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8Angelina wins
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Issue No. 6513
Sweet
potato, an
anti-diabetic
food!
Nietzsche
proved
right
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Christmas Day
Box Office
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Mrs Beckham’s 8
fashion sales
double to £30m
INDIA BLASTS UBER FOR BREAKING LAW
BAhRAIN ShINES
IN 2 0 14 GLORy
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F
rom politics, reforms,
terrorism and economic
growth to bilateral relations,
Bahrain has surpassed many
milestones in 2014, which is
reaching its end in two days.
In the political scenario,
Prime Minister HRH Prince
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
and Crown Prince, Deputy
Supreme Commander and
First Deputy Prime Minister
HRH Prince Salman bin
Hamad Al Khalifa, upon
directives from His
Majesty King Hamad
bin Isa Al Khalifa held
a series of meetings
with the heads of
all major political
societies and
a number of
independent
MPs.
The
year
also saw Bahrain’s
economic
growth
exceeding 5.6 per cent. And,
the economic indicators were
on positive side as proved by
many international institutions
such as Fitch, the World
Bank and the International
Monetary Fund.
The
Kingdom
also
contributed significantly to
efforts to combat terrorism
by hosting a number of
international and regional
meetings and conferences,
including the Bahrain
Bahrain has
seen all-round
development in
the year that
is set to end in
two day’s time.
Conference on Combating
Terrorism Funding in
November and the regional
security summit – IISS
Manama Dialogue.
The parliamentary as
well as municipal elections
had also gifted Bahrain with
outstanding success during the
year.
The citizens headed
massively to the polling
stations to exercise their
rights and enhance the
Kingdom’s democratic
process despite intimidation
and threats.
The Kingdom’s electoral
process had been widely
praised by the International
Community, and the first
session of the fourth
legislative term was
inaugurated by HM the
King on December
14.
Full story on
Page 2
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Rooting out
vandalism
via schools
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ahrain Human Rights Watch
Society (BHRWS) is seeing
proper education as a way out of
violence and vandalism.
The society has urged the
authorities concerned to include
human rights in the school
syllabus.
“Vandalism from the part of
anti-government youths and
extremism from the part of
ISIS sympathizers can both be
defeated just by providing the
youth with the right education.”
said Bahrain Human Rights
Watch Society (BHRWS)
General Secretary Faisal Fulad.
Radicalisation of youths is
happening every day, Mr. Fulad
said, adding, “Youths are being
exploited by anti-Government
thugs as well as Islamic State (IS)
sympathisers. The only way to
tackle this issue is by educating
them.
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Three killed in Turkey
Diyarbakir
Three people were killed
yesterday in clashes between
Kurdish rebels and a rival
Kurdish Islamist group in
southeast Turkey near the
Syrian border, a local governor’s office said.
The initial death toll given
was two but the local governor’s office in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa later said
one of the three injured died
in hospital.
Tensions have escalated
in the town of Cizre since
Friday night when the Sunni
Muslim Huda-Par group
attacked tents belonging
to rebels of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
(PKK), a security source told
AFP. Huda-Par is known to be
the political extension of
Turkish Hezbollah and has
long been hostile to the
PKK -- which has fought
Turkish security forces in a
three-decade insurgency for
Kurdish self-rule.
The clashes in Cizre were
continuing sporadically, the
source said. Local media reported that
one of the dead was the father
of a leader of the Huda-Par.
2014, A YEAR
TO CHERISH
Right education
can do wondeRs
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T
he 2014 will be past in two
days, and there is a lot
that Bahrain has achieved in
this year.
It’s one of the most successful
years in the history of the
Kingdom, given the landmark
achievements attained in many
fields, thanks to the efforts of His
Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa, the Government headed
by Prime Minister HRH Prince
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
and the Bahraini people.
In 2014, Bahrain has enhanced
its political process, achieved
high economic growth, reduced
security incidents, consolidated
its regional and international
relations and maintained its status
as an oasis of peace, security,
tolerance and co-existence. In the political scenario,
HRH the Prime Minister and
Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme
Commander and First Deputy
Prime Minister HRH Prince
Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa,
upon directives from HM the
King, held a series of meetings
with the heads of all major
political societies and a number
of independent MPs.
The meetings outlined a set of
key topics from which bilateral
talks progressed under the
stewardship of the Royal Court
Minister. Talks resulted in five
common grounds.
Crown Prince had also met
community leaders and informed
them about the five common
grounds which they accepted.
Prince Salman had also
delivered the National Dialogue
Framework to HM the King, who
approved the implementation
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King Hamad
4 Among the most remarkable economic achievements in 2014 was the launch of
the “King Hamad Causeway” linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
4 The number of terror incidents decreased, unauthorised weapons were confiscated, theft cases went down by 33.3pc and fire incidents by 49pc.
4 Efforts to provide decent housing for the citizens continued in 2014 as well.
4 A number of key agreements had been signed for strengthening the Kingdom’s
regional and international relations.
of the common ground, and
referred some of them to the
National Assembly.
The implementation of the
National Dialogue outcomes
paved the way for the Kingdom
to embark on a new series of
reforms.
Election success
Another
outstanding
political achievement in
2014 was the success of the
parliamentary and municipal
elections, held in November.
The Kingdom’s electoral
process has been widely
praised by the International
Community, and the first
session of the fourth legislative
term was inaugurated by HM
the King on December 14.
Economic growth
Economically, the Kingdom’s
growth exceeded 5.6 per cent,
and economic indicators were
positive as proved by many
international institutions such as
Fitch, the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund.
According to experts,
Bahrain maintained its growth
rates and was not affected by
the sudden decline in oil prices
thanks to its sound policies and
keenness to diversify sources of
income.
Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques
King
Abdulla
bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in
September.
On security, the number
of terror incidents decreased,
unauthorised weapons were
confiscated, theft cases went
down by 33.3pc and fire
incidents by 49pc, thanks to the
tireless efforts of the security
bodies. They also ensured the
success of the electoral process.
On defence, joint drills with
brotherly and friendly countries
increased, and the 12th GCC
Defence Council was hosted by
the Kingdom. HM the King also
allocated a 163,300 m2-land lot
to expand the premises of the
Joint Peninsula Shield Forces
in Bahrain. On the BDF Anniversary,
HM the King inaugurated three
warships.
According to a report by
the UNDP report, Bahrain was
ranked 44th at the global level.
In a related context, the
K i n g d o m
increased its
health and
education
A file photo of a woman
casting her vote.
human rights society in
the Kingdom has urged the
authorities to modify the school
curriculum in order to tackle
extremism and vandalism.
Bahrain Human Rights Watch
Society (BHRWS) said, human
rights should be included in the
syllabus, starting from the next
academic year onwards.
The society feels, including the
subject in the syllabus could help
fight extremist ideologies.
Decent housing
Efforts to provide decent
housing for the citizens
continued as well, in line with
HM the King’s Order to build
40,000 units.
Regarding foreign policy,
the Kingdom consolidated
its relations with GCC, and
brotherly and friendly countries
in order to serve its national
interests, support its economy
and rectify the false image
disseminated by enemies of the
nation.
Mr Fulad
calling for the education system to
be upgraded,” he said.
Radicalisation of youths is
happening every day. Youths
are being exploited by antiGovernment thugs as well as
Islamic State (IS) sympathisers.
The only way to tackle this issue is
by educating them, said Mr. Fulad.
BHRWS General Secretary also
pointed out that children spend
many hours in the school. “They
go to school five days a week for
about 5 hours a day. This adds up
to 25 hours a week or 110 hours a
month. Schools influence a lot on
the child’s development.”
Youths are being
exploited by
anti-Government
thugs as well as
Islamic State (IS)
sympathisers. The
only way to tackle
this issue is by
educating them.
- BHRWS General
Secretary
“We urge the Bahrain
Government to take this issue
seriously. We hope 2015 will be
a year in which Bahrain will take
huge strides in developments in
the area of human rights,” he
added.
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N
ew amendments to a law that stipulates
toughening sanctions against suspects involved
in terrorism related cases is awaiting approval from
the MPs when it will be tabled at the Parliament
this week.
The amendments are made to certain articles of
Law Number 56 of the year 2006 and it is aimed at
protecting the society from acts of terrorism.
Our sister newspaper Al Ayam reported that
the law stipulated harder punishments to those
involved in the training or manufacturing and using
explosives and arms.
It states that “perpetrators are subjected to life in
prison or not less than seven years of imprisonment.”
The law also mentioned that individuals involved
in combats abroad should be punished with the
same penalties.
Supporting the personnel responsible of
executing the new sanctions, the law also stated
that “in case individuals implementing the new laws
were attacked, perpetrators should be punished by
imprisonment that varies between seven years and
life in prison.”
The report mentioned that the amended law
is applicable to citizens and residents involved
in terrorism-related activities. It also stated that
“one of the most prominent instructions of the
law is the establishment of the Terror Crime
Prosecution.”
The law grants the Terror Crime Prosecution
several jurisdictions that include inspecting suspects
and their luggage, pulling-over and inspecting public
and private vehicles and cutting communication
channels of the suspected areas.
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Boosting relations
A number of key agreements
were signed for strengthening
the Kingdom’s regional and
international relations.
Many leaders and senior
officials also visited the
Kingdom in 2014. They
included Kuwaiti Amir, Deputy
Saudi Crown Prince, UAE
Vice-President and senior
officials from China, India,
USA, Turkey, among others.
The
Kingdom
also
contributed significantly to
efforts to combat terrorism
through hosting a number of
international and regional
meetings and conference,
including mainly the Bahrain
Conference on Combating
Terrorism Funding in
November and the regional
security summit –IISS
Manama Dialogue.
Bahrain
has
also
succeeded in rectifying the
distorted image disseminated
by biased media outlets
thanks to the efforts of loyal
citizens and the tremendous
efforts of the Information
Affairs Ministry
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Among
the
most
remarkable
economic
achievements in 2014 was
the launch of the “King
Hamad Causeway”
linking Saudi Arabia
and Bahrain. The
milestone project
was announced
during HM
King Hamad’s
visit to Saudi
Arbia and
meeting
with the
establishments, and encouraged
the private sector to invest in
such vital sectors.
The Government also
allocated further funds to
needy families, orphans and the
elderly, created jobs for Bahraini
job-seekers, which helped
reduce the un-employment to
just 3.8%. A
“Vandalism from the part of
anti-government youths and
extremism from the part of ISIS
sympathizers can both be defeated
just by providing the youth with
the right education.” said Bahrain
Human Rights Watch Society
(BHRWS) General Secretary
Faisal Fulad.
“This is what the current
education system in Bahrain is
lacking. Despite all the general
knowledge and mathematical
skills taught in schools, youths
are involved in violence and
vandalism. This is why we’re
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FIFTEEN-YEAR
TERM UPHELD
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our men convicted of
setting a car on fire in
Sanabis have had their
sentences upheld by the
court.
The Bahrainis allegedly
placed a gas cylinder inside
a stolen white Nissan Sunny
near Dana Mall in October
last year.
A 21-year-old defendant
told prosecutors that his
friend stole the gas cylinder,
which was placed in
the car from a restaurant.
He added that they plotted
the attack after seeing images
of a similar blast in Sehla on
social media networks.
He revealed that they stole
the vehicle from a garage in
The Bahrainis allegedly placed a
gas cylinder inside a stolen white
Nissan Sunny near Dana Mall in
October last year.
Bilad Al Qadeem and they
drove it to Sanabis.
It was claimed that the
defendants set off the
cylinder by hurling petrol
bombs at the vehicle.
Although they had admitted
to blowing up the car after
seeing pictures of a bomb blast
in a neighbouring village, all
the four pleaded not guilty to
detonating an explosive, arson
and possessing petrol bombs
earlier before High Criminal
Court. They were handed
down 15 years each behind
bars for their crimes and
ordered to pay a combined
total of BD1000 in return
of the damages they caused
to the car, both of which
were supported by the High
Criminal Appeals Court. A file photo of the car after the explosion.
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A representative
photo.
“I was returning back
home when riots
broke out nearby.
A masked man
holding an iron rod
approached me and
asked me to join
them, but I refused,”
the defendant told
prosecutors
Bahraini man who was
peddling and consuming
heroin has been jailed for ten
years.
The verdict was announced
by the High Criminal Court,
which also slapped him with
Judges at the
High Criminal Court
had earlier found them
innocent after the Criminal
Investigation Laboratory’s
report
didn’t
account
any traces linked to the
materials used during the
riots on defendants’ hands. traces of morphine as well
as shabu in the defendant’s
blood, according to the court
documents. Prescription
medical
pills as well as other medical
devices, found illegally in his
possession, were seized from
his accommodation during
police inspection. No evidence: Court
drops charges
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A masked man holding an
iron rod approached me and
asked me to join them, but I
refused,” the first defendant
told prosecutors earlier.
He alleged that the
masked men pelted stones
at him after he had defied
their order.
BD5000 fine for his crimes.
The defendant was nabbed
near Sar cinema after a police
officer in plain clothes lured
him into the area to buy from
him three heroin cigarettes at
BD30.
His illicit activities came
to light following a police
tip-off. A drug test revealed
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he High Criminal Court
has dropped the charges
against an Asian man accused
of two counts of rape due to
lack of evidence.
The defendant, aged 23, was
referred to trial after the public
prosecution had indicted him
of slapping two Bahraini boys
on their back while they were
riding a bicycle at the time of
the incident.
He was reported to police
by the father of one of the
alleged victims, both aged
below 14, who claimed that
the Asian sexually abused them
on August 11.
“My son called me and said
that while he was riding on
the bicycle with his cousin, the
Asian slapped on their back,”
the father said in his statement
to prosecutors.
However, judges at the High
Criminal Court who stated
that no solid evidence was
provided by the state to hold
the defendant guilty ruled out
such allegations. 5
Rally violations
CID SUMMONS AL WEFAQ
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eneral
Investigation
Directorate
yesterday
summoned
the
General
Secretary of Al Wefaq Islamic
Society Ali Salman on Sunday,
at the Crime Investigation
Department
(CID)
headquarters in Adliya.
The procedure was taken
as part of the aftermath
of the society’s rally that
was organised on Budaiya
Highway on Friday evening.
Interior Ministry confirmed
that the rally was followed by
several violations.
Northern Governorate Police
General Director Brigadier
Ibrahim Al Sheeb stated that
almost 2000 individuals had
taken part in the authorised
rally.
Mr. Al Sheeb added that
the rally had witnessed the
violations of law.
On the other side, the society
claimed on its official website
that the summon order came
after “thousands of Bahrainis
joined a mass pro-democracy
rally on Friday afternoon.”
The society alleged that
the heavily armed forces had
surrounded Ali Salman’s
house to deliver a summons
to appear at the interrogations
department on Sunday.”
Ambiguity surrounds Al
Wefaq General Assembly
The acquittal of Bahraini jailed for 10 years
teenagers upheld A
he
High
Criminal
Appeals Court has upheld
the acquittal of two Bahraini
teenagers charged with
rioting and arson as well as
firebombs possession.
The High Criminal Court
had previously cleared them
of charges owing to lack of
evidence. The defendants were
nabbed
for
allegedly
participating in the violent
disturbance, which broke out
in Salmabad, where rioters set
tyres ablaze before assaulting
police officers with firebombs.
However, they denied any
links with the incident during
questioning, and alleged that
the rioters attempted to force
them to take part by offering
them masks.
“I was returning back home
when riots broke out nearby.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
An aerial shot of a rally that had been organised by Al Wefaq
last September. Violations were detected in the earlier rally
also. This photo was taken from the Interior Ministry’s chopper.
Justice, Islamic Affairs
and Endowments Ministry’s
Political Societies Affairs office
said yesterday that it was
expecting Al Wefaq Islamic
Society to submit a report on its
general assembly’s resolutions
and procedures within ten days,
as required by the law.
