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THE PENINSULA
QRC treating
101-year-old
quake survivor
UK polls today
LONDON:
Prime
Minister
David Camerons Conservatives
and the opposition Labour Party
are tied at 34 percent popular
support ahead of Britains general election today, according to a
YouGov opinion poll for the Sun.
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Motorist
ordered to pay
QR568,000
DOHA: A Criminal Court
has sentenced a reckless
motorist to a year in jail and
a ne of QR10,000 for causing death of two people and
injuring four others. He was
also ordered to pay a huge
compensation QR568,000 to
the families of victims in collaboration with the insurance
company. His driving licence
has been suspended for three
months. The families of two
victims died in the mishap will
get blood money of QR200,000
each and those four people
injured will receive QR68,000,
QR66,000, 24,000, and 20,000
respectively. The convict did
not appear the court and the
verdict was issued in absentia,
Al Sharq reports.
Eatery closed
DOHA:
Al
Daayen
Municipality closed down
a restaurant for 30 days
for selling food that didnt
meet the required specications. Three other food outlets were also closed down
by Doha Municipality for
different durations, for selling food unt for human
consumption.
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QA announces
daily ights to
Ras Al Khaimah
New service from October 1
DOHA: Qatar Airways has
announced expansion to its
UAE services with the launch
of direct ights to Ras Al
Khaimah,
commencing
on
October 1.
Operating daily, QR1120
will depart Dohas Hamad
International Airport at 20:15
hours and arrive at Ras Al
Khaimah International Airport
at 22.30 hours. The return ight
QR1121 will depart at 23:30 hours
and arrive in Doha at 23:45 hours.
The UAE is a market that is
strong and full of condence,
said Qatar Airways Group Chief
Executive, Akbar Al Baker.
Today, Qatar Airways enjoys
a robust operation in the UAE
with 98 ights a week to Dubai,
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker with Chairman of Ras Al Khaimah International Airport Sheikh
Salem bin Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi at Arabian Travel Market in Dubai yesterday.
Airport said:
Ras Al Khaimah is a global
destination for both tourism and
commerce and the new daily Qatar
Airways QR1120 ight will service
up to 400,000 passengers travelling
in and out of the Emirate on an
annual basis from October.
Ras Al Khaimah which is the
northern-most Emirate of the
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delivered by University of
Groningen president Prof Dr
Sibandes Poppema on How
a university can combine top
research, societal relevance and
industry relations and Academy
for Academic Leadership senior
consultant Dr Wyatt Hume on
Rankings relative to mission.
Discussion sessions on Day
Two were presented in 4 tracks
headlined respectively Quality
Assurance and Accreditation;
Learning, Teaching and the
Student Experience; Managing
Higher
Educ ation
and
Internationalization; Research
Strategy, Knowledge Transfer
and Innovation; and Graduate
Employability and Employer
Engagement. Participants included
higher education experts and university faculty and specialists
from education-related organizations from Afghanistan, Bahrain,
Hong Kong, Jordan, Kazakhstan,
Malaysia,
Qatar,
Russian
Federation, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, UAE, US, and Vietnam.
Summer School Session highlighted the growing business of
summer school education around
QU President Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad with UAE University Provost Prof Mohamed Albaili during the closing ceremony. RIGHT: Qatar University
students Nihal Abdulrahiman and Esraa el Din with CEO QS Asia Mandy Mok.
the world. Opening the session CEO QS Asia Mandy Mok
pointed to the upcoming QS
MAPLE Summer School Summit
which she said is a networking
forum that brings practitioners
together to discuss the building
of partnerships among universities to offer exchange student
101-year-old Funchu Tamang, who magically survived for a week under the
rubble of a building, being treated by a QRC medical team.
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Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa Al Thani with Minister of
Environment and Sustainable Development in Tunisia Najib Derouichsh. They discussed ways to enhance
cooperation in municipal affairs. The meeting was attended by Ambassador of Tunisia Slah Salhi and other
ofcials.
DOHA:
Al
Jazeera
Media
Network has appointed Al
Anstey as CEO of Al Jazeera
America with immediate effect.
Anstey replaces interim CEO
Ehab Alshihabi who was responsible for launching Al Jazeera
America in 2013.
Anstey joined Al Jazeera in
2005 and has held a range of leadership positions with the organization, most recently serving as
Managing Director of Al Jazeera
English since 2010. Previously Al
was Director of News for AJE, in
charge of the news division and
the editorial content. Al was a
key member of the start-up team
of AJE that designed the editorial
vision, recruited AJEs editorial
staff, and set up AJEs worldwide
bureau network.
During his tenure as Managing
Director of Al Jazeera English, the
channel became a leader in international news winning a range of
Northwestern University in Qatars fourth annual graduation ceremony held in Education City.
was given to Jaimee Haddad,
Student Leadership Award to
Marium Saeed, Communication
Award to Nissryne Dib, Journalism
Award to James Zachary Hollo and
Liberal Arts Award to Aamena
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Neck-and-neck race
RITONS are voting today in the most lacklustre
election in decades. It has also been called the most
competitive and complex election. Conservative Prime
Minister David Cameron and his Labour challenger
Ed Miliband have fought each other to a standstill, and
will be left biting their nails when the results are declared.
Despite ve weeks of campaigning, neither party has opened
up a clear lead, pointing to a complex, uncertain outcome. A
Guardian/ICM campaign poll said that the Labour and the
Conservatives are heading into the polls neck and neck, tied at
35 percent each, with smaller parties grabbing the rest of the
votes.
The most important feature of this election is the
resurgence of the Scots. The outcome of the vote may be
unpredictable, but one thing is clear. Less than eight months
after saying NO to independence, Scottish voters are set to
deliver a resounding endorsement of the pro-independence
Scottish National Party (SNP). Does this indicate a break-up
of the United Kingdom down the line? Its a distinct possibility.
Whoever wins the election, their victory wont be as dramatic
and stunning as the SNPs.
Another feature is the absence of foreign policy issues
during the campaigning, which experts have interpreted
as another indication of Britains retreat from the global
stage. The Washington Post wrote: For the United States,
however, the overarching result is
already clear: A stalwart US ally
Britons are
is growing weaker, more inwardly
focused and less willing or able
voting in
to join in common endeavors.
Nobody is talking about the special
the most
relationship that characterized
competitive
ties between the two powers. The
US too is heading to the polls,
and complex
and whether a Democrat or
election in
Republican becomes president,
he/she is unlikely to invest time
decades.
in resuscitating the relationship.
Washington nds a stronger ally
in Germany than Britain. Also, it
isnt a rewarding experience for British leaders to offer blind
support for US adventures on foreign soil, especially after the
severe mauling Tony Blair has suffered for supporting Iraq
and Afghan wars.
Britains retreat has accelerated during the ve-year term
of Conservative Premier Cameron and is likely to intensify if
he is re-elected. Camerons promise to renegotiate Britains
place in the European Union and hold a referendum on
whether to remain in it by 2017 has sent shockwaves in the
continent. The public discourse and debates in the country
would be consumed by this issue in the coming years to the
detriment of other vital global concerns. And the scenario
wouldnt be rosier if Miliband forms the government. He
would have to rely on the support of the SNP, which is more
interested in secession than strengthening the Union.
Whatever the outcome, Britain will remain a strong and
staunch ally of our region, especially Qatar
Quote of
the day
We can achieve an
overall majority
that gives Britain
the strong stable
government that
continues, with a
long-term economic
plan that is working.
David Cameron
Britains Prime Minister
ARAB VIEWS
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DR ZAFIR MOHAMMAD
AL-AJMI
uring
O p e r at i o n
Decisive Storm there
were many deceitful
manoeuvres where the
Alliance intensied its air strikes
from the north, which made the
rebels in Yemen lose sense of the
Storms inevitability, despite the
fact that its clouds had cast political shadows.
On the night of September 21,
2014, the people of Sanaa heard
the squeak of Houthi tanks
returning from the black holes
of history, rendering the streets
unsafe, followed by dark horror
in the form of the squeal of carts
carrying corpses as during the
great plague.
