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Page 01 April 07.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 7 April 2014 7 Jumadal II 1435 - Volume 19 Number 5627 Price: QR2 Lafarge, Holcim Gutsy Sri Lanka to create $55bn are T20 World entity Champions Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives envoy’s credentials More ships Schools asked join hunt for black box of to look for missing jet PERTH: Australian and Chinese vessels have both new premises picked up acoustic “pings” that could be from the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, search officials have SEC puts cap on student numbers announced. The hunt for Malaysia Airlines DOHA: Several private schools are now searching for a new flight MH370 continued as are on the lookout for new building to expand our facilities,” Australian authorities responded premises to shift extra students, principal of Ideal Indian School to reports that a Chinese patrol with the Supreme Education Syed Showkath Ali told this daily ship had detected ultrasonic Council (SEC) strictly enforcing yesterday. “pings” matching the frequency a ceiling on student enrolment. He said it is difficult to find pur- put out by the beacon on a flight These schools have been pose-built premises in Doha and if recorder. Angus Houston, the informed about the maximum at all some buildings are available, Australian retired air chief mar- number of students they can the rents are prohibitive. shal in charge of the search, admit in their existing premises The school, which started the announced yesterday that under- and asked to stop new admis- new academic year yesterday has water detection gear towed behind sions if they have already a waiting list of more than 1,500 an Australian navy ship, the Ocean reached saturation level, it has students seeking admission but Shield, had also detected a sound. been learnt. could take in only a few students Up to 12 aircraft and 13 ships The nearly-a-dozen Indian in the KG section, he said. were sent out yesterday, focused schools in Qatar, which together An official of the MES Indian on three large stretches of ocean have the largest number of expa- School, which earlier claimed to The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving the credentials of the incoming Pakistani Ambassador about 2,000km from Perth. triate students on their rolls are have more than 10,000 students to Doha, Shahzad Ahmed, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. See also page 2 News that a black-box detector among the worst hit by the new on its rolls, said that the school aboard a Chinese patrol ship, the regulations. With their academic has completely stopped admis- Haixun 01, might have detected an year beginning this month, most sions following the SEC regula- ultrasonic pulse first emerged late of these schools have a long wait- tions and has reduced the number on Saturday night via the Chinese ing list of new applicants but of students by at least 1,000. state media agency, Xinhua. The hardly any seats to offer. “We are not even maintaining Qatar to launch survey on ping had a frequency of 37.5kHz – The SEC has asked all private a waiting list because we cannot the same as that emitted by flight schools not to put more than 30 offer seats to any student in the recorders — and was detected at students in one class. This has near future. We are seriously about 25 degrees south and 101 forced most Indian schools to stop thinking about an expansion but disease-carrying insects degrees east, within the 216,000 new admissions since they have it will take time,” said principal square kilometre search zone. A already crossed this ceiling. S Sasidharan. DOHA: The Supreme Council as part of the World Health Day. collaboration with the Ministry of reporter for Xinhua said the sig- Officials of several Indian Birla Public School (BPS), of Health (SCH) will soon According to the World Health Municipality and Urban Planning, nal was heard for about 90 sec- schools say that the only option which had closed admissions launch a national survey on vec- Organisation (WHO), more Ministry of Environment and onds. Houston said yesterday that for them is to expand their facili- several months ago, is also on tors — flies, insects etc — that than half the world’s population Qatar University. there had been another “fleeting” ties but that is not possible in the the lookout for a new building cause the spread of various dis- is at risk from diseases such as The survey will continue for signal picked up 24 hours earlier short-term. for expansion, said principal eases and pose a threat to pub- malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, two years to gather facts for cre- by the Haixun 01, on Friday after- “We currently have more than A K Srivastava. lic health. lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and ating a scientific data base on noon. The two detections took 5,900 students on our rolls but “We are keen for an expansion The announcement