The office highlighted Al
Wefaq’s announcement on
Friday, which said, “The
society’s general assembly was
held, with the participation of
1, 808 members out of 35,
338 adherents, as per the official
records.”
Earlier this month, the
ministry banned Al Wefaq
General Assembly at Al Oruba
Club, as it had violated the
Kingdom’s law that prohibits
political gatherings in social and
sports clubs.
The ministry also stated that
the club notified about the
function on the same day.
Explaining further, the
ministry had stated on
December 4 that “Article 63 of
Decree Law 21/ 1989, relating to
social and cultural associations,
clubs and organisations
working in the fields of youth
and sports, prohibits clubs from
engaging in political or religious
affairs.”
Minister of Justice, Islamic
Affairs and Endowments
Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al
Khalifa commented on Al
Wefaq’s repeated violations
last July, “Organising four
general assemblies violating
the law, with less than five per
cent of members participating
in them, left this society in a
chronic state of illegitimacy, by
hijacking its members’ will.”
Earlier this
month, the
ministry
banned Al
Wefaq General
Assembly at Al
Oruba Club, as
it had violated
the Kingdom’s
law that prohibits political gathering
in social and
sports clubs.
Tragic death
of a fisherman
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24-year-old unfortunate
Indian fisherman lost his
life in a tragic offshore accident,
while he was sailing with his
fellows in the eastern waters of
the island on Friday.
According to his two
colleagues,
the
incident
happened when Shelton
James’s cloth got stuck in the
machine of the dhow.
“We were resting on the
dhow at around 11 pm, when
Shelton went downstairs. After
hearing the noise, we rushed
downstairs to see what had
happened. The next thing we
saw was pieces of his flesh and
blood scattered in the motor
room.” said his colleagues.
They added that the motor
of the dhow chopped both of
The deceased Shelton
his hands off.
Coast
guards
were
immediately informed about
the incident. Police have
initiated an investigation to
know the real cause of the
incident, which occurred in the
offshores of Sitra.
The deceased was the sole
breadwinner of his family,
DT News has learnt. He was
single and came to Bahrain
for better prospects last year.
His body has been kept at
Salmaniya Medical Complex
(SMC) morgue and efforts are
underway to fly his remains
to his homeland. His family,
consisting of his parents and
siblings was informed about
the sad incident yesterday.
Before coming to Bahrain
Mr. James was a fisherman
in his hometown Keezha
Muttom, a fishing hamlet
in
Kanyakumari,
the
southernmost region of India.
His
colleague
who
has been shocked by his
untimely death said with
grief that whoever comes
to Bahrain, comes only in
search of better prospects
and livelihood but the fate
has its own ways.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
NIETZSCHE PROVED RIGHT
Govt says no
Lowering schooling age
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Screenshots of a controversial video that got viral at the social media on the internet showing a little child in cockfighting ring with a rooster.
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s Friedrich Nietzsche
once said, “Man is the
cruellest animal”. With all the
cruelty in the world there is
nothing worse than the people
who take sadistic pleasure
in celebrating the chain of
violence.
Cockfighting is a somewhat
popular practice in Bahrain,
given the internet forums that
discuss agendas to perform
such fights, but having to
watching a video on it in the
presence of a child can fuel
many of our attentions. A video was published
on the social networking
site Facebook on December
24 in a group called Bahrain
Strays that circulated around
and caused such abrupt raging
reactions.
The video starts off with a
boy in cockfighting ring with a
rooster, the male voice behind
the video seems to be the father
of the child who continues to
A monkey was seen dangerously outside the car of its owner
at Sakhir petrol pump on December 26. The car presumably
driven by a Bahraini man with 2 ladies inside was spotted at
around 3.30 pm. The reports of people moving around with
monkeys chained and dangerously travelling on car roofs have
been increasing on a daily basis.
encourage and appreciate his
child abusing the bird. The
cockrel only fights for itself as
it attacks the child, while the
child continues to deliberately
beat it with full force.
The reactions caused by
such a video fuelled animosity
to such a practice encouraged
by a parent.
One of the scholarly
professors and an animal
activist of University of
Bahrain, Mimi Ferhat strongly
expressed that what makes this
video disturbing and painful
to watch, is the presence of
a child in that terrible arena.
He is involved as both a
perpetrator of violence against
the poor rooster and a victim, a
role in which some sick adults
are obviously inducting him
very actively and effectively.
I feel that it is crucial that
the child actor in this video
is given access to some form
of counselling so that he may
recover from the incredible
experience of abuse he has
been subject to led by such
irresponsible parents, among
them his own father whose
duty was to protect him
and take care of his wellbeing, whether physical,
psychological or mental.
If we are taught to respect all
creatures of God by our great
religion Islam, why do so many
of us ignore this principle and
target deliberately various
kinds of animals with diverse
forms and degrees of cruelty
and any lack of remorse for
our actions?
Sharing some of his
knowledge of psychiatric
studies as a medical student,
Bobby Aarons from RCSI
expressed, “The child in
this video was exposed to
dangers of physical trauma
“If we are taught to respect all
creatures of God by our great
religion Islam, why do so many
of us ignore this principle and
target deliberately various kinds
of animals with diverse forms and
degrees of cruelty and any lack of
remorse for our actions?”
and disease transmissions.
Children should never be
exposed to violence in any
form or shape. The bird in
this video was subjected
to cruelty like many other
forms of cruelty on animals
practised as a sport, these
traditions must be questioned
and abolished.”
Not only did the experts
react to the video but
students as well, Fatema
Meamari expressed, “This is
so disgusting, I couldn’t even
watch the whole thing. The
most infuriating of all was the
person taking the
video and his absolute
enjoyment of the whole thing,
it’s not only showing the kid
that abuse is okay but that it
is funny.”
Another student Marwa
Khalil said, “It is blatant abuse
that should not be endured
by any bird or animal and it
is absolute terrible parenting
in which the child deserves
better. The adult is encouraging
extremely negative traits of
violence unfair to the child, who
probably looks up to him and
doesn’t know any better.”
Noor El Ain festival extends registration for retailers
Manama
he Bahrain Noor El Ain
festival (BNEA) has
extended its deadline for
retailers to register for the Shop
and Win aspect of its shopping
festival until 29 January. The
festival was launched on
December 15 and continues
until February 16.
Retail participation is
overwhelmingly
positive
and has exponentially grown
since the initial registration
announcement.
Owing to the popular
demand, the BENA festival
has extended the deadline
for retailers to register at
the official kiosks located at
the BCCI at Beit Al Tijjar in
Sanabis and join over 20 malls
and over 1500 retailers inside
and outside malls offering
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promotions, sales and special
offers to shoppers.
The allowance for more time
to register offers the additional
retailers and outlets the
opportunity to join in Bahrain
Noor El Ain’s shopping festival,
by engaging consumers,
promoting their products and
to contribute their efforts in
growing Bahrain’s thriving
economy.
The festival aims at boosting
the economy by offering
retailers unique benefits
upon joining that improve
their business performance,
while retailers are offered
the opportunity to give their
shoppers the chance to win
fabulous prizes.
With every BD 10 spent,
shoppers become eligible to
participate in the weekly mega
raffle offering amazing prizes
such as cars, iPads, iPhones,
Samsung phones, televisions,
F1 tickets, Gulf Air tickets and
Go Pro cameras in addition to
vouchers.
The convenience of the raffle
also allows any purchasers
at registered retailers, both
inside malls and outside, to
redeem a raffle ticket for each
BD10 spent, at any appointed
Bahrain Noor El Ain raffle
kiosks within participating
malls.
Bahrain Noor El Ain is a
major two-month shopping
festival that showcases the
very best of Bahrain, with
local talent and products on
display at different markets
that will rotate throughout the
Kingdom’s governorates. Also,
shops and malls will be offering
customers amazing shopping
opportunities, discounts and
special offers designed to entice
local and regional visitors.
Bahrain Noor El Ain runs
from December 15 to February
16 and concludes with a
major entrepreneurship award
ceremony for Bahrainis. It
is actively supported and
developed by a broad range
of public and private sector
organisations.
More than 1500 outlets and
23 malls are participating in
the shopping festival across the
Kingdom, which include Seef
Mall, City Centre, MoDA Mall,
Al A’ali Shopping Complex,
Saar Mall, Riyadat Mall,
Yateem Centre, Bahrain Mall,
Ramli Mall, Lulu hypermarket
(Hidd, Riffa, Sanabis), The
Centre, Jawad Dome, Najibi
Center, Sultan Mall, Reef
Mall, Marina Mall, Enma
Mall, Souq Bab Al Bahrain
Mall , Bahrain MallOasis
Center, Ashraf and Nakheel
Centre.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
parliamentary proposal to include
kindergarten students in public
elementary schools was recently rejected
by the Government.
According to a report published by our
sister newspaper Al Ayam, the proposal
stipulates to make education “compulsory
for children having five years of age” in
the kingdom.
The report stated that the Government
had rejected the proposal, explaining that
it exceeds the state’s budget for education.
Quoting the Government, the report
said, “The cost of establishing kindergartens
within the existing schools is estimated to
cross BD1.5 million. Additionally, acquiring
lands for the same purpose will cost around
BD1– BD1.5 million, according to the
location and space.”
The Government also replied to the
MPs’ proposal to reduce the compulsory
age of education to five years.
The Government said, “The current
compulsory age for education (six years)
matches the international standards of
education. Advanced nations such as
Canada, France, Germany, kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Tunisia as well as Gulf
Cooperation Council states and Arabian
countries follow the same age.”
The Government’s explanation also
File photo of the public elementary school students.
The cost of establishing kindergartens within
the existing schools is estimated to cross BD1.5
million. Additionally, acquiring lands for the
same purpose will cost around BD1– BD1.5
million, according to the location and space
highlighted that the provisions mentioned
in the proposed law exceeded the
country’s current financial, recruitment,
infrastructural and academic capabilities.
Resident passes away
Manama
resident of Bahrain, A
S Venkitachalam, 72,
passed away on Friday at his
son’s residence in Juffair. Hailing from Sekharipuram
Agraharam,
Palakkad
district in kerala, India,
Venkitachalam is being
A
survived by his wife Raji
Venkitachalam,
daughter
Lekha karthikeyan (Teacher
at Indian School), sons
Rupesh Sunder V (Financial
Controller at 01 Systems) and
Nath VV (Partner at BDO
Jawad Habib). The funeral
will be held in Bahrain today.
2014: Sickle Cell disease
engulfs 46 lives
“Mr. Abdul Wahab passed
away by dawn yesterday, he
was buried at his hometown,
ickle Cell Disease (SCD) Aali, few hours later,” said the
claimed the life of another statement.
Bahrain Society for SCD
Bahraini yesterday, after
Care
President
Mahmood Abdul Wahab, 26, Patients
Al
kadhem
was declared as the forty sixth Zakariya
Bahraini victim of the fatal commented, “SCD patients are
still suffering in the kingdom.
disease in 2014.
When the Health
The victim was
Ministry announced
announced dead
the expansion of
at the Accidents
SMC’s Accidents
and
Emergency
and
Emergency
Department
in
Department
a
Salmaniya Medical
few weeks back,
Complex (SMC), in
we hoped that
the early hours of
the
ministry
yesterday.
will increase the
According to a
number of beds
statement issued
yesterday
by The deceased Wahab in the department
to accommodate
Bahrain Society for
the large number
SCD Patients Care,
Mr. Abdul Wahab was brought of patients and reduce their
to SMC on Thursday, after waiting periods.”
As reported last week in DT
he suffered a “regular SCD
News, the forty fifth victim of
seizure.”
The victim apparently spent SCD was a Bahraini woman
the night at the emergency who was announced dead
ward and was moved to the in SMC on Sunday. Mr. Al
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on kadhem described this year as
Friday, after “his condition “one of the deadliest years for
worsened and his body stopped SCD patients in Bahrain during
the past five years.”
responding to medications.”
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vandals are on the go
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A S Venkitachalam
Three hurt in two mishaps
Three persons were injured in two separate traffic accidents yesterday. In Tubli, the mishap happened
when an Asian driver lost control of the truck he was driving. The driver was taken to hospital with
several injuries. In another accident, a Bahraini and an Asian sustained multiple injuries when their
cars collided with each other in Jidhafs. The accident occurred when the Bahraini driver overtook a car
on a two-way road and crashed into the Asian man’s car that was coming from the opposite direction. andals halted the traffic
flow yesterday by burning
tyres on a vital highway - khalifa
bin Salman Highway, blocking
the road for thousands.
Stating
on
its
official Twitter account,
Interior Ministry confirmed
“police secured khalifa bin
Salman Highway and reopened
it after a vandalism act.”
In another development,
the ministry announced a few
hours later that police forces
confronted a group of vandals
after hurling Molotov cocktails
at a security checkpoint on
Congested traffic at Khalifa bin Salman Highway yesterday.
Al Mutanabi road in Central
Manama.
No further details were
available about the incident.
A private vehicle caught fire near the Islamic Society at Road 440 in Arad yesterday.
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North Korea
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CURRENCIES
CURRENCIES
Readers’ VIEW
A
man found dead in a
nearby subway with selfinflicted wounds shot dead
two policemen in New York.
President Obama, who was on
holiday in Hawaii, said, “Two
brave men won’t be going
home to their loved ones
tonight, and for that, there is
no justification. The officers
who serve and protect our
communities risk their own
safety for ours every single
day - and they deserve our
respect and gratitude every
single day.”
New York city’s Mayor De
Blasio said, “When a police
officer is murdered it tears
at the foundation of our
society. We lost two good
men, who devoted their lives
to protecting all of us. Eric Holder, the US Attorney
General,
described
the
murders as an “unspeakable
act of barbarism.”
New York is a city of eightand-a-half million and this is
the outcry after two policemen
were murdered and it is being
called an “assassination”.
-
It was the seventh time
members of the city’s police
force had been killed in the
line of duty since 1972.
Bahrain is a country with
a population of just over a
million and the country has
lost fourteen members of the
police force with countless
injured and maimed in the line
of duty since February 2011.
On Friday, November 19,
a bomb blast in Bani Jamra
injured three on duty police
officers. The West has never
termed these assassination
attempts, in fact they have
hardly acknowledged that
these men in uniform are
responsible for the security and
safety of every man, woman
and child in this country.
Bahrain’s leadership continues
to strongly condemn acts of
terrorism and paid tribute to
the entire police force.
Recently, the Minister of
Interior had the sad task of
visiting a family that lost their
son in Bahrain at the hands
of Al Wefaq’s armed militia Al
Ashtar.
As Mr. De Blasio rightly
said in reference to the two
murdered NYPD policemen
“When they are attacked, it is
an attack on all of us.” What
would Obama and he say if
their police were targeted
every second of the day by
radical youths who plant
bombs or shot metal rods to
endanger the cops?
How would they react if
thousands of their policemen
were injured and maimed
every year just for wearing the
uniform?
What would they say if a group
of religious theocrats posing as
politicians term the deaths of
policemen as insignificant, for
they were “mercenaries”?
Killing or attacking a man in
uniform is an attack on the
state and until the youths are
dealt with an iron fist they
will fail to grasp this basic
concept.
Terror laws need to be
implemented
with
no
hesitation and criticism from
“human rights activists”
should be dealt with sternly.
Human rights are for every
human being regardless of
creed colour or faith, but
when Amnesty International,
HRW and other foreign
funded NGOs condone
attacks on policemen in
Bahrain, their political bias
and funding are not being
questioned.
Why Western leaders are not
acknowledging the loss of
the lives of cops in Bahrain as
an “attack on all of us”?
Rather, ironically, foreign
NGOs and Western politicians
prefer to sympathise with
the instigators and their
masterminds of violent
terrorism in the name of
democracy.