After the appeal by President
Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi it was
necessary to save the Yemenis
from barbarism, so Decisive
Storm came to the rescue.
During Operation Desert
Storm in 1991, the air attack
was expected because it followed
a deadline set by the United
A le photo of Saudi army artillery ring shells towards Yemen from a post close to the border.
and battle management software
BMC4I to provide real-time
information and deal with it.
However, the problem was that
the Situation Aware Assistance
within this system in Decisive
Storm was joined by a superpower
that could rationalise inputs and
route outputs.
* Although the enemy forces
in Yemen will not develop their
skills in the near future to more
than guerrilla tactics, we caution
Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, the former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
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MIDDLE EAST
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (right) looking at books displayed at the 28th Tehran International Book fair in Tehran, Iran. According to reports,
the book fair was inaugurated on Tuesday with over 2,800 publishers from Iran and some 60 countries presenting their publications.
Islamists
kill Somalia
government
ofcial
MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab
Islamist militants shot dead
a
government
ofcial
in
Mogadishu yesterday and, in
a separate attack, bombed
an African Union troop convoy outside the Somali capital,
police and a spokesman for the
group said.
Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of
Mogadishus Wadajir district, was
shot dead in his car.
Gunmen opened re on the
car of the deputy district commissioner this morning. The ofcial
died and the gunmen escaped,
Major Ibrahim Hussein, a police
ofcer, told Reuters.
Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab,
which carries out attacks frequently in Somalia and in neighbouring countries, claimed
responsibility.
The group wants to impose its
strict interpretation of Islamic
law in the region and overthrow
the Somali government, which is
backed by Western donors and
African peacekeepers.
We killed the deputy district commissioner and we shall
continue killing the enemies.
This is part of our operation in
Mogadishu, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu
Musab, its military operations
spokesman, told Reuters.
Also yesterday, an Al Shabaab
improvised explosive device
damaged an armoured vehicle
in a convoy of African Union
peacekeeping vehicles, Colonel
Mohamed Abdullahi, a police
ofcer, and the group said.
The AU convoy was passing
through Elasha town about 16km
north west of Mogadishu when
the bomb exploded.
Police and residents said AU
troops had surrounded the area.
Details about casualties were
not immediately available, but
Al Shabaab said there were many.
It is usually hard to verify casualty numbers given by the group.
Late on Monday, gunmen from
the group stormed a police station in Puntland and killed three
policemen.
REUTERS
US Secretary of State John Kerry (centre) and State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular
Affairs Michele Bond (left) laugh as a young girl from Yemen is too shy to take her rst US Passport at a ceremony
to present passports and travel visas to Americans and their relatives planning to y to the United States, at the
American Embassy in Djibouti yesterday.
DJIBOUTI: US Secretary of
State John Kerry arrived in
the Horn of Africa nation of
Djibouti yesterday, home to the
main US military base on the
continent and just across the
sea from war-torn Yemen.
Djibouti, a strategic former
French colony and port that
guards the entrance to the Red
Sea and Suez Canal, is also a key
contributing nation to the African
Union force ghting Al-Qaedaafliated Shabaab insurgents in
neighbouring Somalia.
Djibouti is making a very
signicant contribution, helping
to push back against extremism, Kerry said during a visit
to a mosque with Djiboutian
ofcials.
Kerry is making the rst
visit by a Secretary of State to
Djibouti, and ofcials said he will
thank the government for its support in supporting some 500 US
citizens eeing the civil war in
nearby Yemen.
He will be thanking the
Djiboutian government for their
efforts in Yemen in terms of the
is Brotherhood everywhere,
he said.
The Brotherhood is a large
body, many of whose members
work independently. However,
Walid suggested the organisation could not afford to provide supplies or money to any
ghting groups.
We are having a lot of problems with funding our activities
ourselves, so I dont think we have
enough money to support others,
he said, adding that most of its
funds came from individuals, with
occasional contributions from
Brotherhood groups abroad.
In Egypt, the Brotherhood was
once the countrys best organised
and most successful opposition
movement. However, hundreds of
its members have been killed and
thousands detained since Islamist
President Mohammed Mursi was
overthrown in 2013. REUTERS
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Kerry to talk
about pause in
Yemen attacks
Top US diplomat reaches Riyadh
RIYADH: Top US diplomat
John Kerry ew into Riyadh
yesterday for talks on a humanitarian pause in Yemen, where
dozens of people were reported
killed trying to ee worsening
conditions after weeks of war.
On the Saudi side of the border there were more casualties as
well, when shelling from Yemen
killed ve people, the civil defence
agency said.
Riyadh has said it is considering temporary halts in air raids
to allow aid deliveries into Yemen,
where a Saudi-led coalition took
action on March 26 in an effort to
halt an advance by Iran-backed
rebels.
Twenty-two humanitarian
organisations warned their emergency aid operations in Yemen
could cease because of fuel shortages. They urged an immediate
opening of roads as well as an
end to the coalitions air and sea
blockades.
There has been growing concern for civilians in the war.
Before he travelled to Saudi
Arabia, Kerry told reporters in
Djibouti he would raise the issue
of a temporary halt to air strikes
with ofcials in Riyadh.
We will be discussing the
nature of the pause and how it
might be implemented, said
Kerry, who last night held
talks with Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Nayef and was to
meet Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques King Salman of Saudi
Arabia today.
We are deeply concerned about
Bedsheets tied together are seen hanging from a second oor apartment in the Old Airport neighbourhood of Doha yesterday. It was
used by a maid who ed leaving two children uncared for and alone.
(ALI RAHMATULLAH)
AFP
Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, H H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, talks among engineers and scientists
during a ceremony to unveil UAEs Mars Mission in Dubai yesterday.
DOHA:
The
Supreme
Committee for Delivery and
Legacy (SC) said yesterday
that it is developing innovative
and environment-friendly cooling technologies that will allow
football to be played in the
country throughout the year.
The SC is developing and netuning ten cooling methods as part
of an integrated approach in the
design of different facilities and
the proposed venues for the FIFA
World Cup that Qatar will host in
2022. Many countries with similar
climates could benet from these
technologies once the 2022 FIFA
World Cup Qatar is over, the committee said yesterday.
Solar shading is one of the
cooling technologies in which
buildings are designed to be not
exposed to direct sunlight. It is
possible to reduce heat absorbed
by a structure by 85 per cent. This
can be achieved by planting suitable vegetation around buildings
to selecting special materials that
limit solar transmission.
Another method, natural ventilation, utilises natural forces, such
as differences in pressure caused
by wind, which draws air towards
low pressure areas, and/or thermal
buoyancy which causes hot air to
be displaced by cooler air. Natural
ventilation can serve two functions
that would otherwise have to be
provided by mechanical systems,
namely reducing the temperature
of an area and improving indoor
air quality by ventilation. The
other methods are:
Night-time ventilation: This
process relies on the walls, oors
and other surfaces being cooled
at night when temperatures are
lower. The cooled surfaces are
then able to absorb heat during
the day thus allowing people to
enjoy a cooler environment.
Evaporative cooling: This
method utilises the cooling effect
generated by water as it absorbs
heat to change state to a vapour
in the process of evaporation. Just
as sweat evaporates to cool body
by absorbing heat, a water spray
near a building or space absorbs
heat and evaporates to create a
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EUROPE / AMERICAS
FROM LEFT: Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, opposition Labour Party
leader Ed Miliband and British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservatives David Cameron.
fell short of an overall majority
and struck a deal with the centrist Liberal Democrats to govern
together to steady the economy.
Many Britons thought that was
a one-off. But the rise of fringe
parties such as the pro-independence Scottish National Party and
the anti-EU United Kingdom
Independence Party (UKIP) has
drained support from the two
main parties.
Surveys by Opinium and TNS,
published yesterday, both put
the Conservatives 1 percentage
point ahead of Labour. An ICM/
Guardian poll put the big parties
level on 35 percent, with Labour
38 million internally
displaced by conicts
GENEVA: Conicts and violence in places like Syria and
Ukraine have displaced a record
38 million people inside their
own countries, equivalent to the
total populations of New York,
London and Beijing, a watchdog
group said yesterday.
