Tabla, 15 March 2013

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  • 28 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN CO MM U NITY INDIAN COMMUNITY Sjil A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 042/11/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MARCH 15,2013
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  • 1425 1  -  Has M.S. Dhoni done enough to silence his critics? ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg IN RECENT times, across cricket stadiums in India, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has received the loudest cheers from the crowds while stepping out to bat. Louder than the ovation reserved for Sachin Tendulkar. Which is saying
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    • 313 1 ■a Vs A MARCH “Ml STONE OF THE MONTH vE LLOW sapphire significance of this gemstone can be seen as a birth gemstone popularly known as pukhraj Scientifically,Yellow Sapphireis a mineral, with elements of aluminum, hydrovisil, and florin in it. India (Himalayas), Sri Lanka, Thailand, are the prominent sources of
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 75 2 THE main accused in the high-profile and gruesome Delhi rape case Ram Singh committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in the Indian capital’s Tihar jail on March 11. His body was cremated the following day in Delhi. Ram Singh was accused of raping and
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      • 91 2 AN 81-year-old woman (right) in the Indian state of Karnataka was honoured by the state government for planting 284 banyan trees along a national highway in the state. Salumarada Thimmakka was gifted a house, especially built for her by the government for her work over many
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      • 62 2 INCOME Tax officials in Ahmedabad have estimated that about 4,000 people in Gujarat state are crorepatis. Which means that almost 9.34 per cent of the 42,800 crorepatis in India, a figure stated by India’s finance minister during the budget announcement, reside in the state. This statistic accounts for
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      • 71 2 THE government in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has distributed the first of an estimated 1.5 million free laptops to college students. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav handed out the HP laptops, worth Rs19,000 each, to 10,000 students on March 11. The laptops have stickers
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      • 101 2 THREE Indian airports in Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad were recently rated as the top five in the world in various categories by the Airports Council International. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport was ranked second after Seoul’s Incheon for service quality for airports handling 25-40 million passengers per
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      • 140 2 BITTI Mohanty (right), son of a high profile Indian Police Service officer, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a seven-year sentence for rape was nabbed by the police in Kerala on March 9. He had been on the run for six years, living in
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      • 78 2 KERALA’S State Electricity Board (KSEB), reeling under monthly losses of over Rs200 crores, has come out with a unique scheme for domestic consumers which allows them to earn cash back for power saved. KSEB will provide a cash incentive of 50 per cent of the number
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      • 80 2 IN Maharashtra state, there is only one woman officer to every 10 male officers. This ratio falls appallingly short of the mandated minimum of three women to every 10 male cops. The state’s home department norms require that at least 30 per cent of the posts
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    • 723 4 Tourist train takes you to all the important Buddhist sites in India Indo-Asian News Service IT IS a trip tracking the Buddha’s path. The Mahaparinirvana Express helps the historian, the tourist and the pilgrim on his journey seeking salvation in retracing the footsteps of
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    • 84 2 r V .V-: r* 5*? The difference between Education and Learning. Education dictates. Learning motivates. Education tells you 'why'. Learning tells you 'how'. Education helps for a job. Learning helps for a life. Give your child the gift of inspired 'learning' at Yuva bharalhi and help them to be ahead
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 357 3 How to save a life Colorectal cancer is the number one cancer in Singapore. The lifetime risk of a Singaporean developing colorectal cancer is 3.9% (males) and 2.9% (females). Around the world, more than a million cases are diagnosed each year. Over half of those diagnosed will die. Sounds like
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    • 117 4 Visit us at Singapore Expo Hall No 5 15-17 March Stall A-37 Brought to you by tu* ASIA LEARNING RESOURCES PTE. LTD. contact@asialearn.sg or call 9101 8487 www.sipbrainpower.sg www.facebook.com/SIPBRAINPOWER Raining Amazing Discounts for upcoming AMA workshops, SIP Abacus enrolments and introducing a unique hands on experiential science lab The Science
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    • 88 5 I have what it takes Since 1956, MDIS has always believed that success comes through lifelong learning. That’s why, we constantly strive towards the holistic development of our students with a range of Diplomas, as well as Degree and Masters programmes awarded by acclaimed universities around the world. So, you’d
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  • EDUCATION
    • 1200 6 / 7  -  Melbourne-based Dr Natteri Chandran’s charitable organisation uplifts the downtrodden in Tamil Nadu village SURESH NAIR tabla@sph.com.sg TEARS well in Dr Natteri Chandran’s eyes as he recounts his visit in 1993 to Edaikazhinadu in amil Nadu to find a shambolic settlement with harrowing living standards. “It took
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    • 593 8  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of three Indian schools here to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, DPS) NIDHI MENON, Grade IB Year 1 WHETHER it’s
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 227 8  -  PRACHI PATHAK KAMAKSHI SHARMA, Grade 8C SCIENCE. This word has definitions which vary and have varied across the century. Man once thought that science was what Einstein had defined. But Man was proved wrong when various pioneers like Stephen Hawking and James Watson redefined science.