The Ministry of Interior has
shown more restraint than
any other police force in the
world. Strict implementation
of the law is required before a
generation is raised believing
that violence is justifiable
and they can bomb their way
to democracy. Sally Saar
Physical inactivity causes 3.2m deaths a year
hysical activity is defined
as any bodily movement
produced
by
skeletal
muscles that require energy
expenditure.
Physical inactivity has been
identified as the fourth leading
risk factor for global mortality
causing an estimated 3.2
million deaths globally.
Regular moderate intensity
physical activity – such
as walking, cycling, or
participating in sports – has
significant benefits for health.
For instance, it can reduce
the risk of cardiovascular
diseases, diabetes, colon and
breast cancer, and depression.
Moreover adequate levels of
physical activity will decrease the
risk of a hip or vertebral fracture
and help control weight.
Physical inactivity
Globally, around 31 per cent of
adults aged 15 and over were
insufficiently active in 2008
(men 28pc and women 34pc).
Approximately 3.2 million
deaths each year are
attributable to insufficient
physical activity.
In 2008, prevalence of
insufficient physical activity was
highest in the WHO Region of
the Americas and the Eastern
Mediterranean Region. In both
these regions, almost 50% of
women were insufficiently
active, while the prevalence
for men was 40% in the
Americas and 36% in Eastern
Mediterranean. The South
East Asian Region showed the
lowest percentages (15% for
men and 19% for women). In
all WHO Regions, men were
more active than women,
with the biggest difference in
prevalence between the two
sexes in Eastern Mediterranean.
This was also the case in nearly
every country.
Reasons for
physical inactivity
The current levels of physical
inactivity are partly due to
insufficient participation in
physical activity during leisure
time and an increase in sedentary
behaviour during occupational
and domestic activities. Likewise,
an increase in the use of “passive”
modes of transport has also
been associated with declining
physical activity levels.
Increased
urbanization
has resulted in several
environmental factors, which
may discourage participation
in physical activity such as:
• violence
• high-density traffic
• low air quality, pollution
• lack of parks, sidewalks and
sports/recreation facilities.
Population-based,
multisectoral, multi-disciplinary, and
culturally relevant policies need
to be implemented to increase
physical activity levels globally.
The WHO Member States in
WHA 66.10 have agreed on a
voluntary global NCD target for
a reduction of 10pc in physical
inactivity by 2025.
Afsal Mohammed
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London
US
INDIA BLASTS UBER
FOR BREAKING LAW
Central Bank finds Uber violated financial regulations
Penelope Macre
New Delhi
ndia’s central bank chief
lashed out at Uber, already
under fire over the alleged rape
of a passenger, saying the US
taxi-hailing firm violated the
country’s financial regulations
by using an overseas payment
system.
“They (Uber) were using
a way of bypassing our
regulations
to
conduct
transactions overseas which
were in violation” of Indian
regulations, the central bank
governor Raghuram Rajan
said. India will not tolerate such
I
They were using
a way to bypass
our regulations
to conduct
transactions
overseas
A file picture shows the Uber smartphone app, used to book taxis
using its service, is pictured on a smartphone in front of a taxi.
Belarus strongman sacks PM
Minsk
elarussian
strongman
Alexander Lukashenko
on Saturday sacked his prime
minister and four other top
officials as the ex-Soviet state
reels from the effects of Russia’s
economic crisis next door.
B
Lukashenko
dismissed
Mikhail Myasnikovich, in
office since December 2010,
and appointed his chief of staff
Andrei Kobyakov as his new
head. He also replaced the head
of the central bank and three
other top officials.
violations “no matter who you
are”, he warned.
“If we are a country that is
going to turn a blind eye to a
Singapore
il prices rose in Asia
Friday as dealers reacted
to a surprise Islamist attack
on Libya’s main oil terminals
that left 22 soldiers dead, while
O
year-end short-covering also
provided support, analysts said.
US benchmark West Texas
Intermediate for February
delivery rose 10 cents to $55.94
in afternoon trade, while Brent
B
$61.38
$56.52
CrediMax
extends
Qatar
Airways
partnership
Manama
rediMax has announced
the extension of its
successful partnership with
Qatar Airways until February
15, 2015.
CrediMax card holders
can take advantage of a
special promotions when
booking their tickets through
Qatar Airways website www.
qatarairways.com/credimax or
through the CrediMax website
www.credimax.com.bh.
“After a successful three
months we are very happy to
extend our partnership with
CrediMax for another three
months,” said Qatar AirwaysBahrain Country Manager,
Zeina Sinno Safa.
“This partnership will
provide CrediMax credit card
holders special promotions for
more than 140 destinations,”
Zeina said.
C
for February gained nine cents
to $60.33. Trading volumes in
Asia were thinner than usual
with major regional financial
markets including Hong
Kong and Australia closed on
Friday. US and European stock
markets will also be shut for the
Boxing Day holiday.
Analysts said some bearish
dealers were taking profits on
short positions, pushing prices up.
China Nov profits
suffer sharpest fall
C
BIBF, PMI sign MoU
of certificates and statistical
reporting.
Expressing delight, PMI
President, A. Majeed Al
Qas––sab, said, “Bahrain
suffers from a shortage of
qualified project managers
and I am confident that BIBF
along with the PMI will be
able to qualify people to
meet the growing demand
for skilled project managers.
“BIBF is an entity that we
trust as they have the technical
capabilities to support this
initiative,” he added.
OIL
London
US
Oil prices rise following attacks
New Beginning
Manama
IBF
signed
a
Memorandum
of
Understanding with the
Project
Management
Institute (PMI) – Arabian
Gulf Chapter, to serve as
the training arm for project
management related courses.
The deal allows BIBF
responsible for the delivery
of the courses, both locally
and within the GCC, in
addition to the provision
of the learning material,
course evaluations, issuance
violation of regulation... then
we don’t have rule of law,”
Rajan said. Uber later migrated
to a new transaction process.
BD152.00
$1,195.50
$1,194.20
Officials during the deal signing ceremony.
MANAGEMENT
THOUGHTS
Beijing
hinese industrial profits
dropped 4.2 percent in
November to 676.12 billion
yuan ($108.85 billion), official
data showed on Saturday, the
biggest annual decline since
August 2012 as the economy hit
major unexpected headwinds
in the second half.
Despite last month’s drop,
profits for January-November
were 5.3 percent higher than
in the first 11 months of 2013,
according to the National
Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data.
The
NBS
attributed
November’s profit drop to
declining sales and a longrunning slide in producer
pricing power.
“Increasing price falls shrank
the space for profit,” the agency
said.
It said the impact of prices
for coal, oil and basic materials
falling to their lowest levels in
years “was extremely clear”.
As the NBS analysis suggested,
the net slide in industrial
profits was driven primarily by
weakness in coal mining, and
oil and gas industries, where
November profits tumbled from
a year earlier by 44.4 percent and
13.2 percent respectively.
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
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$29 BILLION STIMULUS
Japan pumps more money to boost economy
Tokyo
he cabinet of Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe approved a fresh stimulus
T
package worth $29 billion
Saturday in a bid to boost the
economy, hit hard by a tax
hike.
The
3.5-trillion-yen
package is designed to help
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the provincial economy, small
businesses and the household
sector, as well as to increase
public spending to rebuild
areas hit by natural disasters.
“With
speedy
implementation of these
measures, I think we can
bolster consumption and lift
the provincial economy and
expand the positive growth
cycle to all corners of the
country,” Abe told a meeting
with ruling lawmakers shortly
before the cabinet officially
approved the package.
Shinzo Abe
The world’s third largest
economy is seeing a barrage of
weak economic indicators after
an April consumption tax rise
slammed the brakes on growth.
Since coming to power two
years ago, Abe has offered a
series of pro-business, bigspending policies in a bid to
bring Japan out of deflation.
The efforts have driven down
the yen and boosted earnings
of major firms, particularly
exporters.
But critics have argued
that the benefits were not
felt by small businesses and
consumers while real wages
shrank.
Of the 3.5 trillion yen in the
fresh stimulus, 600 billion yen
will go to programmes to boost
the local economy, 1.2 trillion
yen for steps to help consumers
and small businesses, and 1.7
trillion yen to rebuild areas hit
by natural disasters, such as
the 2011 tsunami and massive
landslides this year.
The stimulus includes
subsidies for small businesses
that are facing soaring fuel
costs as a result of the falling
yen. (AFP)
Panama
claims
$737 million
in cost
overruns
Panama City
he consortium expanding
the Panama Canal is
making fresh claims for cost
overruns totaling $737 million,
officials said Friday.
Canal administrator Jorge
Quijano said that the Panama
Canal Authority had received
two claims on Tuesday that
“will be evaluated” to determine
if there is probable cause.
But he warned that “at first
glance, the issues will be very
difficult for the counterparty
to justify.”
T
‘WE DON’T WANT
NEW ADVENTURE’
HRH the Prime Minister’s Adviser for Oil and Industrial Affairs and Gulf Petrochemical
Industries Company (GPIC) Chairman, Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa met employees at the
Company who have been promoted to leadership positions. GPIC Executive Management
members were present on the occasion.
Towing icebergs to Saudi for freshwater!
Dublin
minister for industry and “through towing icebergs”.
According to a letter
he Irish government had energy John Bruton had
plans to ship water to discussed the subject while written in March by Barry
to an unnamed individual
Saudi Arabia as a “back load” visiting Riyadh.
The note pointed out there in Glanmire, Co Cork, who
for tankers returning from oil
deliveries in western Europe, had been many international had inquired about selling
proposals to supply water water to the Middle East, the
it has emerged.
The
Irish
National to “arid zone oil-producing matter was followed up with
Petroleum Corporation, then states” including by tanker, authorities in Saudi Arabia,
a State-owned oil company, pipeline from major rivers and Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,
presented proposals to the
government to sell drinking
water to the Gulf states. It
was to be transported from
Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay,
Co Cork, using oil tankers,
said a report by The Irish
Times.
A
background
note
prepared in March 1984 for
then minister for foreign
affairs Peter Barry said
contact had been made “at a
high level in Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf States”.
The previous year, then Picture for representation purpose.
Qatar and the United Arab
Emirates. These states had
begun a study into importing
water by tanker after their
water desalination plants
came under threat from oil
pollution. But the study was
not completed because the oil
slick did not affect the plants.
“The general position
appears to be that the Gulf
States prefer to rely on their
own sources of water . . . rather
than becoming dependent on
water supplies imported from
abroad,” Barry said.
He also noted that Saudi
Arabia was negotiating with
Japan about importing water
and “unlike Ireland, which
has no term contracts for
crude oil with any of the Gulf
oil exporting countries, Japan
buys large quantities of crude
oil from the United Arab
Emirates”.
BUSINESS
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Greasy Issue
Athens
he Greek public doesn’t
want a new adventure,
Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras warned Saturday as
he sought to stave off a snap
election by urging lawmakers
to choose a new president in a
third and final round of voting.
“The Greek people don’t
want early elections. The Greek
people understand where this
adventure could lead,” Samaras
said in an interview on NERIT
public television.
“I have done and I am doing
everything in my power to
avert early elections.”
Lawmakers on Tuesday
failed to choose a successor to
President Karolos Papoulias in
a second round of voting.
If MPs do not rally behind
Dimas, the political stalemate
would automatically prompt
an early general election.
T
European Union and
International Monetary Fund
officials fear an early election
would be won by the antiausteriy elements rekindling a
eurozone crisis.
Lawmakers vote at the Greek Parliament in Athens during the
second round of a three-stage presidential election in Greece.
European
Union
and
International Monetary Fund
officials fear an early election
would be won by the anti-
Audi to step up investments
Water power
T
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Berlin
olkswagen’s flagship Audi division is to
increase spending on new models, plants
and technology through 2019 to push its
goal of surpassing German rival BMW as the
world’s largest luxurycar manufacturer.
Audi,
which
contributes 40 per cent
of operating profit
at Europe’s biggest
automotive group, said
on Saturday it will push
up investment in carmaking operations by 2
V
India’s forex reserves
up by $3.16 billion
New Delhi
India’s foreign exchange
reserves grew by $3.16 billion
to $319.99bn for the week
ended Dec 19, Reserve Bank
ofIndia (RBI) data showed.
In the previous week (Dec 12)
the reserves had increased by
$2.17bn to $316.83bn.
According to the RBI’s weekly
statistical supplement, foreign currency assets gained
$3.31bn at $295.67bn in
the week under review. The
foreign currency assets had
gained $2.40bn at $292.36bn
in the previous week (Dec
12).
billion euros ($2.44 billion) to a record 24bn
euros over the next five years.
Audi, the world’s second biggest luxury
automaker, is aiming to expand its model
range to 60 from currently 50 by 2020 and is
spending over 1 billion
euros on new factories
in Mexico and Brazil.
Audi
said
on
Saturday it will hire
another 850 workers
in Mexico next year
where the Q5 sportutility vehicle will be
assembled from 2016.
Russia may burn wealth
funds in 3 years
Moscow
ussia, poised to enter
a recession, will burn
through its rainy-day funds in
three years if the government
doesn’t change the budget
structure, according to
Finance Minister Anton
Siluanov.
With oil prices at $60 a
barrel, Russia’s economy
may contract about 4 per
cent next year and have a
budget deficit of more than
3pc of output, Siluanov said.
The ministry will use these
estimates and an exchange
rate of 51 rubles per dollar to
R
review the 2015 budget.
Russia is facing its first
recession since 2009, and
the contraction may last
for two years, according to
economists in a Bloomberg
survey. Oil, its biggest export
earner, is trading near a
five-year low, compounding
the effect of sanctions
imposed by the US and
its allies over President
Vladimir Putin’s annexation
of Crimea in March. The
deterioration puts Russia at
risk of a downgrade to below
investment grade, Standard
& Poor’s said this week.
austerity, radical leftist Syriza
party and could undermine
Greece’s international bailout
and rekindle a eurozone crisis.
Greece recently secured a
two-month extension from
its international creditors to
conclude an ongoing fiscal
audit that will determine the
release of some 7.0 billion
euros ($8.7 billion) in loans.
This extension expires in
February, and the finance
ministry has warned that the
state will face cash difficulties
from March onwards. (AFP)
Vijay Mallya
Kingfisher
not a
wilful
defaulter
Calcutta
T
his New Year, UB Group
chief Vijay Mallya has
a reason to celebrate. The
Calcutta High Court has
dismissed United Bank of India
(UBI)’s decision to declare his
grounded Kingfisher Airlines
a wilful defaulter. The Kolkatabased lender had identified and
declared the airline company,
its chairman Mallya, and three
former directors — Subhash
R Gupte, Ravi Nedungadi and
Anil Kumar Ganguly — wilful
defaulters for non-payment of
loans of about Rs 400 crore.
“The decisions of the
identification committee (of
UBI) and the grievance redressal
committee are quashed,” judge
Debangsu Basak said.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
New Millennium School-DPS Bahrain celebrated a colourful Christmas. The events underlined the importance of love, the joy
of sharing and relevance of peace. Chairman Dr Ravi Pillai, managing director Mrs. Geetha Pillai and principal Arun Kuumar
Sharma extended their best wishes.
The New Horizon School celebrated Christmas with a variety of programmes. The X’
mas pageant included dances in angels’ costumes which depicted the spirit of joy. The
programme ended with the address of the Vice-Principal Suman Papaly and felicitation
address by the Principal Nirmala Jose.
The New Indian School (NIS) buzzed with excitement and enthusiasm as it celebrated
Christmas. Warm greetings by the vice principals, enlightening messages from senior
teachers and a host of traditional Christmas Carols performed by students and teachers
added glitter to the event. .
Short story
T
here once was a widower who remarried. His second
wife was ill natured, and she had two daughters who
were evil. The man had a beautiful, gentle daughter of
his own, and she was soon to become the servant of
her evil stepmother and stepsisters. They made her do
all the chores around the house, and she was named
Cinderella, after the cinders she swept out of the
fireplace.
