve to
work harder than ever on
whatever it is that brings the
results you hope for, Aquarius. This is
likely to involve nothing more glamorous than practical tasks, such as getting
paperwork out of the way.
CANCER
20th June - 20th July
Your practical skills should be
operating efficiently, Cancer.
A creative or intellectual discipline that fascinates you might require
some intense concentration today. You
could spend much of the day in the library.
SCORPIO
20th Oct - 20th Nov
Some projects might require
practical attention today, getting irritating little details cleared
up and out of the way. Your natural efficiency is at a peak, Scorpio, so you will
probably be able to get these matters
done before you get too bored.
PISCES
20th Feb - 20th Mar
Pursuing intellectual interests
may be on hold today because
of career matters. Your ambitions,
whatever they are, could get a shot in the
arm through some new information,
possibly from far away. This could be uncovered in a newspaper, book, conversation with a friend, or online.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
CROSSWORD
Across
1- Basil-based sauce; 6- Leguminous plants; 11- Adult
male; 14- Greased; 15- Defamation; 16- Mine find; 17Massage; 18- Group of musicians; 20- Extra-wide shoe
size; 21- Fraternal org.; 23- Really bother; 24- Sacred song;
26- Circuitous; 28- Exclusively; 30- Live it up; 31- Clear as
___; 32- Shoe ties; 33- Paris possessive; 36- Actress Bonet;
37- Lute of India; 38- Rocket launcher; 39- Beast of burden;
40- Medium of exchange; 41- Tirades; 42- Whispered
sweet nothings; 43- Sounds; 44- Quantities; 47- Portals;
48- Hawks; 49- Steals; 50- Golfer Ernie; 53- Evening of Oct.
31; 56- Wearies; 58- New Haven collegian; 59- Pizazz; 60Prepares for publication or release; 61- Compass pt.; 62- Au
contraire!; 63- Floating platforms;
Yesterday’s solution
Down
1- Prod; 2- ___ kleine Nachtmusik; 3- ___ in Seattle; 4Leaves in a bag; 5- Atypical; 6- Plant flower; 7- Cork’s place;
8- 1970 Jackson 5 hit; 9- O.T. book; 10- Arm coverings; 11Maxim; 12- Chilean pianist Claudio; 13- ___-foot oil; 19Travel on water; 22- Thickness; 25- Actress Ward; 26- Rot;
27- Always; 28- Room in a casa; 29- Kimono ties; 30- Like
most movies; 32- Queues; 33- Like Arial and Helvetica, but
not Courier; 34- Ferrara family; 35- Disrespectful back talk;
37- Chimney residue; 38- Neet rival; 40- Rainy season; 41Cock; 42- Select; 43- San Francisco’s ___ Hill; 44- Remains of
a fire; 45- Repasts; 46- Stan’s pal; 47- “Tiny Bubbles” singer;
49- Workout count; 51- Riga resident; 52- Flat sound; 54Court; 55- CPR specialist; 57- Mrs. McKinley;
S U D O KU
R
BEETLE
BAILEY
IN HISTORY
Little Known Facts
How to play:
Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column
down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.
Yesterday’s solution
Hoy en la Historia
January 19, 1915
Germany carried out the first
Zeppelin air raid against Britain,
attacking the eastern coastal
towns of Great Yarmouth and
King’s Lynn. Four civilians died
1825: Ezra Daggett and his nephew
Thomas Kensett received a patent for
their process of storing food in tin cans
1915: French physicist Georges
Claude patented the neon sign
1975: Arab gunmen attempted a
grenade attack on an El Al jumbo jet
and then seized three hostages at Orly
Airport in Paris, injuring 20 people
2010: Prominent Hamas member
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in
Dubai, allegedly by Israeli agents
Picture: Getty Images
© GRAPHIC NEWS
There can be yellow,
pink, purple, black
and even white
tomatoes.
Monday, January 19, 2015
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INGREDIENTS
This is a dish for special
occasions - not for any other
reason except that it is rich!
Its mild, thick, creamy gravy
is inspired by the food of
Central Asia and came to
India during the rule of the
famous Mughal dynasty. Cook
and eat it and you will feel like
royalty yourself!
1 kg boneless chicken skin removed
2 onions ground to a paste
2 tsps garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1” stick of cinnamon
5 pods of cardamom
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsps garam masala
10-15 almonds blanched and skin removed
5-6 tbsps thickened/ heavy/ double cream whisked
4 tbsps of ghee
1 cup chicken stock
Salt to taste
PREPARATION
Grind the almonds into a fine paste and keep aside.
Heat the ghee in a pan and fry the onions till they are translucent.
Add the ginger and garlic pastes, cinnamon and cardamom and fry for a minute.
Now add all the other spices (except the garam masala) and fry till the ghee
begins to separate from the masala. Add the chicken and fry till sealed (chicken
turns opaque).
Add the stock, salt to taste and cook till the chicken is done.
Whisk the cream to ensure that there are no lumps in it.
Add the cream and the almond paste to the chicken and stir well.
Turn off the fire and sprinkle the garam masala over the chicken. Cover the dish
immediately.
Serve after a few minutes with naans (Indian flatbread made in a tandoor or oven).
2 Wontons
Since the Tang Dynasty (618–
907), it has been a custom for
people to eat wontons on the
winter solstice.
The most versatile shape of a
wonton is simple a right triangle,
similar to Italian tortellini.
Wontons are commonly boiled
and served in soup or sometimes
deep-fried.
China is rich in tourist attractions. Delicious foods are an attraction
indispensable in a good tour. With a long history, unique features,
numerous styles and exquisite cooking, Chinese cuisine is one
important constituent part of Chinese culture. Chinese dishes are
famous for colour, aroma, taste, meaning and appearance.
1 Gong Bao Chicken
This is a famous Sichuan-style specialty, popular
with both Chinese and foreigners. The major
ingredients are diced chicken, dried chili, and fried
peanuts.
People in Western countries have created a
Western-style gong bao chicken, for which the
diced chicken is covered with cornstarch, and
vegetables, sweet and sour sauce and mashed
garlic are added.
4 Ma Po Tofu
Ma po tofu is one of the most famous dishes in
Chuan Cuisine with a history of more than 100 years.
Ma describes a spicy and hot taste which comes
from pepper powder, one kind of condiment usually
used in Chuan Cuisine.
The milky tofu is enriched with brownish red ground
beef and chopped green onion. It is really a tasty
delicacy. Read the DIY recipes of ma po tofu.
3 Chow Mein
The “Chow mein” is the Cantonese
pronunciation of the Chinese characters
above, which means stir-fried noodles.
Generally speaking, this stir-fried dish
consists of noodles, meat (usually
chicken, beef or shrimp), onions and
celery.For making chow mein, the
noodles need to be cooked in boiling
water for a while. After they becoming
cool, then move to the step of stir-frying.
5 Dumplings
With a long history of more than 1,800 years,
dumplings are a traditional food widely popular in
North China. Dumplings consist of minced meat and
chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin piece of
dough skin.
Popular fillings are diced shrimp, ground chicken,
beef, and vegetables. They can be cooked by boiling,
steaming, or frying. Dumplings are a traditional dish
eaten on Chinese New Year’s Eve.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Modern day ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ nabbed in US
4. Police had been looking
for 18-year-old Dalton Hayes
and his 13-year-old girlfriend
Cheyenne Phillips after they
allegedly stole at least two
vehicles and cashed stolen
checks. They had been found
asleep in a pickup truck that
had been stolen in Georgia.
US media outlets had
Washington
teenage US couple
who spent two weeks
on the run after allegedly
carrying out a crime spree
across several southern states
was arrested on Sunday,
authorities said.
The love-struck pair have
been at large since January
A
2nd Charlie Hebdo gunman
buried in unmarked grave
Paris
The second Islamist gunman
in the Charlie Hebdo magazine
attack has been given a secretive burial in an unmarked
grave near Paris, authorities
said Sunday, as police across
Europe probed jihadist threats.
Cherif Kouachi, one of two
brothers who killed 12 people
in the attack on the satirical
weekly January 7, was buried
just before midnight Saturday
in a cemetery in Gennevilliers.
Security boosted for Paris
fashion shows
Paris
Security is being bolstered at
the Paris fashion shows which
open on Wednesday following the deadly Islamist attacks
here and European swoops on
other suspected jihadists.
Celebrities and others attending the event were reported
to be skittish over security at
the globally mediatised shows,
which run to January 29.
described the couple as a
modern-day Bonnie and
Clyde, the Depression-era
lovebird outlaws.
Phillips was reported
missing on January 3 by her
father in Grayson, Kentucky,
and was spotted with Hayes
nine days later in a Walmart
in Manning, South Carolina,
OBAMA VISIT
TO SPUR TIES
Washington
eyond the symbolism of
President Barack Obama
being the first US president
to be the chief guest at India’s
Republic Day, his second visit
to India in four years promises
to galvanise India-US ties.
