Tabla, 26 December 2008

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  • 24 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 171/09/2008 SINGAPORE, WEEKENDS OF DEC 26 2008 AND JAN 2 2009 3 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS
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  • 33 1 OUR 8-PAGE SPECIAL LOOKS AT WHAT INDIA, SINGAPORE, BOLLYWOOD AND INDIAN SPORT HAVE TO OFFER IN THE COMING YEAR it S PHOTOS: BOLLYWOOD NEWS SERVICE, REUTERS, AFP ION ORCHARD
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  • INDIA
    • 624 2  -  MUMBAI MUSINGS Ayaz Memon Ayaz Memon is Editor-at-Large with DNA IT’S been almost a month since the terror attack on Mumbai, and we have just about begun to breathe freely if indeed that is at all possible. Is there a way to reconcile with
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    • 576 2 Some businesses continue to flourish despite the global slowdown Indo-Asian News Service NOT all businesses in India have been affected by the economic downturn. While the banking and financial sectors are looking to the government for bailout packages, there are some sectors healthcare, clinical research, private security
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    • Article, Illustration
      531 4  -  If you’re thinking of forming a new venture... ROHAN RAJIV REALACAD is like bungee-jumping: It doesn’t make any sense in words. I pay money to tie a rope around my legs, then jump off a cliff. But it creates a life-altering experience that you remember each second of
      comprising people globe. activities they took part in. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROHAN RAJIV  -  531 words
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    • 61 2 See you on Jan 9 We’re hitting town a little early this week with our yearend special. And with many readers travelling over the holiday period, tabla! will take a break on Jan 2. It will be business as usual from Jan 9. Wherever you may be, here’s hoping you’re
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  • singapore news
    • 121 4 WITH 2009 shaping up to be a “difficult year”, the Government will try to moderate public transport costs, said Transport Minister Raymond Lim. The Public Transport Council (PTC) will continue to take economic conditions into account in its annual assessment of bus and train
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    • 90 4 FACED with rising competition and declining profit margins, some businesses have resorted to underhand tactics to squeeze customers, according to a new survey on Little India goldsmiths by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). Out of 10 randomly selected goldsmiths in Serangoon Road, Case found six weighed
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    • 146 4 BACK in 1992, Singapore was so confident of its legal case on Pedra Branca that it handed over all its documents to Malaysia. In his foreword to a new book on the 30-year dispute, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew disclosed he had instructed that the materials
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    • 101 4 A MEETING between aviation officers from Singapore and India at the Mumbai airport on Dec 18 turned nasty. Caught in the middle was Mr Karmjit Singh, 60, the chief operating officer of the Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats). He was beaten up by a group
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  • YEAREND SPECIAL
    • 215 6/7 A MIXED bag. That, for India and Singapore, is perhaps the most apt description for the year that’s winding down to a close. There was joy when athletes of both nations won long sought-after gold and silver medals. India’s moon mission brought pride and Singapore’s
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    • 213 6/7  -  Regardless of who holds the reins of power, the country will take the fight to the terrorists RAVI VELLOOR velloor@sph.com.sg IT WAS the year that skilful Indian diplomacy, abetted by an American president who has taken a shine to this country, winkled a landmark deal
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      111 6/7 RAHUL GANDHI MORE than personalities and programmes, the 2009 elections are likely to be decided on the arithmetic of alliances. Such is the character of India’s politics that no single party can hope for a clear majority. Almost without question, should Congress stay in power, Gandhi scion Rahul
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      120 6/7 KUMARI MAYAWATI JUST like Mr L.K. Advani, Ms Mayawati had looked all set to ride a chariot to New Delhi and take charge of the national government. Her election speeches for state polls confidently made allusions to that prospect. But the Delhi state assembly results, and indifferent performances
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      112 6/7 NANDAN NILEKANI HIS is the famous quote that Tom Friedman used for his book The World Is Flat. This year, Mr Nandan Nilekani himself became an author with Imagining India, Ideas For The New Century. Now, the co-chairman of Infosys Technologies has another challenge, and this time right
      PHOTOS: YALE UNIVERSITY, REUTERS, IANS & BT  -  112 words
    • 118 6/7 RAT AN TATA THE year past must surely have been tycoon Ratan Tata’s annus horribilis. Everything that could go wrong for him, it seems, did go wrong: His pet small-car project, Nano, had to look for a new home because of political opposition in its
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    • 185 6/7 L.K. ADVANI FOR five decades, Lal Krishna Advani has chased a dream to be prime minister of India. At 81, he knows the 2009 national election due by May is the now-or-never year for him to achieve that ambition. As the Bharatiya
