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Judwaa 2 the main theme of the fi lm with a revenge drama, where Rajiv DIRECTION: David Dhawan Malhotra the father of the twins, gets Charles a smuggler CAST: Varun Dhavan, Tapsee, Jacqueline Fernandez arrested. He is imprisoned for 22 years, but before going to jail, SYNOPSIS: Prem and Raja are twin brothers who are Charles swears to return and take revenge. Comedy usually separated at birth but are uniquely connected to each other via twists the norm and sprinkles it with irony, but here, there is Emergency 999 their refl exes. They reunite as adults and set out to take down no irony – just twisting. Worldwide Emergency Number 112 the underground smuggling world. David Dhawan soft-pedals THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza, The Mall Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Open Water 3: Cage Dive waters, turning their recording into life gather and darkness descends, the Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 DIRECTION: Gerald Rascionato and death. In this intense thriller, three three friends fi nd themselves alone and Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 CAST: Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff , friends from California head to the defenceless, afl oat in the chilly ocean as Qatar Airways 40253374 Megan Peta Hill rugged Australian coast for a cage-dive hungry man-eaters begin to circle. With SYNOPSIS: Three friends fi lming encounter with deadly Great Whites. little hope of rescue, they must fi ght to an audition tape for an extreme reality But after attracting a swarm of vicious survive using only their courage. show, take part in shark cage diving, sharks, their tour boat is destroyed THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza, only to be left in great white-infested by a massive rogue wave. As clouds The Mall ote Unquo Qu te The Mall Cinema (1): Spyder Abdul (2D) 9:30pm; Spyder (Tamil) Happiness (Telugu) 2:30pm; Judwaa 2 (Hindi) 11:30pm. 5pm; Flatliners (2D) 7:30pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): is not something ready Flatliners (2D) 9:30; Spyder (Tamil) Spyder (Telugu) 2:30pm; Spyder 11:30pm. Dive (2D) 9:45pm; Judwaa 2 (Hindi) (Telugu) 5pm; Home Again (2D) made. It comes from The Mall Cinema (2): The Son Of 11:15pm. 7:30pm; Flatliners (2D) 9:15pm; your own actions. Bigfoot (2D) 2:30pm; The Son Of Landmark Cinema (2): The Son Judwaa 2 (Hindi) 11:15pm. Bigfoot (2D) 4:15pm; The Son Of Of Bigfoot (2D) 2:15pm; The Son Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Bigfoot (2D) 6pm; Loving In Tandem Of Bigfoot (2D) 4pm; The Son Of The Lego: Ninjago (2D) 2:15pm; The – Dalai Lama (Tagalog) 7:45pm; Mark Felt (2D) Bigfoot (2D) 5:45pm; The Son Of Lego: Ninjago (2D) 4:15pm; Loving 9:45pm; Mark Felt (2D) 11:30pm. Bigfoot (2D) 7:30pm; Mark Felt (2D) In Tandem (Tagalog) 6:15pm; Mark The Mall Cinema (3): Hara Hara 9:30pm; Flatliners (2D) 11:30pm. Felt (2D) 8:15pm; Open Water 3 Cage Mahadevaki (Tamil) 2pm; Home Landmark Cinema (3): Spyder Dive (2D) 10:15pm; Countdown (2D) Again (2D) 4:30pm; Ya Thadi Ya (Telugu) 2:30pm; The Lego: Ninjago 11:45pm. Taadi (Arabic) 6:15pm; Open Water (2D) 5pm; Spyder (Telugu) 7pm; Asian Town Cinema: Spyder Community Editor 3 Cage Dive (2D) 8pm; Victoria Victoria And Abdul (2D) 9:30pm; (Telugu) 5:30 & 8:15; Judwaa And Abdul (2D) 9:30pm; Judwaa 2 Spyder (Telugu) 11:30pm. 2 (Hindi) 5:30 & 11pm; Spyder Kamran Rehmat (Hindi) 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): (Tamil) 6:30, 9:15pm & 12am; Hara e-mail: [email protected] Landmark Cinema (1): Karuppan The Son Of Bigfoot (2D) 2:15pm; Hara Mahadevaki (Tamil) 8:15pm; Telephone: 44466405 (Tamil) 3pm; Loving In Tandem The Son Of Bigfoot (2D) 4pm; Karuppan (Tamil) 6:30pm & 12am; Fax: 44350474 (Tagalog) 6pm; Ya Thadi Ya Taadi The Son Of Bigfoot (2D) 5:45pm; Njandu – Kaludu (Malayalam) (Arabic) 8pm; Open Water 3 Cage Flatliners (2D) 7:30pm; Victoria And 9:15pm. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