The King needed to find a queen for his prince, so he
threw a huge ball. The evil stepmother and stepsisters
were invited, but Cinderella was not allowed to go.
After they left, Cinderella’s fairy godmother appeared
and changed her dirty rags into a beautiful gown with
glass slippers. Next the fairy godmother changed a
pumpkin into a coach and some mice into footmen.
Before Cinderella left, the fairy godmother warned her
to be home before midnight, because the spell would
only last till then.
Cinderella was a hit at the ball. The prince fell in
love with her and asked her name. Just then the clock
struck midnight, and Cinderella ran away. She was in
such a hurry she lost one of her glass slippers. It was the
only clue for the prince to find his true love. He went
to each and every home in the kingdom and had every
single young girl try on the slipper to see if it fit. The
evil stepsisters couldn’t fit the slipper, but Cinderella
did. The prince married her and they all lived happily
ever after.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Parliament Chairman Ahmed bin Ibrahim Al Mulla received Regional Social Responsibility Network (RSRN) representatives Dr. Yusuf
Abdul Ghaffar and Dr. Ali Al-Ibrahim yesterday. The meeting was attended by Parliament First Deputy Chairman Ali Al Aradi, MP
Ahmed Qarata and Parliament Advisory Authority President Dr. Saleh Al Ghadith. The Parliament Speaker urged economic enterprises,
businessmen and financiers to assume their community responsibility and launch development projects that serve the country and its
citizens. He underscored the crucial importance of promoting social responsibility as a key benchmark to assess the performance of
enterprises, stressing particularly their role within the community. Gulf Air organised a familiarisation trip for newspersons from Bahrain and Kuwait to Athens. The trip was
jointly hosted by The Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA). (Above, from left) Ali Al
Thawadi from Bahrain News Agency (Bahrain), Nasser Al Otaibi from Al Watan (Kuwait), Amal Al Gharibi –
Communications Specialist at Gulf Air, Muhannad Abu Zaytoon from Al Watan (Bahrain), Eiad A. Al-Ahad from
Kuwait Times (Kuwait) and Nader Al Ghanim from Al Bilad (Bahrain) during the trip.
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Azerbaijani Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov and his accompanying delegation yesterday visited Bahrain National Museum, Beit Al Quran and Bahrain Fort. He also visited Bahrain Fort Museum and was informed about the inclusion of the fort in UNESCO’s
World Human Heritage list.
Azerbaijani Defence Minister General Zakir Hasanov and his accompanying delegation left
Bahrain yesterday after a visit to the Kingdom during which he held meetings with the leadership
and senior officials. Later, he was seen off by Defence Minister Major General Yousif bin Ahmed
Al Jalahma and senior BDF officers. Above, General Hasanov with Maj. Gen. Al Jalahma.
Director-General of the Bahrain Training Institute Dr. Fawzi Abdulrahman Al Jowder held a meeting with a
delegation from UNESCO technical and vocational training experts yesterday. Dr. Al Jowder informed them
about BTI’s regular programmes and training courses. He highlighted BTI’s achievements and developments
over the past years. UNESCO experts praised BTI’s academic competencies, as well as the advanced equipment
and laboratories and training facilities.
A team from Zain
Bahrain visited students
at Khawla Secondary
School
who
are
involved in the INJAZ
programme. The team
from Zain Bahrain
shared their extensive
experience with the
students from the
School. The visit was part
of an initiative launched
by INJAZ which aimed
to empower and better
educate the students
about the business
scene in Bahrain.
The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) celebrated its 35th anniversary at the Ritz Carlton
Bahrain Hotel and Spa yesterday. The event, held under the patronage of Adviser to HRH the Prime
Minister on Oil and Industrial Affairs and Company Chairman Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, was
attended by the Board of Directors, the Executive Management, the Chairman and Vice Chariman of
the Company’s Labour Union and retirees.
Bahrain Nature Crossing Camp 2014, organised by the Southern Governorate in association with Vasser bin Hamad Foundation, concluded yesterday. As
many as 110 participants took part in the three-day camp. All the participants were given certificates of appreciation at the end of the camp.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Parton show the best pop
music moment 2014
Ce leb s
G
lastonbury Festival this year played host to the one and only Dolly Parton, and despite her being
a country artist predominantly, her take to the stage at the event has been named the year’s best
pop music moment in a new poll commissioned by a music streaming service.
The star played the prestigious Legends slot at Sunday teatime and received a rapturous welcome for
her debut at the festival, watched by thousands of all ages.
Smith sells a million
albums in UK and US
Cotton Colours Hair
At Christmas
T
he blond presenter, Fearne Cotton dyes her hair
pink every Christmas.
She said: “I think I got to 14 and thought, ‘Right,
I’m going to have a perm’. From that point for 10
years I had black hair, red hair, dodgy fringes,
cropped, shaggy hair... I’ve definitely got less
experimental as I’ve got older. Christmas is the
exception when I dye it pink every year.
Fearne also gets more experimental with her
make-up over the festive season.
She said: “I don’t usually wear red lipstick
unless it’s
winter or Christmas
and I’ll
maybe even go for a
little
bit of glitter on
the
eye - why not?”
S
am Smith has this week become the only artist to sell a million albums
in both the UK and US in 2014.
The singer released debut album ‘In The Lonely Hour’ earlier this year
and it passed the huge milestone in both countries to become the biggest
selling record of the year.
Sam wrote on Twitter: “1 million albums sold in UK and 1 million sold
in America - completely speechless” in response to the news.
It is just one of three albums to have sold over a million in America,
alongside the soundtrack to Disney’s animated smash hit Frozen and
Taylor Swift’s fifth record ‘1989’.
In the UK, Ed Sheeran’s the only other act to have hit the million sales
marks this year with
second album ‘X’.
Tulisa Connected
With Dead Uncle
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Solange Knowles and Alan
Ferguson
Amal Alamuddin and George
Clooney
Poppy Delevingne and James
Cook
Olivia Palermo and Johannes
Huebl
Ashley Tisdale and Christopher
French
Jessica Simpson and Eric
Johnson
Kim Kardashian and Kanye
West
Fearne Cotton and Jesse
Wood
Neil Patrick Harris and David
Burtka
T
ulisa Contostavlos visited a
medium to connect with her
late uncle and former mentor and
get advice about her new single.
The former N-Dubz singer
wanted to know if her Uncle Byron,
who died in 2007, would approve of
her latest solo venture, so she asked
a spiritualist for help in tracking
him down beyond the grave.
Angelina Wins
Christmas Day
Box Office
M
erry Christmas, indeed! Angelina
Jolie unwrapped a $15 million present
on Thursday, Dec. 25, when her new movie
Unbroken won the Christmas Day box office.
The drama, which is Jolie’s sophomore
directorial effort, debuted in 3,131 theatres. An
adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s non-fiction
book of the same name, Unbroken brought in
$15.59 million to take the No. 1 spot at the
domestic box office.
Mrs Beckham’s fashion
sales double to £30 million
N
ew figures reveal that the Spice Girl
turned fashion designer sold £83,000
worth of stock a day last year.
Victoria Beckham’s fashion business is
going from strength to strength and the
books only go to prove this thinking
further.
The 40-year-old, whose company was
crowned Brand of the Year at the recent
British Fashion Awards, has seen
sales double from £15.76 million
in 2012 to £30.39m.
The mother-of-four’s enterprise
has expanded from a debut
collection of dresses shown at New
York Fashion Week in 2008 to a
fully-rounded business.
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Ripley’s
CROSSWORD
by John Graziano
Across
1- Leg part; 5- According to the Bible, he was the first man;
9- Mystery writer’s award; 14- Adriatic resort; 15- Type of
ranch; 16- Actress Witherspoon; 17- Think nothing ___; 18Med school subj.; 19- Made a choice; 20- Important person;
22- Role for Valerie; 24- “___ had it!”; 25- Antiquated; 29Vacant; 32- Grammy winner Erykah; 34- Counterfeiter
catcher; 35- Deep cut; 36- Seal; 37- Doll’s word; 38- Baby
blues; 39- Instant; 40- K-6; 41- Closed; 42- Collection of
maps; 43- Evening, informally; 44- I did it!; 45- Cartoonist
Silverstein; 46- Alloy of iron and carbon; 47- Swabs;
49- Noise made by a sheep; 50- Brushes; 52- Finally!; 56Bandleader Shaw; 59- Elevator man; 61- Bakery employee;
62- Some horses; 63- Denier’s words; 64- Madcap; 65- Tiny
branches; 66- More than one female sheep; 67- Icelandic
epic;
Sweet potato, an
anti-diabetic food!
D
iabetics are forced to eliminate
or limit many of their favourite
foods since high carbohydrate
content in foods such as desserts,
pasta, breads, sugary breakfast
cereals and soft drinks can make
their blood sugar levels skyrocket
within a few minutes after eating,
damaging their small blood vessels
and leading to heart and kidney
diseases, blindness, stroke and even
amputations. Therefore, diabetics
have a very less food choices and
that really bothers them a lot,
especially those who can’t resist
sweet snacks.. Well, here’s an antidiabetic food, a naturally sweet
food that satisfies their taste buds
and help them stay healthier. Sweet
potatoes stabilise blood-sugar levels
by lowering insulin resistance as
they contain high amount of fibre
,which also helps to reduce levels
of “bad” LDL cholesterol in the
body. When you eat sweet potato
with its skin, it gives you more fibre
than oatmeal. This super food for
diabetics has a low glycemic index
and antioxidant nutrients like beta
carotene (Vitamin A), Vitamin C,
zinc, and other micronutrients such
Yesterday’s solution
Down
1- Slovenly person; 2- LP player; 3- Gotcha; 4- In spite
of; 5- Maxim; 6- Press for payment; 7- Hebrew month;
8- Deliberate; 9- Wear down; 10- Divide up; 11- Obtain;
12- Enzyme ending; 13- Skin color of Washington football
players!; 21- Climbing vine; 23- Undeveloped seeds; 26Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands; 27- Reproductive cell; 28Tooth covering; 29- Discharges; 30- Perhaps; 31- Pretended;
32- Stone associated with zodiac; 33- Nimble; 36- Equilibria;
46- Was in session; 48- Surmise; 49- Foundation; 51- Pack
away; 53- Mil. school; 54- Transport, mail; 55- ___ Little
Tenderness; 56- Gallery display; 57- Line of seats; 58- Mai
___; 60- Mineral suffix;
as potassium, magnesium, iron and
Vitamin B, which help in diabetes
management and prevention of
diabetes complications such as heart
attacks.
Research shows that sweet
potatoes are abundant in adiponectin
which is a very specific protein type
hormone that plays a large role in the
development of insulin resistance.
The phytonutrients in sweet potatoes
have a big impact on fibrinogen
which is required for proper blood
clotting. You can steam the sweet
BEETLE BAILEY
potato and eat it as it is, boil it in
water (with a bit of ginger) for a
sweet dessert soup, bake it for some
sweet potato chips, or even stir fry
it with vegetables. To maintain the
low glycemic index, a good cooking
method is sautéing the sweet potato
in oil or roasting without removing
its skin. Sweet potatoes should be
stored in a cool, dark place. Do not
store in the refrigerator. Store them
in a paper bag with holes in it to
allow for ventilation. Do NOT store
in a plastic bag.
Your StarS todaY
Aries:
20th March 20th April
Slow down a bit
today and do some
planning. There’s a steady,
grounded mood that will help
bring your thoughts and actions
down to Earth. The wind may
not be filling your sails as
much as you’d like, but you
can use this to your
advantage.
Leo: 20th
July - 20th
Aug
Don’t expect a reaction from people today even if you tell the
funniest jokes. Others
are likely to be reserved
and uptight. For the
most part, the day’s
forecast calls for conservative skies and
a slight chance of
grumpiness.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
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TAurus :
20th April - 20th May
There’s a call for you to focus
on tangible items today, Taurus.
Your emotions may be a bit restricted,
but you will find comfort in beautiful, luxurious surroundings. Don’t be surprised if
people are a bit more critical than usual.
What they intend as helpful may
come across as hurtful.
Virgo:
20th Aug - 20th
sept
You will keep a level
head today, Virgo, so
take this opportunity to
make rational decisions
about the most intense
issues on the table. Stay
grounded and concentrate on
what you need to do. Don’t
get caught up in the
usual emotional
drama.
sAgiTTArius:
20th nov - 20th Dec
There’s a restrictive, sober
tone to the day that may wear you
down, Sagittarius. The trick to working this energy to your advantage is to adjust
your game plan to fit the mood. Take
care of mundane chores and
small obstacles.
IN HISTORY
geMini :
20th May - 20th June
Get your life in order today, Gemini.
Take off the mask you’ve been wearing and
look in the mirror. Make sure you like the
person you see. This is a good day to put frivolity
aside and concentrate on what you need
to accomplish.
LibrA:
20th sep - 20th oct
Your playful attitude will be a
welcome addition to the sober,
restrictive tone of the day. On the
other hand, it may behoove you to be
serious in order to accomplish what
you need to get done. The choice
is up to you.
CApriCorn:
20th Dec - 20th Jan
Come down from the
clouds today, Capricorn. It’s
important to connect with what’s
going on down here. It could be
that you’re missing your target
because you failed to take certain details into account that
are obvious to everyone
else.
CanCer:
20th June - 20th
July
You will fit in
perfectly with just
about every situation
you encounter today, Cancer.
Things are going well for you,
so take advantage of the
energy. You will find that
you can accomplish a
lot with very little
effort.
sCorpio:
20th oct - 20th
nov
This is a terrific day
for you, Scorpio. You will
feel a greater sense of appreciation and respect for the people
around you. The planning and
hard work you’ve contributed recently is finally
paying off.
AquArius:
20th Jan - 20th
Feb
There’s a lethargic pace
to the day that might leave you
frustrated, Aquarius. It may seem as if
things aren’t progressing as quickly as
you’d like. Don’t be seduced by the
idea that everything needs to
get done sooner.
LAUGH @ LIFE
Frog legs it!
A
Hoy en la Historia
December 28, 1934
pisCes:
20th Feb - 20th
Mar
This is a terrific day
for you to accomplish
a lot, Pisces. You may
feel restricted in your
emotions and unable to
make certain deep-level
connections, but don’t
worry about it. If the
time doesn’t feel
right to engage in
deep conversation, don’t
push it.
S U D O KU
R
British actress Maggie Smith
was born. A double Oscar winner,
she is now best known as the
waspish Dowager Countess of
Grantham in Downton Abbey
1869: William Finley Semple, a dentist
from Ohio, was the first person to
receive a patent for chewing gum
1908: Up to 100,000 people died in
the most destructive earthquake in
European history, in Messina, Sicily
1989: Alexander Dubcek returned to
public office after 21 years, as chairman
of Czechoslovakia’s parliament
2009: Russian premier Vladimir
Putin launched the East-Siberia –
Pacific Ocean oil pipeline
Picture: Associated Press
© GRAPHIC NEWS
tiny frog struck up
an unlikely friendship with a giant African
land snail after clambering onto its shell to catch
a ride.
The bright green Wallace’s flying frog was spotted giving the snail a quick
kiss before it hopped onto
its back where it sat for a
few minutes.
Photographer Hendy
Mp, 25, captured the unusual antics in the woods
near his home in Sambas, Indonesia, and sat
just 30cm away from the
friendly pair while they
played.
‘When I came across
the cute frog in the woods
it was already playing with
the little snail,’ he said.
‘It was hopping about
around the snail, it was
almost as if he was trying
to catch a ride on the back
of it.
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
‘I couldn’t help but
laugh when I saw them, it
was very funny. I haven’t
seen anything else like it.
‘Amazingly the snail
wasn’t phased by the frog
trying to get on its back.
They both wanted to play
together it was really cute.
‘It’s remarkable that two
different types of animal
like a frog and snail can
become great friends like
this.’