There is also a great deal of
speculation about who gains
more from the visit - Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
who is said to have staged a
diplomatic coup with his
invitation to Obama or a lameduck US president half-way
through his second and final
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Reenactors dressed as World War II Soviet Red Army’s and
Nazi Germany’s troops marking the 71st anniversary of the
liberation of Leningrad (actual St-Petersburg) from the Nazi
blockade in WWII, on Sunday. (AFP)
Seven-layer security ring
New Delhi
seven-layer security ring will be thrown around the
VVIP enclosure on Rajpath for the Republic Day parade
to be witnessed by US President Barack Obama and the
airspace over the area would be monitored by a radar to be
specially set up.
This will form part of the planned unprecedented groundto-air security drill that will turn the national capital into an
impregnable fortress during the visit of Obama as chief guest
for the main Republic Day celebrations on January 26 — the
first by any American president.
A
Pan-Muslim body urges
restraint after cartoon ‘hatred’
formal setting less than four
months after he came calling
to Washington and the two
vowed to “Chalein Saath Saath:
Forward Together We Go.”
“It’s a really big deal,” as Rick
Rossow, Wadhwani chair in
India in US-India policy studies
at the Centre for Strategic and
International Studies, a leading
Washington think tank, put it
at a media preview of the trip.
“It shows the US officials are
again looking at it as a 20,
30-year relationship, ready to
help India become a stronger
friend and partner,” he said.
Jeddah
A pan-Islamic human rights
body on Sunday urged Muslims
to show restraint despite what
it called the “hatred” displayed
by French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of
the Prophet Mohammed.
The 57-nation Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation’s human
rights body accused Charlie
Hebdo of “ridiculing the most
revered personality” of Islam
but urged to exercise restraint”.
Pak protesting at Charlie
Hebdo burn French flags
Islamabad
Protests against Charlie Hebdo
were held across Pakistan on
Sunday as thousands of people in almost all major cities
chanted slogans against its
printing of cartoons of the
Prophet Mohammed.
They burnt effigies of French
president Francois Hollande
and of cartoonists at the magazine along with French flags.
term in office.
But, the real significance of
the visit is the fact that Obama
would be meeting Modi in a
Singapore
ends search
for AirAsia
Mag defends religious
freedom, says editor
Singapore
he Singapore Armed Forces
(SAF) Sunday, officially
ended its deployment in the
multinational search operation
for the AirAsia plane, which
crashed in the Java Sea, a
statement said.
The Singapore Navy ship
MV Swift Rescue, which found
the fuselage of the ill-fated
plane, returned to the Changi
Naval Base Sunday morning.
Washington
he chief editor of Charlie
Hebdo has defended
the
satirical
magazine’s
controversial depictions of the
Muslim Prophet Mohammed,
saying the cartoons safeguard
freedom of religion.
His
comments
were
broadcast as five people were
killed and churches set on fire
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in Niger on Saturday in fresh
protests against the French
weekly’s Mohammed cover.
Anger has mounted in
several Muslim countries over
Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures, as
jittery European countries step
up security to thwart a repeat
of the attacks in France.
Gerard Biard, Charlie Hebdo
chief editor, told in a television
programme: “Every time we
draw a cartoon of Mohammed,
every time we draw a cartoon of
prophets, every time we draw a
cartoon of God, we defend the
freedom of religion.”
Biard added: “We declare
that God must not be a political
or public figure. He must be a
private figure. We defend the
freedom of religion.”
AirAsia crash shows perils of crowded skies
Jakarta
Sam Reeves
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abandoning the truck and
fleeing. A second pickup was
stolen the same night and
found in Henry Country,
Georgia on January 15.
A third pickup, containing
the guns, was taken from
Henry County on January 14
and has not been found so
far.
US prez to be chief guest for India’s Republic Day
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Safety at Risk
about 470 miles (750
kilometers) away.
Police say the suspects
stole a pickup truck from a
home in Clarkson, Kentucky
on January 11.
They allegedly drove the
vehicle through a cattle
farm, causing thousands of
dollars in damage, before
aught in stormy weather, the
pilot of AirAsia Flight QZ8501
requested to climb to a higher altitude
but was not immediately granted
permission due to heavy traffic. Soon
afterwards, the jet disappeared off
the radar.
While the causes of last month’s
crash in Indonesia are still being
probed, experts say the final moments
before the accident point to the perils
of flying in a region where safety
standards are struggling to keep pace
with crowded skies.
Southeast Asia’s aviation sector has
enjoyed some of the fastest growth
rates in the world in recent years,
with Indonesian airlines in particular
expanding rapidly, due to strong
economies and an emerging middle
class.
While observers believe most airlines
have made progress in safety, they
say the lack of well-trained personnel
and decent infrastructure
to cope with the increasing
number of jets is a concern.
Shukor Yusof, founder of
Malaysia-based Endau
Analytics, said that
Malaysia and Singapore
had kept up but others -- in particular
Indonesia -- had not. (AFP)
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The broadcasters
need to come forward
with other proposals
because clearly the current ones I’m not wildly
happy about because it
excludes me as a leader
of a governing party
- Nick Clegg, Liberal
Democrat leader, UK
23 militants surrender in
Afghanistan
HK protest leader accuses
govt of harassment
Kabul
At least 23 militants Sunday
surrendered to the government in Afghanistan’s Baghlan
province, media reported.
“A total of 23 militants, who
were active in Jurga district
over the past couple of years,
Sunday surrendered to the
government. They handed
over their weapons to police
at Pul-e-Khumri,” Xinhua
reported, quoting Abdul
Rashid Bashir, deputy to provincial police chief.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong student leader
Alex Chow on Sunday accused
police of mounting a campaign of harassment against
pro-democracy campaigners
after he became the latest figure to be arrested and released
by police.
Several protest leaders have
been summoned in recent
days over offences relating to
the mass protests.
Donetsk
Ukraine rushed tanks to
the front lines in a counteroffensive against pro-Russian
rebels fighting for control of
Donetsk airport, with heavy
shelling shaking the key eastern city on Sunday.
At least six people were killed,
including four soldiers, houses
were destroyed and electricity was cut for many homes
and businesses as explosions
repeatedly ripped through
parts of the Donetsk region,
media reported.
I think in a free society,
there is a right to cause
offense about someone’s
religion. But in a free society I don’t have a right
to wreak my vengeance
upon them
- David Cameron,
British PM
RAW OFFICIAL
OUSTER DENIED
Colombo station chief was transferred, says India
New Delhi
ndia on Sunday dismissed
reports that the Colombo
station chief of RAW had
been expelled in the run up
to this month’s Sri Lankan
presidential election and
maintained that he has moved
out after completion of his
three-year tenure.
Reports from Colombo
said that the Sri Lankan
government had asked India to
recall the official in December
for allegedly helping gather
support for joint opposition
candidate Maithripala Sirisena
I
People walk holding banners reading ‘’I am Volnovakha’’ in
Ukrainian and in French during a gathering on Independence
Square in Kiev on Sunday. (AFP)
Ukraine sends tanks to
fight rebels in airport war
The attack on a Jewish
supermarket is a chilling
reminder of antisemitism,
not just in France but the
recent antisemitic prejudice that we sadly have
seen in this country
- Britain’s home secretary,
Theresa May
who won the polls.
“The normal tenure of an
Indian diplomat in Sri lanka is
three years and all officials who
have been transferred during
last year have completed that.
It’s a normal transfer.
“Do not read anything into
it unless somebody stands up
and says ‘yes’. Using unnamed
sources is just hiding behind
and obscuring the truth,”
external affairs ministry
spokesman Syed Akbaruddin
said here.
Rubbishing the reports,
he further said, “If somebody
Syed Akbaruddin
has proof otherwise, I would
Activists seek Hindu state in Nepal
Kathmandu
epalese police clashed
on Sunday with activists
campaigning for the country
to be declared a Hindu state, as
tensions rose before Thursday’s
deadline for publication of a
post-war constitution.
Thousands of supporters
joined a rally organised by
the pro-royalist Rastriya
Prajatantra
Party-Nepal
(RPP-N) near Kathmandu’s
constituent assembly building,
where top political leaders were
meeting to try to agree on the
N
new constitution.
The draft charter is intended
to complete a drawn-out peace
process following the 19962006 Maoist insurgency. But
political leaders cannot agree
on what it should say.
“The police stopped and
charged at us as soon as we
reached the area. Four of our
cadres were hurt,” RPP-N’s
Raja Ram Shrestha said.
RPP-N, the fourth largest
party in the constituent
assembly, wants Nepal to
become a Hindu state under the
new constitution. Alternatively
it wants a referendum to be held
on the 2008 decision to abolish
a 240-year-old monarchy and
usher in a secular republic.
Deputy
superintendent
of police, Posh Raj Pokharel,
said protesters tried to enter
a restricted area near the
assembly.
stand ready to contest that.
Otherwise take my view as the
last word on that.”
Asked specifically whether
he has denied the report,
the spokesman replied in
affirmative.
Sources said the RAW
official had completed his
three-year tenure in Sri Lanka
in September last year. The
reports from Sri Lanka about
expulsion of the RAW official
came at a time when new
Sri Lankan foreign minister
Mangala Samaraweera is in
India.
Lanka minister
for India talks
New Delhi
ri Lanka’s new foreign
minister
Mangala
Samaraweera met his Indian
counterpart in New Delhi
on Sunday during a visit to
improve strained ties after
elections in the island.