EVENTS Immerse Yourself into the Qatari get children from disadvantaged families Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans Culture back into the educational system. The WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art UNESCO protection of natural WHERE: Jasra Hotel Souq Waqif striking images bring to life the hopeful WHEN: Until November 4 heritage: Al Reem and beyond WHEN: Oct 6 spirit of these young girls that show This exhibition focuses on the exchange WHEN: Today TIME: 5pm- 7pm a new perspective and dimension to of artistic and material cultures between WHERE: Doha English Speaking School, Ever wondered why Qataris are in black skateboarding culture – one that shows the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. Madinat Khalifa South and white? Are you confused about how strength in the face of adversity. Highlighting MIA’s masterpiece carpets, TIME: 7pm to greet Qataris appropriately? Or perhaps among other artworks, from Turkey, Iran and The Qatar you want to make friends with locals? Effective Presentation And Public India, these objects will be contextualised Natural History Join Embrace Doha’s Majlis and immerse Speaking within the historical circumstances of politics Group is yourself into the Qatari culture! Delivered WHERE: HBKU Student Center, Doha and artistic production of their time, primarily launching its by Amal al-Shammari, a Qatari herself with WHEN: Until Oct 17 from the 16th to the 18th centuries. new season with a passion for culture, the session will give TIME: 5pm a presentation you insight into the Qatari customs, values, A community course that helps attendees Train like a superhero by Dr Anna and traditions accompanied by a delicious learn valuable skills required for success in WHERE: Aspire Zone Paolini, Unesco Qatari traditional buffet. a challenging business environment. The WHEN: Ongoing Representative course teaches attendees how to present Kids Classes Now Open! Train like a in the Arab effectively, appropriately and clearly in all superhero at CrossFit Doha! CrossFit holds States of the situations at work. a variety of disciplines from weightlifting to Gulf and Yemen calisthenics to gymnastics. This will help your and Director Public Speaking Classes kids excel in sports & retain the healthy & fi t Unesco Doha WHERE: Sharq Capital lifestyle! Support your kids’ natural urge for Office since WHEN: Oct 18 physical activities & train like a superhero, at September 2013. Time: 6:30pm – 9pm CrossFit Doha’s in demand Kids Classes today! The presentation Do you find it difficult to give a good CrossFit Doha is located at Aspire Zone Sports will highlight the work that UNESCO presentation? Are you afraid to speak City. For more information, call 44138484. is doing in the field of protection of in public? Get trained by experts to be a natural heritage in relation to the new UN good speaker! Smedley Toastmasters is Breakdance Classes Sustainable Development Goal Agenda. conducting a six-session speech-craft WHEN: Sun-Wed The talk will present the Natural World programme that teaches new members Breakdancing is part of the Hip Hop culture Heritage programme and the Man and the to speak confidently. The sessions will that originated in New York and has since Biosphere (MAB) programme, which are include topics such as improving voice spread all over the world. Breakdancing is an important initiatives of the organisation. In quality, using effective body language and athletic and acrobatic style of dancing, which Qatar, the Al Reem reserve is preserved and gestures and sharpening writing skills can often appear to defy the laws of physics. valued under MAB definition and the WH using rhetorical devices and vivid imagery. This extreme dance-sport uses tremendous site of Zubara is part of it. Nevertheless, For more information, call Lesiley at 6605 upper-body strength for tricks and poses and many challenges are still present in the DFI Presents Practical Labs 3485, Lynn at 3396 2047 or visit www. a great way to get into shape and have fun. management of the reserve and there is WHERE: Katara smedleytoastmasters.org Register now by calling 33003839 or e-mail a need for more engagement from the WHEN: Until Oct 6 [email protected] private-public sector to highlight its values. TIME: 8:30am In collaboration with the Filmakademie Reggae Beachfest Doha World Teachers’ Day at TNG Baden-Wurttemberg and as part of Qatar- WHEN: Thursdays and Fridays WHEN: Tomorrow Germany 2017 Year of Culture, the Doha WHERE: Oyster Beach Bar at St. Regis WHERE: TNG Al Wakrah campus Film Institute is delighted to host a series Hotel The Next Generation school is celebrating of Practical Labs in September and October TIME: 8pm onwards the World Teachers’ Day 2017 in full swing 2017. During these seminars, participants In collaboration with Reggae Beachfest in on Friday at its Al Wakrah campus. Students will improve their skills in working with Dubai, Qatar will witness the best rasta nights from the fi ve campuses will be showcasing light creatively, using and experimenting around. The organisers say, “We’ve got the diff erent elements to pay their tribute to with grip equipment, acquiring the skills of setup sorted to get you feeling the Caribbean teachers on this occasion. Participating for a film editor, as well as learning advanced vibe. Along with our resident band Earthkry the fi rst time, TNG school in Al Dayeen which cinematography techniques. Evolution Sports Qatar all the way from Jamaica, we have so many has been inaugurated this year, will have its WHERE: Evolution Sports big names in the Reggae scene lined up at students present a tribute to their teachers WHEN: Ongoing this huge beachfest!” Entrance fee is QR50 at this platform. The theme selected this Evolution Sports will mark its at the door. For more information, please call year by UNESCO is “Teaching in Freedom, anniversary by hosting a number of exciting 44460105. Empowering Teachers”. A seminar has also events throughout 2017 as well as some been organised. amazing promotions, ten years on from Dance & Fitness Classes when the club was formed on Sepember WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier, Villa 57, Katara: Oil Painting Workshop 1, 2007. The club has been working with Bin Omran WHERE: Katara Cultural Village a panel of coaches and directors to plan WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ends Tomorrow the events which will be announced over Atelier is the newest music and arts school TIME: 5pm the coming months. Members should look in Doha that off ers dance and fitness classes Cultural Village Foundation - Katara forward to a variety of different occasions, for kids to adults such as ballet, hiphop, salsa, presents “Oil Painting Workshop by Qatari suitable for all ages so the whole family can tango, and other Latin dances, Zumba, Tae Artist Ali Dasmal al-Kuwari”. The workshop Art Attack – Silk Art Painting get involved in the birthday celebrations. Kwon Do, Yoga, kickboxing. takes place from 5pm to 9pm at Katara Art Workshop To kick-off things off, Evolution Sports Contact at [email protected] or Studio – 19B. When: Oct 10 recently launched their 10-year anniversary 33003839. Discover the art in you and bond with logo. The emblem has been designed by American Education Event in Doha the family with silk art painting! Open to Toyan Greaves, the man behind the original Reggae Nights every Sunday WHEN: Today all from ages 16 and up. The fee of QR250 Evolution Sports logo and will be used on WHERE: Sheraton Grand Doha WHERE: Sheraton Grand Doha Resort includes all the materials for the workshop. all documentation, both online and offline WHEN: Every Sunday and Convention Hotel For inquiries, call 3300-3839 or register on for the next 12 months. TIME: 9pm TIME: 6-9pm [email protected] Spend your summer nights with some good Studentlane’s American Education Expo Qatar World Superbike “irie” reggae music every Sunday. Doors open promises to be the best place to find the Skate Girls of Kabul Exhibition Championship 2017 at 9pm at The Irish Harp. Entrance Fees is perfect college or university for you. At WHERE: Katara WHERE: Losail Circuit, Losail, Doha QR50 for gents. Ladies enter free. For further the event, you will get the chance to speak WHEN: Until Oct 20 WHEN: Nov 2- 4 information, please call 44853000 or e-mail at face-to-face with admissions officers Award winning photographer Jessica TIME: 4pm-5pm [email protected] from some of the top 20 US colleges and Fulford-Dobson will present her critically- The Losail International Circuit once universities and get the answers you need acclaimed series of portraits, Skate Girls again will host the final round of the Salsa Beginners Dance Class about the admission process, tuition fees of Kabul in her first show in the Middle WorldSBK, the Qatar Round. As previous WHERE: B Attitude Spa, West Bay and scholarship opportunities. The expo East. Presented by Qatar Museums, the years, the event will be held at night WHEN: Every Friday is free of charge for students interested exhibition will be at the QM Gallery Katara. under the floodlight system of the circuit Salsa n Candela off ers a variety of dance in undergraduate, graduate, and English The portraits tell the extraordinary story and the MOTUL FIM Superbike World classes for adults at Beverly Hills Tower West programmes. Parents are also encouraged to of Afghan girls who took up skateboarding, Championship is sure to be an exciting and Bay B Attitude Spa, such as Salsa every Friday come and meet the college representatives thanks to Skateistan, an Afghan charity unpredictable last round. This year the and other Latin dance during other days of the and you only need one ticket per family. that provides skate parks as a hook to event will be from Thursday to Saturday. week.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Mars musings Nasa’s rover Curiosity has revealed environments that would have been potentially habitable for Earth-like life, writes Amina Khan