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      • 263 8  -  RUHI SONI, Grade 9 CBSEi ON FEB 8, NPSI held its Secondary Annual Production. However, this year came with a twist that made it twice as special: For the first time, it was held outside school at Republic Polytechnic Cultural Centre. A bigger stage, better
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 337 9 Students from 120 schools take part in spelling quiz ABOUT 1,300, the largest number of participants to date, of the nation’s top spellers took part in the preliminary round of the RHB-The Straits Times National Spelling Championship on March 9. The top 20 from each zone will qualify
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    • 487 10 / 11 In Parliament THE government will be setting up 15 new kindergartens in various HDB estates over the next three years, with the first five due to open next January. Announcing the details of this latest pilot programme, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said that some
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    • 299 10 / 11 SIX more general hospitals and up to 14 more polyclinics will be built by 2030 as the Ministry of Health (MOH) ramps up facilities to meet growing demands of a larger population that is fast greying. The Government will also pay a greater share of healthcare bills,
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    • 127 10 / 11 Celebrating Carnatic music... Kannada Sangha Singapore commemorated the birth of the great composer, Shri Purandara Daasaru, popularly known as Karnataka Sangeeta Pitamaha or Father of Carnatic Music, on March 2. The organisation, in association with the Woodlands Community Club Indian Activity Executive Committee, held a concert titled
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    • singapore snippets
      • 145 10 / 11 A REVIEW of the certificate of entitlement (COE) system is under way, but major changes if any are unlikely in the immediate future. “This is a longer-term study, and we will not be making major changes to the COE market in the near term,”
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      • 123 10 / 11 PATIENTS will no longer have to pay a $3 administrative fee each time they use Medisave to pay for medical treatment, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong announced in Parliament on March 12. The $3 fee has been imposed since Medisave started in
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      • 157 10 / 11 THE Government will spend $50 million over the next two years to give buses more priority on the roads, in a bid to improve bus speeds and reliability. It will do this by expanding several existing bus priority schemes, such as adding more bus
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      • 76 10 / 11 A RECORD 14.4 million tourists visited Singapore last year, but what they spent did not keep pace with the rise in numbers. Last year’s visitor numbers, according to preliminary estimates by the Singapore Tourism Board, were up 9 per cent on the 13.2 million
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    • 330 12 SecondLieutenant Kamalasivam Shanmuganathan receives the Chief of Army coin for his brave act during a hand grenadethrowing exercise HIS quick thinking averted a tragedy. Singapore Armed Forces’ Sec-ond-Lieutenant Kamalasivam Shanmuganathan’s brave act saw him saving his fellow serviceman’s life and also his. Recruit Abdul Hamid Abdul
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    • 241 19 “One common misconception of pregnant women is they have to be constantly gaining weight every week for their babies to keep growing.” Thomson Medical Centre obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Adrian Tan “The artefacts have their own energy so they create a conducive atmosphere where people can get
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    • 86 19 2.5 million sq ft Area of shopping mall, said to be India’s biggest, opened in Kochi, Kerala. It cost Rs1,600 crores 40,000 Owners of HDB flats who rent out some of their rooms 1,903 Number of people arrested for unlicensed money lending and related harassment cases in Singapore
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    • 95 12 HX VQy l V* Venue I 2013/ Cefebrating tfiFTnrth of Srimad BhagavacC(gita, the Lord’s Song Main Event: Gita Havan Ganapathi Homam Sri Krishna Poof a with Ashtotharam Full Gita chanting with ahuti for each sloka on 18 homa kun das Poornahuti Maha Prasadam pen field bound by Perumal Race Course/
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  • FOOD