Nearly one third of them a full
11 million people were displaced
last year alone, with an average
of 30,000 people eeing their
homes every day, the Genevabased Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said
in a report. These are the worst
gures for forced displacement in
a generation, signalling our complete failure to protect innocent
civilians, said Jan Egeland, head
of the Norwegian Refugee Council
which is behind the IDMC.
Internally displaced people
(IDPs) is a label given to people
who remain in their homeland,
as opposed to refugees, who ee
across borders. According to the
latest available UN statistics, there
were some 16.7 million refugees in
the world at the end of 2013, meaning the total number of displaced
people is well above 50 million.
The number of internally displaced people is thus today around
twice that of refugees a dramatic shift from a few decades
ago when the two categories stood
on equal footing, Egeland said.
One of the main reasons why
the number of IDPs is growing so
much are all the closed borders,
he said.
Four arrested in
German raids
on anti-Muslim
terror group
BERLIN:
German
police
arrested four people yesterday
accused of belonging to a farright terror organisation that
acquired explosives for attacks
on Muslims and refugee homes.
The early-morning swoops
in ve states occurred with the
country already on edge after
authorities last week said they
had foiled a planned Islamist
attack by a German-Turkish couple armed with a pipe bomb and
other weapons.
They also came amid an
increase in attacks on lodgings
for asylum seekers as Germany
takes in record numbers of people eeing conicts in the Middle
East and Africa.
The raids turned up pyrotechnics with large explosive
power that investigators believe
were intended for use in attacks,
said the federal prosecutors
ofce in the southwestern city of
Karlsruhe.
The four suspects, three men
and a 22-year-old woman identied only as Denise Vanessa G., are
accused of starting a far-right
terrorist organisation called
Oldschool Society with a larger
group of people last November.
Two of the accused, named
as 56-year-old Andreas H. and
Markus W., 39, are believed to be
the ringleaders, using the titles
president and vice president.
The fourth suspect was listed
as 47-year-old Olaf O. All are
German citizens, prosecutors said.
The four far-right suspects
were arrested based on warrants
issued on Tuesday by a federal
judge on charges of founding a
terrorist organisation. About
250 ofcers from special units of
police forces in ve states and the
federal police searched the homes
of the four accused as well as
those of ve other suspects.
Baltimore urges
review of police
practices
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (right) welcomes Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting
at the Government Reception House in Moscow yesterday. Raul Castro arrived in Moscow to attend the festive
events marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its Allies over Nazi Germany in WWII.
underlines that Europe will face an obesity crisis of enormous proportions by 2030,
said the research, which covered 53 countries in the WHOs Europe region.
On current trends, some 89 percent of
Irish men are likely to be overweight by
2030, and 48 percent obese up from 74
percent overweight and 26 percent obese
in 2010. Of Irish women, 85 percent are
likely to be overweight and 57 percent
obese by 2030, up from 57 percent and
23 percent respectively.
Over a quarter of Swedish men and 22
percent of women will be obese by 2030,
up from 14 and 12 percent in 2010. In the
UK, one third (33 percent) of women are
forecast to be obese in 2030, compared with
over one quarter (26 percent) in 2010, the
ASIA / AFRICA
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A team of Nepalese volunteers tears down a house damaged by the devastating earthquake that hit the country,
in Sankhu on the outskirts of Kathmandu, yesterday.
trafcking said it had seen an
increase in suspicious cases at the
porous border with India which
has in the past been used to trafc
women and children from Nepal
into slavery and prostitution.
Girls are at high risk of trafcking and sexual abuse, they
have to be protected, Anuradha
Koirala, the founder of Maiti
Nepal, an anti-trafcking organisation, said. Koirala said her
REUTERS
trafcking or attempted trafcking in the country. We have special teams inspecting camps and
shelters to ensure that women
and children live in a safe environment, said deputy spokesman for Nepal Police, Sarbendra
Khanal. Relief agencies working
in quake-hit areas are seeking to
raise awareness of the dangers to
vulnerable people.
AGENCIES
Thai authorities nd
6 more bodies at site
40,000 ee
Burundi
amid crisis
BUJUMBURA: Nearly 40,000
refugees have ed Burundi
to
neighbouring
Rwanda,
Tanzania and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo in
the last month, amid protests against President Pierre
Nkurunzizas bid for a third
term, the United Nations said
yesterday.
More than a week of demonstrations have plunged the
African nation into its worst crisis since an ethnically charged
civil war ended in 2005. Civil society groups say a dozen people have
been killed. Police say the death
toll is half that number.
The opposition says Burundis
constitution and a peace deal
that ended the civil war limits
Nkurunziza to two terms.
But Burundis constitutional
court this week cleared the way
for the president to run again in
June, saying his rst term did not
count because he was picked by
parliament not publicly elected.
About a dozen demonstrators
gathered in the capitals Kinindo
district yesterday, one of them
holding a placard saying: The
constitutional courts decision will
not stop us. Nkurunziza has to
abandon the illegal term.
Witnesses saw about 200 protesters in another district. But
most of Bujumburas streets
were relatively calm and police
surrounded the scenes of recent
ashpoints, a witness said.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR
said 39,091 Burundians had sought
asylum in neighbouring states since
the start of April. At least 24,795
had gone to Rwanda, Tanzania had
taken in 6,966 people and 7,319 have
ed to Congo.
A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel (top) and a Philippine vessel (bottom) manoeuvre during a sea-jacked cargo
vessel scenario rescue operation in Manila Bay yesterday.
PADANG
BESAR:
Thai
authorities investigating people-smuggling said six more
bodies were found yesterday
in the same patch of jungle
bordering Malaysia where the
remains of dozens of migrants
were exhumed last week.
The latest bodies were discovered about 1km from the hillside site where the remains of
26 migrants were found over the
weekend, near the town of Padang
Besar in the southern province of
Songkhla.
Hours later authorities released
a statement saying 38 police ofcers in southern Thailand have been
transferred from their positions
including more than a dozen from
senior immigration roles.
The move takes the number of
police transfers since last weeks
grim discovery past 50 after an
earlier spate of redeployment
which comes as the ruling junta
has vowed it is serious about tackling the kingdoms spiralling trafcking crisis.
National police spokesman
Prawut Thavornsiri said the bodies of two men and four women
had been found not far from
where the mass grave had been
exhumed at a suspected people
smugglers camp.
It was in a graveyard in a forest on the hillside... around one
the country, and the WHO gures are strikingly higher than ofcial pronouncements.
The most recent gures available from the
ministry of transport, cited by a vice-minister
at a forum, said 60,000 people were killed on
the roads in 2012 -- less than a quarter of the
estimate in the WHO document.
Chinas National Bureau of Statistics said
in February that last year road trafc deaths
ran at a rate of 2.22 people per 10,000 vehicles.
It said separately that there were a total
of 154.47 million vehicles available for civilian use in the period. Those gures imply at
least 34,292 road deaths in 2014 -- less than
an eighth of the WHO estimate.
Fatal road accidents are a serious problem
in China, where trafc regulations are often
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PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN
Thousands ee homes
ahead of Afghan battle
Security forces, Taliban in a stand-off in Kunduz
KABUL: As many as 10,000
Afghan families have ed their
homes as Taliban insurgents
and government forces prepared
for a major battle for control of
the southern fringes of Kunduz
city, ofcials said yesterday.
The World Food Programme
is preparing food packages for
displaced families and expects
to start distributing them this
weekend.
Afghan security forces and
Taliban insurgents backed by foreign jihadists on the outskirts of
Kunduz have been in a stand-off
for nearly a week since the militants launched an offensive on the
city late last month.
The Taliban push on Kunduz,
about 500 km north of Kabul,
is the most serious threat to
Afghan men look on in court during their trial in connection with the killing of a 27-year-old woman, in Kabul yesterday.
Govt to challenge
unseating of
Pakistan minister
ISLAMABAD: Pakistans ruling party said yesterday it would
challenge an election tribunal
that unseated the countrys
railways minister over alleged
irregularities in the 2013 general
election.