FIND: Sediments in Gale Crater, above, and other parts of Mars suggest that a change in the planet's tilt led to the explosive eruption of methane, triggering large-scale warming on the Red Planet.

n a drying time, Mars for Earth-like life. known as the Amazonian period, example, volcanism and impacts may have been kept warm Keep in mind, however, that during which Mars solidified its can produce episodes of climate enough for liquid water to Mars’ wettest period was likely reputation as the cold, dry planet warming, but not of sufficiently remain stable on the surface the first billion years of its 4.6 we see today. long duration.” thanks to explosive bursts of billion-year life, the Noachian So here’s the thing that’s Now, lead author Edwin Kite, a Imethane gas, a new study finds. period, when it had a thicker puzzled planetary scientists: planetary scientist the University of The simulations, described in atmosphere that would have been Gale Crater’s rocks bear evidence Chicago, and his colleagues say that the journal Nature Geoscience, better able to keep liquid water of liquid water on Mars during after running climate models they’ve could explain how Mars managed stable on the planet’s surface. the Hesperian period, including come up with an explanation: to sustain a series of lakes in a “Although the climate was lakes (perhaps protected by a explosive bursts of methane. climate that at first glance seems relatively cold compared to Earth, layer of surface ice) and deltas. Here’s how it works. The too cold and arid to have done so. there is evidence that liquid water But that means these lakes and Red Planet’s obliquity, or tilt Since landing on the Red Planet flowed in streams and rivers, deltas persisted during a period on its axis, can vary far more in August 2012, Nasa’s rover formed alluvial fans and deltas, that was markedly drier, with a dramatically than Earth’s does. Curiosity has discovered that and ponded in big lakes and year Hesperian period, when the thinner atmosphere less capable The researchers think that 96-mile-wide Gale Crater held a possibly seas,” Alberto Fairen of Red Planet began to transform of sustaining liquid water. How do occasional dramatic shifts in series of lakes around 3.5 billion the Centro de Astrobiologia in from a cold, wet world to a these two facts square up? that tilt (perhaps around 10 to years ago. The rocks it has drilled Spain and Cornell University, who cold, icy one, as the protective “Previous hypotheses have 20 degrees) would have exposed and X-rayed and lasered have also was not involved in the paper, atmosphere thinned and the struggled to explain lake-forming ice-covered parts of the Martian revealed environments that would wrote in a commentary. planet’s interior cooled. The climates that are both rare and surface to the sun, causing that have been potentially habitable Then came the 600 million- next 3 billion years until now are long-lasting,” Fairen wrote. “For cover to shrink fairly quickly. The Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