Wallace’s flying frogs,
also known as Abah River flying frog, are found
from the Malay Peninsula
into western Indonesia
and are named after the
biologist, Alfred R. Wallace, who collected the
first specimen to be formally identified.
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Nausea and vomiting:. If you push yourself so hard that you
throw up, you may want to reassess your regimen at the gym.
Getting nauseous from your workout can also indicate that
you are dehydrated or experiencing heat exhaustion. Heat
exhaustion can be treated with rest in a cool place but, if ignored,
it can lead to heat stroke, which can cause organ damage, and,
sometimes, death.
Complex jobs
might help
maintain brain
fitness in
aging
R
egardless of IQ, people who work at
complex jobs have a slightly higher chance
of being better thinkers as they age, a recent
study suggests.
“When we look at the association between
complexity of work with people or data, we see
that those in more complex jobs generally do
better on a range of cognitive ability measures,”
said Alan Gow, one of the study authors.
The researchers knew from earlier work
that complex jobs might help protect cognitive
ability later in life. So they added the childhood
IQs of 1,066 people in Scotland from a 1936
study to their analysis.
They also grouped the people from that
study according to profession - for example,
architect, engineer and lawyer (higher thinking
jobs) or typist and salesperson (requiring less
complicated thinking).
The study participants, all age 70 during
the new analysis, took cognitive tests that
determined general thinking ability, speed
and memory. Their educational and criminal
backgrounds and access to services were also
factored in.
B y
including
data on IQ
from the
participants when they were 11 years old, “the
association between more complex jobs and
better cognitive outcomes is reduced, but there
remains a small additional benefit for our
cognitive abilities from being in more complex
jobs,” Gow .
The researchers said the cognitive benefit of
a complex job was similar to the benefits of not
smoking on later cognition.
He’s been looking at a variety of lifestyle
factors that might predict cognitive ability in
older people, including leisure and physical
activity and social networks and support.
France’s
port closed
Lille
torms packing wind gusts
of up to 160 kilometres (100
miles) per hour on Saturday
forced the closure of France’s
port of Calais on the English
Channel and the suspension of
car ferries to and from Britain,
officials said.
“No vessel is entering or
leaving. All sea traffic is halted,”
an official at Calais’s port
authority said, adding that
ferries currently in Britain’s port
of Dover on the other side of the
channel were remaining there.
The storm was expected to
lighten up later Saturday.
S
Mood swings: If your physical performance is not entirely on
track, there could be a chance that you may feel a slightly mentally
drained as well. While physical activity is often linked to decreases
in depression and anxiety, overtraining can increase irritability,
and moodiness. A common sentiment amongst athletes who are
over-trained is that they lose their competitive spirit.
Chest discomfort: Aside of the panting, if your chest feels
uncomfortable after a strenuous exercise regime, do not take it
lightly. Chest discomfort is a major indicator of a heart attack
Note: Not all chest pain is the same; it can feel like burning,
stabbing, or tightness.
Strange sleep patterns: Being active during the day can help us
rest well at night. If you are overtraining, the opposite may occur.
Pushing your body too hard can cause restlessness, insomnia or
oversleeping. If that is the case, slow down at the gym and your
sleeping pattern will return to normal.
Journalist
shot dead
Goma
journalist for state media in
the Democratic Republic
of Congo was shot dead Friday
in Goma in the vast country’s
restive east, officials said.
Robert
Chamwami
Shalubuto’s body was found
in a grocery store close to his
home after having been shot
in the chest, said Celestin
Sibomana, spokesman for
North Kivu province, of which
Goma is the capital.
The deputy governor of the
province, Feller Lutaichirwa,
also confirmed the killing.
A
T
hose sun salutations and
downward dogs could
be as good for the heart as
cycling or brisk walking,
and easier to tolerate for
older people and those with
health challenges, according
to a new review of existing
research.
Based on 37 clinical trials,
researchers found that doing
yoga lowered blood pressure,
cholesterol, heart
rate and other
cardiovascular risk
factors in increments
comparable to those
seen with aerobic exercise.
“Taken together, these
improvements
could
facilitate and complement
a regimen toward better
cardiovascular
health,”
said Paula Chu, a doctoral
candidate in health policy
at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
who led the study.
She and her co-authors
caution in the European
Journal
of
Preventive
Cardiology, however, that
larger studies are needed
to understand how yoga
improves health, how much
of it is ideal and if there are
differences in benefits from
various types of
yoga before
the practice
becomes a
standard
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
Barack Obama
US President
Fever: Exercising while sick is not advisable, especially if you
have “fever”. If the fever is over 100.5 degree, you should not work
out. Evidence suggests that exercising while feverish increases the
risk of developing this dangerous disorder as well as dehydration
and overheating.
prescription for heart disease.
Nonetheless,
yoga’s
benefits have been long
suspected, said Dr. Larry
Phillips, a cardiologist at
NYU Langone Medical
Center in New York.
“I think what we’ve seen is
with yoga and the relaxation
and behavior modification
that goes along with it, there
is a benefit to all patients, but
especially those with heart
disease,” said Phillips, who
was not involved in the new
analysis.
“Here we are able to see
there are more measurable
benefits than we’ve seen
before,” he told Reuters
Health.
Sweden, opp
reach deal
Stockholm
weden’s minority centre-left
government on Saturday
announced it has reached a deal
with the opposition that will
avert what would have been the
country’s first snap elections in
more than half a century.
The deal was announced
by Prime Minister Stefan
Loefven with the centre-right
opposition coalition.
S
The prime minister also has
his time for a break as he
has been working so hard.
He is also a human being. I
told him not to worry and
to have trust in me, we will
manage the issue in whatever way we can
For the government, for
your agencies, we cannot
afford this long holiday, at
least this year – you know
what I mean
Now you’ve got Republicans
in a position where it’s not
enough for them simply
to grind the wheels of
Congress to a halt and then
blame me
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is fine, but if you find yourself panting more often than not while
working out, this indicates that you are overdoing it. If you
experience additional symptoms such as swelling in your feet
and ankles, high fever, cough, chills, blue fingertips, or wheezing
you may want to consult your doctor as these could be signs of
a heart attack.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Muhyiddin Yassin
Malaysian Deputy Prime
Minister
RUSSIA SHIFTS
TO WAR MODE
Brands NATO as fundamental threat
Maxime Popov
Moscow
T
he Kremlin on Friday
branded the expansion of
NATO as a fundamental threat
to Russia in a revised military
doctrine that dramatically
reflects deteriorating relations
with the West.
The
new
document,
approved
by
Russian
President Vladimir Putin,
decries the “reinforcement of
NATO’s offensive capacities
directly on Russia’s borders,
and measures taken to deploy
a global anti-missile defence
system” in Central Europe.
NATO was already seen
a major threat in an earlier
version of the doctrine
published in 2010, but the war
in Ukraine has further raised
tensions to levels not seen
since the Cold War.
Russia’s new military
doctrine also introduces the
concept of “non-nuclear
dissuasion”
based
on
maintaining a high degree of
preparedness of conventional
military forces. It also urges
active participation in regional
security organisations like
the
Commonwealth
of
Independent States, made
up of nine former Soviet
Republics; and the Shanghai
A TV journalist prepares to do a piece to camera in front of an
armoured personnel carrier (APC) on the frontline.
Cooperation Organisation allies, or in case of “threat to
formed by Russia, China, and the very existence of the state.”
Among the principal duties
several ex-Soviet Caucasian
listed in the doctrine for the
republics.
It reserves however the country’s armed forces during
right to use the country’s times of peace is the protection
nuclear arsenal in the event of “of Russia’s national interests
aggression against Russia or its in the Arctic”. (AFP)
Dmitry Zaks
Kiev
U
krainian President
Petro Poroshenko on
Saturday welcomed home
as heroes 145 soldiers
freed by pro-Russian
rebels during the largest
prisoner swap of the eightmonth separatist war.
“My heart as that of a
president and citizen is
brimming with joy that
you -- as I had promised
-- will be able to meet
the New Year with your
families and comrades
and arms,” Poroshenko
said as the released men
huddled around him on
the tarmac.
Kiev on Friday freed
222 insurgent fighters
captured around the
main rebel stronghold
of Donetsk and its
surrounding regions.
But the original deal
called for the release of
150 state troops and 225
militants.
Yangon votes after 60 years
Venezuelan President Yangon
ahead of a landmark
congratulates Castro
esidents
of nationwide poll slated
Havana
enezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
a frequent critic of the United
States, congratulated the Castro brothers
Friday on Cuba’s rapprochement with
Washington, but warned that the embargo
on the island would remain for a long
time.
This month’s historic announcement
that the United States and Cuba were
restoring diplomatic relations after half
a century of hostility undercuts the
stridently anti-American stance Maduro
has adopted as his country slides into a
deepening economic crisis.
V
R
M y a n m a r ’ s
commercial
hub
Yangon went to the
polls Saturday for
the first municipal
elections
in
six
decades, with voters
enthusiastic for change
even though many
knew little about the
candidates or their
policies.
The election is being
closely watched as a
test of the country’s
democratic credentials
for November next
year, despite strict
curbs on who could
vote on Saturday and
the limited power of
the councillors they
were electing.
For
many
the
ballot for the Yangon
City
Development
Committee,
which
closed on Saturday
afternoon, was the first
chance to vote under
the country’s quasicivilian government.
MMistaken Identity
LEAFY RETREAT: A frog is seen using a leaf to escape torrential downpour. Photo taken from a reserve forest in Indonesia.
‘Dinosaur’ on the loose in Taiwan!
Taipei
hippo that panicked while being
transported by truck in Taiwan
jumped from the vehicle, breaking a
leg and causing confused residents
to report spotting a dinosaur on the
loose.
Television footage showed the
enormous animal lying on the road
with a white fluid oozing from its An injured hippo lies on the ground after it jumped
eyes after it jumped through a truck from a truck in Miaoli county.
A
145 soldiers
freed
window and landed on a
parked car before falling
onto the road on Friday.
The sound of the collision
startled people nearby who
flocked to see the animal
and contacted the police in
central Miaoli county.
One woman was quoted
by the United Daily News
as saying that she ran out
of her house after
hearing the crash
and thought she
saw “a dinosaur”
lying on the road.
The truck driver was quoted by the
newspaper as saying that he saw the
hippo “flying out” of the vehicle after
getting spooked during the drive.
One woman thought she saw a
dinosaur. A truck driver
contradicted: “No, it was a flying
hippo!” What the damn thing
was it actually?
The injured animal, named “A Ho”
after the Chinese name for hippo Ho
Ma, lay on the road for a few hours
before being put into a cargo container
and taken back to its farm in central
Taichung city, officials said.
Taiwanese authorities said Saturday
that the animal’s owner could face a
fine of up to Tw$75,000 (US$2,400) for
violating animal protection laws after the
hippo suffered a broken leg and damage
to its teeth. Local media said the hippo
was a star attraction at its farm and had
even appeared in a popular television
soap opera several years ago. (AFP)
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Pilot errors behind Macedonian president’s plane crash
Late pope gets flowers from would-be assassin
Vatican City
ehmet
Ali
Agca,
the Turkish former
extremist who attempted to
assassinate Pope John Paul
II, on Saturday laid flowers
on the late pontiff’s tomb.
The latest highly publicised
act of contrition by Agca
came 31 years to the day
after John Paul visited him
in prison in Rome to forgive
him for the 1981 shooting
that nearly killed the leader
M
Shebab leader
surrendered
Mogadishu
top leader of Somalia’s
Al-Qaeda-affiliated
Shebab rebels, intelligence chief
Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi,
has surrendered to government
and African Union forces and
is now in custody, officials said
Saturday.
The militant is the subject
of a $3 million bounty as part
of the US State Department
“Rewards
for
Justice”
programme. Officials said
he surrendered in the Gedo
region, where Somalia borders
Kenya and Ethiopia.
A
15 suffocates in
illegal mine
Lubumbashi
ifteen
people
have
suffocated while digging in
an illegal mine in southeastern
Democratic Republic of
Congo, where the problem of
illicit mining is widespread, an
official said Saturday.
The incident occurred on
Friday in Kolwezi in the mineralrich province of Katanga, where
scores of impoverished illegal
miners risk their lives in search
of minerals including copper and
cobalt.
F
of the world’s Catholics.
Agca, then 23, shot the
pope twice from close
range in St Peter’s Square,
one bullet passing through
his abdomen and another
narrowly missing his heart.
He arrived back in Rome
unexpectedly on Saturday
and presented himself
to police to declare his
intention to lay the flowers.
“I felt the need to make
this gesture,” he told police,
according to Italian media
who had been tipped off in
advance about his visit.
“A thousand thanks
holiness,” he said in Italian.
“This is a miracle that goes
on. The mystery of Fatima
goes on. Long live Jesus
Christ!”
The motive for Agca’s
1981 attack on the pope
remains a mystery. He served
nearly three decades in
prisons in Italy and Turkey
and is widely considered to
be mentally disturbed.
A
A file picture
showing a
hand holding a gun
aims from
the crowd in
Vatican City,
Mehmet Ali Agca holding
before Pope John
a wreath of flowers seen
Paul II falls, shot on
on St. Peter’s square in The
May 13, 1981.
Vatican.
Seoul
orth Korea called US
If the US persists in AmericanPresident
Barack
style arrogance, despite (North
Obama a “monkey” Saturday
after US cinemas released
Korea’s) repeated warnings, the
a comedy about a fictional
US should bear in mind that its
plot to kill its leader, as it
suffered another in a series
failed political affairs will face
of crippling Internet outages
inescapable deadly blows
that it has blamed on
Washington.
The isolated dictatorship’s US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the
like a monkey in a tropical forest,” a spokesman for the
powerful National Defence briefing room of the White House in Washington, DC.
NDC’s policy department
Commission
(NDC) behind madcap North Korea
said in a statement published
threatened
“inescapable comedy “The Interview”.
by the North’s official KCNA
deadly blows” over the
Washington has said the
news agency.
Online
services
for
Sony’s
he
film
took
in
$1
film and accused the US attack on Sony was carried
He accused Washington of
million in its limited- PlayStation and Microsoft’s
of “disturbing the Internet out by Pyongyang.
linking the hacking of Sony
Xbox
gaming
consoles,
release
opening
day,
showing
operation” of North Korean
It
suffered
another
to North Korea “without
media outlets.
paralysing
outage
on in around 300 mostly small, which had decided to
clear evidence” and repeated
release
the
film
online.
independent
theatres.
It
An
online
blackout Saturday evening which also
Pyongyang’s condemnation
earlier this week triggered affected telecommunication was also released online for Microsoft’s online network
of the film, describing it as “a
for
its
Xbox
gaming
console
rental
or
purchase.
A
file
speculation
that
US networks in the pariah state,
movie for agitating terrorism
authorities
may
have according to Chinese state- sharing website reported was restored to nearly
produced with high-ranking
full
service
Friday
but
the
film
had
been
illegally
launched a cyber-attack in run Xinhua news agency.
politicians of the US
retaliation for the hacking of
“Obama always goes downloaded more than the PlayStation network
administration involved”.
remained
down.
750,000
times.
Sony Pictures -- the studio reckless in words and deeds
N
Interview collects a million
T
Yangon
round 500 people including dozens
of Buddhist monks protested near the
Chinese consulate in Myanmar’s central
city of Mandalay on Saturday demanding
the closure of a flashpoint copper mine.
It was the largest protest since the fatal
shooting of a woman demonstrating against
the Letpadaung mine in the northwestern
town of Monywa -- a Chinese backed
venture dogged by complaints of land
grabbing and environmental damage.
Mother self-immolates as baby sleeps
Lille
A
mother-of-two
died on Friday in
northern France after
setting herself on fire
in the courtyard of her
home as her 18-month-
old daughter slept inside,
authorities said.
The
incident
involving the woman
believed to be around 30
years old occurred in the
town of Ambleteuse on
the Channel coast north
of Boulogne around
midday.