Khawaja Saad Raque won the
NA-125 seat in the eastern city of
Lahore with a majority of nearly
40,000 as the Pakistan Muslim
League-N (PML-N) swept to a
landslide victory in May 2013.
But the opposition Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) party,
led by former cricket star Imran
Khan, has claimed widespread
fraud tainted the poll which made
Nawaz Sharif prime minister for
a third time.
Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz government has decided
to challenge the verdict in the
Supreme Court, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal told reporters.
Raques PTI rival Hamid Khan,
who came second in NA-125,
had led a petition against the
election result. The tribunal on
Monday ruled in favour of Khan
and ordered a fresh poll in his
constituency
The PTI has waged a national
campaign calling for the investigation into allegations of rigging and
staged a 126-day sit-in protest in
front of parliament last year.
The party says results were
changed in at least four constituencies including Raques
through fraud.
Pakistan last month formed a
nationwide judicial commission
under the Supreme Court chief
justice to investigate rigging in
elections throughout the country.
The commission is due to start
examining witnesses later this
week.
AFP
INDIA
15
Rescued by IAF
Members of a rescued Spanish rescue team after their return along with Indian Air Force helicopter crew and
Task Force Commander, Air Vice Marshal Upkarjit Singh (fourth right, standing), the Air Ofcer Commanding,
Jammu and Kashmir Area, in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. The nine members of the Spanish team of rescuers
including sniffer dogs, themselves went missing during their search for a Spanish team of trekkers and were
picked up by an IAF helicopter crew who had to look for them at various locations.
Anti-graft helpline
leads to 25 arrests
NEW DELHI: The Delhi governments anti-corruption helpline has received over 125,000
calls within a month of its
launch and 25 erring ofcials
have been arrested, the government said yesterday.
The 1,031 anti-corruption
helpline has got an overwhelming response with 1,25,065 calls
received in the rst 30 days, a
government statement said.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
on April 5 relaunched the 1031
helpline.
Abducted Gaya
doctor freed in UP
PATNA: A Gaya-based doctor
and his wife, who were abducted
six days ago, were freed yesterday from Gomti Nagar in
Lucknow. The couple have
returned home, police said.
Pankaj Gupta and his wife
Subhra were abducted last Friday
while returning from a wedding
in Jharkhands Giridih district.
Pankaj is a well known medical
practitioner and belongs to a leading business family of Bihar.
26 hurt as bear
enters school
SRINAGAR: A bear entered
a school ground in Jammu and
Kashmirs Pulwama district
yesterday, triggering panic and
leading to a stampede in which
26 schoolchildren were injured,
police said.
A bear entered the Imam Abu
Hanifa Memorial Institute in
Rajpora (Pulwama) today, creating panic among the school children, a police ofcer told IANS.
Two children suffered contact
injuries, while 24 children were
injured in a stampede triggered by
panic and fear. The injured children were immediately taken to
a hospital. Reports from the area
said the bear escaped as people
created an uproar.
IANS
Wheat harvest
Farmers harvest wheat in the Tharu village near Nagrota Bagwan, some
20km from Dharamsala.
Bandra West.
The driver testied in court
last month that he had been
behind the wheel, and that the
crash occurred after the front
left tyre burst, making steering
and braking difcult.
But the judge found Khan
guilty of all charges, including
driving while under the inuence
of alcohol and without a licence.
A constable attached to Khans
security detail said in his statement to police that the actor lost
control of the car while driving at
about 90kph.
One of the sleeping labourers
injured in the accident said in his
statement that Salman was so
drunk he fell.
Khans lawyers said the star
had in fact been drinking water
and had climbed out of the drivers
seat after the accident because
the passenger side door had been
damaged.
Khan has starred in more than
100 lms and television shows
since his rst hit Maine Pyar
Kiya (I Fell in Love) in the 1980s.
But the body-building actor is
no stranger to controversy and
spent more than a week behind
bars for killing an endangered
Indian gazelle in 1998.
Film trade analyst Komal
Nahta said Khan was currently
lming two movies worth up to
Rs2bn ($31m).
Their fate will depend on
whether he is given time to complete shooting and dubbing work
before he begins his sentence, he
told AFP.
Arjun Kapoor was among
a stream of actors to take to
Twitter, saying it doesnt matter
what anyone or any court says he
doesnt deserve this at any level.
AFP
16
MORNING BREAK
Smartphones wrecking
marriages in China
Left to right: Cate Blanchett (Carol),
Josh Brolin (Sicario), Michael Fassbender (Macbeth)
(France) Emmanuelle Bercot
La Tte Haute (Opening film)
FILMS IN COMPETITION
Director
(Taiwan)
The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
(U.S.-UK)
Carol
Todd Haynes
(France)
Erran
Jacques Audiard
The Lobster (Greece-UK-Ireland-Netherlands-France) Yorgos Lanthimos
(Japan) Hirokazu Kore-eda
Our Little Sister
(Norway-France-Denmark)
Louder Than Bombs
Joachim Trier
(UK-France-U.S.)
Macbeth
Justin Kurzel
(France)
Marguerite and Julien
Valerie Donzelli
(France)
Mon Roi
Maiwenn
(China-Japan-France)
Mountains May Depart
Jia Zhangke
(Italy)
My Mother
Nanni Moretti
(U.S.)
The Sea of Trees
Gus Van Sant
(U.S.)
Sicario
Denis Villeneuve
(France)
A Simple Man
Stephane Brize
(Hungary)
Son of Saul
Laszlo Nemes
(Italy-France-UK)
The Tale of Tales
Matteo Garrone
(Italy-France-Switzerland-UK)
Youth
Paolo Sorrentino
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Joel Coen*, Ethan Coen*, Rossy de Palma, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller,
Rokia Traor, Guillermo del Toro, Xavier Dolan, Jake Gyllenhaal
Source: Festival de Cannes
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MOVIES
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2. THE TALE OF
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than those who did not bring electronic devices to bed, the survey
showed.
None of this is unique to China,
of course. In the United States, a
Pew Research Center study found
that 25 percent of cell phone owners in a marriage or partnership
have felt their partner was distracted by their cell phone when
they were together. Eight percent
have had an argument with their
partner about the amount of time
one of them was spending online.
But the pace of change in
China, and the sheer scale of the
problem here there are more
than 500 million smartphone
users in the country is causing
ofcial concern.
The study was launched as part
of a party-led effort to rebuild
family ties, stretched by decades
of societal turmoil and social
change; radical communism followed by rampant capitalism and
explosive economic growth have
put enormous pressure on Chinas
Confucian traditions of family
loyalty and lial piety.
Before Februarys Spring
Festival holiday, an important
time for families to reunite,
President Xi Jinping said Chinas
traditions of family harmony
should not be forgotten.
Taking up the theme, the
ACWF also recommended that
people switch off their smartphones for an hour every day and
invest more time in face-to-face
Royal oxen
Cambodian governor of Battambang province Chan Sophal (right) ploughs during the annual royal ploughing
ceremony in the province yesterday. Cambodias royal oxen refused to eat any rice grain during an ancient ritual
to predict the countrys agricultural fortunes, raising fears of a poor rice harvest among superstitious citizens.
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QE inclusion in
MSCI, S&P gets
$1.25bn inow
Ashghal unveils
e-payments
for tender
procedures
ongoing investor relations activities through providing an opportunity for the senior management
of listed companies to meet key
decision makers from a number
of the worlds largest international
fund managers.
Al Khater said the forum contributes to strengthening economic and investment relations
between Qatar and the UK, given
the fact that Qatar is an important
partner for the United Kingdom.
Al Mansoori, the CEO, said
in a speech that these meetings,
which aim at shedding light on the
achievements of Qatars economy
and listed companies, are part of
QSEs ongoing efforts to occupy a
leading role in the international
capital markets.
Over the past few years, Qatar
Stock Exchange has achieved signicant growth. Whilst young it
is now a well-established national
Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori and other QSE ofcials with representatives of portfolio funds and corporate stock
investors at an event in London yesterday.
institution that include protable
listed companies and offers various investment opportunities for
local and international investors
wishing to benet from the success
story of Qatars economy and the.