“Although the climate was relatively cold compared to Earth, there is evidence that liquid water flowed in streams and rivers, formed alluvial fans and deltas, and ponded in big lakes and possibly seas” — Alberto Fairen, research scientist ice’s retreat would have exposed signifi cant amount of warming, What does this mean for the young (less than 3.6 billion years diverse astronomical, geochemical clathrates filled with pockets of the thinking goes. Now, eventually, possibility that life could have ago) features modelled in our and geological factors,” Fairen methane, allowing the methane to methane gets broken down by emerged on Mars? Kite was quick paper,” Kite wrote in an e-mail. wrote. “Although it seems burst out of the ground and into sunlight. But in the meantime, to point out that if any microbes Regardless, the study reveals an unlikely that a single mechanism the atmosphere. Kite and his colleagues found that ever lived on the Red Planet, they increasingly complex portrait of a can explain not only the presence Methane is a powerful it could lead to warming lasting would likely have done so during planet in transition, scientists said. of liquid water, but its recurrence greenhouse gas — about 25 times hundreds of thousands of years its earliest days, when water was “The methane burst scenario and persistence, the methane as powerful as carbon dioxide. — long enough to explain the far more abundant. proposed by Kite et al. contributes burst hypothesis provides a means So if enough of it were to emerge extended presence of liquid water “If life ever established itself on to an emerging view that the to episodically tip the Hesperian from the ground at the same during this otherwise dry time in Mars, then it would have probably existence of liquid water on early climate over the edge.” — Los time, it could actually result in a Martian history, scientists say. done so before the relatively Mars arose from a combination of Angeles Times/TNS Elon Musk updates Mars plan and unveils aspirations to reach moon He said SpaceX realised that if it built paying off the rocket system’s development By Samantha Masunaga a system that “cannibalises” its current costs. products and makes them redundant, it then Musk estimated last year that the could stockpile Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy development cost for the Mars system would lon Musk thinks he’s fi gured out a rockets and Dragon spacecraft for customers be about $10 billion. way to pay the billions of dollars who might be more comfortable with the While the updated plan is still “very in development costs for his Mars tried-and-true methods. Then, SpaceX ambitious,” Ostrove said it was more colonisation plans: Shrink the size could use its resources to develop BFR. practical than the one announced last year. of the rockets and spaceships so Musk said the company is beginning to “There’s a lot more focus on the actual Ethey can pull double duty on missions closer seriously develop the system and hopes to rocket,” he said. “That makes sense because to home. fl y its fi rst cargo mission to Mars in 2022, that’s where SpaceX’s core competencies In a speech last week at the International with a combined cargo and crew mission are.” Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, set for 2024. He said construction on the Musk also suggested an even more Australia, the SpaceX chief executive showed fi rst spaceship will begin in about six to nine terrestrial use of BFR: long-distance off new specs for the rocket and spaceship months. transportation from one city to another. system known for now as BFR, a reference to Bill Ostrove, aerospace and defence “If you build a ship that’s capable of going how big the vehicles still would be. analyst with Forecast International, said to Mars, what if you take that same ship and Under the new plan, the rocket and the time frame for those developments go from one place to another on Earth?” spaceship each will measure about 30 feet in was “defi nitely aggressive.” Musk himself Musk said during his speech. “So we looked diameter. When stacked on top of each other, said in his speech that the 2022 date was at that, and the results are quite interesting.” HIGH AIM: Telsa and SpaceX founder Elon they will be about 500 feet tall. That’s still “aspirational.” He said travellers could get from, say, Los Musk stands in front of the SpaceX Dragon big, but it’s smaller than the system Musk “It’s hard to doubt that Elon Musk will pull Angeles to New York in 25 minutes with the capsule at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. detailed at last year’s space conference. something off at this point, with the number reusable rocket landing at its destination. In That rocket’s booster alone was to of successes he’s had,” Ostrove said. “But I a subsequent Instagram post, Musk said the least 1 million people and make humans a be about 39 feet in diameter, and the think those time frames are unlikely, to say price per seat would be about the same as a multiplanetary species within 40 to 100 spaceship was envisioned to be about 55 the least.” full fare in economy class on a commercial years. feet in diameter. When stacked on top of the Closer to home, Musk said BFR would airline. Those rockets would boost spaceships booster, the two would have been about 400 replace SpaceX’s current launch vehicles Last year, Musk fi rst unveiled his vision into a “parking orbit” around Earth, while feet tall. and spacecraft and launch satellites, take of a fl eet of 1,000 spaceships carrying 100 reusable boosters would return to the ground Musk said a smaller vehicle still could get missions for the International Space Station people each that would embark en masse and pick up propellant tankers to top off people to Mars, while also being useful for and even help establish a moon base — for the Red Planet. The goal: to eventually before the long journey. — Los Angeles missions in Earth orbit. generating revenue that could go toward establish a self-sustaining colony of at Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY

The exhibition features 40 paintings of diff erent sizes. ‘Ethernal inspiration of sossy tree’ opens at Katara

r Khalid al-Sulaiti, General colours. Zarmik, the artist, has especially It would provide the public with a new and close relation between her specialities in Manager of Katara, recently focused on the presence of women in her distinct experience.” gastronomy and her passion for colours and inaugurated the “Ethernal work. For her part, Zarmik said: “I am pleased drawing. inspiration of sossy tree” The exhibition is on display until October 8 to present my fi rst exhibition in Katara, this Zarmik adds that each of her paintings tells exhibition. The exhibition at building 19 of Katara. beautiful and attractive cultural edifi ce.” a certain story of her life. Indicating that she featuresD 40 paintings of diff erent sizes At the opening, Dr al-Sulaiti said, “Katara She added that she painted her canvases worked to focus on the presence of women through which the artist has conveyed the has opened its doors to Zarmik to off er visitors with her fi ngers and did not rely on the and she chose to address the exhibition in the various human feelings and emotions in a collection of the most beautiful works of art. brush. In this way, she wanted to draw a name of her mother for her love and sacrifi ces.

The “Ethernal inspiration of sossy tree” will be on display at Katara until October 8. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Indian workers launch cleanliness campaign bout 200 Indian expatriate While explaining the significance of the carrying out cleanliness and sanitation Third Secretary of Indian embassy workers of a contracting campaign, an Indian embassy official said campaign, he said while adding that Dr Aleem and ICBF officials were firm in Umm Slal cleaned the mission in association with affiliated some of the companies have agreed to the present at the meeting held prior to the their accommodation and forums in the country’s Indian expatriate suggestions put forward to their officials. cleaning campaign in the company’s neighbourhoods as part of community would help its expatriate As part of the campaign, it has been accommodation. IndiaA Government’s ‘Swachhata hi Seva’ workers maintain cleanliness in the proposed to carry out cleaning of labour ICBF officials President Davis campaign which is aimed at promoting surroundings where they live in Qatar. camps and their surroundings, at least once Edakalathur, Vice-President P N Baburajan individual cleanliness and hygiene and also The official said the community forums in two weeks. and General Secretary Mahesh Gowda maintaining their surroundings clean. would also actively promote cleanliness “Once in every fortnight, expatriate also attended the launch of the campaign. The workers also planted saplings in the and hygiene in the accommodations where forums would undertake such cleaning Significantly, the launch of campaign surroundings and neighbourhoods of their the expatriate workers reside, regardless of in a select camp and its immediate in Qatar coincided with the 148th birth camp. their nationalities. surroundings,” he said. Yesterday, workers anniversary celebrations of Father of India The campaign is carried out as part Companies have been advised to seek of the contracting company carried out nation Mahatma Gandhi. of ‘the Clean India Mission’ to make permission from the local officials where campaign under the aegis of the Indian Swachh Bharat Mission was launched in sanitation everyone’s business. ever such permission is mandatory for Community Benevolent Forum. India on October 2, 2014.