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    • 242 8/9  -  Caution will be the catchphrase as the nation approaches the Year of the Ox SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg IT HAS been a rollercoaster year for Singapore. It was a year of celebrations as the Republic hosted the first ever Formula One night race which won accolades in
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    • 101 8/9 APEC MEETING IT IS Singapore’s turn to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit. And what better time to do it than the 21-member Pacific better time to do it than Rim group’s 20th anniversary? During the summit in Chile this year, where it was decided that
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    • 147 8/9 ORCHARD ROAD LOCATED at the corner of Orchard and Scotts Roads, above Orchard MRT Station, will be Singapore’s largest mall yet. Developed by homegrown CapitaLand and Hong Kong company Sun Hung Kai Properties, ION is set to open its swanky doors early next year. It will have
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    • 124 8/9 SHOWBIZ IF YOU don’t know who Fann Wong is, next year you will. One of the local queens of television who had a role in the 2003 Hollywood flick Shanghai Knights, which starred Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, Fann will be getting hitched to another local
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    • 118 8/9 BUDGET IT HAS been brought forward by a month, from February to January, and is probably one of the most awaited events of Singapore’s new year. Given the current economic climate, all eyes will definitely be on Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam (right) when he announces
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    • 188 8/9 SPORTS SINGAPORE will be playing host to several international sporting events in 2009. While the Formula One race will roar back into town in September, a newcomer will be the ITU Triathlon World Championships. Held over two days May 8 and 9 this prestigious
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    • 258 10/11  -  Will a platter of superstar-laden movies be enough to overcome the gloomy economy? TANVEER BOOKWALA Bollywood News Service AS WE bid adieu to 2008, Bollywood knows this definitely hasn’t been its best year. Just a handful of films Race, Jodhaa Akbar, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane
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    • 153 10/11 AISHWARYA RAI WHILE 2008 proved to be a regal year for Aishwarya with Jodhaa Akbar doing majestically at the box office, Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar Raaj paired her for the first time opposite husband Abhishek Bachchan. The quality of directors backing Aishwarya now would be the envy of
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    • 242 10/11 SHAH RUKH KHAN SHAH Rukh Khan’s sole release in 2008 (not counting his cameo in Bhootnath) has been Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The recently released film is held together by the sheer will of a superstar who seemed to relish the opportunity to
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    • 293 10/11 CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA/3 IDIOTS PART of the joke in Chandni Chowk To China, an ebullient coming-of-age tale about a humble cook destined for greatness, is the fact that it almost reads like an autobiography of the lead hero’s real life escapades. And
      comedy PHOTOS: BNS, FILE, INDIA FM & TNP  -  293 words
    • 120 10/11 KAREENA KAPOOR KAREENA Kapoor had a blow-hot-blow-cold 2008 as two of her films had dramatically different fates. While she created a hue and cry with her size zero frame with Tashan, the film collapsed without a trace. So did Roadside Romeo. Golmaal Returns, however,
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    • 127 10/11 HRITHIK ROSHAN HRITHIK Roshan marched on in 2008 with aplomb as the Shahenshah Akbar in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar. Like Aamir, this man sticks to the one film a year routine, and further strengthened his superstar status in Bollywood. In 2009, Hrithik is gearing
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    • 232 12/13 Will India win the World T20 Cup? Will Saina rule at the All England? Will Jeev win a major? Stay tuned SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AN OLYMPIC gold came India’s way after 28 years. Yet, as the country celebrated Abhinav Bindra’s marksmanship at the shooting range, there were
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    • 135 12/13 WORLD T20 CUP MANDATORY viewing... so what if this is only the second World T20 Cup? Hell, this is one mega-cricket event in which Australia are not defending champions, a novel happening in itself. Even the man on the moon knows who won the first
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    • 135 12/13 SANIA MIRZA JUST when she looked like making another surge up the charts, Sania Mirza’s career went into a tailspin. A wrist injury after a hot early season streak required surgery in April and since then it’s been a long struggle through the majors and
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    • 126 12/13 SAINA NEHWAL SHE went to within a round of being in medal contention at the Olympics. But she could go further. She won the world junior championship, but she could win bigger. She is ranked No. 11 in the world but beats players ranked
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    • 145 12/13 JEEV MILKHA SINGH WHEN a man of Jeev Milkha Singh’s achievements says he is ready to win a major, you’d better pay attention. The first Indian on the European tour, the Christopher Columbus of Indian golf is still prospecting new territory, going where
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    • 138 12/13 M.S. DHONI DON’T be too surprised if a newspaper announces that the India captain is going to walk walk on water: on That’s how gungho the news around Mahendra Singh Dhoni is these days. He did little days. wrong in 2007, won matches, earned brownie