Relations suffered under
Rajapakse who cultivated close
links with China which in turn
invested heavily in Sri Lanka
to try to counter regional rival
India. It is Samaraweera’s first
overseas trip after polls.
S
In Hit List
Anti-Islamic US pastor opens french-fry stand
Washington
n anti-Islamic American
pastor who features on
the same Al-Qaeda hit list as
the slain editor-in-chief of
the Charlie Hebdo satirical
magazine has opened a frenchfry stand in a Florida mall.
Terry Jones, 63, garnered
international attention and
hundreds of death threats
following his 2013 arrest for
A
planning to burn copies of
the Koran on the anniversary
of the September 11, 2001
attacks.
That and the actual burning
of a copy of the Islamic holy
book in 2011, which sparked
deadly riots in Afghanistan,
earned Jones a No. 2 spot on
an Al-Qaeda hit list.
The same list features
Stephane Charbonnier, the
Terry Jones
editor-in-chief
of
Charlie
Hebdo who was slain as two
Islamist gunmen stormed the
publication’s Paris office on
January 7 and massacred 12
people.
Far from keeping a low
profile, Jones now runs Fry
Guys Gourmet Fries in the
city of Bradenton about 45
miles (75 kilometers) south of
Tampa.
He has spoken to several
media outlets in recent days,
and carries a 9mm pistol on
his ankle, according to the
Washington Post.
Jones has a $2.2-million
bounty on his head from the
Islamist group Jamaat-udDawa, the Post reported.
“We’re not fearful, and
we’re not going to run
and hide,” Jones told the
Bradenton Herald.
“If they (terrorists) come,
we’re going to try to get them
before they get us.”
Jones said business had
improved after the Herald
reported he was at the mall.
In April 2011, about a
dozen people were killed in
Afghanistan and many more
injured during days of unrest
unleashed by Jones’s burning
of a Koran. (AFP)
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Monday, January 19, 2015
App to connect you with the blind
Alcohol not a good sleeping aid
Melbourne
study has found that
drinking before sleep
results in an increase in
frontal alpha power in the
brain, a development which is
associated with disturbed sleep.
For those who drink before
sleeping, alcohol initially
acts as a sedative - marked
by the delta frequency
A
Bangla pulls
the plug on
Viber, Tango
Dhaka
angladeshi
telecoms
authorities Sunday shut
down smartphone messaging
and voice services Viber and
Tango, which have become
a popular communication
medium for supporters of the
anti-government protests now
in their third week.
The Bangladesh Telecommunications and Regulatory
Commission closed down the
apps “for the time being” on
orders from law enforcement
and security agencies, a
spokesman said.
He did not give reasons for
the decision, but local television
station Channel 24 said Viber
and Tango were shut down
to prevent protesters from
“exchanging
information”
across the country. Viber and
Tango have been popular
among opposition protesters.
B
Police make huge arms
haul in Delhi
New Delhi
Just days ahead of high-profile
visit of US President Barack
Obama, the special cell of
Delhi police on Sunday made a
huge arms haul in the national
capital.
The police have recovered
1020 live cartridges from
Welcome Colony metro station
in New Delhi, reported Times
Now.
Three people have been arrested in connection with the arms
haul case. However, the police
have not linked a terror angle
to the case as yet.
Washington
Danish
team
has
developed a new iPhone
app that lets sighted people
help the blind on occasions
they need it. Called Be My
Eyes, the app connects the
sighted with the blind users
using video chat.
The new app takes
advantage of an iPhone feature
A
electroencephalogram activity
of Slow Wave Sleep - but is
later associated with sleep
disruption.
called VoiceOver, which lets
blind people use the device
using synthetic speech, the
team said.
ENVOY RECALLED
OVER EXECUTION
Indonesia faces ire of Brazil, Netherlands
Jakarta
Arlina Arshad
B
razil and the Netherlands
recalled their ambassadors
from Indonesia and expressed
fury on Sunday after Jakarta
defied their pleas and executed
two of their citizens along with
four other drug offenders.
The other convicts to face
a firing squad were from
Vietnam, Malawi, Nigeria and
Indonesia. The six were the
first people executed under
new President Joko Widodo.
Indonesia has tough antidrugs laws and Widodo, who
took office in October, has
disappointed rights activists
by voicing support for capital
punishment despite his image
as a reformist.
A spokesman for Brazilian
President Dilma Roussef
said she was “distressed and
outraged” after Indonesia
ignored her last-ditch pleas
and put to death Marco Archer
Cardoso Moreira, who was
convicted of smuggling cocaine
into Indonesia in 2004.
“Using the death penalty,
which
is
increasingly
rejected by the international
community,
seriously
affects relations between our
countries,” the spokesman said.
Joko Widodo
“The Brazilian ambassador to
Jakarta was being recalled for
consultations”. Meanwhile,
Mall firing leaves two dead
Melbourne
domestic dispute triggered
the shooting at a Florida
shopping mall on Saturday, said
Melbourne police commander
Vince Pryce.
A man armed with “several
pockets full of ammunition”
opened fire at the mall, injuring
his wife and killing another
man before fatally shooting
himself.
Police who responded to
the scene after receiving calls
about a shooting could still
A
hear gunfire when they arrived,
Pryce said at a televised news
conference.
Inside by the food court, they
found the suspected gunman,
Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, 57, of
Palm Bay; his wife, Idanerys
Garcia-Rodriguez, 33; and an
unidentified male victim.
The unidentified man died
as a result of the shooting, and
the gunman was killed by a
self-inflicted gunshot wound,
Pryce said. Idanerys GarciaRodriguez, who appeared to
be the target, was in good
condition at a hospital Saturday
afternoon, Pryce said.
About 100 people were
inside the mall at the time
of the shooting, and police
quickly evacuated them.
Pope Francis enthralls Manila crowd
M
Washington
he
distinctive
monochrome fur pattern
in zebras keep the animals cool
under the hot African sun.
The differences in the
way the dark and light fur
absorb and give off heat
create refreshing currents of
air that regulate the animals’
temperature. Scientists from
T
Record Turnout
Manila
anila city officials and
the Vatican estimate
a record 6 million people
attended Pope Francis’ final
mass in the Philippines and
lined his motorcade route –
a figure that would make it
the largest ever audience for
a head of the Catholic church.
The chairman of the
Zebra’s stripes act like air coolers
Metropolitan
Manila
Development
Authority,
Francis Tolentino, provided
the estimate while a Vatican
spokesman said the Holy See
had been told by local officials
that the figure was between 6
million and 7 million.
Organisers had expected
as many as 6 million people
might turn out, surpassing the
5 million record set by John
Paul II at the same park in
1995. With two hours to go,
Tolentino reported 3 million
had packed the park and
surrounding streets.
The millions who filled
Manila’s main park and
surrounding areas on Sunday
braved a steady rain to hear
the pontiff’s message of hope
and consolation for the southeast Asian country’s most
downtrodden and destitute.
Francis made a triumphant
entry into Manila’s Rizal Park
riding on a popemobile based
on the design of a jeepney,
the modified US army
second world war jeep that is
a common means of public
transport here.
Dutch Foreign Minister Bert
Koenders said the Netherlands
had
also
recalled
its
ambassador over the execution
of Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei,
and in a statement described
all six deaths as “terribly sad”.
“My heart goes out to their
families, for whom this marks
a dramatic end to years of
uncertainty,” Koenders said.
“The Netherlands remains
opposed to the death penalty.”
Dutch
King
WillemAlexander and Prime Minister
Mark Rutte had been in contact
with the Indonesian president
about the matter, he said.
(AFP)
Anti-Immigrant Rally calls
off in Germany
Berlin
An anti-immigrant movement whose weekly rallies
in Dresden have swelled to
25,000 participants called off
on Sunday this week’s scheduled rally, citing warnings of a
terrorist threat to its leader.
Lutz Bachmann, the head of the
movement Patriotic Europeans
Against the Islamization of the
West (PEGIDA) said by telephone that the threat concerned him, but he deferred to
the police for more details.
the University of California
compared the stripes of zebras
from 16 different sites with
their living conditions.
Firing near
Joe Biden’s
residence
Washington
hots were fired Saturday
night from a speeding
vehicle outside US Vice
President Joe Biden’s residence
in Delaware, the Secret Service
said on Sunday.
Biden and his wife Jill were
out for the evening when
the incident took place, at
approximately 8:25 pm (0325
GMT Sunday).
The agency said the vehicle
“drove by the vice president’s
residence at a high rate of speed
and fired multiple gun shots”
from a public road outside a
security perimeter around the
house.
S
Belgium deploys 300
soldiers to reinforce alert
Brussels
The Belgian government has
decided to “temporarily” mobilise 300 soldiers to strengthen
vigilance and security measures against terrorism, the
office of Prime Minister Charles
Michel said. These soldiers
were deployed from Saturday
morning in Brussels and
Antwerp.
Boko Haram kidnaps at
least 60 in Cameroon attack
Yaoundé
Boko Haram fighters from
Nigeria on Sunday kidnapped
at least 60 people during a new
attack in northern Cameroon
in which some people were
killed, police said.