Indian embassy and ICBF off icials at the camp.

Aster’s ‘Heart fully yours’ campaign benefits thousands

Thousands of people in Qatar have benefited from the “Heart fully yours” campaign launched by along D Ring Road on September 29 from 7am to 10am. About 2,100 people benefited from the Aster recently to mark World Heart Day. About 70 Aster volunteers took part in this week-long check-ups. The Aster Heart Day Walkathon was held at Ideal Indian School. It was followed by activity which was held under the “Aster@30” initiative, the ongoing 30th anniversary celebration an interactive session with students and teachers on heart diseases by Dr Jobin Rajan, Specialist of Aster DM Healthcare. Internist at Aster Hospital. The interactive session on cardiovascular problems was held at Aster The activities conducted under the campaign included Aster Super Friday-Free Lipid Profile Hospital and was led by Prof Dr Raveendran P, Specialist Cardiologist, Aster Medical Centre, Al Hilal, Checkups, a walkathon on World Heart Day, health awareness sessions for students and families, and Dr Gireesh Kumar, Specialist Internist, Aster Hospital. free health screening for labourers at various camps, interactive sessions with Cardiologists and a The scientific session on cardiology was held at Marriott Doha and attended by more than Scientific Session for Doctors. 60 doctors across Qatar. Dr Raveendran delivered a presentation on latest cardiac treatments Open to all, the Free Lipid Profile Checkups were done at Aster Medical Centres in Al Hilal, Al for doctors in the presence of Dr Joji Mathews, President, Indian Doctors Club-Indian Medical Rayyan, Old Al Ghanim, Al Khor, Doha Industrial Area, on C Ring Road, and at Aster Hospital Association, and Dr Sameer Moopan, Chief Executive Off icer of Aster DM Healthcare Qatar. 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY

Noble International School celebrates Gandhi Jayanti

The students of Noble International School organised a special assembly on Monday, October 2 to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti. They presented dances and skits at the assembly to highlight Gandhi’s message of non-violence and truth.

Loyola International School celebrates Gandhi’s birth anniversary

A special assembly was conducted on Monday, October 2 at the Loyola International School to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The day, known as Gandhi Jayanti, is also celebrated internationally as the International Day of Non- violence.

DPS-MIS celebrates Gandhi Jayanti

DPS-MIS celebrated Gandhi Jayanti recently to remember the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The leader’s life, through all its stages, was depicted on the display boards where the major incidents in his life like Satyagraha, Dandi march and his contributions in the freedom struggle were shown. His philosophy on non-violence, education and health were remembered during the special assembly conducted on the same day. They presented a skit on the life of the great leader. A picture worksheet was given to students of small classes to colour. The students also participated in a beach-cleaning drive of the Wakrah beach. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 9 COMMUNITY

Pak Shamaa School marks the country’s Defence Day

Pak Shamaa School marked the country’s Defence Day recently with cultural performances and speeches. Pakistan Embassy’s Defence Attaché Commodore Irfan Taj was the chief guest. M A Shahid, President of the Management Committee at Pak Shamaa School, Principal Nabila Kaukab, teachers and students attended the event.

MES wins Qatar Cluster Under-17 Boys Football Championship

The MES Indian School has clinched the Qatar Cluster Under-17 Boys’ Football the tournament. All the CBSE affiliated schools participated in the tournament. The MES Championship. In the final played at MES Indian School recently, the host team trounced team has now qualified for the National Football Championship to be held in Noida, India Doha Modern Indian School with an unassailable lead of 7-0, thanks to hatricks by captain November 3. The winning team was trained by Akbar Ali, head of the physical education Noufal Wajid and Farook Muhammad. In its ascend to the final, MES defeated Ideal Indian department, and Binoy K K, teacher in the department. Principal officiating Hameeda Kadar School 2-0 in the quarter-final and Noble International School 7-0 in the semi-final of congratulated the team on their win. 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Protect what matters most with these nursery safety checks

ou may have chosen the family, but in order to do so the people to high levels of CO (30-70 perfect colour palette alarms need to be present – and parts per million), which can be and all of your nursery working. Install a working smoke fatal. furniture, but have you alarm in the nursery and ensure thought about some key that the rest of the home is properly Update the escape plan Ysafety checks? equipped. Residential smoke It is important to plan and First alert has outlined some alarms need to be replaced at least practice an escape plan for your crucial tasks to accomplish before every 10 years. To fi nd out whether home in the event of a fi re. Very few the little one makes his or her it’s time to replace the smoke households has actually developed appearance: alarms in your home, simply look and practised a home fi re escape on the back of the alarms where the plan. This is even more important Maintain crib safety date of manufacture is marked. The with the addition of a new member According to the Centers for smoke alarm should be replaced 10 to your family. As a family, walk Disease Control and Prevention, years from that date (not the date of through the home and inspect all two-thirds of children’s deaths purchase or installation). possible exits and escape routes. under the age of one are caused Identify two ways out of each room, by suff ocation. Make sure that, Protect from the “Silent including windows and doors. your escape plan twice a year – and contact list readily available when prepping the nursery, the Killer” For the second story, place escape before the baby comes. can potentially save time and crib meets safety standards, and Often dubbed “the silent ladders near windows, and practice make everything go a little more avoid loose bedding or soft toys in killer,” carbon monoxide (CO) is a setting it up so you’ll be able to Create an emergency call list smoothly when there is a crisis. the crib. After the baby arrives, the colourless and odourless gas that use it correctly and quickly in an Even though everything we Make sure the list includes family infant should sleep alone and be is impossible to detect without emergency. Make sure everyone need is on our smartphones these numbers, poison control, non- placed on his or her back on a fi rm an alarm. According to a study, understands the plan, with special days, when a babysitter or nanny emergency numbers for police and surface. CO poisoning is the leading cause attention to carrying the newborn. is with your infant, they might fire departments, and neighbours’ of accidental poisoning and is Choose an outside meeting place not be as prepared in case of an phone numbers. Check your smoke alarms responsible for deaths. Standard that is a safe distance from your emergency – and you might not Smoke alarms help protect your CO alarms are designed to alert home, and make sure to practice be either! Having an emergency ©Brandpoint