came on yellow fever, carried by mosqui- vectors in Qatar that will help place about two kilometres apart. as per SEC guidelines we have but the scarcity of purpose-built the occasion of the World Health toes, flies, ticks, water snails and in developing plans to fight them “In an ocean that size two kilo- to reduce the numbers to 4,338 premises is the main problem,” Day that is being observed in other vectors. and stop their seasonal breeding, metres is not a large distance,” which is the maximum allowed he said. He said at least two new Qatar and worldwide today under Every year, more than one bil- it added. A technical team will be Houston said, adding that the lead in the current premises. The Indian schools are expected to the slogan “Small bite Big threat.” lion people are infected and more formed to supervise implementa- was “encouraging [but] unverified SEC has asked us to look for open in Qatar later this year and The SCH said yesterday that it than one million die from vector- tion of this joint research projects until such time as we can provide new premises if we want to this would address the problem to will organise a series of activities borne diseases. with representatives from all the unequivocal determination”. admit more students. So we have some extent. to raise public awareness about SCH said that the proposed bodies concerned. THE GUARDIAN stopped all new admissions and THE PENINSULA vectors and vector-borne diseases survey will be carried out in THE PENINSULA See also page 12 Close shave Al Qaeda chief’s brother to be Israel PM threatens tried in Egypt Abbas with reprisals CAIRO: Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri’s brother is to JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Palestinian president Mahmoud stand trial with 67 others for Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Abbas rejected a plea from Kerry forming a “terrorist group” and threatened the Palestinians to withdraw the treaty applica- plotting attacks after Islamist yesterday with unilateral tions, and Netanyahu ignored US president Mohammed Mursi’s reprisals as the two sides pre- appeals to refrain from tit-for-tat ouster, Egyptian state media pared for last-ditch talks with a moves, asking for a range of retal- reported yesterday. US envoy on salvaging teetering iatory options to be drawn up. Mohamed Al Zawahiri was peace talks. Israel says Abbas’s move was a arrested last August, a month He said Israel would retaliate clear breach of the commitments after Mursi’s ouster by the army, if the Palestinians proceed with the Palestinians gave when the and has been called to go on trial applications to adhere to 15 inter- talks were relaunched in July to by the state prosecutor. national treaties. pursue no other avenues for rec- The military-installed authori- “These will only make a peace ognition of their promised state. ties have since launched a crack- agreement more distant,” he said The Palestinians say Israel down against Mursi’s supporters of the applications the Palestinians had already reneged on its own that has left more than 1,400 peo- submitted on Tuesday. undertakings by failing to release ple dead and thousands jailed. “Any unilateral moves they a fourth and final batch of pris- Zawahiri and the other sus- take will be answered by unilat- oners last weekend, and that the pects are accused of having set eral moves at our end.” treaty move was their response. up an “Al-Qaeda-linked terror- Netanyahu’s remarks, made at “The Palestinians have much ist group” that plotted attacks Men rescue a boy from a site that activists said was attacked by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar the beginning of the weekly cabi- to lose from a unilateral move. against government installations, Al Assad in Aleppo yesterday. See also page 6 net meeting, came as Israeli and They will get a state only security personnel and members Palestinian negotiators prepared through direct negotiations and of Egypt’s Christian minority, to meet US envoy Martin Indyk not through empty declarations state news agency MENA said. in an attempt to save the peace or unilateral moves,” Netanyahu The group was seeking to process from collapse. said yesterday. “spread chaos and undermine QE crosses 12,000 mark Indian vote begins today US Secretary of State John “We are prepared to continue security” across Egypt, it said. DOHA: Qatari bourse extended its rally for NEW DELHI: India’s general election, to elect Kerry, the driving force behind talks, but not at any price.” MENA did not say whether the ninth straight session yesterday to break 543 members to the 16th Lok Sabha, or the House the peace push, warned on Friday Netanyahu noted the Palestinian the group had actually carried the psychologically-strong 12,000-mark bar- of People in the bicameral parliament, kicks off that there were “limits” to the application to the international out any attacks nor did it give rier.
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