The Islamist militants burst
into two villages in the Tourou
area and they torched houses.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
SOFTWARE PROGRAMMER
Must have at least 2-5 years of
working knowledge and experience on Microsoft technologies
including .Net, Visual Basic, SQL
Server and source code control
systems * Degree (Bachelor or
Master) in computer science or
software engineering * 2+ years’
experience in software development and/or project management
Email your CV to jobsbank2015ep@yahoo.com
.......................................................
Required INTERIOR DESIGNER
Looking for an experienced interior designer in 3D Max and Auto
cad with GCC experience (there
can be exceptional ) for a well
established company in the field
of construction and interior . Candidates interested shall send their
CV to sree990.buddy@gmail.
com .
....................................................
Urgently Required ARCHITECT
WITH EPP licence for a consultant office. Only local preferred.
Send CV to: globeng@batelco.
com.bh
...................................................
HOTEL RECEPTION STAFF
Four Star Hotel in Bahrain urgently requires experienced Front Office staff, send cv to hrd20111@
hotmail.com
...................................................
Urgently Required WAITRESS
with minimum experience of 2
years in the field capacity. With
pleasing personality . Can handle
guest with high quality of service.
Minimum height of 5’6.Interested
applicant may submit your CV at
hr@newvisiongrp.com
...................................................
SOFTWARE PROGRAMMERMust have at least 2-5 years of
working knowledge and experience on Microsoft technologies
including .Net, Visual Basic, SQL
Server and source code control
systems,Degree (Bachelor or
Master) in computer science or
software engineering, 2+ years’
experience in software development and/or project management
Email your CV to jobsbank2015ep@yahoo.com
...................................................
Urgently
Required
EXPERIENCE
STAFF
LADY
BEAUTICIAN For a Ladies
Saloon,Please Contact This No :
33367070 (or) Email us on lamasalon01@gmail.com
...................................................
Urgently required PART TIME
SANDWICH MAKER for a franchise company to work from 2am
to 7am. If interested please send
email to finance@aubonme.com
...................................................
SALES ENGINEER/ EXECUTIVE. Urgently required experienced sales Engineer/Executive
for a reputed company in Bahrain. Candidate should be able
to do sales & purchasing, should
have strong communication skills
& valid any GCC driving license.
Please forward your CV to “engineers980@gmail.com”
...................................................
Required Senior Software Engineer with Bachelors degree
in computer science or related
field. Minimum 5 years experience in web and application development role (preferably for an
SME). Knowledge of the following required SQL, J query, EXT
JS , Moo Tools, Angular JS backbone JS, XHTML, CSS, Ajax,
Java script, Cake PHP, Codelgniter, Zend, Pear Python scripting, Ruby on Rails ROR. Email
CVs to hr@paytabs.co
...................................................
OFFICER- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, withMinimum of 3 to
6 years of work experience in
related field with a Bachelor’s
Degree is must.Bahraini national
with excellent communication
skills shall be given preference.
Must have manufacturing or logistics sectorial working knowl-
edge. Candidates who qualify
for this position may kindly quote
the Job Title in the subject of your
email and send your CV as an attachment in MS Word Document
format to neethu.douglas@gulfconnexions.com
...................................................
Urgently Required SAFETY OFFICER Candidates should have
good verbal and written communication skills, good knowledge
and understanding of the use of
safety equipments and safe work
practices. Applicants must be
certified from any Safety Institute
either NEBOSH, OSHA, IOSH or
equivalent.
Interested candidates please
forward your resume to hr@almoayyedintl.com.bh
...................................................
PETS GROOMER
We are looking for a professional
pets groomer who can confidently
groom both dogs and cats. The
job is located in Bahrain . Must
have at least 3 years experience in pet grooming.Confidently
groom both dogs and cats without assistance.Perform specific
breed-cuts. Willing to re-locate to
Bahrain (Middle East) for at least
2 years.Basic English is required
...................................................
TEACHER REQUIRED
British curriculum school requires ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TEACHERS for intermediate
level. English mother tongue
preferred. Email CV to admin@
talentschools.com
...................................................
Required GRAPHIC DESIGNER
REQUIRED
An international engineering
specialist company operating in
six countries in the Middle East
and North Africa is looking for
a senior Graphic Designer with
excellent experience in Adobe
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator,
CorelDraw, Microsoft Office and
other graphic software.
The position is for immediate
hiring to be stationed in the
Kingdom of Bahrain and requires candidate with at least
seven years of experience,
highly creative, results-oriented
and with good analytical eyes.
Package is very competitive and
commensurate with experience.
Please submit your CV with
portfolio to communications@
mercurymena.com
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BEAUTY CARE VACANCIES
Looking for a professional and serious females to work in a ladies
salon in / alain. Should have excellent experience in: Manicurist /
Pedicurist: Good in filing the nails
and polishing colour / french - Gelish Manicure / Pedicure - Removing the ignore / dry skin - Normal
nail Art - foot spa . Please call or
whatsup / Mobile + Whatsapp: 00
971 52 779 6864
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FLAT FOR RENT
TUBLI fully furnished apartment for
rent with 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms
with gym, swimming pool, monthly
BD400 include electricity and water
. Contact: 3536 9925
..................................................
HIDD apartment for rent, close
by Dilmun bakery 2 medium size
bedrooms 2 bathroom Hall and
kitchen in ground floor. Rent: BD
180 BD. Contact: 3723 9136
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HIDD studio apartment for rent
with one bedroom, one bathroom,
kitchen
(comprehensive
air
conditioning and curtains +
electricity. Contact: 3770 9766
..................................................
AMWAJ apartment for Rent in tala
island with two bedrooms, laundry
room, overlooking the sea, open
kitchen, parking, swimming pool,
gym, supermarket and restaurants.
for rent at a price of BD700 only.
Email: naif@quest-amwaj.com
..................................................
SEEF, Luxury 1 bedroom fully
furnished apartment in Era Tower,
with stunning sea view, modern
fittings and furniture, inclusive of all
bills and Wifi Pool, Gym, Steam
and Sauna rooms, Tennis court,
Kids play area. Contact: 3974 6444
SERVICE
HOME CARE Cleaning Services:
carpet & sofa shampoo, plumbing
& electrical jobs. Tel. 17562400,
36994899.
TENDER
DT Tender 15cm
x 3col_19_1_2015
Kingdom of Bahrain
Ministry of Works
Roads Planning & Design Directorate
The Ministry of Works would like to announce the following tender:
Tender Title
Tender No.
Initial Bond Tender Doc. Fees
Purchase of Furniture For
Roads Planning and Design PT/01/2015 BD500/Directorate
BD15/NonRefundable
Closing Date
Date
Time
Sunday
08 February 2015 14:00
• NOTE: Tenderers are invited to register and Prequalify with cost engineering directorate at
the Ministry of works for tenders.
• The contractors wishing to inter in this tender and registered with the Cost Engineering
Directorate by Ministry of works or who have a CR at the same tender activity receive tender
documents through tender unit at the minister of works (6th floor west building from the
date of this advertising. After payment the documents fee to the cashier in the financial
resources (3rd Floor New Building) at the Ministry of Works who will issue a receipt in
duplicate. For more information please call 17545761-17545633.
• The works comprise of the purchase of furniture for Roads Planning and Design Directorateas detailed in the Tender Documents.
• Interested Tenderers should comply with the Legislative Decree No. 36 and 37 of 2002 with
respect to Regulating Government Tenders and Purchases, and also to comply with the Prime
Minister’s Resolution No. 21 for 1987 giving priority to National Products and products of
National Origin.
• The Tenders must be deposited in the tender box provided on the Tender unit at 6th floor
west building, Ministry of works - as per the above mentioned date.
• Tenders shall be submitted in One envelope.
• Tenderers are to supply copies of the following:
1. Company Commercial Registration indicating the tender relevant field and receipt for
current registration fee. CR to be stamped with company stamp.
2. The total tender sum as well as cost per unit (as the case maybe) should be written and
submitted in form
3. Initial Bond and a Copy of valid Certificate of Compliance with employment percentage for
Bahraini Manpower issued by the Ministry of Labour and stamped with company stamp.
4. Any other items listed in the Instructions to Tenderers.
5. All submitted documents (original or copy) should be stamped with company stamp.
• Tenders shall remain valid for 180 days from the closing date. Initial Bond should be enclosed
for the amount specified above or at a rate of 1% of the tender value whichever of the
amount is lesser, provided that no initial bond’s value shall be less than BD. 100/. Ensure
that the initial bond is in cash or in a form of certified cheque or bank/insurance company
guarantee, valid for the duration specified in the tender documents and should be enclosed
with each tender.
• Tenders not complying with the above conditions and requirements as well as terms and
conditions mentioned in the tender documents will be rejected.
• This advertisement should form part of the Tender Documents.
A warming bowl of this hearty, healthy soup recipe is
filling enough for dinner.
