Tabla, 19 December 2008

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    20 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 171/09/2008 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 2008 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon MGR mania
    201 1  -  Two decades after the Tamil movie icon died, Singaporean fans are still enamoured of his memory and celebrate his death anniversary with fervour SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg HE DIED 21 years ago, wasn’t a Singaporean and his name probably wouldn’t ring a bell with most people below the age
    PHOTOS: AP, SANTABANTA.COM, COURTESY OF PANIR SELVAM AND SULTAN  -  201 words
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      35 1 THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN MISS WORLD RUNNER-UP IS DISAPPOINTED PAGE 4 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch us online at www.tabla.com.sg AXE BRAND MEDICATED OIL (5«rn_fR a=rru ctoT
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      14 1 INDIAN COMMUNITY BUTTER CHICKEN IS THE WAY TO HER HEART PAGE 13 THOSE PETROL
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      43 1 GET YOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING THOSE AT SHELL PETROL STATIONS HARSHA BHOGLE ON THE TEST OF CHARACTER PAGE 23 IN SINGAPORE... MGR fan club members emulate his charitable ways PAGE 8 MGR impersonator (below) performs almost every weekend PAGE 9
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Getting tough at home
      668 2  -  Chidambaram gets down to work to improve national security Ravi Velloor velloor@sph.com.sg PALANIAPPAN Chidambaram is not a man to shy away from a tough situation. Yet, when he was asked to be India’s home minister earlier this month, he was, as he confessed, “reluctant” to be
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    • regional roundup
      • Article
        Lock icon MAHARASHTRA
        84 2 State tops in farmer suicides FORTY-SIX farmers committed suicide every day in India last year, with the largest number of such cases happening in Maharashtra. There were 16,632 cases of suicides by farmers, including 2,369 women, across India in 2007. This was revealed by the National Crime Records Bureau
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        Lock icon ASSAM
        79 2 Bird flu spreading Bird flu spreading THE deadly bird flu virus is spreading to new areas in the north-eastern state of Assam although over 200,000 poultry have been culled in the past two weeks, officials said last week. The disease has also hit Malda district of West Bengal. Seventeen
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      • Article
        Lock icon TAMIL NADU
        64 2 Liquor smugglers jailed THREE men were sent to jail by a court in Salem for smuggling liquor from Puducherry posing as devotees of Hindu lord Ayyappa on pilgrimage to Kerala. When the police seized their vehicle after a chase, they found 950 bottles of liquor. While liquor is
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        Lock icon UTTAR PRADESH
        105 2 Tiger on the prowl causes concern THE Uttar Pradesh forest department is spending sleepless nights over an elusive tiger. It strayed from its home territory in Pilibhit reserve forest and has crossed the boundaries of four districts, a distance of over 300km, in a month. Officials say the
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Kapil’s Devils bask in the desert
      455 4  -  DUBAI DIARY Bhaskar Iyer Bhaskar Iyer WINTER time in Dubai is when hundreds of migratory birds descend on the city. For those who are generally starved of much of nature’s bounty, it’s a lovely sight hundreds of these pretty, white birds, basking in the
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      Lock icon Heartbreak... disappointment
      405 4 Parvathy Omanakuttan finished in second place at last weekend’s Miss World pageant. So why isn’t she happy? THOSE who saw Parvathy Omanakuttan shed tears on stage as the Miss World contest drew to a close in Johannesburg could be excused for thinking it was because of the excitement
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Sinda to help 2,000 students
      469 6  -  $700,000 set aside to help primary school to pre-university students in the coming year C. RAMANATHAN NEXT year may not be a good year financially, but help is at hand for students. The Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) has set aside about $700,000 to be
      PHOTOS: ARUN RAMU  -  469 words
    • singapore news
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        Lock icon Wages to be reviewed
        133 6 IN A move that reflects the growing severity of the economic crisis, the National Wages Council (NWC) has taken the unusual step of reconvening next month to revise a set of wage guidelines it issued in May this year. In a statement on Dec 16, the
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      • Article
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        135 6 A STUDY commissioned by the National Environment Agency (NEA) has confirmed that there is a low probability of Singapore being affected by a tsunami. The two-year study was jointly conducted by the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. NEA’s director-general of meteorological services Foong
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        Lock icon Free trade pact with Gulf
        118 6 SINGAPORE and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council inked a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) on Dec 15, the first by the grouping. Leaders of both sides hailed the pact as a commitment to free trade, a move viewed as significant as the worsening global financial
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        Lock icon Jail for sex with teen hooker
        98 6 A RENOVATION contractor was sentenced to 12 months’ jail on Dec 15 for paying $100 to an underaged prostitute for sex. Tan Chye Hin, 55, pleaded guilty to getting the services of the 16-year-old China prostitute in a Geylang hotel on Aug 4. The
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      Lock icon Memories Get Replayed
      957 8  -  Every year, on Dec 24, diehard fans of MGR in Singapore pay their respects to their late icon Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg IF THERE is any doubt about Mr Panir Selvam’s devotion to Tamil cinema icon MGR, all one has to do is look at his living room
      PHOTOS: PANIR SELVAM, FILE  -  957 words
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      Lock icon Mimicking MGR