Her
partner
discovered her body
shortly afterwards and
alerted
authorities,
Public Will
according to police,
who have opened an
investigation.
The dead woman’s
elder child, who is 11,
was not at home at the
time.
Britain posts 41 million wills, including Princess Diana’s
London
ome 41 million British
wills dating back to 1858,
including those of Winston
Churchill and Princess Diana,
were made available in an
online database Saturday.
The government’s full
archive of wills from England
S
and Wales, stretching back
more than 150 years, has been
put on the probatesearch.
service.gov.uk website.
It includes the wills of
World War II prime minister
Churchill; novelist Charles
Dickens; Diana, princess of
Wales; children’s writer A.
A. Milne; code-breaker Alan
Turing; writer George Orwell
and author Beatrix Potter.
The digital copies of the wills
cost £10 ($15.50, 12.75 euros)
but basic details for some of
them are available online.
Previously the archives had
only been publicly available to
search in person.
In Churchill’s will he gave
£304,044 -- worth more than
£5.1 million nowadays -- to
his family.
When Dickens died in
1870 he left a will written in
cursive script that laid out
highly specific directions for
Skopje
series of pilot errors
caused the plane crash
that killed Macedonian
president Boris Trajkovski
and eight other people in
Bosnia in 2004, the results
of an international probe
showed Saturday.
The outcome confirmed
He initially testified
that he had acted
alone but later
backtracked.
NORTH KOREA CALLS
OBAMA ‘MONKEY’
Hundreds protest against China
A
At the time of the
assassination
attempt, Agca
was on the
run
from
the Turkish
authorities
over a string
of crimes,
including the
murder of a
journalist, and
his links to the
far-right Grey Wolves
movement.
his funeral.
“I emphatically direct that
I be buried in an inexpensive,
unostentatious, and strictly
private manner,” he wrote,
adding that mourners must
not wear scarves, cloaks, long
hatbands, “or other such
revolting absurdity”. (AFP)
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
US condemns
Shebab attack
Washington
T
he United States “strongly condemns” a Shebab
attack that killed three soldiers
and a civilian at African Union
headquarters in Somalia, the
State Department said Friday.
The assault, launched by the
country’s Al-Qaeda-linked
rebels in Mogadishu on
Thursday, killed three soldiers
from the union’s local peacekeeping mission known as
AMISOM, and a civilian contractor.
Car bombs hit Libya
Tripoli
car bomb exploded
Saturday outside the diplomatic security building in
Tripoli but caused no casualties, a Libyan official said, with
the Islamic State group claiming responsibility.
Colonel Mubarak Abu Dhaheer,
who heads the security department in charge of protecting
diplomatic missions, said the
blast in central Tripoli caused
some damage to the building
but that no one was hurt.
A
the findings of an initial
investigation by Bosnian
authorities immediately after
the accident.
“Several systematic pilot
errors were key to the fall of
the plane,” said Omer Kulic,
head of an international
commission that has been
conducting the probe for the
past two years.
The crash on February
26, 2004 occurred when
the US-made Beechcraft
King Air 200 tried to land
at the airport of Mostar,
in southern Bosnia, in bad
weather.
Trajkovski, 47, six of his
closest advisors and the two
pilots died instantly. Their
charred bodies were found
in the wreckage the next
day after an intense search
by local authorities and
NATO-led peacekeepers.
There was speculation
just after the crash that the
presidential plane might
have been the subject of a
deliberate attack.
Kulic said on Saturday that
the Mostar airport -- where a
French contingent of NATOled peacekeepers assured air
control at the time -- did not
have a working radar and that
the pilots should not have
tried to land there.
“The pilots should have
simply directed the plane
towards Dubrovnik (on the
southern Adriatic coast) or
Sarajevo,” he told reporters.
The plane crashed some 10
kilometres (6.2 miles) from
Mostar in a mountainous
region littered with mines
left over from Bosnia’s 19921995 war. (AFP)
PAKISTAN OFFENSIVE
CONTINUES; 55 KILLED
Peshawar
t least 55 militants were
killed in airstrikes and
a gun battle with ground
forces in Pakistan’s troubled
northwest where the military
launched a major offensive this
year, officials said Saturday. Troops raided a militant
hideout late Friday in an area
adjoining Orakzai and Khyber
tribal districts -- near the
Afghan border -- where the
A
The Pakistani
military says it has
killed more than
1,700 militants
so far in its heavy
offensive.
Warrant issued
Gunmen kills farmer
Islamabad
Pakistani court has issued
an arrest warrant for a
hardline Islamic cleric who
suggested the massacre of
school children in country’s
worst ever terror attack was
understandable,
after
he
allegedly threatened people
criticising him. Maulana Abdul
Aziz, the pro-Taliban cleric
and head of the Red Mosque
in capital Islamabad has been
accused of threatening civil
society activists.
Lahore
unmen in Pakistan on
Saturday shot dead a
farmer from the Ahmadi
community, one of the
country’s most persecuted
minority groups, police and
a spokesman said. Luqman
Ahad, 25 was hit by a single
bullet in his head and died on
the spot, Rohail Sabir, a senior
police official in Gujranwala
said.Ahmadis, were declared
non-Muslims by the Pakistani
government in 1974.
‘Halt executions’
in terror cases following a
Taliban school massacre.
Sharif promised that “all legal
norms would be respected,”
the statement added. Pakistan
plans to execute 500 militants
in the coming weeks.
A
Pakistani soldiers patrol outside the Saint John’s Cathedral
Church during a Christmas mass in Peshawar.
insurgents had gathered for a
meeting, the military said in a
statement.
“An intense battle took
place, in which 16 terrorists
were killed and 20 injured,”
it said, adding that “fleeing
terrorists left behind nine dead
bodies of their accomplices”.
Troops
arrested
two
critically wounded militants
while four soldiers were also
wounded in the battle, the
statement said.
The Pakistani military says
it has killed more than 1,700
militants so far in its heavy
offensive in the tribal zone,
with 126 soldiers having lost
their lives. (AFP)
Islamabad
N chief Ban Ki-moon is
pressing Pakistan to end
capital punishment and restore
a moratorium on the death
penalty the government lifted
U
G
Four die of bird flu Man gets 26 years for hoax bomb threats
Libya
our people have died of
bird flu in Libya in recent
days, the health minister of
the country’s internationally
recognised government said
on Saturday.
Rida Al-Awkali said a
fifth person suspected of
F
having contracted the virus is
currently in hospital in the far
eastern city of Tobruk.
Three of the victims died
in the capital Tripoli, while
the fourth died in Tobruk, he
added, without saying which
strain of the disease they
caught.
Lahore
Pakistani
man
was
sentenced to 26 years
in jail for making two hoax
calls to police claiming he had
planted bombs in crowded
public places, prosecutors said
on Saturday.
Mohammad Yousuf, who is
A
in his 30s, made the calls in July
in the central city of Multan,
telling police that he had placed
bombs in a market and a busy
children’s park.
Police, bomb disposal
experts and rescue workers
were forced to rush to the scene
at the time but found nothing.
“Yousuf confessed and was
sentenced to 26 years in jail for
both the bogus calls and fake
information,” Ashfaq Malik,
Multan’s deputy prosecutor
general, said.
Police said Yousuf used the
sim card of one of his friends,
whom he wanted to entrap
because of business rivalry.
Police in August traced the
sim card and arrested both
Yousuf and his friend.
Judge
Sajjad
Sheikh
announced the verdict in
a Multan anti-terror court
on Wednesday.
Sheikh
Saeed, another government
prosecutor and a police official
in Multan, confirmed the
verdict.
...Rest In Peace
Thousands attend funeral of slain New York cop
New York
housands of officers
paid homage Saturday
at the New York funeral
of one of their own, in
an emotional show of
solidarity from a group
that has felt targeted by
recent protests over police
violence.
But in a sign of the
strain between New
T
York’s force and its
mayor, thrown into sharp
relief since Rafael Ramos
and his partner were
shot last week, numerous
officers turned their backs
outside as Bill de Blasio
began to speak.
Vice President Joe
Biden said the double
murder was felt by the
whole country.
“When an assassin’s
bullet targeted two
officers, it targeted this
city. And it touched the
soul of the entire nation,”
Biden said.
Ramos, 40, was killed
alongside his partner
Wenjian Liu December
20 following nationwide
demonstrations
after
grand juries failed to
charge white officers
in the killings of two
unarmed black men over
the summer.
The shooter, 28-yearold Ismaaiyl Brinsley,
who later killed himself,
had
posted
angry
Instagram comments that
were anti-government
and referenced the black
men’s deaths.
Officers salute outside the church following the funeral
of slain NYPD officer
Rafael Ramos at the
Christ Tabernacle
Church in the
Glenwood section
of Queens, NY.
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...................................................
Urgently Required experienced
Media
Sales
Executives,
preferably Arabic and English
speaking with valid driving license. Send your resume to:
[email protected]
...................................................
Family Driver with valid Bahraini driving license. Sponsorship available. Please send your
CV: [email protected]
...................................................
Interior Design Company looking for professional INTERIOR
DESIGNER with advanced 3D
skills & AutoCAD drafting. Attractive salary package and
benefits. Send you portfolio to:
[email protected]
...................................................
CUSTOMER SERVICE role
available, must speak fluent
English and Arabic. For details
please email you CV to Info@
simply-casting.com
...................................................
Required TEACHERS, NANNIES, NURSES, ASSISTANTS
for a nursery opening will be in
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com
...................................................
ADMIN SECRETARY for an import & export company. Should
have accounting background
and legal work experience
(Full-time). Email resume: [email protected]
...................................................
Urgently Required LV JOINTERS with experience. Email:
[email protected]
...................................................
Urgently
Required
CCTV,
ACCESS CONTROL, FIRE
ALARM / SECURITY SYSTEM
TECHNICIAN with 2-3 years of
experience. Bahrain Driving Licence is an added advantage.
Forward your CV to: applybah@
gmail.com
...................................................
British curriculum school requires ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TEACHERS for intermediate
level. English mother tongue
preferred. Email CV to admin@
talentschools.com
...................................................
CUSTOMER SERVICE role
available, must speak fluent
English and Arabic. For details
please email your CV to Info@
simply-casting.com
...................................................
A Reputed Company in Bahrain
urgently looking for OUTDOOR
SALESMAN for Ice Cream Factory. Requirements: The candidates should have extensive
outdoor sales experience; At
least 1-2 years of experience;
Can speak and understand
English; with valid Bahrain driving license. Interested candidate can apply with detailed CV
and full body pictures to Email:
[email protected]
...................................................
Interior Design Company looking for professional INTERIOR
DESIGNER with advanced 3D
skills & AutoCAD drafting. Attractive salary package and
benefits. Send you portfolio to:
[email protected]
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nissAn AltiMA, 2012 model
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Contact: 39541177
...................................................
kiA cArniVAl, 2004 model for
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2001-3000CC. Price BD 1,000.
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...................................................
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BD 1,300. Contact: 37737756
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for sale. Engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 1,250. Contact: 33071582
...................................................
JEEp GrAnd chErokEE,
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engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
950. Contact: 34556227
...................................................
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for sale. KM 137000, Engine
Size 2001-3000CC. Price BD
2,500. Contact: 33833390
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citroEn c4, 2006 model for
sale. Engine Size 1000-2000
CC. Price BD 650. Contact:
39144218
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Mitsubishi lAncEr, 2009
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BD 2,500. Contact: 33055827
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Contact: 39977886
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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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MAzdA 3, 2008 model for sale.
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chEVrolEt tAhoE, 2008
model for sale. KM 68400, engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
7,400. Contact: 39912301
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ford focus, 2004 model for
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1000-2000CC. Price BD 950.
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...................................................
Mitsubishi lAncEr, 2009
model for sale. KM 79000, engine Size 1000-2000CC. Price
BD 2,200. Contact: 35004377
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ford focus, 2004 model for
sale. KM 173000, engine Size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,150.
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for sale. KM 96000, engine Size
2001-3000CC. Price BD 7,200.
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model for sale. Engine Size
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nissAn AltiMA, 2008 model
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sale. KM 177000, engine Size
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Urgently Required SECURITY
GUARDS,
MOTORCYCLE
RIDERS, PASTRY, CHEF IN
FOOD DECORATION, CHEF
IN SWEETS, TABLE SERVICES STAFF AND DINING
RESTAURANT SUPERVISOR.
Kindly send CV to hradprt@
gmail.com
...................................................
Apex Properties require PROPERTY MANAGERS. Previous
experience + driving licence
essential. Salary+ commission.
Send CV to info@apexbahrain.
com
...................................................
Looking for a professional well
experienced FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER / VIDEOGRAPHER who is willing to work full
time at my company based in
the Kingdom of Bahrain / Email:
[email protected]
...................................................
Arabic & English speaking ladies (age 22 to 35) required for
promoting a well known FMCG
product on a permanent basis
(1 year contract). Good salary
provided. Please send CV to
[email protected]
...................................................
Required
FLOWER
AND
ROSES DESIGNERS with experience for contact, email: [email protected]
...................................................
Urgently required experienced
PICK-UP DRIVERS with GCC/
Bahrain driving licence. Email:
[email protected]
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SECRETARY. Minimum 4 years
experience in the same role, dependable, efficient in handling
the day-today operations of the
office. Send your CV to [email protected].
...................................................
We require a full time Restaurant ACCOUNTING CLERK.
Candidate should have the following experience and qualifications: Attention to detail; Interpersonal Skills; Analyze daily/
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area/ transfer and inventory
posting. Email CV to: [email protected]
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requires experienced Personnel for QA/ QC, PRODUCTION,
OPERATOR and OTHER POSITIONS. Email CV: [email protected] and [email protected]
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chEVrolEt
trAilblAzEr, 2004 model for sale. KM
170000, engine Size 4000+CC.
Price BD 2,000. Contact:
36039002
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model for sale. KM 33000, engine size 2001-3000CC. Price
BD 8,000. Contact: 34443543
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model for sale, engine size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,200.
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model for sale. Engine Size
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Size 3001-4000CC. Price BD
2,000. Contact: 33150489
...................................................
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for sale. KM 73452, engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 5,299.
Contact: 38808449
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Size 1000-2000CC. Price BD
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5,200. Contact: 33182795
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6,995. Contact: 33355790
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engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
8,900. Contact: 33355790
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for sale. KM 200000, engine
Size 1000-2000CC. Price BD
1,400. Contact: 38181284
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3001-4000CC. Price BD 5,500.
Contact: 35580622
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Reaching the right audience
DINE OUT
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Rodgers
encouraged
by battling
Liverpool
Burnley
iverpool
manager
Brendan
Rodgers
believes his side proved
they have the guts to rescue
their spluttering season after
grinding out a 1-0 win over
Burnley. After a miserable
run which included their exit
from the Champions League,
Rodgers’ side have now lost
once in their last nine games
in all competitions. Their
victory at Turf Moor on
Friday was their first win in
four Premier League games
and the result, secured by a
Raheem Sterling’s well-taken
goal in the 62nd-minute,
lifted Liverpool up to ninth
place. Rodgers believes a topfour finish is still a possibility
and with a home game to
come against Swansea on
Monday ahead of a trip to
bottom club Leicester on
New Year’s Day.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
ALI ISA CHAMPION
National Day Showjumping Championship
DT News Network
ahrain Royal Equestrian
and
Endurance
Federation (BREEF) President
Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid Al
Khalifa crowned Ali Isa as the
Grand Prix winner during the
National Day Showjumping
Championship, the third
competition of the season
held yesterday at the BDF
Equestrian Centre in Sakhir.
Isa (98.21 seconds, three
faults) riding Barilo won the
Grand Prix title over fences
110-125cm in height. Second
place went to Sami Ghazwan
(81.75, 4 faults) on Firooz
with Isa (88.44, 4 faults)
achieving third place riding a
different horse, F-16, followed
by Abbas Al Ghuraifi (90.19,
5 faults) on Champagne in
fourth.