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Your tasks should go smoothly and quickly today, particularly Feelings and memories are willingly shared. Either you or your A number of interesting visitors could come to your home today. At paperwork. Others are willing to lend a hand if you need it, and you partner could reveal something that the other didn’t know, which least one could be from a foreign country, and some could be in the might be called upon to assist another with a task beyond his or her could strengthen the bond between you. Some of what’s exchanged educational field. You can expect some interesting conversations, ability. The atmosphere is unusually pleasant, so the day could just might be a little surprising, but your relationship should be much and you might learn some fascinating facts on a subject that’s new fly by. In the evening, go to a bookstore that’s holding a lecture or better for all the open, honest, and loving communication. to you. You could enjoy learning this so much that you look for book signing. books on the subject tomorrow. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Some fascinating new neighbours may move in. They could be in Have you been looking for some new ways to earn extra money? Passion is on your mind today. You’ll want to get together with law, education, or travel, they could be from a foreign land – or they Today might find you studying all the latest statistics and economic a partner. Don’t be surprised if the evening turns into a long, could be both. A friend could introduce you to these people. An trends to point you in the right direction. Research online could be involved, and very intimate conversation, revealing secrets that you impromptu welcome party could result, so you and everyone else beneficial, although you might not know where to look. You should thought you’d never repeat to anyone. You could learn some rather have a chance to get to know each other. still make some inroads that sound interesting. surprising things as well, though nothing that changes your feelings.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Do you want to surprise your partner with a gift? Perhaps there’s A group activity, perhaps a festival of some kind, could bring new Discussions of spiritual or psychic matters could result from something that your beloved has wanted for a long time but hasn’t information and people into your life. You could meet people from exposure to an author on such subjects. You might attend a lecture bought. This would make a wonderful surprise, and should be all over the world and lifestyles. You might also discover some by this person or perhaps see a documentary on the topic. You greatly appreciated. Expressions of gratitude could be followed by a new products you want to try. This experience could transform might not be convinced about what this person has to say and want long conversation that brings you closer together. you in a profound way, so don’t expect to go back to your routine to check it out with research of your own. But isn’t that the point – to immediately. get you to learn on your own? CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

A long-awaited letter or call might come today from a friend who Are you interested in investing? This is a good day to read financial Communication with business and romantic partners should be lives in another state or a foreign country. This could open the lines pages, study stock reports, and consult with people who know about more warm, open, and honest than usual. Take advantage of this of communication to a degree they haven’t reached for a long time. these things. You’re probably considering a number of possibilities. to get misunderstandings out of the way, explain things that might You and your friend have grown considerably since you were last Learn about them in detail before taking any action. This is a great seem confusing, and develop empathy with those around you. You close, so it’s almost like a whole new friendship. Enjoy getting to day to collect information. could come out of this more united in all of your relationships. know each other again. 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe Literary Terms

ALLITERATION IAMB RHYME BATHOS IMAGERY SATIRE COUPLET IRONY SIMILE DACTYL LYRIC SONNET ELEGY MEASURE SPONDEE ELISION METAPHOR STANZA EPIC PROSE TRAGEDY FOOT QUATRAIN VERSE

Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Why you’re not telling 2. Book store (7) anybody (7,6) 3. Are in competition with the 8. There’s a nicer, new way to West, finally, you see (3) install the tank (7) 4. Not turning the key when 9. Flood the mountlet (7) there’s a sound (4) 11. Gather the alternative is to 5. Gather breaking in the back- get caught in a swamp (6) door was quite satisfactory 13. Produce the boy and you (6,4) scold him (8) 6. See eye to eye and are in 15. Take that and don’t worry! (5) correspondence (5) 16. Piece the American agents 7. Exaggerate the part you play set about getting (7) in capturing the girl within a 18. A deer? No, signor, it’s a child month (7) (7) 8. Resign yourself and agree on 19. Is to be found and is to be a price (4,2,5) returned to the man (5) 10. By which a reflective glance 21. Getting to every single one in is cast? (3,5,3) the gang (8) 12. Holding a stalk as you cook it Answers 23. Are about to give you the (5) account (6) 14. Handing over the job (10) Wordsearch Codeword 25. It enters into the knotty 17. Points to the woman that will problem the schoolboy’s succeed (5) working on! (3-4) 18. With swagger, giving a party 26. Peter exploded about the on the coast in Spain (7) French, unable to take any 20. Starred in “The Errant more (7) Merchants” (7) 28. Out less than the others? By 22. Laugh over it when I go to no means! (3,2,3,5) the country (5) 24. Try to make the half four, for instance, back (4) 27. To shorten the jetty a little would be very easy (3)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Matchless 8 DOWN: 1 Matters 2 Terrace 3 Panache 9 Terrier 10 Twisted 13 Haiti 4 Earnest 5 Spat 6 Mass Examiner 14 Spar 16 Spell it out 7 Readied 11 Waster 12 Tire 15 20 Lead 22 Snap 24 Underscore Alec 17 Pan 18 Lope 19 Inured 21 28 Tear 29 Caroline 31 Reminds Air 22 Startle 23 Atom 25 Elastic 34 Treated 35 Leonine 36 26 Omitted 27 Emended 30 Succeeded. Obese 32 Iona 33 Sees. 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY CINEMA John and Tiger man Pandey to join hands for film on the big cat

BIG PLAN: John Abraham, left, and Mike Pandey will appear in The Return of The Tiger.

