Tabla, 14 January 2011

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  • 23 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 026/03/2010 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2011 SjSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • 1876 1  -  Refurbished stadiums, new pitches, anti-corruption personnel... India prepares for next month’s cricket World Cup HEMANT KENKRE in Mumbai tabla@sph.com.sg STUMPY’S ready. The bluish-grey elephant mascot of the 2011 cricket World Cup (right) is the “face” of the cricket bonanza that gets underway in the sub-continent on Feb
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    • 52 1 THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY BHOPAL’S TAJ MAHAL PAGE 4 SINGAPORE PRESENCE AT PBD 2011 PAGE 7 GET YOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING SHELL STATIONS WHILE STOCKS LAST NEPAL’S BOLLYWOOD AMBITIONS PAGE 14 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch us online
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  • INDIA
    • 95 2 / 3 That’s the way, aha, aha... South African cricketers (from left), Makhaya Ntini, Wayne Parnel and Jean-Paul Duminy get a dance lesson from Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and a dancer at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban on Jan 9. The party was to
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    • 38 2 / 3 IN AN article (India’s museums become relics too) published on Jan 7, we reported that the projected annual budget for 2010-2011 for India’s museums was Rs12,849 lakhs. It should be US$29 million instead.
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    • 519 4 Not too many people know a bout this palace in Bhopal Indo-Asian News Service DID you know there is a second Taj Mahal in India? While the imposing Taj in Agra has captivated the world for centuries, its less famous counterpart is lying in ruins in the
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    • 203 5 cu Confederation of Indian Industry Since 1895 Department of Commerce Ministry of Commerce Industry Government of India IBEF INDIA BRAND EQUITY FOUNDATION www.ibef.org HIGH COMMISSION OF INDIA. SINGAPORE The India Show Land of limitless opportunities 1 4-1 6 January 2.01 I Suntec International Convention Exhibition Centre, Singapore BIG BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
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  • BUSINESS
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      • 116 6 IF YOU invest in Haryana, you could get preferential treatment. The Indian state has decided to reserve up to 10 per cent of industrial plots or sheds for NRIs and persons of Indian origin (PIO), according to the Economic Times. A spokesperson of the Haryana State
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      • 98 6 INDIA’S finance Ministry has cut Customs duty on 539 manufactured items from Singapore. This is part of an agreed tariff elimination package under the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), a bilateral free trade pact. The Hindu’s Business Line reported that the latest move will further
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      • 81 6 ACCORDING to India’s tourism ministry, 6,549 foreign visitors availed the visa on arrival (VoA) scheme in 2010. The VoA scheme was introduced on Jan 1, 2010, for citizens of five countries Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore. Almost 2,000 tourists from New Zealand (1,944 to
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      • 125 6 THAT’S what consultancy and accounting group PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has forecast. In The World In 2050, published recently, PwC forecasts that India could be the fastest growing large economy in the world over the period to 2050, “with its share of global GDP, measured
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    • 206 6 biz THE Suntec exhibition area is a hot spot for Indians this month. Two weeks after The India Show, another big Indian exhibition will be held there. This time it will be HDFC’s India Homes Fair Singapore 2011 that will take
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    • 23 6 S I N G Rs35 US$0.77 A$0.77 ¤0.59 £0.49 RS45.13 A$1 ¤0.76 U S £0.63 S$1.28
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    • 413 6 Symposium at Suntec will focus on India’s ideas for the world INDIA can innovate. That’s the country’s strength and it is gaining a reputation for that in international markets. The Tata Nano is a perfect example. Not many believed a car could be built for Rs1
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  • SINGAPORE
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      509 7 9th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas’ emphasises engaging young overseas Indians OVER 1,500 persons of Indian origin (PIO) and non-resident Indians (NRIs) took part in 9th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) in New Delhi from Jan 7 to 9. Representing Singapore was a 21-member delegation from the Singapore Indian Chamber of
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    • 182 9 THE recently released Census 2010 has shown that the proportion of Indian residents in Singapore has increased by 1.3 percentage points to 9.2 per cent since the previous Census gathered in 2000. The Indian race has also become more diverse over the last 10 years with