      445 9 Fan turns into his favourite star at weekend shows Sheela Narayanan DURING the week, Mr Lailathul Sultanil Ariffin is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered engineer. During weekends he transforms into the biggest star that Kollywood has produced. The 44-year-old Singaporean slaps on some make-up, pops on a $250 wig, a
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF MR SULTAN  -  445 words
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      Lock icon MGR GETS ANIMATED:
      78 9 ANIMATED: MGR’s magic will again, this time in magic be resurrected on film again, this time in an animated feature titled Puratchi Thalaivan. The trailer for the 3-D filmwill be released on Jan 17, the late superstar’s birthday. He would have been 92. Producer Sridevi Rao told
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      Lock icon Sun, sand and silly mid-off
      189 10  -  Six On The Beach win eight-team beach cricket event at Sentosa TAMILAVEL WITH the shoreline forming part of the boundary, music filling the air and booze in abundance, it was a day for friends and family to get together and wind down with some beach
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      Lock icon IT’S ONLY words
      358 16 “The spirit of the fauji never dies. Always it remains with full spirit and josh. I'm so proud to have been a part of this operation.” NSG commando Captain A.K. Singh who lost vision in his left eye during the Mumbai terror attacks. He will marry his
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    • Article
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      224 16 tabla ten 1Carat size of the diamond ring presented to chess maestro Viswanathan Anand by Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on behalf of the All India Chess Federation 50,000 Approximate number of apartments under construction in Bangalore, of which around 50 per cent were sold at launch 30,000 Number
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  • PERSONALITY
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      Lock icon The perfectionist in a hurry
      922 11  -  tabla! talk with Patrick with Patrick Jonas patrickj@sph.com.sg THE can-do spirit is pretty obvious throughout our conversation. Dr Jitendra V. Singh believes in himself a great deal. And that spirit has taken the dean of Nanyang Business School places. His fascination with mountains saw him
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      Lock icon The SRK moustache debate
      323 12/13 WE LIKE IT “I like it because he looks like an ordinary working man in this film and I think it appeals to the working crowd. It is one of the few times in Hindi cinema where they have downplayed the hero’s looks so much, especially
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      Lock icon High flyer
      625 12/13  -  Singer Krishna Kumar Kunnath, also known as KK, says his high-pitched songs are good, but he can lower his octave too ESHA LEPCHA Bollywood News Service Your film songs have often been high-pitched numbers: Khuda Jaane, Tadap Tadap Ke Iss Dil Se and Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai. Would
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      Lock icon Butter chicken is the way to Minisha’s heart
      473 12/13 In this season of feasting, Minisha Lamba dishes out the skinny on her favourite foods Bollywood News Service FOOD FANCIES: The first thing I have in the morning is a glass of milk. It keeps me going for a good two hours.
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      Lock icon A different kind of Dev
      486 14  -  Devdas goes modern. But will the audience accept this version of the classic love triangle? MAULI SINGH Bollywood News Service ANURAG Kashyap’s soon-to-be-released Dev D is a modern version of Sharatchandra Chattopadhya’s famous novel Devdas, which has been adapted into film time and time again
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  • FOOD
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      Lock icon Brunch for a song
      505 15  -  Song Of India’s beer brunch is good value for money in a fine dining locale SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg ONE of the banes of reviewing Indian restaurants for this column is the perpetual thought at the back of my head that the home-cooked version of any dish
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  • EDUCATION
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      Lock icon Quiz with a difference
      453 17  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of the three Indian schools here, to play reporter and photographer (This page will be rotated among the schools. Next week, DPS.) AMRUTHA SRINIVASAN, SINDHUJA KRISHNAN, Class Class 8 SINDHUJA
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
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        Lock icon Space journey
        232 17  -  LOSHINI SENTIL KUMAR RADHIKA SWAMINATHAN, Class 8 Class 8 TEN, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one… blast off! Together with the kindergarten students, we went on an exciting journey into space. An astronaut made a hesitant entry into the solar system on a quest for
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        Lock icon Shakespeare with a modern touch
        206 17  -  ABHISHEK G. FRANCIS, Class 8 WILLIAM Shakespeare may be one of the most popular playwrights but one of my classmates said: “I don’t connect with him any more.” So our teacher set up “old wine in a new bottle”. Our task: To present a contemporary
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  • RELAX
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      85 18/19 X’MAS ON ORCHARD ORCHARD Road comes alive with carols and Christmas festivity from Dec 19 to 25. More than 30 groups from Singapore and around the region will be performing. Among the items to watch out for are the Christmas Village at Plaza Singapura; the
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      783 18/19 GLOBALISATION MIGRATION IMMIGRATION This site installation by Indian artist Sovan Kumar is a scathing critique of the impact of the relentless progress of development and globalisation on the people and culture of his native Orissa. Using the truck as a motif of transport, he presents it as a
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
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          Lock icon KANDHA KADAMBA KATHIRVELA
          22 18/19 2pm VTV Prabhu, Vivek, S.V. Sekar, Vadivelu and Roja A comedy about a domineering mother and her three sons.