the administration, they refused to believe is absolutely essential to maintain the Inspired by Pandey’s own true adventure By Gautaman Bhaskaran him, saying that when India did not have food chain without which we humans will that he had along with his brother some whale sharks, where the question of perish. years ago, The Return of the Tiger holds the fishermen slaughtering them was. It was And since documentaries are passed and potential to turn into a thrilling wildlife ike Pandey is no Jim Corbett only when Pandey filmed a documentary nobody really watches them – or they work, fictionalised from fact and culled out – who once upon a time on this “murder of whale sharks” that the are hardly ever exhibited in commercial of a tragedy that India has been facing for roamed the hills of the government sat up and took note. Even theatres (with only India’s Doordarshan decades. Himalayas shooting down the government passed a law banning the showing them and with a 30- minute slot Admittedly, Project Tiger – which was rogue man-eating tigers killing of these poor creatures. on NDTV) – a feature length work with launched in 1973 to save the animal – has Mand leopards. But Corbett Sahib as he was Pandey’s documentary efforts have gone a big actor like John Abraham seems like helped in the multiplication of these fondly called by those hundreds of villagers, a long way in saving vultures – millions a good bet to attract footfalls into the wonderfully handsome feline creatures. who perhaps owed him their very lives of which were dying because of pesticide cinemas and help spread the message to But poaching still happens and quite a having been saved from the jaws of those poisoning, thus creating disturbance in the save the tiger. lot of it takes place, and poachers still have ferocious feline creatures, turned into a environment. These birds are scavengers Mike himself plans to direct and act in better weapons and equipment to outsmart great conservationist in his later life. that help in clearing rotting garbage. Of The Return of the Tiger – a story about two forest guards (poorly paid, often just armed Pandey – who was born in Kenya and course, Pandey is much better known for men whose adventures in the jungles of with lathis and not even proper footwear). who grew up in England and still carries his films on tiger and how they helped fight India promises to turn out into a fascinating And most significantly, poaching has a British passport – never gunned down the menace of poaching. film Drawing on the close encounters with a free run because tiger parts in regions animals or any other living creature. He was So, it does seem very interesting that he the tiger that Pandey has had in his adult like China and South-East Asia are still always into conservation, trying to protect is all set to walk into a feature now titled life (even as a boy he lived next to a wildlife mistakenly believed to cure a whole lot of mammals, animals and birds from the two- The Return of the Tiger, and Bollywood star sanctuary in Africa), he avers that it is only diseases. footed predator, why man himself! And John Abraham has been roped in. Now this a celebrity like Abraham who can help draw Pandey and Abraham (who have had Pandey has been doing this looks like a fantastic combo. the attention of the people and the powers a varied and illustrious career) will run through power-packed documentaries on Pandey regrets the fact that while that be. “The idea is to tell a good story and us through such ridiculous notions to tigers, on whale sharks on vultures and so everybody in India is shouting that the tiger pack it with important messages”, Pandey point out that tiger parts offer no such on. must be saved, nobody really cares how and contends. health benefits and that the animal must As he told me during a recent chat, why. Is it because it is a beautiful animal? The movie will examine a whole lot of be allowed to roam the wild without any while whale sharks were being butchered Is it because it is at the top of the food issues as two friends (Pandey and Abraham) fear of being shot down. Time, the tiger is on Indian shores some years ago by pyramid chain? journey across the narrative through some allowed to burn bright. fishermen – who used the oil from the fish Pandey feels that a movie with someone of India’s most dense forests. The core plot to grease their boats – the government as big a star as Abraham and someone with deals with the tale of a tigress with three z Gautaman Bhaskaran has was blissfully unaware of this monstrosity. that kind of raw appeal will go a long way cubs that has strayed outside the reserve been writing on Indian and world The carcasses were thrown away to rot. in creating an awareness of the pressing area and poachers are around when the two cinema for close to 40 years and may be And when Pandey drew the attention of need to take care of the tiger. The big cat men get into the act to save the animals. e-mailed at [email protected] Wednesday, October 4, 2017 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY

FOCUS: Dench says Victoria & Abdul is a critical commentary on Britain’s colonial past and, implicitly, its current immigration issues. Judi Dench is the queen of British film think it’s just a part that comes The fi lm gives an wants to inquire, wants to have wrote Skyfall, also wrote a play I By Colin Covert along, and if you’re lucky enough unconventional dry humour to somebody who will teach her. To did called Peter and Alice. He was to be asked to do it, you try and do Victoria, who is widely believed have someone she can relax with in on a rehearsal one day, and I, your best with it.” to have uttered the famous phrase and learn” about a far-off culture. with every line practically, stopped udi Dench’s memorable Now, after winning a best “We are not amused” when a guest “Surely that’s the most and asked the director questions. fi lm roles range from actress Oscar nomination as the at Windsor Castle told a risqué important thing we can possibly ‘Tell me about this and tell me 007’s steely boss M in widowed, romantically inclined story. That made revisiting the learn.” about that and what does this multiple James Bond Queen Victoria in 1997’s factual role especially appealing because While British audiences are mean?’ So John suddenly turned epics, an Oscar-winning Mrs. Brown, she returns to the “only by humour can you possibly fascinated with aristocracy, Dench and said, ’Now you know why I Jeight-minute supporting turn as role in another “mostly true” really tell someone a serious story. doesn’t feel that it comes out of a killed you off in Skyfall.’ ” Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare story. In Victoria & Abdul, she Humour is essential to everyday longing for the old days of empire. Nevertheless, Dench has built in Love and a determined woman plays the queen in old age. An living. Humour makes her “I don’t think anyone is successful, ongoing collaborations searching for the grown son she isolated and unhappy monarch, somehow more accessible. I’m sure nostalgic for that. They are with fi lmmakers. She has made lost in infancy through a church- she fi nds renewed interest in life it was there. ‘We are not amused?’ fascinated by the royal family just three big hits with John Madden forced adoption in Philomena. through Adbul Karim, a handsome, I don’t think it was quite so.” to see what dedication they have (Shakespeare in Love and two Whether she’s performing with a 24-year-old clerk from India The queen’s generation- to the job,” she said. “I think it’s Exotic Marigold Hotel fi lms). twinkle in her eye, an involuntary (played by Bollywood star Ali spanning connection to her only admirable what they do, and Victoria & Abdul is her fi fth break in conversation or a Fazal) who through happenstance exotic servant comes “because of I can understand that people are partnership with Stephen Frears. slight sob, she always conveys a became her servant and best curiosity. She has a great fi re in captivated. I always think of it It’s not a case of her deciding combination of excitement and friend. her, and she obviously feels very when I go into town and go around whom to work with time after believability. At the 82, she’s the Playing Britain’s longest- strongly about things and speaks Buckingham Palace. Any time, time, she said. biggest female star in Britain. reigning monarch at two very her mind.” there’s always crowd of people “I don’t. I wait to be asked,” Dame Dench — she was diff erent phases of her life was The fi lm focuses on the aff ection there to look. It’s extraordinary.” she said. The upcoming Disney honoured as Dame Commander relatively easy, she said. shared by the title characters, but Though Dench is practically children’s fantasy Artemis Foul will of the Order of the British Empire “You’ve done the homework, it also is a critical commentary royalty in the fi lm industry, she be her 10th fi lm and stage project in 1988 for her contribution to because I did it 20 years ago. But on Britain’s colonial past and, doesn’t tell directors to hold their with Kenneth Branagh. “He walked culture — seems fully at home in this is a period of her life that I implicitly, its current immigration tongues and go away. into my dressing room not long ago royal roles, middle-class roles or didn’t know about, and. therefore, issues. “I’m the most unsure person and said, ‘Judi, I wonder would you humble roles, but she can’t explain it is in a way a continuance of her Telling an important topic of everybody,” she said. “In the be interested….’ I said ‘Yes!’ He her chameleon-like ability to life, after her life with John Brown,” from a tender, personal side “is theatre, when you’ve rehearsed said, ‘Wait a minute, no, no, no.’ I perform those colourful changes. the subject of the fi rst movie, a very timely,” she said. “What’s six weeks for something, then the said, ‘Yes. yes, yes.’ That is gospel “I don’t know,” she laughed in Scottish attendant with whom the extraordinary is that the director leaves. That’s my most truth, you can check with Ken. a recent phone interview. “When queen had a scandalously warm nationality and the diff erence miserable moment. The director “If you fi nd someone you kind it’s Cleopatra, you look at the story personal relationship. “I haven’t is secondary in the story. This walks away and the child is left of understand or have a working in front of you and try to make it seen it in connection with Mrs. might have happened whatever to walk on its own. No, no, no. I relationship with, you’re very as human as possible.” Royal parts Brown, but I hope it adds up to the nationality he might have been. It need constant help and I’m always lucky. And if you’re asked to work aren’t something that British same person and a new aspect on just happened, and the moment is asking questions. with them, you’re even luckier. – actresses specifi cally seek out. “I her.” so pertinent. She is so curious and “I remember John Logan, who Star Tribune (Minneapolis)/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 4, 2017 COMMUNITY Celebrating the life and teachings of Gandhi A large number of Indian community members attend an event at the ICC to mark Gandhi Jayanti. By Mudassir Raja

ADDRESS: Indian Ambassador P Kumaran giving a speech at the event. PERFORMANCE: One of the performances during the evening.

ens of hundreds of and noted that by following the were distributed among students members and have family get diff erent aspects of Gandhi through Indian expatriates teachings and practices, Indians of diff erent Indian schools for their together events here. It is a bustling their performances. I always come celebrated the 138th birth could take their country towards performances in diff erent events place for the large community,” to the ICC with my parents to attend anniversary of Mahatma greatness. held on August 15, the country’s Baburaj said. the community functions. You get Gandhi recently at the He said that Indian expatriates – Independence Day. The most Subramanya Hebbagelu, an a chance to meet people who are TIndian Cultural Centre (ICC), a good number in Qatar – need to important one, however, was the engineer by profession, told working hard in Qatar to make their paying exalted tributes to Gandhi introduce Swachh Bharat Abhiyan one organised by the ICC and was Community, “I am a regular visitor lives better.” through speeches and short plays. (Clean India Mission) launched by attended by the ambassador.” to the ICC. Today’s event is very The student added, “Today Diff erent organisations from Prime Minister Narendra Modi back Baburaj said that ICC members good. A large number of expatriates is a special day because a good Indian expatriate community home. He urged on the community sang patriotic songs praising India have gathered here to celebrate number of students and their conducted their programmes members to keep their surroundings and Gandhi. The centre also had Gandhi’s birthday, the father of the teaches have gathered at the ICC. at ICC but the most signifi cant clean in pursuit of the mission. arranged a special presentation on nation. It is good to see families and They also received their prizes for activity was organised by the ICC Sharing details of the event with the life and teachings of Gandhi. children around. It is always good to their performances in programmes under aegis of the Indian embassy Community, ICC Joint Secretary Sri Mono acts were also played to bring your children to such kind of organised on August 15. I met many in Qatar. Indian Ambassador P Raja Vijayan Baburaj said, “There remember Gandhi and his services events as it will keep them in touch students and had discussions Kumaran attended the event as were three diff erent programmes on to the nation. with nationalism and their culture.” with them about Gandhi and the chief guest. one evening at the ICC. One event “Members of the Indian Karma, a student of Grade 11, said, cleanliness drive going on in India.” In his address to the participants was organised by an organisation community regularly hold events “It was like repetition of a history The programme concluded with on the occasion, the ambassador of South Indians to remember at the ICC. It is like home for the lesson. However, I enjoyed the acts a reception where traditional Indian glorifi ed the teachings of Gandhi Gandhi. In the second event, prizes community. They meet other where participants highlighted food was served.

AUDIENCE: A view of the audience.