17256470
90ml/3¼fl oz extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to
serve
1 onion, peeled, chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled, chopped
½ tsp dried chilli flakes
600g/1lb 5oz mixed vegetables (such as courgette, fennel, swede, potato, sweet potato, leek,
celery, carrot or peas), chopped into 1cm/½in
cubes
3-4 pinches dried mixed herbs (such as rosemary,
oregano and thyme)
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 litre/1¾ pints chicken or vegetable stock, preferably home-made
80g/2¾oz dried pasta, such as penne
1 x 400g/14oz can beans (such as cannellini, borlotti, haricot or chickpeas), drained and rinsed
2 fresh bay leaves
50g/2oz freshly grated parmesan
1 large or 2 small very ripe tomatoes, finely
chopped
PREPARATION
Heat 60ml/2¼fl oz of the oil in a heavy-based pan over
a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and chilli flakes
and fry for 2-3 minutes, or until softened.
Add all of the mixed vegetables (except the peas, if
using) and the dried mixed herbs to the pan. Season,
to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Fry
for 2-3 minutes, or until the vegetables have softened.
Reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan with a
lid and continue to fry for 10-15 minutes, stirring
regularly, or until the vegetables have softened and
are pale golden-brown.
Add the stock, pasta, beans, bay leaves and peas (if
using), then bring the mixture to the boil. Return the
mixture to a simmer and continue to simmer, covered,
for 20-25 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender
and the pasta has absorbed some of the liquid and
is tender. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool
slightly before serving.
Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix together the parmesan,
chopped tomatoes and the remaining 30ml/1fl oz of
olive oil until well combined.
To serve, spoon the pasta e fagioli into four serving
bowls. Spoon over the parmesan and tomato mixture.
Season, to taste, with freshly ground black pepper.
Drizzle a splash of olive oil over each serving.
Classifieds@dt.bh
INGREDIENTS:
17579869
HYUNDAI GALLOPER, 2002
model for sale. KM 220000, engine Size 3001-4000CC. Price
BD 1,300. Contact: 37737756
...................................................
HONDA CR-V, 1998 model
for sale. Engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 1,250. Contact: 33071582
...................................................
JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE,
2000 model for sale. KM 150000,
engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
950. Contact: 34556227
...................................................
HONDA ACCORD, 2005 model
for sale. KM 137000, Engine
Size 2001-3000CC. Price BD
2,500. Contact: 33833390
...................................................
CITROEN C4, 2006 model for
sale. Engine Size 1000-2000 CC.
Price BD 650. Contact: 39144218
...................................................
MITSUBISHI LANCER, 2009
model for sale. KM 127000, engine Size 1000-2000CC. Price
BD 2,500. Contact: 33055827
...................................................
NISSAN ARMADA, 2004 model
for sale. KM 173000, engine
Size 4000+CC. Price BD 4,500.
Contact: 39977886
...................................................
MAZDA CX-9, 2008 model for
sale. KM 177000, engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 4,800.
Contact: 36991412
...................................................
TOYOTA FORTUNER, 2013
model for sale. KM 33000, engine size 2001-3000CC. Price
BD 8,000. Contact: 34443543
...................................................
HONDA CR-VENGINE, 1998
model for sale, engine size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,200.
Contact: 33285528
...................................................
INFINITI FX45/FX35, 2006
model for sale. Engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 4,700.
Contact: 33276252
...................................................
INFINITI G-SERIES, 2008 model for sale, engine Size 30014000CC. Price BD 5,800. Contact: 33276252
...................................................
HYUNDAI TUCSON, 2009
model for sale, engine Size
2001-3000CC. Price BD 3,000.
Contact: 33276252
...................................................
MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS,
2002 model for sale. engine
Size 3001-4000CC. Price BD
2,000. Contact: 33150489
...................................................
MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE, 2009
model for sale. KM 60000, engine size 3701 - 3800 CC. Price
BD 4,700. Contact: 33794250
...................................................
GMC ACADIA, 2008 model
for sale. KM 115000, engine
size 3501 - 3600 CC. Price BD
5,200. Contact: 39117862
...................................................
TOYOTA YARIS, 2008 model
for sale. Engine size 1201 1300 CC. Price BD 2,100. Contact: 33453396
...................................................
PASTA AND BEAN
SOUP
38444695
KIA CARNIVAL, 2004 model for
sale. KM 162437, engine Size
2001-3000CC. Price BD 1,000.
Contact: 33718885
...................................................
AUDI A1, 2011 model for sale.
KM 42000, engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 6,500. Contact: 38383409
...................................................
TOYOTA COROLLA, 2010
model for sale. KM 94400, engine Size 1000-2000CC. Price
BD 3,700. Contact: 36605926
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27
Reaching the right audience
Monday, January 19, 2015
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Ghana’s Ayew dismisses Nations Cup title talk
Mongomo
hana star Andre Ayew on
Sunday claimed that the
Black Stars “are not here to
win the trophy” ahead of their
opening Africa Cup of Nations
game against Senegal on Monday.
Ghana have been continental
champions four times, but not
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since 1982, although they have
reached at least the semi-finals in
each of the last four tournaments.
“We have lots of young players
and I wouldn’t say we are here
to win the trophy. We’ll go one
game at a time,” Ayew told media
gathered in Mongomo.
This time, Ghana are
something of an unknown
quantity, with Avram Grant only
recently taking charge of a side
who endured a disappointing
World Cup campaign, a draw
with eventual winners Germany
aside.
Their campaign was also
overshadowed by the decision to
send home both Sulley Muntari
and Kevin-Prince Boateng for
indiscipline.
Of Grant, the former Chelsea
manager, Ayew said: “Today
we have a great coach who has
worked at big clubs and has lots
of experience, so I am happy
because he can bring us a lot.”
MESSI SHINES
Lionel Messi hat-trick keeps Barca in sight of Madrid
Madrid
ionel Messi struck a
stunning hat-trick to
ensure Barcelona maintained
the pressure on La Liga leaders
Real Madrid with a 4-0 win
away to Deportivo la Coruna
to cut the gap at the top to one
point.
Earlier, Cristiano Ronaldo
rounded off a week where he
was named World Player of
the Year for the third time by
scoring twice as Madrid struck
three times in the final half
hour to beat Getafe 3-0.
Atletico Madrid, who
dumped Real out the Copa del
Rey in midweek, moved back
to within four points of their
city rivals in third as goals from
Mario Mandzukic and Raul
Garcia handed them a 2-0 win
over managerless Granada.
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Messi (right) shoots to score his second goal
In a change from his much
criticised rotation policy, Barca
Rain plays spoilsport
Aidan Payne/DTNN
aidan@dt.bh
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lay yesterday was cancelled
due to heavy rains ahead of
the quarter finals of the mini
tennis festival for younger
players in the Unisex singles
(male/female) 8 years and
under and 10 years and under
at the Third E.K.Kanoo Juniors
Open Tennis Championships
at the Bahrain Tennis Club
(BTC) premises in Juffair.
Matches get underway from
3.30pm weather permitting
with the rescheduled quarter
finals, followed by the semifinals with the finals around
5pm in the presence of event
patron Director of Corporate
Services and Board Member
at Ebrahim K. Kanoo, Talal
Kanoo, BTC President Khamis
Al Muqla and other guests.
The last two main category
finals were concluded on
Saturday with Saudi Arabian
Qassim Obaidan and Saudibased Indian Rahul Jaideep
defeating Bahraini cousins
Mohammed Dhaif and Yousif
Dhaif 3-6, 7-6, 13-11 to clinch
the boys singles years and
under title and the girls 16
years and under singles title
was comfortably won by Indian
Aleina Alex 6-0, 6-0 against
Bahraini Maria Taleb.
The championship has
featured more than 100
players competing in five main
categories along with the two in
the minis festival.
Other results: 8 years and
under singles (second round):
Ashwin Aryan bt Mohammed
Al Huda 4-0, Gabriel Giraud
bt Ansh Lalwani 4-0, Shadi
Kallel bt Rohan Mukherjee 4-2,
Marat Altair bt Rout Sidhart
4-3, Maro Ugarkovic bt Ahmed
Shanaishen 4-1, Rakan Kawash
bt Dhey Shah 4-0, Vyom Gupta
w/o Jacob Joshua, Tristan
Manners bt Arya Bhandary 4-0.
(first round): Ansh Lalwani w/o
Sahil Uberio, Rohan Mukherjee
bt Sanjana Kayam 4-0, Altair
Marat bt Idhani Kastwar 4-2,
Vyom Gupta w/o Seeya Uberio.
10 years and under singles (first
round): Kazuma Miyawaki
bt Sharif Malik 10-0, Hiroki
Wakamatsu w/o Yara Tayim,
Zubair Khan bt Saba Abdul
Wahab 10-2, Mariam Aleesa bt
Anushree Kotwal 10-3.
boss Luis Enrique named the
same side that beat Atletico 3-1
at home last weekend and was
rewarded with another bright
display illuminated by Messi’s
class in front of goal.
The Argentine’s first effort of
the game was brilliantly saved
by Fabircio after a well-worked
corner, but the Deportivo
goalkeeper was helpless when
the four-time World Player of
the Year opened the scoring
after 11 minutes with a
thunderous header from Ivan
Rakitic’s cross.
Messi then showed a more
subtle touch for his second with
a delicate chip over the prone
Fabricio to double Barca’s
advantage from Neymar’s pass.