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  • FOOD
    • 356 14 “Offshoring is not about shifting to ever lower wage countries from India to Vietnam or Sri Lanka.” Professor Arie Y. Lewin, who headed the study team which surveyed over 1,600 companies in the US and Europe. He says it is about high-value addition and business strategy “There
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    • 208 14 15.4 million Number of page views Stomp got in November. The website’s most popular section is Singapore Seen. Go check it out now 800,000 Number of e-books available free at the National Library Board’s eResources microsite. It also has 157 databases, 600 e-magazines, 700 e-newspapers in 37 languages,
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  • EDUCATION
    • 1180 15  -  tabla! talk with Jawharilal Rajendran with Jawharilal Rajendran prowess. raj@sph.com.sg THERE are few things in life that faze Mr Subhas Anandan. He has chatted with criminals as they await their date with the hangman, and he himself has had a few brushes with the grim reaper
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 473 16  -  Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruti makes her acting debut in Bollywood SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg IF YOU are a popular film star, producer or director, it seems almost inevitable that your children should follow in your footsteps. The latest addition to the ranks of show business offspring is
      Haasan (above and left, getting PHOTOS: HUPAGES.COM  -  473 words
    • 316 16  -  MAULI SINGH Are you convinced? Bollywood News Service THE Bhatts have found a novel way of cashing in on the success of their previous hits using a popular title from an earlier hit for a completely new story. They have completed Raaz The Mystery Continues (below)
      Are you convinced? Bollywood News Service  -  316 words
    • 418 17  -  Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawalla promise to rock the stage when they perform here on Jan 2 SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg SUNIDHI Chauhan (right) and Kunal Ganjawalla (left) have plenty in common. They are not classically trained singers. But their have Hin- But their unique pipes
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    • 433 17  -  Bollywood’s latest starlet talks about her new film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi JIGAR SHAH Bollywood News Service AFTER five years of modelling, Anushka Sharma has broken into the world of cinema. And what better platform than the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, Rab Ne Bana
      Bollywood News Service; Sharma seen here in a still from her first film, PHOTOS: YASHRAJ PICTURES, D'IDEAZ  -  433 words


  • RELAX
    • 92 18/19 NATARAJ SHARMA: AIRSHOW Contemporary Indian artist Nataraj Sharma’s imagination takes flight as he explores notions of space, power and the mechanics of travel in relation to mobility in his solo exhibition, Airshow which investigates one of mankind’s most important and powerful inventions the aircraft, a
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    • Article, Illustration
      747 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
        • 63 18/19 2pm VTV A young man (Dhanush) finds a job in Singapore through an agent. When he arrives in the country, he loses his passport, gets into a fight with some Chinese immigrants and accidentally kills one of them. He goes on the run. Then he is promised a
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      • saturday
        • 76 18/19 4.30pm SONY ENT Toy factory owner Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) loves his son, Aditya who is aimless and irresponsible and has no interest in taking over the business. Aditya and Mitali (Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra, below) and the two elope. She ends up pregnant
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      • sunday
        • 68 18/19 5.30pm VASANTHAM This hit film is about friendship and cricket. Two cricket gangs, the Sharks and the Rockers, in the Chennai suburb, R.A Puram go bat-to-bat in the neighbourhood’s cricket league. The two teams have such an intense rivalry that they clash off-pitch. How are the underdog Sharks
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          118 18/19 Midnight VTV Billa (Rajnikanth) is the leader of an underworld gang. He is being tracked down by the deputy superintendent of police (DSP). In one of their confrontations, the DSP kills Billa and secretly buries him. He gets Raju (Rajnikanth in a double role) to impersonate Billa so that
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      • monday
        • Article, Illustration
          94 18/19 11am SONY ENT Four guys (Sanjay Suri, Rohit Roy, Bikram Saluja and Dino Morea) go to Mumbai where they live it up gambling their money awayand rack up a debt of Rs7 lakhs. As a result, their lives are at stake. They decide to kidnap a rich tycoon to
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        • 82 18/19 5pm VTV Thomas (Arvind Swamy) returns from America to take over his father’s textile business. He meets and falls in love with the beautiful Priya (Kajol), a student in the convent run by his aunt. What he doesn’t know is that Priya wants to be a nun and
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      • tuesday
        • 85 18/19 11am SONY ENT After witnessing the death of a woman who was unable to afford hospital treatment, Dr Ajay Kumar (Nagarjuna) sets out to open a free hospital. His plan draws quite a bit of attention and he becomes popular with two young women, Shweta (Manisha Koirala) and sub-inspector
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        • 109 18/19 5pm SJAR GOLD This film is a homage to RD Burman where 14 of his memorable hits are weaved into this story about four couples a pair of aspiring singers (Madhavan and Namrata Shirodkar) whose marriage teeters on the edge when the wife becomes a star.