We look forward to working with
corporates and investors alike in
advancing this role for the benet of all Qatars stakeholders, Al
Mansoori said.
Al Mansoori also highlighted
the macro and strategic story of
Qatar and why there is a strong
Award winners and other dignitaries with H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Minister of Energy and Industry
H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada and Omans Minister of Oil and Gas Mohammed bin Hamad Al Ramahi.
including currently as a board
member of Qatar Petroleum.
Previous winners of this accolade include Dr Ibrahim Ibrahim,
Economic Adviser at the Amiri
Diwan, and H E Dr Al Sada.
Brand
Brand
Value
2015
(USDm)
Brand
Rating
2015
Brand
Value
Change
(%)
Brand
Value
2014
(USDm)
Brand
Rating
2014
Qatar Airways
2,774
AA+
54%
1,806
AA+
QNB
2,603
AA
44%
1,811
AA
11
Ooredoo
1,740
AA
82%
958
AA
41
Commercialbank
413
A+
47%
280
A+
47
Doha Bank
358
A+
13%
318
A+
48
317
A+
91%
166
QP invites bids
for Al-Shaheen
oileld work
DOHA: Qatar Petroleum
(QP) has issued invitations
to a group of leading international oil and gas companies
to compete for the future
operation and development
of Al-Shaheen oileld starting in mid-2017. The date
marks the expiration of QPs
existing Al-Shaheen exploration and production sharing
agreement with Maersk Oil
of Denmark. Maersk Oil is
among the companies invited
to compete for the future
development and operation
of Al-Shaheen Field.
Saad Sherida Al Kaabi,
President and CEO of Qatar
Petroleum said: The future
operation and development of
Al-Shaheen oil eld is of critical strategic importance to the
optimum exploitation of the
natural resources of Qatar.
Therefore, the selection of our
partner in this endeavour will be
based on such partners ability
to offer the best technological
solutions for the elds development combined with the best
nancial return to the State.
Al-Shaheen oil eld, located
80km off Qatars shores, is one
of the largest oil elds in the
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world.
18
BUSINESS
Indias lower
House gives
nod to GST
NEW DELHI: Indias lower
house of parliament passed
a tax reform bill intended to
transform the country into a
seamless market, boosting
economic growth and cutting
the cost of doing business.
But the goods and services
tax (GST) bill must now be
passed by the upper house,
where Prime Minister Narenda
Modi has been struggling to
pass his reforms since storming
to power a year ago on a pledge
to revive the economy.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley urged parliament to
support the long-awaited bill,
saying it would transform India
into a common market and
end multiple taxes and levies
on products across the country. The GST would ensure
a seamless and uniform indirect tax regime besides lowering ination and promoting
fresh growth, Jaitley told
parliament.
The government is hoping to
introduce the GST from April 1,
2016. But the reform still faces
hurdles including approval by
more than half of Indias 29
states and territories, some of
which object to giving up their
own right to levy taxes. Modis
efforts to introduce a string
of economic reforms have
been frustrated by parliament
where his BJP lacks a majority
in the upper house. The GST
would end Indias patchwork of
taxes, under which each state
has used its powers under
the constitution to tax
different commodities at different rates.
AFP
Vice President for the Digital Single Market of the European Commission Andrus Ansip (left) and EU Commissioner
for the Digital Economy and Society Guenther Oettinger give a press conference on Digital Single Market Strategy
at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday.
(It) will give us digital sovereignty
which we dont always have.
A German conservative,
Oettinger is a vocal critic of US
might in a sector where German
media companies have, for example, been lobbying to protect content from online giants.
The review of platforms, which
had been expected, will focus on
the transparency of search results
and pricing policies, how platforms use data they acquire, their
A traditional Mexican band plays on the oor of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Cinco de Mayo
yesterday in New York City.
Boeing poised
to clinch $3bn
plus Kuwait
F/A-18 order
WASHINGTON: Kuwait is
expected to announce in coming
weeks an order for 28 Boeing
Co F/A-18E/F Super Hornets,
a $3bn-plus deal that will keep
the jets St Louis production
line running well into 2019,
according to people familiar
with the deal.
Kuwait, which operates a eet
of earlier F/A-18 models, has
signed a formal letter stating its
rm plans to buy newer-model
Boeing jets, according to one of
the people who is familiar with
the deal but was not authorised
to speak publicly.
A second source conrmed that
the US government was working
with Kuwait to approve the sale of
advanced Boeing ghter jets, but
gave no further details.
One US ofcial said the proposed Kuwaiti purchase of Super
Hornets would be discussed
as part of President Barack
Obamas summit meeting with
Gulf Cooperation Council leaders next week but said it was not
clear the deal would be nalised
then. The expected deal would
make Kuwait the second foreign
country after Australia to order
the new Boeing jets.
The Kuwait order, as well as
separate moves by lawmakers to
approve the US Navys request for
12 extra Super Hornets, should
now provide sufcient comfort
for Boeing to bet its own money
to extend its St Louis production
line. It is currently slated to shut
down at the end of 2017.
Boeing spokeswoman Caroline
Hutcheson said a near-term
Middle Eastern order and congressional funding for 12 more
Super Hornets would allow the
company to continue delivering
jets without a break in the production line. She said both elements were needed, cautioning
against any assumption that the
Kuwaiti order alone would sufce
to keep the line running beyond
the end of 2017.
Howard Berry, Boeings top
international sales executive, last
month said the company expected
a decision about F/A-18 orders
within months from an unnamed
Middle Eastern country.
Boeing assembles the jets in
St Louis, while weapons maker
Northrop Grumman Corp builds
the planes aft/centre fuselage
section and vertical tails in El
Segundo, California. REUTERS
BUSINESS
19
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (right) speaks with Netherlands Minister of Finance and Eurogroup President
Jeroen Dijsselbloem in a boat on the River Seine after a meeting at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris yesterday.
Al Nabit new
Tamayuz
head at QIB
Delegates from Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros and Godrej Security Solutions at the event.
DOHA:
Qatar
Islamic
Bank (QIB) has appointed
Abdulrahman Al Nabit as
its new Head of Tamayuz
Banking. The appointment is
in line with the banks strategy to promote local talents
from within the bank.
For the past four years,
Al Nabit has been the Area
Manager responsible for QIBs
Northern Region Branches
Network. He is a senior banking executive with over 20
years of experience, holding a
bachelor degree in Accounting
from Qatar University. Tamayuz
(Afuent) segment is offering
premium clients tailor-made
products, nancial planning
advisory and services in exclusive centres. THE PENINSULA
rates are lower in these countries, said Locke, who has pored
over Nikes internal audit data.
But the actual working conditions pace, cleanliness, healthiness its like a modern factory
anywhere.
Skeptics point to Nikes past
20
BUSINESS
WASHINGTON:
Federal
Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said
high equity valuations could pose
potential dangers but that stability risks across the US nancial
system remained in check.
I would highlight that equity
market valuations at this point
generally are quite high, Yellen
said. There are potential dangers
there.
Yellens view on the run-up in
stocks was an answer to questions
from International Monetary
Fund Managing Director Christine
Lagarde, who joined the Fed chief
for the opening session of the
Finance and Society conference
here. Weve also seen the compression of spreads on high-yield
debt, which certainly looks like a
reach for yield type of behaviour,
Yellen said.
Another potential trouble spot
that Yellen pointed out was low
long-term interest rates, which
could spike as the Fed normalises
its policy, causing disruption across
the nancial system.
When the Fed decides its time
to begin raising rates, these term
premiums could move up and we
could see a sharp jump in longterm rates. So were trying to ...
Khalifa Abdulla Al Kabi, Head of Recovery of Doha Bank, with the award.
BMW condent
for 2015 after
good start
FRANKFURT:
German
automaker BMW said it was
condent about the outlook
for 2015 after getting off to a
good start in the rst three
months. The BMW group
continued to perform well
during the rst three months
of 2015, with sales volume,
revenues, prots all rising to
new highs, the automaker
said in a statement.