In Juniors Category Level
One with fences 80-90cm
B
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Ali Aldehan who were involved
in technical and physical
abilities involving walking,
running, jogging, cycling and
included preparing meals for
the other participants.
It was aimed at giving
participants skills to help
them prepare for their
future lives and increase
their overall fitness and
develop skills as well as
psychological goals helping
them gain self confidence
away from modern lifestyle
and amenities in a harsher
environment. Activities took
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London
pain striker Fernando
Torres will join AC Milan
permanently from Chelsea
in the New Year, the English
Premier League leaders
said yesterday.
The 30-year-old had joined
Milan on a two-year loan at
the beginning of this season.
He won the Champions
League, the Europa League
and the FA Cup in threeand-a-half years at Stamford
Bridge, but never lived up
to goal-scoring expectations after a £50 million
transfer from Liverpool.
Torres will join Milan permanently on January 5,
Chelsea said.
The deal does not rule out
a return to Atletico in the
upcoming transfer window,
though. S
An action from the race.
high, Hussain Mohammed
Dadallah (35.85) on My Baby
achieved first place, followed
in second place by Ahmed
Isa (38.33) on Lucy, while
Mariella Forward (39.72) on
No Trix came in third place
with fourth place going to
place in the Al Jazayr Beach,
Bahrain Endurance Village
and South Western coastal
regions.
The final day of training
led by Aldehan included an
arduous schedule requiring
the participants to overcome
many barriers and obstacles
in
strength,
endurance
and fitness to attain their
goals. After its conclusion,
participants were honoured
of which general coordinator
of the camp Bader Nasser
for its ideals of the camp to
promote a healthier lifestyle.
Winners with their trophies.
Bella Rushton (48.40) on
Calypso and Aimee Keen
(50.33) on DJ Fleur in fifth.
In Juniors Category Level
Two for fences 90-100cm
in height, first place went
to Ahmed Isa (42.32) on
Osina, followed by Maeoff
Al Rumaihi (32.50, 4 faults)
on Granus in second, Fahad
Hilal Al Khateri (35.90, 4
faults) on Venous third and
Nedhal Abdulnabi (36.69, 4
faults) was fourth.
In the Adults Category Level
One over fences of 80-90cm,
Ali Isa (27.31) claimed first
place on Collin and second
place by Mohammed Jassim
(28.35) on Al Yabis, with third
place going to Muslim Ali
(33.47) on Bart, while Yousif
Janahi (33.64) on BDF Noor
came in fourth.
Classic Gym honours
Ali Al-Qassab team
DT News Network
ceremony was hosted by
Classic Gym on Thursday
to honour Ali Al-Qassab
of Bahrain’s National Body
Building team for winning the
gold medal in the Fourth Asian
Beach Games held last month
in Phuket, Thailand. The
ceremony was held in presence
of Bassem Al-Junaid , member
of the Board of Directors for
the Bahrain Weightlifting
and Bodybuilding Federation
(BWBF) along with several
bodybuilders and supporters to
celebrate his accomplishment.
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Al-Junaid expressed his
happiness to be present at the
ceremony and stressed the
honour was well earned, given
how strong the competition
was and Al-Qassab’s proven
ability which brought credit to
the Kingdom.
Next
season
more
competitions will be organised
by the BWBF headed by its
president Shaikh Abdullah bin
Rashid Al Khalifa, Al-Qassab
won the gold medal in the Asian
Games Flyweight category up
to 162 cm that had taken place
from the November 14-23 to
earn Bahrain a fifth gold medal
at the games.
DT News Network
ahrain’s
national
football team reached
Ballarat City 100kms
north west of Melbourne
the
Victoria
State
capital in Australia for
the second phase of its
training camp following
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completion in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia ahead
of the 16th Asian Football
Confederation
(AFC)
Asian Cup from January
9 to 31. The national
team participating for
a fifth time in the cup
and coached by former
Manchester
anchester
United
manager Louis van Gaal
has bemoaned the lack of time
at his disposal as he attempts to
nurse an injury-plagued squad
through his first Christmas in
English football. United had
just 43 hours between their 3-1
victory over Newcastle United
on Boxing Day and their
Sunday visit to Tottenham
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losing all four matches so
far. But last weekend they
won their first match in two
months with a 23-20 Top 14
success over Toulouse.
Aiming big
Karachi
ce Pakistan spinner Saeed
Ajmal announced he
will not feature in next year’s
World Cup after he failed
to completely correct his
bowling action which led to his
suspension three months ago,
an official said yesterday. The
37-year-old Ajmal appeared
before a Pakistan Cricket
Board (PCB) committee
yesterday before taking the
decision.
Ajmal’s bowling action was
reported during the Galle Test
in Sri Lanka in August. His
action was found illegal on
a bio-mechanic assessment
a month later which led to
his suspension. Under the
Hotspur, which kicked off
at lunchtime. It is a piece of
fixture scheduling that clearly
has not impressed the former
Dutch national team manager.
national player Marjan
Eid who took over as
head coach from former
Iraqi
coach
Adnan
Hamad
last
month
after a disappointing
performance during the
22nd Gulf Cup held in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Asian Cup schedule
Group A: Australia, South Korea, Oman, Kuwait. Group B: Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia,
China, North Korea. Group C: Iran, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain. Group D: Japan, Jordan, Iraq,
Palestine. Bahrain Squad: Sayed Mohammed Jaffar, Waleed Al Hayyam, Abdulwahab
Ali, Abdulla Abdo, Ismael Abdullatif, Hussain Baba (all Muharraq), Hamad Al Dossary,
Rashid Al Hooti, Mohammed Daej, Sayed Deya Saeed, Sayed Ahmed Jaffar, Abdulla Shelal,
Mohammed Al Tayyeb (all Riffa), Abdulla Hazza, Faisal Bu Dahoom, Abdulla Yousif (
all East Riffa), Abdulwahab Al Malood (Al Hidd), Sami Al Hussaini (Busaiteen), Ashraf
Waheed (Manama), Mohammed Hussain (Al Nasr of Saudi Arabia), Fawzi Ayesh (Al Sailiya
of Qatar), Jaycee John (Al-Kharitiyath of Qatar), Abdulla Omar.
Lamoriello to supervise
club
Newark
ew Jersey Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello has
added coach to his titles,
announcing yesterday he will
supervise the club after firing coach Peter DeBoer a day
earlier. Lamoriello said that
he will oversee a National
Hockey League coaching trio.
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in an incident that brought
back memories of the moment
he was knocked out against
Everton 13 months ago.
CARRICK TARGETS TITLE
Manchester
anchester
United
midfielder
Michael
Carrick believes the club
should be aiming for a recordextending 21st English title
rather than settling for a
Champions League spot.
A comfortable 3-1 home
win over Newcastle on Friday
was United’s seventh in
eight matches and left them
ten points behind Premier
League leaders Chelsea with
Manchester neighbours City
seven ahead.
After failing to reach
Europe’s
showpiece
tournament last season
under David Moyes and
then caretaker manager Ryan
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Michael Carrick
Giggs, after the Scot was
sacked, a top four finish is the
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Al-Junaid during ceremony.
Leicester
ottenham
manager
Mauricio Pochettino eased
fears over Hugo Lloris’s fitness
by confirming the France
goalkeeper was unharmed after
a collision with Leicester striker
Jamie Vardy.
Lloris will be fit for the home
match against Manchester
United despite going down
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minimum target for United.
Carrick’s return from an
Ajmal withdraws from World Cup
Bahrain football team in Australia
Participants during a photo call.
Montpellier
ontpellier head coach
Fabien Galthie said
yesterday he does not know
when South African World
Cup winning coach Jake
White will join the struggling
French Top 14 side as
manager.
Montpellier are out of the
European Champions Cup
with two games to spare after
Lloris expected to be fit
Van Gaal irked by festive schedule
Galthie in dark over White arrival
Chelsea confirm Torres
Milan move
Crossing Nature Camp concludes
DT News Network
he three-day Bahrain
Crossing Nature Camp
2014 under the patronage of
Chairman of the Supreme
Council for Youth and Sport
and President of Bahrain
Olympic Committee (BOC)
and held in association with
Nasser bin Hamad Foundation
in the Southern Governorate
concluded yesterday. The camp
involved 110 participants from
Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Egypt
and hosts Bahrain under the
supervision of Kuwaiti coach
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Saeed Ajmal
International Cricket Council
(ICC) rules all bowlers are
allowed to bend their elbow
by 15 degrees beyond which
the action is deemed illegal.
The suspended bowlers
need to remodel their action
after which they undergo
reassessment to get clearance.
Ajmal did remedial work
under former Pakistan
spinner Saqlain Mushtaq
who also advised him
to take some more time.
Mohammad Akram, head
coach at Pakistan’s national
cricket
academy,
said
Ajmal has taken an honest
decision.
Pakistan face another
race against time on allrounder
Mohammad
Hafeez whose action was
also reported last month.
PCB has decided to send
Hafeez to Chennai, India
for unofficial tests before
applying for reassessment
with the ICC. (AFP)
ankle injury at the start of
November sparked United’s
surge of form and the Old
Trafford giants have dropped
just two points since the
England international came
back.
Former manager Alex
Ferguson went as far at to
describe the 33-year-old as
“the best English player in
the game”.
Carrick countered by
saying that new manager
Louis van Gaal is benefiting
from his squad of potent
attacking weapons.
On Boxing Day van Gaal
fielded an enviable attacking
quartet of Wayne Rooney,
Radamel Falcao, Juan Mata
and Robin van Persie.
“That’s four world-class
players you’re talking about
there,” Carrick said.
“Going in to a game with
those lads in your team gives
us a real threat and a lot of
confidence knowing we can
create chances and score
goals. Against Newcastle they
clicked nicely and hopefully in
the weeks coming up we’ll see
something similar.”
Carrick, who played for
Spurs for two years before
signing for United, thinks he
and his team-mates must not
dwell on punishing schedule as
they head to White Hart Lane
just 43 hours after disposing of
Newcastle. (AFP)
Irvine won’t shirk challenge
London
est Bromwich Albion
manager Alan Irvine
says he will meet the challenge
of retaining Premier League
status head-on.
The Baggies have won just
one of their last eight league
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games and are only two points
above the relegation zone ahead
of a tricky trip to the Potteries.
But Scot Irvine claims he has
reasons to be encouraged. His
side built up a 2-0 advantage
with some impressive attacking
play against QPR last weekend
- only to capitulate and lose and individual errors hampered
them in the 3-1 home defeat by
Manchester City.
Scotland
mid
fielder
Graham
Dorrans
could
return for Albion after illness
and a calf strain but striker
Victor Anichebe remains on
the sidelines. Captain Chris
Brunt could come back into
Irvine’s starting line-up after
making his comeback from a
hamstring injury off the bench
against City.
Nadal’s hopes to regain his best form
London
ennis star Rafael
Nadal hopes to be
back to his best form
ahead of the Australian
Open on 19 January. The
Spaniard had a difficult
2014, struggling with
injuries before missing
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the end of the season with
appendicitis. However, the
former world number one
hopes to be back to his best
for the first Grand Slam
of the year in Melbourne.
Nadal’s last tournament
was in October, and he
underwent laparoscopic
surgery in early November.
Since mid-December he has
been back in training, with
new hitting partner Richard
Gasquet.
Nadal said: “As ever
after a period when things
haven’t gone well, you’re a
bit more eager to (prepare)
well, although there is
uncertainty about how
things will go. “I hope to use
December to prepare well.
“I’ll have a month before
things start in Australia,
I hope and believe that’s
enough to get me to my best
level.”
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Marsh out of final Test
Melbourne
ustralia
all-rounder
Mitchell Marsh will miss
next week’s final Test against
India after scans confirmed
problems with his injured
hamstring, team officials said
yesterday. Marsh, 23, suffered
right hamstring trouble on day
one of the second Brisbane
Test and was unable to bowl
in the rest of the match.
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Emperor
holds court
in Welsh
National
Chepstow
rainer Venetia Williams,
one of only two women to
train the winner of the Grand
National, sent out Emperor’s
Choice to win yesterday’s
Welsh National at Chepstow.
The well-backed 9-1 shot
prevailed in a gripping climax
to the gruelling marathon,
claiming
Wales’
most
prestigious race by a mere short
head from Benvolio (11-1). The
33-1 outsider Glenquest took
third, two and a half lengths
back. Williams claimed her
place in racing’s history books
when training Mon Mome to
win the Grand National in 2009.
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Martinez calls for Everton reaction
London
oberto Martinez has
called for a reaction from
Everton after they suffered
back-to-back defeats in the
Premier League. The Toffees
have slipped to 12th in the
table, 11 points off the top
four, following loses to
Southampton last Saturday
and against Stoke on Boxing
Day. Martinezs side have only
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Marsh, who has suffered five
hamstring injuries in the last
two years, was ruled out of the
third Test, but travelled with
the squad to Melbourne.
Varejao undergoes surgery
Cleveland
leveland Cavaliers center
Anderson
Varejao
underwent successful surgery
Friday to repair a ruptured
left Achilles tendon, the club
said, but the Brazilian star is
not expected to return this
season.
Brian Donley performed
the procedure following
an injury that took place
WARNOCK SACKED
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Neil Warnock
Warnock’s dismissal comes
less than 24 hours after Friday’s
3-1 loss to Southampton,
leaving the London club with
just one win in their last 12
league matches.
This latest below par
performance pushed the team
which had shocked Liverpool
last month into the relegation
zone. The Palace board will
be keen to make a swift
appointment given the transfer
window is days away from
reopening.
Former Tottenham manager
Tim Sherwood and Tony
Popovic are already standout
candidates to replace Warnock,
with the latter having last
Rain dampens S.Africa’s chances
Port Elizabeth
af du Plessis completed his
fourth Test century and
was dismissed immediately
afterwards on a rain-hit
second day of the second Test
between South Africa and the
West Indies at St George’s
Park yesterday. Only half an
hour’s play was possible in
Port Elizabeth, during which
six overs were bowled and
South Africa moved from their
overnight 270 for two to 289
for three.
With more rain predicted
for today, Du Plessis admitted
it might be difficult for South
Africa to force a seriesclinching win to follow their
victory by an innings and
F
James, Love lead
Cavaliers over Magic
Orlando
eBron James scored 29
points, while Kevin Love
added 22 as the Cleveland
Cavaliers ripped Orlando
98-89 Friday.
James scored 15 points in
the fourth quarter. Love sat
out the entire final period as Cleveland snapped
a three-game road losing
streak.
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Tuesday, when Varejao
collapsed while going for a
rebound in the third quarter
of Cleveland’s 125-104 victory
over Minnesota.
Replaced by Keith Millen
London
eil Warnock yesterday
became the first Premier
League manager to lose his job
this season when he was sacked
by strugglers Crystal Palace.
“Crystal Palace Football
Club can today confirm
that Neil Warnock has been
relieved of his duties and is no
longer first-team manager,” a
statement on the club’s official
website announced.
The 66-year-old will be
replaced by Keith Millen who
takes over in a “caretaker
role” for today’s game against
Queens Park Rangers.
220 runs in the first Test in
Centurion. Du Plessis, on
99 overnight, flicked Jerome
Taylor’s first ball of the day for
four runs to raise his century
off 229 balls.
He hit 13 fours and two sixes.
But he was out to the next ball,
a perfect outswinger which
found such a faint edge that
umpire Paul Reiffel remained
unmoved as wicketkeeper
Denesh Ramdin and the bowler
celebrated.