However, by contrast, Luis
Suarez’s troubles in front of
goal continued as he fluffed his
lines twice in the first-half with
just Fabricio to beat. (AFP)
Oman beat Saudi Arabia
DT News Network
man defeated Saudi Arabia
3-2 in Group B of the
Huawei Sixth GCC Football
Under-23 Olympic Team
Championships last night
in heavy rains at the Bahrain
National Stadium in Riffa.
The Omanis in its first match
of the three-team group raced
into a 2-0 lead thanks to a pair
of first half goals by Hatem
Alroshadi in the 9th and 43rd
minutes.
At the restart Oman increased
its lead in the 48th minute
through Khalid Al Hamdani,
but the Saudis reduced the
deficit through Abdul Aziz Al
Bishi in the 68th minute and
four minutes later by Ahmad Al
O
Nadhari to complete the scoring.
The result leaves the group
evenly poised after the Saudis
defeated defending Bahrain in
the opening match on Friday
3-2, leaving them and Oman on
three points each, with the final
match tomorrow at 4.30pm with
the hosts (Bahrain) needing a
win against Oman to have any
chance of advancing to Friday’s
semi-finals.
In Group A action, Kuwait
were comfortable 3-0 winners
over Qatar with the goals
coming from Yaqoob Altararwa
in the 22nd minute, the lead
was doubled in the 56th minute
by Ahmed Hazam and Abdulla
Mahmoud completed the
scoring in the 60th minute.
Lawes to miss Six Nations openers
London
England lock Courtney Lawes is set to miss the first few weeks
of the upcoming Six Nations Championship because of an
ankle injury, the Northampton second row’s club coach Jim
Mallinder said Sunday. Mallinder, speaking after Northampton’s
20-9 European Cup win away to Welsh side Ospreys in Swansea,
said Lawes would undergo surgery on Monday.
STDS training courses underway
DT News Network
our training courses, organised by the
Bahrain Olympic Committee’s (BOC) Sports
Training and Development Section (STDS) got
underway yesterday.
Organised in cooperation with the Education
Ministry, these courses are in line with the
STDS annual plan, aimed at qualifying Bahraini
officials in sport sector.
The courses conclude on Thursday and
include a training course for athletics teachers,
which is managed by former Bahrain sprinter
and present Bahrain Athletics Association
board member Ruqaya Al Ghasra at Al Khansa
Girls School.
The second course also covers athletics and
is open for male teachers. Sessions for this
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Mahmood Yateem
particular course are being conducted by Mohammed
Bakhsh at Khalifa Sports City Hall in Isa Town.
Um Kulthoom School is hosting the aerobics
course, which is run by Saeeda Ateeq, while the
fourth course focuses on basketball skills. It’s being
run by national coach Ali Hussain from the Bahrain
Basketball Association.
All participants have graduated from the National
Coaching Programme, organised by the STDS with
the Coaching Association of Canada.
These courses feature theoretical and practical
sessions, at the end of which the participants will
undergo the final exams.
Meanwhile, STDS executive coordinator
Mahmood Yateem said he was pleased with the
consistency of the joint courses adopted by the BOC
and the Education Ministry since 2007.
Marketing, refining register 4-4 draw
DT News Network
arketing and Refining played out a
thrilling 4-4 draw in the sixth round
of matches of the second phase of the season
in the Bapco Interdepartmental Bowling
League at the Bapco Club in Awali.
Top scoring for Marketing was Abdulla
Abdul Kareem (235) game and (649) series
and for Refining Hassan Ali (273) high
game for the week and (663) series.
Projects beat Engineering 6-2 with top
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scorers being Cesar Huerfano (252) game
and Lito Francisco (573) for the winners
and Joven Urbano (219) game and (571)
series.
Tatweer easily won 8-0 against the Ladies
team with the top scorers being Tatweer’s
captain Yassen Al Ansari (251) series and
(689) for the high series of the week and
the Ladies Dalal Al Jamea (190) game and
Glenda Cunningham (480) series.
Security won through 6-2 against
Production with the top scores recorded by
Production team captain Mohammed Al
Murbati (232) game and Ahmed Al Qassab
(656) and Security Hamed Eid (241) game
and (638) series.
Information Technology Department
(ITD) were easy 8-0 winners over the Land
Teem with top scorers being Kumar Nair
(226) game and (637) series for ITD and for
Land team Abdulla Al Aydi (182) game and
(508) series.
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I can say that
this tournament will
be a very
good experience and
motivate our
team for further success in coming qualification matches for the
2018 World Cup
N. Korea boss
Jo Tong-Sop
Uzbekistan will beat Korea
Republic
Melbourne
Coach Mirdjalal Kasimov has
promised Uzbekistan
will beat Korea
Republic
in
next week’s
AFC Asian Cup
Australia 2015
quarter-final
having seen the
2011 semi-finalists claim second place
in Group B with a 3-1 win over
Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
Recalled midfielder Sardor
Rashidov scored twice, including the second minute opener, while substitute Vokhid
Shodiev was also on target
at Melbourne Rectangular
Stadium
as
Uzbekistan
claimed the win they need to
secure a fourth consecutive
quarter-final appearance.
Belmadi eyes a bright
future for Qatar
Sydney
Coach Djamel Belmadi will
be looking to the
future
when
already-eliminated Qatar
take on fellow
Group
C
casualties Bahrain at
Stadium Australia
on Monday in a match
where pride will be the
main motivator.
The young squad arrived
in Australia on a high after
winning the Gulf Cup last
November but a confidencesapping 4-1 loss to a rampant United Arab Emirates
side followed by a narrow
1-0 defeat to Iran brought
them back down to ground
with a thud.
Belmadi has refused to dwell
on the negatives and said
that the team had learned a
lot from the AFC Asian Cup
and the experience would
stand them in good stead for
future tournaments.
Sun shines as China make best ever start
CHINA BEAT N.KOREA
Canberra
un Ke scored twice to steal
the show again as China
defeated North Korea 2-1
in Canberra on Sunday to
register their third win and
best ever start to an Asian
Cup.
The in-form Sun, who
netted a stunning winner
against Uzbekistan, opened
the scoring after just 45
seconds when he pounced on
a hopeful long pass to poke
the ball home.
He grabbed his third of the
tournament shortly before the
break, heading home a cross
by full-back Jiang Zhipeng
that delighted the majority
Chinese crowd at Canberra
Stadium.
The brace repaid Alain
Perrin’s decision to start the
winger after his goal off the
bench against the Uzbeks sent
China into the knock-out
stages for the first time since
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In-form Wang relishing AFC Asian Cup role
Canberra
For Wang Dalei the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015
has already become a tournament the China goalkeeper is never likely to forget.
The tattooed, hip hop-loving and at times controversial custodian, who cites eccentric former
Colombia goalkeeper Rene Higuita – “a crazy
guy” – as a role model, had already had a successful 2014 after winning the Chinese FA Cup with
club side Shandong Luneng and being named the Chinese FA
Goalkeeper of the Year.
But a few days at Asia’s premier football competition has
already meant 2015 tops last year for Wang.
Sun Ke of China (right) scores his second goal
2004.
“Sun Ke is a very good
player, extremely skillful
with lots of quality, and is
playing with very strong selfconfidence at the moment,”
Perrin told reporters after the
match.
China, who were already
assured of top spot in Group
B and a Brisbane quarter-final
against Australia, have now
won all three pool games,
their best ever start.
China perhaps should have
gone into the break 3-0 when
a last-ditch clearance on the
stroke of half-time looked as
if it had crossed the line, but
without the benefit of goalline technology the referee
waved play on.
North Korea were nowhere
to be seen during the opening
45 minutes but emerged from
the tunnel a different side for
the second half. (AFP)
Fans of China cheer during their Group B football match against
North Korea
Uzbeks reach quarter-finals
Melbourne
zbekistan reached the
Asian Cup quarter-finals
after beating Saudi Arabia 3-1
in a nail-biter on Sunday, a
bullet header from Vokhid
Shodiev helping them over the
line.
The substitute’s dramatic
winner, which came on
70 minutes, averted a
controversial denouement
after Saudi Arabia had been
awarded a soft penalty to
cancel out an early strike
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Sardor Rashidov of Uzbekistan (centre) fights for the ball with
Abdulla Aldossary of Saudi Arabia (right) and Nawaf Alabid.
from two-goal hero Sardor
Rashidov.
Uzbekistan, who reached the
semi-finals of the last Asian
Cup in 2011, will face South
Korea in the last eight on
Thursday, while three-times
champions Saudi Arabia crash
out at the group stage -- just as
they did four years ago.
“I can’t say this is a big
tragedy,” said Saudi caretaker
coach Cosmin Olaroiu, pressed
to explain the Gulf side’s recent
fall from grace. (AFP)
Saudi Arabia
lament costly
mistakes
Melbourne
audi Arabia paid the price
for making too many
mistakes against Uzbekistan
on Sunday according to coach
Cosmin Olaroiu as a 3-1 defeat
saw the three-time winners
suffer a second consecutive
AFC Asian Cup group stage
exit.
