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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 RAJAB 19, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Bird numbers Turkey mine Arsenal hit Atletico Madrid increase on rescue ends, back to win win La Liga Boubyan death toll thrilling title after Island 2 at12 301 FA20 Cup final draw20 at Barca Saudi Arabia bans Dutch Max 35º Min 22º firms over Islam insult High Tide 02:53 & 13:22 Low Tide Wilders defiant after Riyadh slaps sanctions 08:08 & 21:01 40 PAGES NO: 16169 150 FILS RIYADH: Saudi companies have been ordered to exclude Dutch firms from future projects over an anti- Islamic stunt by a far-right Dutch politician, in a royal Modi on symbolic victory lap decree made public by the Makkah chamber of com- merce. The decree bans “Dutch firms from taking part in VARANASI, India: Indian prime minis- far stronger country than it was a decade future projects in the kingdom, whether directly or ter-elect Narendra Modi offered prayers ago,” the 81-year-old said in a typically through sub-contracting,” according to a chamber circu- by the river Ganges yesterday in a reli- low-key speech - a great contrast to the lar seen by AFP yesterday. It also reduces to a minimum gious ceremony beamed live on televi- bombastic, high-energy style of his suc- the number of visas “for Dutch companies and investors sion that underlined his Hindu national- cessor. Modi is expected to be sworn in who are not part of vital projects in the kingdom.” And it ist roots a day after his stunning electoral this week, and Singh will remain in office orders an end visits by trade delegations between the triumph. The 63-year-old leader of the on a caretaker basis until then. two countries. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept Modi helped the BJP to the first In November, anti-Islamic through the capital earlier yesterday, majority in parliament since 1984 after a lawmaker Geert Wilders print- where he was greeted by thousands of campaign focused on delivering new ed stickers imitating the Saudi well-wishers who mobbed his car and jobs and development, despite fears flag. The Arabic text on the showered him with rose petals. raised by opponents of his impact in offi- flag, which reads “There is no The victory lap continued to the cially secular India. “The country has giv- god but Allah and Muhammad sacred city of Varanasi, from where he en us an unprecedented mandate. I is the messenger of Allah” was stood for parliament, ending on the want to thank the country for giving us changed. The Dutch foreign banks of the Ganges which is revered by the opportunity to serve with a clear ministry told AFP earlier yester- Hindus and is believed to cleanse sins. As majority,” he said. day that Saudi Arabia feels priests and onlookers chanted devotion- “Modi is our lion! He will work for the “insulted” by Wilders, and spokesman Friso Wijnen said al songs, Modi prayed and lit a tradition- people of India, he will work for develop- Geert Wilders al oil lamp before climbing atop a ment, he will work for every Indian,” this could entail “commercial flower-decked dais where he sat next to shouted Om Dutt, a 39-year-old shop measures against the Netherlands.” The Dutch govern- several senior BJP colleagues, thanking owner as Modi arrived in New Delhi ear- ment distanced itself from Wilders’ actions at the time, local residents who elected him by a lier in the day. A crowd of supporters, pointing out that the populist firebrand is not part of crushing margin of 370,000 votes. who had waited at the airport since early the government and his ideas are not representative. Among other election promises, morning while being entertained by a In addition to trade in oil and gas, the Netherlands including ideas to build a hundred new marching band and thumping dance exports a wide range of products and technology in the cities and high-speed rail network, he music, burst through police barricades at agriculture, machinery, chemical and petrochemical has said he will work to clean up the the sight of his cavalcade arriving. sectors in Saudi Arabia. Wilders, in reaction to possible filthy river whose sacred status has not His triumph has redrawn India’s trade measures by Saudi Arabia, said in a statement that prevented rampant pollution. The con- political map, elevating the BJP to a the Netherlands “should have boycotted that country a troversial politician, a former tea boy pan-national force and heaping humili- long time ago”. tainted by anti-Muslim riots on his watch ation on the ruling Gandhi political Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) is expected to make as chief minister in Gujarat, has the dynasty, whose Congress party has gains in European elections at the end of