The West Indians sought a
review and Reiffel was forced
to change his decision when
‘Snicko’ revealed the tiniest of
scratches off the bat. It was
the first wicket of the series for
Taylor. AB de Villiers joined
captain Hashim Amla and hit
two handsome drives for four
off Jason Holder. He was on
nine not out and Amla was
unbeaten on 23. (AFP)
SCOREBOARD
South Africa, first innings
(Overnight 270-2)
A. Petersen c Johnson b
Gabriel 17, D. Elgar c Ramdin
b Peters 121, F. du Plessis c
Ramdin b Taylor 103, H. Amla
not out 23, A. de Villiers not
out 9
Extras (lb4,nb7, w5) 16
Total (3wkts,94 overs) 289
Fall of wickets: 1-47
(Petersen), 2-226 (Elgar),
3-274 (Du Plessis)
South Africa’s Faf du Plessis (Left) celebrates reaching a century
(100 runs)
Bowling: Taylor 22-4-74- Gabriel 15-0-52-1 (3nb), Benn
1 (2nb, 1w), Peters 15-6-44- 25-3-81-0 (1nb), Samuels 1-11, Holder 16-5-34-0 (1nb), 0-0
Wenger facing up to Giroud blow
London
rsene Wenger admits
losing Oliver Giroud
once again is a body blow to
Arsenal’s Champions League
push. Giroud is facing three
games out after his red card
in the 2-1 Boxing Day win
against QPR. The Frenchman
was sent off for a headbutt on
Nedum Onuoha and his lack
of discipline will see him first
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sit out today’s London derby
at West Ham.
Having made a major
impact since his return from
ankle surgery that sidelined
him for three months,
Giroud’s absence is the last
thing the Arsenal manager
needs at this pivotal stage
of the season. “Olivier
touched him (Onuoha) and
he should not have done
it,” said Wenger. Wenger
might have celebrated his
400th Premier League win
in charge of Arsenal but he
won’t be raising a glass to
Giroud. The striker’s physicality
will be missed at Upton Park,
especially with the aerial
bombardment West Ham
put teams under with Andy
Carroll in their ranks. Much
will rest on the shoulders of
Alexis Sanchez, who scored
and then created Tomas
Rosicky’s goal in another
man-of-the-match showing.
Despite the win, Arsenal are
still 15 points behind leaders
Chelsea and Wenger added:
“We find ourselves detached
from the teams above us at
the moment, with a bit of
ground to make up. (AFP)
McIlroy reminded of ‘Sweet Caroline’’
London
orld number one Rory
McIlroy saw the funny
side when a crowd at a rugby
match sang along to ‘Sweet
Caroline’, a teasing reference
to his ex fiancee Caroline
Wozniacki. The Northern Irish
golf star was being interviewed
by the BBC at half-time of the
Ulster-Connacht game when
Neil Diamond’s hit single was
W
C
won one of their last six league
games and struggled to create
much going forward in what
was a physical encounter with
the Potters.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
month led Western Sydney
Wanderers to the Asian
Champions League.
The former Australia
international has strong ties
with the Eagles, having played
for the club for five seasons
before returning in 2011 as
part of Dougie Freedman’s
backroom set-up.
Sherwood is again in the
running for a job he ruled
himself out of in August,
with the ex-Spurs head coach
saying he would have wanted
to succeed Pulis had he been
offered the position after his
interview. (AFP)
Toure close to fourth
straight award
Johannesburg
vory Coast midfielder Yaya
Toure moved closer to a
record fourth consecutive
African Footballer of the
Year title on Friday when he
was included in a three-man
shortlist.
Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang and Nigeria
goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama
are the other contenders
for the most prestigious
African football individual
award.
Toure plays for reigning
English Premier League
champions
Manchester
City, Aubameyang for
German club Borussia
Dortmund and Enyeama for
French outfit Lille. The
votes of the 56 national
coaches in Africa decide
the winner, who will be
announced on January 8 in
Lagos.
Cameroon striker Samuel
Eto’o has won the award
four times, but only three
of his successes came in
consecutive years.
The Africa-based Footballer
of the Year award rests
between Entente Setif of
Algeria team-mates El-Hedi
Belameiri and Akram Djahnit
and Firmin Mubele from
Democratic Republic of
Congo side V Club.
I
Rockets outlast Grizzlies
Aguirre denies allegations
Tokyo
apan
coach
Javier
Aguirre yesterday denied
allegations that he was part
of a match-fixing scandal that
has rocked world football.
Prosecutors in Spain allege
that Aguirre, 56, and 40 others
were involved in rigging a
league match that saw Real
Zaragoza defeat Levante
2-1 to avoid relegation. The
J
cheekily played over the public
address system. Fans of the
Ulster club McIlroy supports
so passionately started to join
in, while McIlroy’s face creased
into a broad smile.
Memphis
James Harden scored 32
points and Josh Smith came
off the bench to contribute
21 in his Houston debut as
the Rockets beat Memphis
117-111 in overtime Friday.
Harden and Dwight Howard
each scored four points in
the extra five-minute period
as the Rockets improved to
21-7 to grab the Southwest
division lead from the
Grizzlies, who fell to 21-8.
Harden also passed out 10
assists and grabbed eight
rebounds for the Rockets,
who signed Smith hours
earlier after the forward
had been dropped Monday
by Detroit. Smith played
32 minutes and hit 9-of-21
shots from the field as well
as grabbing eight rebounds.
(AFP)
former Mexico coach is due
to appear in a Valencia court
in February following a probe
into the allegations dating
back to 2011, when he was
manager of Real Zaragoza. LANKA FIGHTS BACK
Christchurch
ew Zealand had the scent
of victory after only the
second day of the first Test
against Sri Lanka yesterday
after a scintillating bowling
spell forced the tourists to
follow on 303 runs in arrears.
After New Zealand posted
441 in their first innings at
Hagley Oval in Christchurch,
a four-pronged pace attack led
by Trent Boult dismissed Sri
Lanka for 138 inside 43 overs.
Sri Lanka made a more solid
start to their second innings,
reaching 84 without loss at
stumps, but with three days
remaining they were still 219
runs in arrears and Boult
believed the signs were good
for New Zealand. He described
the pitch as “inconsistent” with
the amount of assistance it gave
but said if the New Zealand
bowlers kept the pressure on
“then I think we’re going to
be successful”. New Zealand
had resumed the second day at
429-7 and lost their last three
wickets for a cheap 12 runs in
Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karaunaratne plays a shot.
32 balls as their innings folded
for 441.
The quick end signalled that
the bowlers had found how
to exploit the green-tinged
surface and 13 wickets fell in
two sessions after the batsmen
led by New Zealand skipper
Brendon McCullum’s 195 had
dominated the first day. In
a pre-lunch onslaught Boult
ripped through Sri Lanka’s top
W
order starting with the removal
of Dimuth Karunaratne for
nought with his fourth delivery
to bring up his 100th Test
dismissal. (AFP)
SCOREBOARD
New Zealand 1st innings
(overnight 429-7):
T. Latham c Kaushal b Eranga
27, H. Rutherford b Lakmal
Australian yacht Wild Oats XI sails in the Sydney to Hobart yacht
race
gruelling 628 nautical mile
endurance test with hull
damage.
The retirement whittles the
117-strong starting fleet down
to 109. Perpetual Loyal, one
of five 100-foot supermaxis
in the race, is the most highprofile retirement so far, with
seven other smaller boats
suffering broken rudders, sail
or hull damage in the tough
opening night. Brindabella, a
former line honours winner,
was among them, pulling out
after she started taking on
excess water due to damage to
her rudder bearings.
(AFP)
18, K. Williamson b Prasad
54, R. Taylor run out (Silva)
7, B. McCullum c Karunaratne
b Kaushal 195, J. Neesham c
Sangakkara b Mathews 85, BJ
Watling lbw Mathews 26, M.
Craig not out 12, T. Southee
c Thirimanne b Mathews 0, N.
Wagner c Kaushal b Lakmal
4, T. Boult c Jayawardene b
Lakmal 0
Total (all out, 85.5 overs) 441
Fall of wickets: 1-37
(Rutherford),
2-60
(Latham), 3-88 (Taylor),
4-214 (Williamson), 5-367
(McCullum), 6-420 (Neesham),
7-429
(Watling),
8-431
(Southee), 9-440 (Wagner),
10-441 (Boult)
Bowling: Lakmal 19.5-3-903 (2nb), Eranga 18-1-82-1,
Mathews 12-2-39-3, Prasad
12-2-62-1 (2w), Kaushal 22-0159-1 (5nb), Thirimanne 2-05-0
Sri Lanka 1st innings
D. Karunaratne lbw Boult
0, K. Silva lbw Boult 4, K.
Sangakkara c Southee b
Boult 6, L. Thirimanne c Craig
b Southee 24, A. Mathews
Toulon seek revenge
against Stade
Paris
French champions Toulon
do not take defeat lightly
especially when it comes at
home and today they will
seek to avenge their sole
Top 14 home loss this season
against Stade Francais.
Stade, though, will not surrender their tag as the only
side yet to be beaten at home
this term lightly against the
leaders, whose head coach
Bernard Laporte was the
architect of the hosts’ rise
from obscurity in the 1990’s.
Hibs on a high; Rangers hopes dashed
Edinburgh
ibernian secured their
biggest victory over
Rangers since 1912 as a
turbulent week for the Glasgow
giants ended in a 4-0 thrashing
H
The Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB) said Moin had to step
aside as he also held the post of
chief selector and such a dual
role was not allowed.
Sri Lanka in fight to survive against New Zealand
Wild Oats XI leads Sydney to Hobart
Sydney
ild Oats XI was leading
the Sydney to Hobart
fleet down Australia’s east
coast yesterday ahead of
rival Comanche, with fellow
supermaxi Perpetual Loyal
out of the race. The Cruising
Yacht Club of Australia said
after 24 hours of racing,
record- holder Wild Oats
XI was ahead of the 100foot American newcomer
Comanche, while Perpetual
Loyal had retired from the
Lahore
akistan yesterday appointed
retired top military officer
Naveed Cheema as manager
for next year’s cricket World
Cup, replacing former captain
Moin Khan. Sixty-year-old
Cheema, a retired brigadier
who also held the manager’s
post from 2011 to 2013, is
currently serving as chief
secretary of Punjab province.
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James Harden
Pakistan replace Moin
yesterday. In a week where
manager Ally McCoist was
placed on gardening leave and
serious concerns were raised
about the running of the club
at a stormy AGM, it was hoped
the focus would revert back
to the Ibrox club’s challenge
for the Scottish Championship
title at Easter Road.
However,
caretaker
manager Kenny McDowall’s
reign as Rangers boss got off to
a disastrous start when David
Gray fired home a superb
eighth minute opener followed
four minutes later by a Jason
Cummings strike. There
was to be no second half
comeback for Rangers with
Scott Robertson and Liam
Craig compounding their
misery as Hibernian ran riot.
(AFP)
c Latham b Wagner 50, N.
Dickwella c McCullum b
Southee 2, P. Jayawardene c
Williamson b Wagner 10, D.
Prasad c McCullum b Neesham
18, T. Kaushal c Williamson
b Wagner 6, S. Eranga not
out 10, Suranda Lakmal c
McCullum b Neesham 2
Total (all out, 42.4 overs) 138
Fall of wickets: 1-0
(Karunaratne), 2-8 (Silva),
3-15 (Sangakkara), 4-58
(Thirimanne), 5-60 (Dickwella),
6-88 (Jayawardene), 7-105
(Mathews), 8-118 (Kaushal),
9-128
(Prasad),
10-138
(Lakmal)
Bowling: Boult 11-4-253 (1w), Southee 12-4-17-2,
Neesham 6.4-1-28-2 (1w),
Wagner 11-0-60-3 (1nb), Craig
2-0-5-0
Sri Lanka 2nd innings
D. Karunaratne not out 49, K.
Silva not out 33
Total (0 wickets, 35 overs) 84
Bowling: Boult 7-2-16-0,
Southee 7-2-11-0, Wagner
11-1-37-0 (1nb), Craig 7-212-0, Neesham 2-1-4-0,
McCullum 1-0-3-0
O’Connor
leaves
Toulon
Toulon
ustralia
back
James
O’Connor says he leaves
Toulon after Sunday’s Top 14
clash against Stade Francais
after “a great six months” with
the French champions. The
24-year-old is heading home to
join Queensland Reds in a bid
to boost his chances of being
selected for the Wallabies’ 2015
World Cup squad.
O’Connor was dropped by
Australia in September 2013
in the wake of an incident at
Perth airport that reportedly saw
him escorted from the premises
for arguing with airline staff.
Australia coach Ewen McKenzie
declared that O’Connor would
have to “modify (his) behaviour”
if he wanted to resurrect his
international career.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
INDIA SMITHERS
Steve Smith fireworks leave India reeling in 3rd Test
Melbourne
TEVE SMITH put Australia in command of the third
Test with a memorable innings
to leave India with a massive
task to stay alive in the BorderGavaskar Trophy series in Melbourne yesterday.
Smith blasted an imperious
192 off 305 balls with 15 fours
and two sixes to spearhead
Australia to a formidable 530
and then took a diving catch to
have the tourists at 108 for one at
the close on the second day and
trailing by 422 runs.
India’s first task was to avoid
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the follow-on target of 331 while
the Australians, leading the fourmatch series 2-0, will be pressing
for victory over the final three
days.
Murali Vijay passed fifty for
the fourth time in the series
and was unbeaten on 55 with
Cheteshwar Pujara not out
25 after Smith swooped to take
a catch low off the ground at
second slip to dismiss Shikhar
Dhawan for 28 off Ryan Harris.
It could have been better for
Australia but wicketkeeper Brad
Haddin dropped Pujara on 12 off
the bowling of Josh Hazlewood.
Smith dominated day two and
it was his third century of the
series, his fifth for the year and
was replete with all his quirky
shotmakin.
“I feel pretty good at the
crease. Everything is working
for me at the moment which is
nice...we’ve got 530 runs on the
board and that’s a very good
first innings total ,” Smith said.
Smith also bettered his
previous highest score of 162
not out in the first Adelaide Test
by dancing down the wicket to
plonk spinner Ravi Ashwin high
into the stands with a mighty six.
As a double century beckoned
for Smith, Dhoni placed all
his fielders close to the ropes
in damage limitation but in the
end the Aussie skipper threw
away his wicket going for a big
heave off Umesh Yadav only to
be bowled. (AFP)
SCOREBOARD
Australia 1st innings
(overnight 259 for 5)
C. Rogers c Dhoni b Shami 57,
D. Warner c Dhawan b
Yadav 0, S. Watson lbw
b Ashwin 52, S. Smith b
Yadav 192, S. Marsh c Dhoni
b Shami 32, J. Burns c Dhoni
b Yadav 13, B. Haddin c
Dhoni b Shami 55, M.
Johnson stp Dhoni b Ashwin
28, R. Harris lbw b Ashwin
74, N. Lyon b Shami 11, J.
Hazlewood not out 0
Total
(all
out,
142.3 overs) 530 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Warner),
2-115 (Rogers), 3-115
(Watson), 4-184 (Marsh), 5-216
(Burns), 6-326 (Haddin), 7-376
(Johnson), 8-482 (Harris),
9-530 (Lyon), 10-530 (Smith) Bowling: I. Sharma 32-7-104-
Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara (left) watches as Australian fieldsmen Joe Burns
0 (5nb), Yadav 32.3-3-1303, Shami 29-4-138-4 (1w),
Ashwin 44-9-134-3, Vijay 5-014-0
India 1st innings
M. Vijay not out 55, S.
Dhawan c Smith b Harris 28,
C. Pujara not out 25,
Total (1 wicket; 37
overs) 108 Fall of wickets: 1-55
(Dhawan)
Bowling: Johnson 9-3-24-0,
Harris 7-3-19-1, Hazlewood 9-419-0, Watson 4-0-14-0, Lyon
8-0-32-0
(centre) juggle the ball as wicketkeeper Brad Haddin (right) looks on
Steve Smith acknowledges the crowd
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