BMW said it reafrms its
targets for the full year. (We)
can look ahead to the rest of
the year with condence.
In the period from January
to March, group revenues
grew signicantly by 14.7 percent to 20.92bn ($23.5bn).
Underlying or operating
prot rose by 20.6 percent to
2.52bn and net prot came
in at 1.52bn, up 4.0 percent
on the year.
Unit sales climbed by 8.1
percent to 526,669 units, thus
setting a new record for the
period, the statement said.
We have got off to a good
start in 2015, said chief executive Norbert Reithofer. We
are aiming to achieve solid
growth in 2015, and hence new
record gures for sales volume
and prot before tax, he said.
Economic conditions in
some regions will, however,
continue to pose challenges.
The situation on the Russian
automobile market, for
instance, is likely to remain
difcult. The ongoing process of normalisation of the
Chinese automobile market is
also likely to continue, resulting in less dynamic growth,
Reithofer cautioned.
AFP
BUSINESS VIEWS
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REUTERS
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QE Indices Summary
QE Total Return Index
19,167.78
4,725.89
1.47 %
3,297.69
0.99 %
3,271.34
0.40 %
4,122.29
1.28 %
2,504.98
0.12 %
2,651.96
1.74 %
4,369.81
4.22 %
1,319.78
0.58 %
7,519.34
0.16 %
7,507
0.50 %
Index
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18070.4
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18288.6
15855.12
27755.54
-368.28
-1.31
28588.52
23312.5
Iseq Overall/D
6136.13
69.05
1.14
6365.07
5072.7
33533.64
-189.89
-0.56
35055.94
28648.23
19531.63
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0.06
20252.12
16592.57
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Straits Times/D
3471.19
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3549.85
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3290.99
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3291.83
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22.9 0.55
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106.8 -15.5
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636.25 -26.25
City Union Bk-/D
96.6
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Cmc Ltd-A/D
1882.5 -45.55
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Dai-Tichi Kar-/D
204.5 -5.8
Dcm Shram Ind-/D 78.25 -3.15
Dhampur Sugar-/D 32.65 -1.6
Dr. Reddy-A/D
3355.2 -47.75
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104.9 -3.8
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159 -7.05
Eicher Motor-A/D 15045-507.05
Eimco Elecon-T/D
465
13
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Emco-B/D
30.15 -1.65
Escorts Fin-B/D
3.99 0.07
Escorts-A/D
121.85 -2.45
Essar Oil-T/D
106.75 1.15
Eveready Indu-/D 273.5 -15.8
F D C-B/D
153.2 -1.55
Federal Bank-A/D 128.85 -5.95
Ferro Alloys-B/D
5.15 -0.11
Fgp Ltd-B/D
1.72 -0.08
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263.25 -10.85
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365.7 -7.15
Gammon India-T/D 19.95 -1.4
Garden P -B/D
28.5 -1.6
Godfrey Phil-B/D
494 2.85
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79.3 -1.6
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Indian Hotel-A/D 103.5 -3.4
Indo-Tcount-T/D
422.5 -20.3
Indusind-A/D
801.75 -34.35
J.B.Chemical-B/D 214.4 -6.05
Jagson Phar-B/D
27.5 -1.45
Jamnaauto-B/D
215 -7.9
Jbf Indu-B/D
225.1
-9
Jct Ltd-B/D
2.99 -0.1
Jenson&Nich.-B/D
5.9 -0.13
Jktyre&Ind-A/D 116.05 -3.6
Jmc Projects-T/D 179.9 -8.1
Kabra Extr-B/D
69.7 0.2
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777.5 -14.15
Kalpat Power-B/D 226.3 -4.15
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7920
206156
625618
31647
87795
6265
232016
130645
1502528
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136.6 -5.2
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Kg Denim-B/D
21.25 0.3
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55.1 -2.55
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44.1 -0.4
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49.2
-2
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Lgb Broth-B/D
500 -3.25
Lloyd Metal-B/D
6.9 -0.28
Lok.Hous&Con-B/D 8.7 -0.45
Lumax Ind-B/D
316.9 -12.9
Lupin-A/D
1755.85 -54.65
Lyka Labs-T/D
56
-2
Mah.Seamless-B/D 203.7 -11.85
Mangalam Cem-B/D 243 -11.8
Maral Overs-B/D
30 -4.3
Mastek-B/D
395 -19.5
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Mrpl-A/D
68.25 -2.4
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91.7 -3.8
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Navneet Edu-B/D 93.15 -0.55
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2.27 -0.09
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328.35 -13.55
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404.5 -10.5
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33.65 -0.85
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COMPANY
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Orient.Carb.-T/D 456.5
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Radico Khait-B/D
89.6
Rallis India-A/D 211.25
Rallis India-A/D 211.25
Reliance Indus/D 381.45
Ruchi Soya-B/D
40.85
Saur.Cem-B/D
39.55
Tanfac Indust-/D
23.2
Tanfac Indust-/D
23.2
Thirumalai-B/D
94.5
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25.2
Tinplate-B/D
57.45
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105.1
Ucal Fuel-B/D
105.1
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69.3
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14.2
-22.3
-22.3
-13.7
-2.05
-5.85
-5.85
-15.45
-1.7
-0.05
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36330
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22534
126326
61505
37706
10173
10173
12180
119153
55269
12341
12341
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Assoc.Br.Foods/D
Barclays/D
Bg Group/D
Bp/D
Brit Am Tobacc/D
Bt Group/D
Centrica/D
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474.7 -0.25 12718689
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256.5 -0.1 5834310
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CLOSE
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100
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1.06
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23
NBA Playoff
Los Angeles: Results yesterday in the second
round of the NBA playoffs (best-of-seven):
Eastern Conference
at Atlanta
Atlanta 106 Washington 90
(Series tied 1-1)
Western Conference
at Oakland
Memphis 97 Golden State 90
(Series tied 1-1)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (right) tries to grab a rebound away from Memphis Grizzlies
centre Marc Gasol (left) during the second half of their NBA Conference semi-nals game two at Oracle Arena
in Oakland, California, USA, yesterday. The Grizzlies defeated the Warriors 97-90.
better, but you never have the
expectation that hes going to go
back in and be who he was two
weeks ago right away the rst
night out.
Conley got a scare midway
through the second quarter
when Draymond Green hit on his
NHL play-offs
Results from the NHL Play-offs Second
Round games on yesterday
Chicago 1 Minnesota 0 (Chicago lead the
best-of-seven series by 3-0)
Anaheim 3 Calgary 4
(Anaheim lead the
best-of-seven series by 2-1)
Flames edge
Ducks in
overtime
NEW YORK: Centre Mikael
Backlund scored the overtime winner on a delayed penalty call as the Calgary Flames
beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in
Game Three of their Western
Conference
playoff
series
yesterday.
The Ducks still lead the series
2-1, with Game Four set for Friday
at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Working from the point,
Backlund sent a long shot through
trafc that missed everybody and
hit twine for the winner.
Left winger Brandon Bollig
scored his second of the postseason, while center Joe Colborne
scored his rst in regulation for
the Flames before rookie left
winger Johnny Gaudreaus late
equalizer to force overtime.
Wingers Patrick Maroon, Matt
Belesky and Corey Perry scored
in regulation for the Ducks, while
center Ryan Getzlaf and defenseman Simon Despres each had a
pair of assists.
Gaudreau scored the tying goal
on a ve-on-three power play
WASHINGTON:
Three
innings into the game, Mat
Latos was getting into a groove
and an ailing Stephen Strasburg
was done for the night.
Latos and four relievers combined on a three-hitter, and
the Miami Marlins got all the
offense they needed early against
Strasburg in 2-1 victory over
the Washington
Na t i o n a l s
Baseball
yesterday.
Miami
2
S t r a s b u r g Cincinnati
7
(2-3) left for a
Ny
Yankees
6
pinch hitter in
2
the third inning Boston
9
after allowing Atlanta
two runs and Ny Mets
3
throwing
64 La Dodgers
8
pitches.