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    • 310 9 PA develops four-tier system to get new migrants more involved in the community AFTER receiving his Singapore citizenship certificate on Jan 8, engineer Viswanathan Karthikeyan signed up to be a residents committee volunteer. The father of two, who hails from Chennai and has been in Singapore for
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    • 713 10  -  That’s just one of the questions a four-year-old has about the Ramayana SUNANDA ASTHANA STOPPING in the middle of the pedestrian path on his way to school, my four-year-old asked: “How big were Hanuman’s muscles?” Increasing the distance between his palms from about 12 inches
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    • 213 13 PHEW! That must be how motorists and motor traders felt when the Land Transport Authority announced on Jan 10 that the Certificate Of Entitlement (COE) quota for the next six months will be cut by just 3 per cent. This is
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    • singapore news
      • 183 13 THREE mature HDB estates Hougang, East Coast and Jurong Lake are set to be transformed under the second phase of Remaking Our Heartland (ROH), an initiative first announced in 2007 by the Prime Minister. The Government will spend $1 billion over the next five years to
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      • 95 13 IF YOU leak government data, if you receive this data, if you publish this data all will be punished, Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam told Parliament on Jan 10. Laying out the Government’s position on information leaks, he noted that the Official Secrets Act
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      • 124 13 SOME 150 people responded to the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore’s call for donations of artefacts and photos for the Nagore Dargah Heritage Centre in Telok Ayer. Handmade wedding dresses from the 1970s, an incense burner that is more than 60 years old and a miniature replica
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    • 193 17 7,395 Minutes Indian dancer Kalamandalam Hemaletha performed the Mohiniyattam in Thrissur, Kerala last September. It is a Guinness world record 10% Singaporeans are obese, according to the 2010 National Health Survey Rs48,000 Donated to charity by a newly-wed Tripura man after he sold all his wedding gifts in
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    • 356 17 “It does surprise me that a country of one billion is outside the top 100.” English Premier League team Arsenal’s soccer school head Paul Shipwright, on India’s 142nd spot in the FIFA rankings “Bollywood dancing seems very exciting, but I have realised it is very difficult and
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  • PERSONALITY
    • 1167 8  -  talk PRADEEP PAUL pradeep@sph.com.sg FOR someone who regularly logs 14-hour work days as a Member of Parliament and a high-flying legal eagle, Indranee Thurai Rajah has a very down-to-earth retirement plan: She wants to learn how to make handmade noodles and open a noodle shop. More about
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    • 66 9 or www.funhindi.com A whole new way to learn hindi online CONGRATULATIONS to our 2010 PSLE top performers for scoring A* A in their Hindi exams TV Sriya Bobba Ria Nagpal Anisha Boyapati Sridhar Vellanki Joseph Abraham Registrations now open for new batches of online Hindi classes for Primary and Secondary
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    • 156 10 Discover r the Wonder of the Montessori e F Montessori Preview Date: Friday, 14th Jan 2011 i'"*. V~ 4 Venue: 400 Orchard Road #24-10 Orchard Towers Singapore *****5 Time: 7.00pm Understand your child better with the Montessori Method We offer Diploma In Montessori Method Of Education Pa rt- Ti m
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  • EDUCATION
    • 660 11  -  Approach to learning has to change to acquire the necessary skills for life in the ‘global village’ G. BALASUBRAMANIAN tabla@sph.com.sg G. Balasubramanian is a former director (academics) of the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi, and is now the chief academic officer of
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    • 416 12 CAMPUS chatter from DPS International School SARTHAK BHATNAGAR, Class 7C THE preliminary round for the Clean and Green Singapore dance competition was held at Nan Hwa High School a few weeks ago. But the preparations had started from early October so as to
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 157 12 AARYANA PRADHAN, Class 2B MY CLASSMATES and I visited Singapore Orchid Garden a few days back. We found the orchid garden amazingly beautiful. In the garden, many colourful orchids were on display and the garden was very well maintained. We were thrilled to see different types of
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      • 192 12 RIYA BHAT, Class K2 (PM) LAST month was all about the colour purple in our kindergarten classes. The last of the month last Friday of the month saw everybody enthusiastically dressed in shades of purple it seemed to be a dream land as purple
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 551 14 Manisha Koirala did it... can other Nepali actors break into Bollywood? Indo-Asian News Service MANISHA Koirala was a trailblazer. In the 1990s, the Nepalese actress ruled Bollywood. But now that she’s married she married a businessman last year she’s stepping away from her acting career,