May, and has strongest mandate of any Indian leader been in power for 10 years. Final figures allied with other far-right parties across the continent, in 30 years. from the Election Commission showed including France’s National Front led by Marine Le Pen. Beleaguered outgoing Prime Minster the BJP had secured 282 seats in the Attempts to prosecute him for his claims have failed. He Manmohan Singh resigned yesterday, 543-member parliament, while the was acquitted on charges of inciting hatred in 2011, ending his 10 years in charge, and a final Congress slumped to its lowest ever tal- with judges arguing that his comments were directed televised address thanked the Indian ly of just 44 - a quarter of its haul in NEW DELHI: Supporters shower flower petals on opposition Bharatiya Janata against a religion rather than an ethnic group. There people for their support. “Today India is a 2009. — Agencies Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi as he arrives at the party headquarters yes- was recent outrage after he promised during local elec- terday. — AP tions in March to ensure “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands. — Agencies Egypt Salafists Fossils of ‘largest’ dino found BUENOS AIRES: Paleontologists in er first spotted a massive leg bone, meas- Argentina’s remote Patagonia region have uring some 2.4-m in length. discovered fossils of what may be the Excavations starting Jan 2013 also split over Sisi largest dinosaur ever, amid a vast cache of uncovered complete bones of the tail, tor- fossils that could shed light on prehistoric so and neck - which will allow for a fuller life. The creature is believed to be a new picture of what the entire animal looked CAIRO: When Egypt’s military chief Abdel experienced Brotherhood, and it lobbied species of Titanosaur, a long-necked, like when alive. The 36-year-old scientist, Fattah Al-Sisi announced in a television for a larger role for Islamic law in a new long-tailed sauropod that walked on four one of a team of Argentine and Spanish address the overthrow of Islamist presi- constitution. legs and lived some 95 million years ago researchers, said the group had uncov- dent Mohamed Morsi, an ultraconserva- “We are for the implementation of in the Cretaceous Period. Researchers say ered “10 vertebrae of the torso, 40 from tive Salafi party official sat by his side, Islamic law but not a state within a state,” the plant-eating dinosaur weighed the the tail, parts of the neck and complete making an unlikely ally. Almost 11 months Bakkar said of Morsi’s Brotherhood move- equivalent of more than 14 African ele- legs”. “Until now, what was known, world- later, with Sisi poised to win a presidential ment, removed from power after mass phants, or about 100 tonnes, and wide, about sauropods was from frag- election amid a crackdown on Islamists protests against Morsi. “We want a parlia- stretched up to 40 m in length. Photos mentary discoveries,” said Carballido, a that has killed at least 1,400 people, the mentary system, not a president who show a fossilized femur larger than the paleontologist at the Egidio Feruglio Salafists of Al-Nour party are sticking by monopolises all powers,” he said. The par- paleontologist pictured next to it. Museum in the southern Argentine city of him. ty now faces the prospect of a retired mili- Further exciting researchers, bones Trelew, calling the find “extraordinary”. The support of Al-Nour, whose Galal tary leader as president, who says he is from at least seven individual dinosaurs, Even more bones may be forthcoming, Al-Morra appeared in the dramatic televi- pious but will leave religion out of politics. including some believed to be younger, Carballido said. So far, “we have only sion broadcast last July, has allowed it to A new constitution approved in a were found at the site. This is “the most recovered an estimated 20 percent of survive the crackdown January referendum complete discovery of this type of giant what’s in the field,” he said. The but splintered its base. removed much of the dinosaur in the world, a momentous dis- researchers have also found what they Many Salafists were Islamist-inspired wording covery for science,” cheered Jose Luis believe to be muscle insertions, which will among the estimated of the one adopted under Carballido, one of eight scientists who help them reconstruct the form of the 700 protesters killed on Morsi, and partly drafted participated in the research. The fossils creature’s muscles and calculate how Aug 14 when police by Salafists. Bakkar says were accidently discovered in 2011 by a much energy was needed to move them. raided a pro-Morsi his party was backing Sisi farm worker in a remote area in the The find will also be able to shed light on protest camp in Cairo.