Saudi Arabia only had to
draw at Melbourne Rectangular
Stadium to progress from
Group B alongside tabletoppers China.
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Coach’s future
Trigger-happy Bahrain to discuss Eid’s future
Sydney
ahrain’s trigger-happy
FA is set for talks with
coach Marjan Eid after
the Asian Cup, raising the
prospect of another quickfire
sacking and their fifth coach
in 18 months.
Eid said they would hold
discussions after his return
from
Australia,
where
Bahrain have lost their first
B
two games and play a dead
rubber against Qatar on
Monday in their final game.
The 35-year-old Bahraini
has only been in charge
since November, when he
succeeded Iraq’s Adnan
Hamad who was dismissed
during the Gulf Cup -- just
three months after being
appointed.
“I haven’t discussed this
with the board of directors or
the president because we’re
still in the tournament, we
have one match left,” Eid said
on Sunday about his future
in the role.
Bahrain’s coaching merrygo-round has been spinning
rapidly since Anthony
Hudson took over from
Argentine Gabriel Calderon
in August 2013.
The Englishman was
replaced by Hamad when he
left to take charge of New
Zealand, but the Iraqi was
then rapidly dismissed during
Bahrain’s winless Gulf Cup.
Bahrain’s track record with
coaches is similar to that of
2022 World Cup hosts and
fellow Gulf state Qatar, who
have been through 30 since
1990.
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Frey set for four months out
Ghana skipper Gyan in malaria scare
Mongomo
hana skipper Asamoah
Gyan is doubtful for
Monday’s Africa Cup of
Nations Group C clash
against Senegal after receiving
treatment for malaria.
Gyan was admitted to
hospital with symptoms of
“mild malaria” in Mongomo
on Saturday but he was
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PSG win
over Evian
Paris
dinson Cavani redeemed
himself after being dropped
for three matches by scoring
in Paris Saint Germain’s hard
fought 4-2 Ligue 1 victory over
Evian on Sunday.
The 27-year-old Uruguayan
star -- who along with Ezequiel
Lavezzi had been suspended
after they returned late from
Christmas holidays -- notched
his eighth goal of the campaign
as PSG moved above St Etienne
into third, four points adrift of
leaders Lyon, who beat Lens
2-0 on Saturday.
St Etienne then missed a
chance to go back ahead of
them when they fought out a
0-0 deadlock at Brittany outfit
Rennes.
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Del Potro pulls out of
Aussies Open
Melbourne
Luckless Grand Slam winner Juan Martin del Potro
on Sunday pulled out of the
Australian Open after a recurrence of his troublesome wrist
injury, but remains confident
of resurrecting his career.
The giant Argentine spent
almost a year on the sidelines before making his return
as a wildcard at the Sydney
International last week, where
he made the quarter-finals.
But he said he was not ready
for gruelling five setters at
Melbourne Park.
Del Potro also had a long layoff
in 2010, when he peaked at
world number four, stemming
from an injury to his right wrist
before bouncing back and
breaking into the top five at
the end of 2013.
Lille
ille’s Swiss striker Michael
Frey will be out of action
for up to four months after
undergoing ankle surgery, the
Ligue 1 side confirmed on
Sunday.
The 20-year-old arrived
in the northern outfit last
August to fill in for departing
Ivorian Salomon Kalou, and
Vonn equals World Cup mark
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discharged on Sunday, the
Ghana Football Federation
(GFA) reported on their
website.
has scored three goals for the
team.He hurt his ankle in a
duel with Lorient’s Wesley
Lautoa during Lille’s 1-0 loss.
Cortina d’Ampezzo
American ski great Lindsey
Vonn equalled the record of
overall World Cup wins on
Sunday with her 62nd victory
in the women’s downhill at
the Italian resort of Cortina
d’Ampezzo.
The 30-year-old -- who could
have reached the landmark
earlier but for an 18-month
WEST HAM AIMS
TO ACHIEVE BIG
Andy Carroll eyes European Football
London
ndy Carroll said West
Ham
were
eyeing
European football after
scoring in a 3-0 win at home
to Hull on Sunday that took
the Hammers into seventh
place in the Premier League
table.
Second-half goals from
Carroll, Morgan Amalfitano
and Stewart Downing secured
all three points for the east
London club in front of the
Upton Park home crowd
following a run of four games
without a win,
Defeat saw Hull -- punished
for failing to take advantage of
their early chances -- remain
in the bottom three, still a
A
point from safety.
After a goalless first half,
the Hammers took the lead
in the 49th minute when Hull
goalkeeper Allan McGregor
could only tamely parry a
shot from Enner Valencia and
striker Carroll got in front of
the covering defence to seize
on the loose ball from close
range.
Valencia thought he had
made it 2-0 in the 57th minute
after running on to a fine pass
from Alex Song but his ‘goal’
was disallowed for offside,
although replays suggested he
was level.
But the hosts doubled their
lead through Amalfitano,
who scored five minutes after
West Ham United’s Andy Carroll (second left) shoots to score
the opening goal past Hull City’s goalkeeper Allan McGregor
(right)
being sent on as a substitute
for Mark Noble by Hammers
manager Sam Allardyce.
(AFP)
Bolasie
salvages draw
for Congo
Ebebiyin
rystal Palace winger
Yannick Bolasie equalised
as Democratic Republic of
Congo fought back to draw
1-1 with Zambia Sunday in the
Africa Cup of Nations Group
B opener.
Given Singuluma stunned
the Leopards by giving the
Zambian Chipolopolo (Copper
Bullets) a second-minute lead
in a match where the Congolese
had a territorial edge.
Bolasie levelled midway
through the second half
in a game that featured two
other English Premier League
players -- Southampton striker
Emmanuel Mayuka and West
Bromwich Albion midfielder
Youssouf Mulumbu.
A near-capacity crowd in the
5,000-seat Estadio de Ebebiyin
and a smooth pitch set the
scene for a dramatic start to a
mini-league that also includes
Cape Verde and Tunisia.
Just 62 seconds had gone
when Zambia had the ball in
the net through striker Singu
luma.
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Starc brings Australia victory
Melbourne
aceman Mitchell Starc
took 6-43 to help Australia
to a four-wicket victory over
India on Sunday, their second
in succession in the one-day
international tri-series, despite
a brilliant Rohit Sharma century.
Sharma’s 138 at the Melbourne
Cricket Ground enabled India to
post a competitive total of 267
for eight after winning the toss
and electing to bat.
However, on a placid pitch
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it always appeared slightly less
than required and Australian
opener Aaron Finch countered
Sharma’s century with a matchwinning knock of his own.
Finch made 96 as Australia
rattled up 269 for six, winning
with six balls to spare. (AFP)
138, S. Dhawan c Finch b
Starc 2, A. Rahane c Haddin
b Sandhu 12,
V. Kohli c Bailey b Faulkner
9, S. Raina c Maxwell b Starc
51, M. Dhoni b Starc 19, A.
Patel lbw Starc 0, R. Ashwin
not out 14, B. Kumar b Starc
0, M. Shami not out 2
Total
(8 wickets, 50 overs)
267
India
R. Sharma c Maxwell b Starc
Australia
A. Finch c Dhoni b Yadav
96, D. Warner c Raina
b Yadav 24, S. Watson
b Patel 41, S. Smith c
Ashwin b Shami 47, G.
Maxwell c and b Kumar 20,
G. Bailey c Dhoni b Ashwin
5, B. Haddin not out 13, J.
Faulkner not out 9
Total: (six wickets, 49
overs) 269
Mitchell Starc (second right)
shows the ball after taking the
fifth wicket
Raring To Go
Eugenie dreaming of Aussie Open magic
Melbourne
orld number seven Eugenie
Bouchard returns to the
Australian Open this week after
a breakthrough year, aiming to
take her game to the next level at
the tournament that kickstarted her
career.
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injury absence -- equalled the
record of Austrian Annemarie
Moser-Proell, who competed
between 1970 and 1980.
The glamorous Canadian was an
unknown teenager before last year’s
Australian Open but caught the tennis
world’s attention when she roared into
the semi-finals, only to fall to eventual
champion Li Na.
Another semi at the French Open
followed and the 20-year-old reached
the final at Wimbledon without
dropping a set, firmly establishing
herself as a top 10 player.
She became a crowd favourite at
Melbourne Park, cheered on by the
“Eugenie Army”, and said the venue
remained a special place for her.
“This was a great tournament for
me last year, it started a great year for
me,” she said.
“I gained so much more experience...
big matches, more high pressure
situations. It’s great to be back, I have
memories flooding back all the time,
on the practice court in the locker
room, the press room.”(AFP)
31
Monday, January 19, 2015
Ledecky flirts with world record
Walker seizes two-shot lead
Honolulu
efending
champion
Jimmy Walker fired 10
birdies in an eight-under par
62 on Saturday to seize a twostroke lead in the US PGA
Tour’s Sony Open.
Walker, shocked by Patrick
Reed in a playoff on Monday in
the Tournament of Champions
at Kapalua, showed he has put
that disappointment behind
D
K
him. He one-putted his last 11
holes in round three and his
16-under par total of 194 gave
him a two-stroke cushion over
fellow American Matt Kuchar.