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        • Article
          Lock icon KING UNCLE
          89 18/19 4.30pm SONY ENT Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is a multi-millionaire industrialist. As a result of an unfortunate childhood incident he has come to the conclusion that money is the only important thing in life. Hence he lives a life devoid of love and emotion. Munna is a bold
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          Lock icon BABAL DA VEHRA
          51 18/19 9.30 pm VASANTHAM (Punjabi) A boy (Malkita Singh) goes to India to look for his father, who vanished while visiting India. Told that his father died in an accident, he decides to meet his grandparents and gets a shock: He meets his father’s first wife and another
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      • saturday
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          71 18/19 4 pm VASANTHAM This story revolves around four friends: Deshbandhu Roy (Riteish Deshmukh), Manav Shrivastav (Javed Jafferey), Aditya Shrivastav (Arshad Warsi) and Boman Contractor (Aashish Chowdhury).These four lovable idiots live and work together. Their idea of work is doing small time con jobs and have never thought of earning
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          Lock icon AAMDANI ATTHANNI KHARCHA RUPAIYA
          36 18/19 4.30pm SONY ENT This story is about the struggles middle-class people go through. In order to survive on their meagre earnings, most of them have to go through tremendous hardships and difficulties.
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          Lock icon VALLAMAI THAARAAYO
          61 18/19 9pm VASANTHAM Anand (Parthiban) and Nandita (Chaya Singh) are newly married. But Nandita, unable to forget her aunt’s son with whom she is in love, wants to leave Anand. She manages to get a divorce and starts to lead an independent life. Unable to forget Nandita, Anand sets
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      • sunday
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          Lock icon BAGHBAN
          80 18/19 5.30pm SONY ENT This is the story of Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) and his family, his wife Pooja (Hema Malini) and his four sons. Just like a gardener who plants a tree and nurses it in the hope that he would be able to bask in its shade when
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          Lock icon UNNALAE UNNALAE
          66 18/19 5.30 pm VASANTHAM Karthik (Vinay), a software professional, and Jhansi (Sada) are lovers. Jhansi is an introvert and so possessive of her handsome boyfriend that she can’t bear him even looking at another girl. But Karthik is a broadminded, very sociable youngster. This makes Jhansi wary of his
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      • monday
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          29 18/19 2pmVTV JI This film revolves around students and politics. The hero (Ajitkumar, above with Trisha) is a student leader who protects students from being exploited by unscrupulous politicians.
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          Lock icon PATHIKICHU
          38 18/19 5pmVTV In this movie, a man (Devaguru) murders women who are not faithful to their husbands. A reporter (Manjari) pretends to be blind and makes friends with the man to find out the reasons behind the murders.
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          Lock icon NIZHALAGAL
          43 18/19 MnVTy A story of three young friends (Ravi, Rajasekar, Chandrasekar) who are unemployed and Chandrasekar) who unemployed and finding it hard to make finding it hard to make ends meet. The shadows of these youngsters can be found everywhere in today’s society.
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      • tuesday
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          Lock icon GOOD LUCK
          54 18/19 2pmVTV Prasanth is a carefree youth living in Malaysia with his brother Raghuvaran and sister-in-law Sukanya. He falls in love with dancer Riya Sen, but just when things seem happy, a bombshell is dropped by a Sister Mary who tells Prasanth that he is the father of a
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          Lock icon VEETTUKU ORU NALLAVAN
          31 18/19 5pmVTV Rajini plays a police officer who has a lovable sister Roobini. When she is murdered by her husband, he resigns from his police job to take revenge.
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      • Wednesday
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          Lock icon SUYATCHAI M.L.A
          22 18/19 2pm VTV Double entendre and humour is the trademark of Sathyaraj. He plays a politician who becomes the chief minister.