2
Oakland
Hes got a little issue under his Chicago White Sox 5
5
shoulder blade, Kansas City
manager Matt Texas
7
Williams said. St. Louis
7
Had it last start. La Angels
5
Could be an align6
San Francisco
ment issue, but as
he nishes pitches
it grabs him every once in a while.
Tonight it got a little bit worse. So
well have to have the chiropractor
look at him.
In the second inning, Strasburg
grimaced after throwing a pitch
and was visited by the team
trainer, pitching coach Steve
McCatty and Williams. The righthander stayed in the game, but
not for long.
Strasburg was scheduled to
Wiggins wants to
put Hour record
beyond reach
LONDON: Bradley Wiggins
(pictured) believes he can put
the Hour world record out of
reach when he tackles one of
cyclings toughest challenges
next month at Londons Olympic
velodrome.
A few weeks after fellow Briton
Alex Dowsett set a new world
record of 52.937 kilometres in
Manchester, Olympic time trial
champion Wiggins says it is not a
matter of if he can better that
distance, but by how much.
It sounds a bit horrible to
say, but I think I could break the
record tomorrow, the 35-yearold Wiggins, who recently left
Team Sky to return to the track,
said in an interview in The Times
yesterday.
But I dont just want to break
it, I want to put it right up there,
as far out of reach as I can.
The seventime Olympic
medallist who
left his track
roots to become
the rst Briton
to win the Tour
de France in
2012, believes
he can add two
kilometres to
Dowsetts mark.
Ive got 55km in my head and
I believe thats realistic, he said.
And I think if I do that it will
stand for 20 years.
Wiggins is not downplaying the
iconic challenge which has seen
four riders break the record in
the last eight months, but believes
riding around 220 laps of the velodrome at virtually full bore is no
worse than anything he faced on
the road.
I dont see it as being any
harder than climbing the Ventoux
to save fourth place in the Tour
de France, he said.
I cant see it being any harder
than keeping concentration for
three weeks to win the Tour, or
riding around Hampton Court
with the weight of expectation to
win Olympic gold.
Ive been in a lot of pressure
situations, I know what I can do.
The challenge is dealing with
the heat, the crowd, pacing yourself early when the crowd is egging you on, he added.
Once he has completed his Hour
attempt, his focus will return to
Rio 2016 where Wiggins is eyeing
a fth Olympic gold medal and a
British record-extending eighth
in all.
Whatever happens, thatll be
it after Rio, he said.
UCI satised
with Astanas
doping reforms
PARIS: Cyclings world body
the UCI says Astana, who last
month were allowed to retain
their WorldTour licence despite
a series of doping shocks, have
agreed to undergo a fundamental reform in order to prevent
the risks of doping.
In February, the UCI had
demanded the Kazakh-funded
team be stripped of its World
Tour Licence which would have
barred them from the main international races, including the Tour
de France and Tours of Italy and
Spain.
But an independent commission agreed to allow Tour
de France champion Vincenzo
Nibalis team to keep racing in a
decision delivered on April 23.
Detailing its reasons for that
verdict the UCIs independent
licensing commission in a statement explained that at this
stage, in view of the modications ... and the absence of further
incidents since autumn 2014, it is
found that the sanction of a withdrawal, motivated mainly by facts
of the past would be too harsh a
punishment.
Astanas place in the peloton
had been under threat since ve
riders with either the professional
World Tour squad or the teams
Continental Tour afliate failed
doping tests last year.
Kazakh brothers Maxim and
Valentin Iglinsky both tested positive for the banned blood booster
EPO while three members of the
Continental Tour squad, also
all Kazakhs, tested positive for
steroids.
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Dakar Rally champion Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah is seen with a race ofcial in Shiraz, Iran. Al Attiyah will feature at this weeks Shiraz International Rally, the third round of the FIA Middle East Championship. Shiraz is one of Irans
ve largest cities located in Fars province. The city is at an altitude of 1486 meters above sea level and enjoys a temperate climate. RIGHT: Al Attiyah joins other drivers and riders at a pre-event press conference. QMMF
President Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah is also present at the rally to oversee the event in his capacity as FIA Vice President.
German
Formula
One driver
Sebastian
Vettel (left)
of Red Bull
Racing
and
Spanish
driver
Fernando
Alonso of
Scuderia
Ferrari
during
a press
conference
at the
Sochi
Autodrom
Circuit,
in Sochi,
Russia,
in this
October
2014 le
photo.
Qatars
Nasser Al
Malki takes
a bend in
this le
photo taken
at Losail
International
Circuit.
Qatars
Mashel
Al Naimi
who would
be racing
this week
at Losail
International
CIrcuit.
219 points
198 points
150 points
145 points
143 points
141 points
109 points
83 points
65 points
Supersport Category
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Real Madrids Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti leaves at the end of his sides UEFA Champions League semi-nal
rst-leg match against Juventus at the Juventus Stadium in Turin on Tuesday night.
fans there will help us. We have to
be patient. The result is a negative
one but not such a bad one.
Morata, who moved from Real
to Juventus last summer, was subdued after opening the scoring on
eight minutes.
His response was understandable. It was Ancelotti who gave
the 22-year-old more playing
opportunities at Real, including a cameo appearance in the
Champions League nal last
Carreno named
new Qatar coach
DOHA:
Uruguayan
Jose
Daniel Carreno was yesterday
named as new coach of Qatar,
the host nation of the 2022
World Cup.
Carreno, who trained Qatari
club Al Arabi SC in 2014, takes
over from Algerian Djamel
Belmadi, who had been in
charge from March 2014 until
last week when his departure
was announced.
The rst challenge awaiting
the 52-year-old Carreno, widely
known as El Crespo (The
curly one), will be helping Qatar
qualify for the 2018 World Cup
in Russia. As a player Carreno
spent most of his career at
Uruguayan club Montevideo
Wanderers, having also turned
out for French outt Lens for
three seasons.
As a coach, he has trained
teams in Ecuador, Colombia
and Chile, and before Al Arabi
Todays Europa
League Fixtures
At Sevilla
Sevilla (ESP) vs Fiorentina (ITA)
At Naples
Napoli (ITA) vs Dnipro (UKR)
DEAD
SEA,
Jordan:
Argentinas World Cup winning captain Diego Maradona
launched a blistering attack on
FIFA President Sepp Blatter
on Monday saying that world
soccers governing body had
descended into anarchy with the
79-year-old Swiss in charge.
With the FIFA presidential
election less than a month away,
Maradona, one of the greatest players to ever grace the
game and the inspiration behind
Argentinas 1986 World Cup victory, said the time was long overdue for Blatter to go.
He said he would do all he could
to help Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein
win the election, even though
the 39-year-old Jordanian royal
hinted on Monday he might consider pulling out of the contest if
he thought one of the other two
challengers could win.
In a syndicated interview with
Guillem Balague, the moderator at
the Soccerex Asian Forum at the
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Israel, Palestine
football chiefs
to meet on
expulsion bid
ZURICH: The heads of Israeli
and Palestinian football will
meet in Zurich in a bid to head
off a Palestinian bid to expel
Israel from the sports governing body, FIFA said yesterday.
The announcement of the meeting came after FIFA President
Sepp Blatter held talks with
Israeli Football Association chief
Ofer Eini to discuss the dispute.
The Palestinian Football
Association (PFA) has called for a
vote at the FIFA annual congress
on May 29 calling for Israels
expulsion for blocking Palestinian
football through its sanctions on
the Palestinian territories.
Blatter, a vociferous advocate
of keeping politics out of sport,
has made it clear he opposes any
suspension of Israel.
FIFA President Blatter reiterated his position that any member association that is fullling
its statutory duties should not be
suspended. This would also apply
to the IFA as long as they full
such duties, said a statement
released after Wednesdays talks.
A meeting between the presidents of the IFA and PFA is
scheduled to take place in Zurich
in the next few days, it added.
Blatter and FIFA secretary
general Jerome Valcke met with
Eini and Israel federation secretary general Rotem Kamer.
The main point on the agenda
was the proposal by the PFA to
suspend the IFA at the upcoming
FIFA Congress.