Murphy stuns Robertson
early in Masters final
London
haun Murphy raced into
a 6-2 lead over Australia’s
Neil Robertson in the Masters
final at London’s Alexandra
Palace on Sunday
Now the Englishman needs
just four more frames to win the
title when the match resumes at
1900 GMT Sunday with the
second and concluding session.
Victory over world number
one Robertson would see
Murphy join an elite group
of nine players, including
S
the Australian, who have
completed a career triple
crown by winning snooker’s
three most prestigious titles -the World Championship, UK
Championship and Masters.
Robertson
produced
arguably the performance of
the tournament in thrashing
Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-1 in the
semi-finals.
Yet he was a spectator for
much of the final’s first session
as Murphy surged into a 5-0
lead.
Higuain shines for Napoli
Milan
superb first-half strike
from Gonzalo Higuain
ended
Lazio’s
six-game
unbeaten run and helped
Napoli up to third place in
Serie A after a precious 1-0 win
away to the Biancocelesti on
Sunday.
Lazio had climbed up to third
thanks to an impressive run of
performances in which Felipe
Anderson had underlined his
A
Austin
atie Ledecky posted
the second-fastest 800
meters freestyle in history on
Saturday, threatening her own
world record in a victory at the
Arena Pro Swim Series stop at
Austin.
The Olympic gold medallist
won in eight minutes, 11.21
seconds to complete a sweep
Reichelt wins World Cup downhill
credentials as a potent strike
force for Stefano Pioli’s side.
However, the Brazilian
forward, who had scored five
times in as many successive
games, was ruled out with
knee ligament damage last
week.
On Saturday Lazio captain
Stefano Mauri also joined
the side’s growing injury list,
while goalkeeper Federico
Marchetti was also suspended.
Wengen
ustria’s Hannes Reichelt
claimed
Sunday’s
downhill at Wengen on the
Lauberhorn slope - the longest
downhill on the World Cup
calendar.
The 34-year-old covered the
4422 metre run in 2min 36.14
seconds to see off Swiss duo
and previous Wengen winners
A
of the 100m, 200m, 400m and
800m freestyle events at the
meet. She was 28 seconds clear
of runner-up Elizabeth Beisel,
who finished second.
Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka.
Feuz finished 12 hundredths
of a second adrift with Janka,
who won super-combined, 14
hundredeths away.
CAZORLA STARS
Arsenal stun Man City
Manchester
anti Cazorla scored one
goal and made another as
Arsenal damaged Manchester
City’s Premier League title
challenge with a brilliant
2-0 victory at a chilly Etihad
Stadium on Sunday.
The Spanish midfield scored
a 24th-minute penalty and teed
up Olivier Giroud for a secondhalf header to re-energise
Arsene Wenger’s side’s push
for a top-four finish, and
maybe more.
Victory avenged Arsenal’s
crushing 6-3 loss on their
last visit to this ground in
December 2013 and left
Manuel Pellegrini’s City five
points adrift of leaders Chelsea,
who they play at Stamford
Bridge on January 31.
For Arsenal, wins against
major rivals have been few and
far between in recent years, but
having closed to within a point
of fourth-place Manchester
S
Santi Cazorla scores the opening goal from the penalty spot. (AFP)
United, and 13 points of
Chelsea, they will approach the
run-in with renewed ambition.
It was City’s first defeat in 15
games and gave Arsenal a first
win at the Etihad since a 3-0
success in October 2010, which
was the last time the home side
had lost by a two-goal margin
on their own turf in the league.
City have now conceded
two or more goals in three
Stal in shock win as Kaymer collapses
Abu Dhabi
n one of the most stunning
collapses on the European Tour,
Martin Kaymer lost a six-shot lead
on the final day of the $2.7million
Abu Dhabi Golf Championship
Sunday and France’s world
number 357 Gary Stal took full
advantage to record his maiden
win on the Tour.
Kaymer, a two-time major
winner and ranked 12 in the world,
I
increased his advantage over the
field to 10 shots after five holes on
Sunday, before the implosion.
A double bogey on the par-4
ninth hole by the German was
followed by a triple bogey seven on
the par-4 13th.
And while the birdies completely
dried up for Kaymer, 22-year-old
Stal, who started the day eight
shots behind the leader, raced into
the lead with six birdies in his first
11 holes.
He dropped his most crucial
birdie putt from 20 feet on the
par-4 16th hole that gave him a
two-shot cushion over Kaymer and
world number one Rory McIlroy.
McIlroy (66) almost holed his
bunker shot on the 18th hole for
an eagle, but could only manage
a birdie that secured him second
place ahead of Kaymer at 18-under
par 270.
successive home league games
for the first time since October
2002, which will deeply concern
Pellegrini ahead of their trip to
Chelsea in two weeks’ time.
(AFP)
Redknapp unfazed over
future
London
QPR
manager
Harry
Redknapp has reiterated he
is not concerned by reports
suggesting he will lose his
job.
A newspaper claimed the
67-year-old would be shown
the door if struggling Rangers
failed to produce a result in
Saturday’s home clash with
Manchester United and after
a 2-0 defeat, the speculation
has intensified.
Retired Hurt
Ronaldo split with Irina Shayk, confirms model’s agent
Madirid
rina Shayk is now officially
back on the market according
to her agent. Reported in
the New York Post, Shayk’s
representative commented on
the break up: ‘We can confirm
that Irina Shayk has ended her
relationship with Cristiano
I
Ronaldo.’
It is not yet clear what
caused the split, with rumours
circulating of a rocky relationship
between the Russian model and
Ronaldo’s mother.
The agent added: ‘She has
been very close to his family
throughout their relationship.
Any negative rumors about
Irina and Ronaldo’s family are
completely false and have not
been a factor in the cause of the
split. Irina has no comments at
the moment.’
Shayk refused to attend the
60th birthday party of the Ballon
d’Or winner’s mother according
to a newspaper in Portugal.
Shayk had told Ronaldo that
she would not be attending the
bash in his native Madeira, and
the ensuing row served to end
the pair’s five-year romance. As
a parting dig to Ronaldo, the
Russian model has now stopped
following him on Twitter.
P31 CAZORLA STARS
32
32
Monday, January 19, 2015
DE-VIL STRIKES!
Hits fastest One-day century
Johannesburg
B de Villiers hit the fastest century in one-day
international history as South
Africa overwhelmed the West
Indies in the second one-day
international at the Wanderers
in Johannesburg on Sunday.
De Villiers raced to his
century off 31 balls - five balls
fewer than the previous record
- on the way to an astonishing
149 off 44 balls (9 fours, 16
sixes).
With opening batsmen
Hashim Amla and Rilee
Rossouw also hitting centuries
in a South African record first
wicket stand, South Africa
piled up a massive 439 for two.
The West Indies were never
likely to chase down a world
record target but managed a
A
respectable 291 for seven to
give South Africa a 148-run
win and a 2-0 lead in the fivematch series.
The target was never likely
to be within the reach of the
West Indies, especially after
big-hitting Chris Gayle was
caught at deep midwicket off
Morne Morkel for 19 in the
fifth over.
Dwayne Smith, caught off
a Morkel no-ball in the first
over when he had four, made
64 off 65 balls and Denesh
Ramdin contributed 57 off 55
deliveries. Amla and Rossouw
put on 247 for the first wicket
- a record partnership for any
wicket for South Africa.
Rossouw was dismissed off
the third ball of the 39th over.
De Villiers promoted himself
to number three and struck the
ball out of the middle of his bat
from the first delivery he faced,
which he thrashed for four past
bowler Jerome Taylor. (AFP)
South Africa
H. Amla not out
153, R.
Rossouw c Benn b Taylor 128,
A. de Villiers c Carter b Russell
149, D. Miller not out 0
Total (2 wkts, 50 overs)
439
Fall of wickets: 1-247
(Rossouw), 2-439 (De Villiers)
Bowling: Taylor 10-0-95-1
(1w), Holder 9-0-91-0, Benn
10-0-49-0, Russell 10-0-78-1,
Sammy 4-0-26-0, Samuels 3-028-0, Smith 4-0-68-0 (1nb, 1w)
West Indies
D. Smith c Duminy b Behardien
64, C. Gayle c Behardien b
Morkel 19, L. Johnson lbw
b Philander 1, M. Samuels c
Behardien b Philander 40, D.
Ramdin c Du Plessis b Morkel
57, J. Carter c sub (Parnell)
b Steyn 40, A. Russell c Du
Plessis b Imran Tahir 0, D.
Sammy not out 25, J. Holder
not out 21
Total (7 wkts, 50 overs)
291
Fall of wickets: 1-36 (Gayle), 2-63
(Johnson), 3-122 (Smith), 4-148
(Samuels), 5-231 (Carter), 6-232
(Russell), 7-253 (Ramdin)
Bowling: M o r k e l 1 0 - 0 - 4 3 - 2
(2nb, 3w), Philander 10-0-692 (5w), Steyn 10-0-29-1 (2w),
Duminy 4-0-39-0, Imran Tahir
10-0-60-1 (1w), Behardien 6-039-1
SPORTS
De Villiers went on
virtual fireworks by
scoring 100 runs in
31 balls.
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