    • Article, Illustration
      502 13  -  Bikanervala adds five new dishes to menu AJIT V. ABRAHAM abrahama@sph.com.sg HAVING been to the first Komcha Chaat festival last December, I was looking forward to what was in store at the new promotion. At that festival, Bikanervala offered customers 69 types of chaats. This time around,
      PHOTOS: AJIT V. ABRAHAM  -  502 words
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 404 14 Freida Pinto will be making her much-awaited Bollywood debut with Navdeep Singh’s NH10. Will she bring in the glamour quotient of Hollywood into B-Town? UP TILL now, Freida Pinto was never considered a Bollywood actress for one simple reason. She has never been seen in a
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    • 632 15 Film-maker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra feels it will grow only after it overcomes ‘intellectual bankruptcy’ Indo-Asian News Service THE Indian film industry, pegged at over US$3 billion, produces more than 1,000 movies annually. But acclaimed film-maker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra describes it as a “cottage industry” and
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    • 123 14 r KERALA Mj AYURVEDA CENTRE.->4|^ Singapore KERALA AYURVEDA CENTRE 444 Serangoon Road Singapore *****6 (Opposite Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple) Tel: 6392 4158 Centre For Traditional Ayurvedic Treatments The fully equipped treatment centre offers facilities for Traditional Ayurvedic Treatments under the supervision of experienced Ayurvedic graduates from Kerala. We have male
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    • 176 16 SINGAPORE INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY Presents SIFAS FESTIVAL OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC DANCE 2013 MARGAM Its Myriad Hues A Bharatanatyam Recital by Urmila Sathyanarayanan Esplanade Theatre Friday 22 March 2013, 8:00pm Ticket Prices: $80, $40, $30 SAMMILAN Spirit of Krishna A Carnatic Hindustani Orchestral Ensemble by Shashank Group Esplanade Concert
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 562 16 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You may be too bold and impulsive when spending money. Delay in communications may frustrate you on several occasions. Taurus Your efforts at work may result in a promotion or you could be entrusted with important assignments. People engaged in business will have great success. Gemini There
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  • RELAX
    • 426 17 CELEBRATION G Holi At Myra’s Beach: Celebrate the festival of colours with friends and family. Lunch will be provided. Tickets: $20 (adult), $10 (child) When: March 17, 11am onwards Where: 1390 East Coast Parkway Contact: 9829-7361 G Kesar Rang Gulal: Holi, the Festival of Colours, celebration by Temple
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    • Article, Illustration
      181 17  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which cartoon character has a van named the Mystery Machine? a) Scooby Doo b) Jerry mouse c) Goofy 2. What comes in varieties called Kaseri and Kefaloteri? a) Ice cream b) Salad c) Greek cheese 3. With which metal is the 50th anniversary of an event
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    • 64 17 WALK Awareness Day cum Walk A Jog held by HEB Ashram Halfway Halfway House. There will also be free health screening, an exhibi- tion on the programmes and facilities available at HEB-Ashram and a carnival with food and games stalls. Tickets: $15 When: March 17,
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 336 17 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 “What a shame!” 4 Gymnastics legend Korbut 8 Data storage units 13 “Dies (Latin hymn) 14 Change course suddenly 15 Third rock from the sun 16 Kids always lose them 18 Animal followed by a tickbird 19 Playwright Arthur 20 Fill beyond full 22 Bit of crowing
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    • 69 17 SUDOKU 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 the large grid. DID YOU KNOW Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous

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  • SPORTS
    • 992 22  -  Sportsmen’s lives too are governed by where they are on the grid of ambition/frustration and confidence/insecurity columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg THAT great cover drive that makes us stand up in admiration, that late outswinger that makes us gasp, the off break that turns in to hit
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