FIFA had earlier held talks
with Palestinian association leaders. In its draft resolution for the
FIFA congress, the Palestinian
protests over Israels treatment of
Arabs and acts such as setting up
clubs in the occupied Palestinian
territories.
Israeli forces raided the PFA
headquarters in the West Bank
city of Ramallah in November.
Palestinian football chiefs have
also condemned Israeli travel
restrictions on Palestinian players and on importing equipment
into the occupied territories.
To be passed the Palestinian
resolution needs the support of
three quarters of the 209 federations at the FIFA congress.
A FIFA delegation visited the
Gaza Strip in January and pledged
$1m to help rebuild stadiums
damaged in the conict.
AFP
Jose Mourinho
Mourinho to
extend Chelsea
deal: Reports
LONDON: Chelsea manager
Jose Mourinho has verbally
agreed a two-year extension to
his current contract, according
to reports in the British media
yesterday.
Mourinho, 52, returned to
Chelsea in 2013 on a four-year
contract and this season has led
the club to the Premier League
title their rst since 2010 and
the League Cup.
During his rst spell at
Stamford Bridge, between 2004
and 2007, he won two league titles,
in 2005 and 2006, as well as two
League Cups and one FA Cup.
Mourinho is already the bestpaid manager in England, with a
reported annual salary of 8.4m
($12.75m), and British tabloid The
Sun reported that his new deal
would be worth around 10.5m
per year.
Speaking after Chelsea secured
the league title with a 1-0 win
over Crystal Palace on Sunday,
Mourinho reiterated that he will
stay at the club as long as owner
Roman Abramovich wants him
to remain. As I was saying since
the beginning of the season, I stay
here until Mr Abramovich wants
me to stay, said the Portuguese.
The day he tells me to go, I go.
AFP
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TOP: An Al Sadd player scores during a H H The Emir Cup match against
Al Shamal at Al Gharafa Sports Club yesterday. Sadd beat Shamal 90-63.
BELOW: An Al Wakrah player dribbles past an Al Ahli player. Wakrah beat
Ahli 87-78.
PICTURES: BAHER AMIN
Harry Bentley rides Lupie to victory in the Umm Garn Cup race at the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Trainer Jassim Al Ghazali (second from left) with Lupie after the victory. Lupie beat
Sandbetweenourtoes also trained by Al Ghazali and ridden by Stephan Ladjadj and Victory Laurel trained by I. Al Malki and ridden by Alberto Sanna to win the marquee race of the day.
PICTURES: JUHAIM
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Scoreboard
Pakistan (I innings):
Mohammad Hafeez c Rahim b Shahid .......8
Sami Aslam c Shahadat b Taijul ...............19
Azhar Ali (batting) .................................. 127
Younis Khan c Shuvagata b Shahid ........148
Misbah-ul Haq (batting) .............................9
Extras (LB6, W1, NB5) .......................... 12
Total (for 3 wkts, 90 overs) ...............323
Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-58, 3-308).
To bat: Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Wahab
Riaz, Yasir Shah, Junaid Khan, Imran Khan.
Bowling: Shahadat 0.2-0-4-0, Soumya
11.4-1-32-0 (2nb), Shahid 21-6-43-2 (3nb,
1w), Taijul 30-2-102-1, Shuvagata 8-0-47-0,
Shakib 14-0-68-0, Mominul 2-0-8-0, Mahmudullah 2-0-12-0, Imrul 1-0-1-0.
Pakistans Younis Khan reacts after scoring a century against Bangladesh during the rst day of the second
Test match, at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday.
in the match.
Left with a depleted attack,
Bangladesh used nine bowlers to
try to contain the run ow, with
Rahim and Tamim Iqbal the only
ones who did not turn their arms
over.
Part-time seamer Soumya
Sarkar would have dismissed
Younis on 78, caught in the covers from a mistimed drive, but TV
replays showed the bowler had
overstepped to concede a no-ball.
Similarly, Azhar escaped on 18
when he was caught in the slips
off Mohammad Shahid, only to see
TV umpire Ranmore Martinesz
conrm a no-ball.
Azhars dismissal at the stage
would have reduced Pakistan
to 38-2 after Bangladesh had
removed one of the openers
cheaply.
Mohammad Hafeez, who hit
a double-century in the drawn
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Scoreboard
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
CH Gayle c & b Patel ..............................117
V Kohli b Sandeep Sharma ....................... 32
AB de Villiers (not out) ............................... 47
KD Karthik b Sandeep Sharma .................... 8
SN Khan (not out) ..................................... 11
Extras (LB 3, W 7, NB 1) .......................... 11
Total (3 wkts; 20 overs) ......................226
Did not bat: Mandeep Singh, D Wiese, MA
Starc, HV Patel, YS Chahal, S Aravind
Fall of wickets: 1-119, 2-190, 3-199
Bowling: Sandeep Sharma 4-0-41-2 (1nb);
MG Johnson 4-0-43-0 (2w); Anureet Singh
4-0-25-0; GJ Maxwell 2-0-23-0 (1w); AR Patel
4-0-50-1 (2w); Karanveer Singh 2-0-41-0 (2w)
KINGS XI PUNJAB
M Vijay b Patel ........................................... 2
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Lekhwiyas Nam
Tae-Hee (10) giving
an interview to a
television channel at
the end of the AFC
Champions League
match against Saudi
Arabias Al Nassr
Riyadh at King
Fahd International
Stadium in Riyadh
yesterday. Television
footage showed the
Lekhwiya player
Tae-Hae was hit
by a rival player in
the tunnel at the
end of the match.
BOTTOM: Tae-Hae
escorted to safety
by an ofcial.
Champions League
Barcelona: Result of a Champions League
semi-nal rst-leg tie in Barcelona
yesterday:
Barcelona (ESP) 3 (Messi 77, 80, Neymar
90+4) Bayern Munich (GER) 0
On Tuesday
Juventus (ITA) 2 (Morata 8, Tevez 57-pen)
Real Madrid (ESP) 1 (Cristiano Ronaldo 27)
Second legs
May 12: Bayern Munich v Barcelona
May 13: Real Madrid v Juventus
Final - Berlin, June 6
Bayern Munichs defender Juan Bernat (left) ghts for the ball with Argentinian striker Leo Messi (centre).
AFC Champions
League
Tokyo: Results from the AFC Champions
League yesterday:
Group A
Lekhwiya (QAT) 3 (Yousef Msakni 27, Nam
Tae-hee 32, Sebastian Soria 58) Al Nassr
(KSA) 1 (Hassan al-Rahab 36)
Persepolis (IRN) 2 (Mohamed Noori 49,
Obid Djurabayev 72-og) Bunyodkor (UZB) 1
(Sardor Rashidov 61)
Group B
Pakhtakor (UZB) 0 Al Shabab (KSA) 2 (Mousa
al-Shamri 6, Abdulla al-Asta 67-pen)
Al Ain (UAE) 3 (Omar Abdulrahman 63,
Asamoah Gyan 74, Jires Kembo-Ekoko 86
Naft Tehran (IRN) 0
Group E
Jeonbuk Motors (KOR) 4 (Lee Jae-Sung 26,
Kim Hyung-Il 52, Eninho 80-pen, Edu 88)
Shandong Luneng (CHN) 1 (Wang Tong 45+1)
Binh Duong (VIE) 1 (Vinh 56) Kashiwa
Reysol (JPN) 0
Group F
Gamba Osaka (JPN) 2 (Usami 64, Lins 82)
Seongnam FC (KOR) 1 (Hwang 15)
Buriram United (THA) 5 (Diogo 12, 38, 57,
Tunez 36, Macena 60) Guangzhou R&F (CHN) 0
after already-eliminated Al
Shabab of Saudi Arabia shocked
Uzbekistans Pakhtakor 2-0.
Earlier in East Asia, Gamba
Osaka beat Seongnam FC 2-1
to reach the last 16 and dash
the hopes of Buriram United,
who went out despite thrashing
Guangzhou R&F 5-0.
Takashi Usami and Brazilian
striker Lins scored in the second half as the Japanese treblewinners came from a goal down
against Seongnam to qualify top
of Group F.
But Gambas win was a