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      • Wednesday
        • 93 18/19 11am SONY ENT Vikram (Rishi Kapoor) and Sunita (Poonam) love each other but Vikram’s mother disapproves. They decide to get married without her approval but on their way to the temple, they are involved in a serious accident. Vikram suffers minor injuries but Sunita’s face is badly
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        • 63 18/19 5pm VTV Arjun and Shailaja (Jayam Ravi and Shreya, right) are deeply in love and decide to marry. But Deva (Rahul Dev) and decide to marry. Deva (Rahul Dev) a notorious gangster is attracted gangster is attracted to Shailaja’s beauty and beauty wants to marry her. So he marry
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      • thursday
        • 27 18/19 3.30pm STAR PLUS Tragedy strikes the family when Kumkum becomes a widow and is forced to marry her husband’s younger brother, causing heartaches.
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          107 18/19 6.30prn Zee TV A new serial from Zee where romance meets the paranormal. Hari is the ideal son-in-law for any family looking for one. However since his parents have started looking for a match for him, there have been 12 rejected proposals. The family tantrik tells them that there
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    • Article, Illustration
      176 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. What is Dinitrogen Monoxide commonly known as? a) Laughing gas b) Chloroform c) Smelling salt 2. Which is a memorial to Indian soldiers who died in WWI? a) India Gate b) Jantar Mantar c) Bada Imambara 3. What became Britain’s national bird by public ballot? a)
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    • 132 20 GHAJINI Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan THIS is the Hindi remake of a Tamil movie which borrowed heavily from the 2000 Hollywood film, Memento. Sanjay Singhania, a rich businessman who owns a mobile phone company, finds out that Kalpana, a model, has been bragging that she and
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    • mirch masala
      • 139 20 WHEN the big boys promote their films, a little bitching is required it seems. While promoting his film Ghajini, due to be released here on Dec 25, Aamir Khan had said that fellow star Shah Rukh Khan was afraid to work with him which is
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      • Article, Illustration
        93 20 SAIF Ali Khan (above with girlfriend Kareena Kapoor) has been called a lot of things but a good luck charm? Apparently Kareena thinks so. The actress said in an interview with the Indo-Asian News Service that her career has started looking up ever since Saif entered her life.
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      • 82 20 A SPOOF of Saawariya in the comedy hit Golmaal Returns has left a bad taste in Sony BMG’s mouth. The music label has filed a case in the Mumbai High Court against the producers, Shree Ashtvinayak Films, for the illegal use of the song Jab Se Tere
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    • 588 21  -  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 issue, GIIS.) ALAN ABRAHAM, Class 9 CAMP.
      Friendship Camp. PHOTOS: DPSIS  -  588 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOT
      • 218 21  -  K.S. ABHISHEK, Class 6A WE HAD a marvellous opportunity to participate in an inter-school competition in Singapore, conducted by the Ministry of Environment. When I was selected for the team, I was really happy but anxious. And even though we were given ample time to
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  • Page 18/19 Miscellaneous
    • 331 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Fanny pack’s attachment 6 are silent in times of war” (Cicero) 10 Antiquing aid 14 Ordinary writing 15 Tons and tons 16 Jerry Lewis film “Friend” 17 Popular grilled fish 19 Britt, the Green Hornet 20 “*****” band 21 He’s in boots 22 Deciduous trees 24 Chophouse
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    • 101 18/19 SUDOKU 7 4 1 5 2 2 9 7 8 4 8 2 1 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 over
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    • 39 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. tabla!
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 443 20 FUTURE SPEAKS KAMAL KAPOOR Aries Planets are moving in your favour and business and travel may be a source of gains. Your domestic life will be comfortable and your health good. There may be a tendency for you to indulge in black magic or cheating. Taurus You may buy a
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    • 115 20 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz 1. Laughing gas 2. India Gate 3. Robin 4. Kimkhab 5. Violin 6. German 7. Egyptians 8. South Korea 9. Chenab River 10. Abraham Lincoln what am i? sudoku 3 7 9 4 5 8 2 1 8 5 4 2 6 1 6 3 9 1
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  • SPORTS
    • 670 22 Mary Kom has won the 46kg amateur boxing title four times. Yet she is barely recognised on the streets. That should change soon BLAME it on India’s obsession with cricket. The achievement of a Manipuri mother of two on the world boxing scene last month did
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    • 1065 23  -  It can make you scream... in agony and ecstasy. And that’s what makes it special star column Harsha Bhogle tabla@sph.com.sg THE year began with a family feud that threatened to tear apart our tiny community. It ended with two events of utter warmth, of romance and
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