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    • 170 15 Bollywood theme is a hit at this corporate party IT DID not matter that there aren’t too many Indians in the department. It did not even matter that most members of the department had never worn Indian clothes. What mattered was that everyone was willing to jump
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    • 145 15 TALKS IN ENGLISH DATE TIME 21 January (Friday), 7.30 9.00 pm VENUE DBS AUDITORIUM, UEVEL 3, DBS BUILDING TOWER 1 6 SHENTON WAY (NEAREST MRT; TANJONG PAGAR) 3 b lie Physical yoga is a powerful practice that brings immense benefits to the body, mind and sense of wellbeing. But it
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  • FOOD
    • 478 16  -  Retired seafarer’s e-book has Malayalam, Bengali and even Chinese recipes SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg IF THERE was ever a local version of the popular cable television cooking contest Masterchef, Captain Alpha Abraham would probably have a good shot at winning it. With over 100 recipes in this
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  • RELAX
    • 459 18 / 19 INDIA SHOW 2011 The India Show 2011 is a three-day exhibition-cum-symposium with ministers and CEOs attending the event.There will also be a food festival and a cultural extravaganza. When: Jan 14 to 16, 10am to 6pm Where: Suntec International Convention Exhibition Centre, Hall 601 Contact: Log on to
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 18 / 19 TRIKON, THE WAR WITHIN A fusion of English theatre, bharatanatyam, kathak and kalaripayattu, this show delves into the reasons for the cataclysmic war in the Mahabharata and features the Republic Polytechnic Modern Dance Group (Singapore), Shruthilaya (Singapore) and Mudrika Foundation (Bangalore). Tickets: $88, $68, $48 When: Jan 22
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  • Page 18 / 19 Advertisements
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    • 65 18 / 19 ¯Listings on this page are free. Write to: tabla!, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Tower Block, Level 5, Singapore *****4; fax: 6319-8311 or e-mail: tabla@sph.com.sg at least two weeks ahead. Include the name of the event, organiser, venue, date and time, ticket prices and your name, address and contact number. Send
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
    • 232 18 / 19 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Engay Enadhu Kavithai 3.30pm SONY ENT: Yeh Vaada Raha/ 5.30pm STAR PLUS: Don 6pm STAR GOLD: Hum Tum Aur Ghost 8.30pm COLORS: Uttaran 9pm VASANTHAM: Kamal Hassan’s (below) 50th Anniversary Celebration (Part I) 10.30pm ZEE CINEMA: Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Mn VTV: Akku Saturday 9am VASANTHAM:
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    • 323 18 / 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Gate-locking device 6 Certain sandwich 10 In the proverbial cellar 14 Word of welcome 15 Bagel feature 16 Dull hurt 17 Alligator’s home, in urban mythology 18 Dwellers in 17-Across 19 Dietary fibre source 20 Fashion plates 23 London socials 24 Scratch post? 25 Date 26 Contribute
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    • 562 18 / 19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries There could be problems in relationship matters. Get counselling from friends or your parents. Taurus A good week for your career and health too will improve. Not a good time for romance though. Gemini You will be feeling romantic and playful. You will not face problems at
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 28 20 SOLUTIONS sudoku crossword 1. Mercalli Scale 2. James I 3. Leveret 4. Milan 5. Surgeon 6. Horse 7. The Tourist 8. Slave trade 9. Liverpool 10. Gouda quiz
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  • SPORTS
    • 742 21  -  They won the Chennai Open, but the reunited Leander Paes-Mahesh Bhupathi pair will find the Australian Open title more elusive free wheeling ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg Rohit Brijnath is a Senior Correspondent with The Straits Times. He will be covering the Australian Open (Jan 17 to 30) for the
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    • 932 22  -  Dilip Sardesai’s batting exploits opened a new chapter in Indian cricket history DR K.N. RAGHAVAN tabla@sph.com.sg Dr Raghavan is first secretary (commerce) at the Indian High Commission in Singapore and an international cricket umpire THE venue was Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, and the year 1971. A new-look
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    • Article, Illustration
      920 23  -  Scarcity induced pricing, supply-demand issues... the IPL auction can be a slippery slope columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg THE IPL auction has come and gone. About time too. The socialists complained about income disparities, academicians searched for patterns, some players prayed for more one-day games in Zimbabwe so they
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    • 204 24 Attention NRIs and PIOs www.hdfc.com t aitk'w/ftii Im'it m u /if, m man Prime properties of India, right here in Singapore we make homes happen Venue: Exhibition Hall 402, Suntec Singapore, International Convention Exhibition Centre Dates and Timing: 29th and 30th January, 2011; Sat and Sun, 10 am-8 pm Directions:
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