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          37 18/19 Mn VTV Mohan, a rich lawyer’s son, gets into a relationship with Poornimajayaram, gets her pregnant and then dumps her. She decides to pursue justice, mainly to let society know that such guys should be punished.
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      • thursday
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          109 18/19 2pm VTV Karthik (Bharath), a software engineer, falls in love with Priya (Meera Jasmine). The girl’s family is against the relationship. Eventually, the couple walk out of the house and get married. But they face trouble in the form of a police officer who lusts after Priya. When he
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          Lock icon ARASANGAM
          77 18/19 9pmVTV Arivarasu (Vijaykanth) is happily married (his wife is played by Navneet Kaur). He is asked to solve the mystery behind the murder of the people who have created a path-breaking invention to help India. He also investigates the kidnapping of a senior police officer, his kidnapping police officer,
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      Lock icon QUIZ
      196 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Who was the founder of the Servants Of India Society? a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale b) Deendayal Upadhyaya c) Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak 2. Which of these leaves is widely used in Hindu rituals? a) Methi b) Tulsi c) Pudina 3. The fishing community Kolis live in
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      Lock icon MOVIE THIS WEEK
      160 20 GHAJINI Amir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan Sanjay Singhania is a rich businessman who owns a mobile phone company. Kalpana is a model who brags to her friends and peers that she is Sanjay’s love, though in truth she doesn’t even know the man. When Sanjay comes to
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    • mirch masala
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        Lock icon Goodbye girl next door, hello sexy Amrita
        82 20 AMRITA Rao is known for her girl-next-door image. Her roles so far have mostly portrayed her as a simple girl. However, with her upcoming flick Short Kut she sheds her inhibitions along with her clothes. And there’s no denying that she looks hot
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        Lock icon Mammootty’s happy with 2008
        114 20 MALAYALAM superstar Mammootty started the this year with hit film Roudram and is ending it with blockbuster Twenty 20. No wonder he says he is satisfied with his work. “As always, I worked with utmost dedication and commitment and I am happy with the returns,” he
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        Lock icon Grewal’s gung-ho
        88 20 RECESSION and the economic meltdown may have resulted in quite a few film-makers putting their projects on hold or completely swearing off making movies. But that hasn’t deterred Robby Grewal from making movies and keeping to a budget reasonable enough to assure decent returns. The director of films
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      318 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Made a harsh birdcall 6 Beauty’s admirer 11 Wooed successfully 14 Culpability 15 Leading male in a pack 16 “Be there minute” 17 Cause one to sink or swim? 19 Styron’s Turner 20 Actor’s ambition 21 Be apprehensive 23 Cuddly TV alien 26 Small amounts 28 Animator
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      97 18/19 SUDOKU 4 1 3 9 4 3 8 3 7 2 4 5 3 9 The objective is to place the digits 1 to 9 only, once in each of the small 3x3 squares. At the same time, you must create a row of unique digits going across and down
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      38 20 If you have something to say, please do drop us an e-mail at tabla.com.sg. It doesn't have to be sweet, but do try to keep it short. No more than 100 words. Type in 'tabla mail' under subject.
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      498 20 FUTURE SPEAKS KAMAL KAPOOR Aries Long-awaited wishes will not be fulfilled and chances of a promotion or career growth are very low. Control useless expenditure and purchases of new vehicles and property should be avoided or postponed. Family atmosphere and health can be a bit of a bother. Taurus Expect
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      117 20 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz 1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 2. Tulsi 3. Maharashtra 4. Shobha De 5. Uttar Pradesh 6. S.N. Bose 7. Walrus 8. The US 9. Uday Shankar 10. Soya bean what am i? sudoku 5 4 6 1 3 7 2 9 9 2 1 6 8 4 7
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon It’s Dr Sania
      295 21 Tennis star awarded honorary doctorate AS A child, Sania Mirza wanted to be a doctor. She was good in studies and equally good in tennis. She had to make a call and she opted for the racket. However, on Dec 11, Sania’s dream of becoming a doctor
      “enjoying PHOTO: AFP  -  295 words
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      Lock icon Pocket Hercules lifts local cricket
      720 22  -  SCA president Imran Hamid Khwaja believes Singapore can be an important venue for world cricket HEMANT KENKRE tabla@sph.com.sg HE MAY be diminutive but he packs a powerful but benevolent punch when it comes to running cricket in Singapore. President of the Singapore Cricket Association (SCA)
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      Lock icon A Test of character
      748 23  -  Will Rahul Dravid drop to No. 5? Can England salvage some pride? Stay tuned to the Mohali Test star column Harsha Bhogle THE final moments in Chennai were cathartic; for the players, for us and for many in the cricket world. Eleven months ago in Sydney
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