Tabla, 23 December 2011

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 046/03/2011 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23,2011 SjJl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • 226 1  -  54 young friends of tabla! share their festive desires... parents, take note! Sheela Narayanan TOYS, pets, chocolates... these are some of the things their little hearts desire. Of course, being children, they do think out of the proverbial box. So, when it came down to
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • INDIA
    • 739 2  -  The recent hospital fire was symptomatic of a nation’s apathy MUDAR PATHERYA in Kolkata tabla@sph.com.sg KOLKATA’S recent biggest fire tragedy that consumed 93 patients in an upmarket hospital was a shock all right... but not a surprise. India is an accident waiting to happen for its
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 261 3 A SINGAPORE company is bringing about changes to the lifestyle of people in one of Bangalore’s fastest-growing suburbs. Ascendas, which developed and operates the International Tech Park Bangalore (ITPB) in Whitefield, has added a mall within the park. The mall, called Ascendas Park Square, was
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    • 841 3  -  Family visiting from India receives $40,000 in donations to clear hospital, medical-travel bills ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankita@sph.com.sg ALMOST a month of misery and helplessness has finally come to an end for Mrs Poonam Jaswal. She flew home to India on Dec 20 with
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    • 599 6  -  Academics from revived Nalanda University give a talk on 1947 in the Mahatma’s life ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg MORE than 53 years after his death, Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts and teachings still have the power to transform people’s lives. That was the message of a talk held
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    • 329 6 THE Nalanda University, which is being revived in the Indian state of Bihar, has run into a funding problem. While the planned new university near the site of the ancient seat of learning has been granted 500 acres of land, construction has yet to begin. To help
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    • 284 7 CHARISHMA Kaur Gill was never the top student in class. But the 16-year-old CHIJ St Theresa’s onvent student did her school and family proud when she became one of the top Normal (Academic) scorers this year, with a perfect score of six points for English and
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    • 390 8 Here’s what 54 young friends of tabla! would love to see under their Christmas tree... hope their parents get the hint! ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESIGN: CAROL GAN Advait Chidambaram, 4 A remote control car Anika Kaicker, 3 Five big chocolates Avanie Joshi, 6 A lovely Christmas
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    • 546 10 / 11 So what if there’s no snow? There’s still plenty to do over the festive weekend G Hang on, there is snow... so what if it’s fake snow? The feeling’s still the same and it makes for a white Christmas at Tanglin Mall (above). When: Till Jan
      PHOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES, ESPLANADE, FRASERS CENTREPOINT MALLS, IANS  -  546 words
    • 1111 12 / 13  -  Yes, those are some of the places that dot the Yishun-Sembawang Trail. Time to start exploring! HELLO SINGAPORE SURESH NAIR tabla@sph.com.sg WHEN I picked up a copy of National Heritage Board’s Yishun-Sembawang Trail, I almost gasped in amazement... I live in
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    • 626 12 / 13 KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL (right): The opening of this hospital in 2010, near the Yishun Pond, marked a milestone in the history of healthcare in this area. This 550-bed hospital is designed to be “green”, with landscaping that provides a healing environment for patients while
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    • 286 14 “If they hail our cab and see later that it’s a Comfort taxi, they don’t want to get in.” ComfortDelGro cabby Mohamed Isham on commuter reaction to the company raising fares. Four other taxi companies have done likewise as of Dec 20 “Supernormal returns, supernormal compensation, some
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    • 87 14 1,701 Private homes sold in Singapore last month 15Aircraft grounded by Kingfisher Airlines because it is unable to pay their maintenance costs 500 Jobs to be created by Roll-Royce at its Seletar Aerospace Park office... 90 per cent will be filled by Singaporeans and PRs 79Percentage of rural
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    • 250 17  -  Jayati Bhattacharya, Aparajita Basu THE aim of the event was to capture the dynamism of women who took part in transnational migrations from the Indian sub-continent to the Malayan peninsula during and after the colonial period. Popular understanding of history accords diasporic women the
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    • 412 17 FIRST, some 1,400 passengers were delayed on their morning commute after a 40-minute breakdown on the Circle Line on Dec 14 when train service was disrupted from 6am to 6.40am at seven stations from Marymount to one-north. Full service was not resumed for almost six hours. Train
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  • BUSINESS
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      894 4 / 5  -  biz matters: Mahesh Sivaswamy (chairman CEO Transworld Group Singapore) PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg A PLEASURE boat anchored to a pontoon outside the Sivaswamy family’s living room gives you an inkling of their fondness for the sea. And rightly so. Mr Mahesh Sivaswamy and his wife Mala have been living
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    • biz notes
      • 129 4 / 5 STANDARD Chartered Bank has taken on its board the first Singaporean. The bank announced that it will appoint Mr V. Shankar, regional chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas, as group executive director with effect from Jan 1. He will continue to be responsible for
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      • 106 4 / 5 THE Wall Street Journal quoting sources say US investment bank Morgan Stanley is cutting 80 back-office positions in Singapore as part of measures to streamline its operations and is offering relocations mainly to India and Hungary. The sources added that the bank
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      • 127 4 / 5 THE Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) has appointed interim CEO Vaidyalingam Hariharan as CEO from Dec 12. His appointment is for an initial term of three years. In a statement, SMX chairman Ang Swee Tian said: “The board is pleased to appoint Mr Hariharan as the CEO of
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    • 341 4 / 5  -  Little India’s ‘Retail King’ inks US$115 million deal V. PALANISAMY palaniv@sph.com.sg V. Palanisamy is a News Editor at Tamil Murasu MUSTAFA is extending its reach across the oceans. The shopping mall, which is a magnet for Indians whether expat, local or tourist will soon
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    • 255 4 / 5 biz THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made its intentions clear. It does not want the rupee to slide further and announced that it had more tools at its disposal to arrest the fall of the rupee if needed. RBI deputy
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    • 23 4 / 5 S I N G Rs40.71 US$0.77 A$0.76 ¤0.59 £0.49 U S RS52.76 A$0.99 ¤0.76 £0.63 S$1.29
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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    • 49 10 / 11 BE PART OF US! m 6'" Year Salaam m inaia 1 2THT01 5TH JANUARY 201 2 SINGAPORE EXPO HALL 5A BOOK A STALL NOW! For trade enquiries and stall bookings, CALL; 9790 3636/ 9790 3764 MAIL; info@shaabaz.com VISIT: 390 Victoria St. #03-01 Golden Landmark, Singapore *****1 SEE YOU THERE!
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  • EDUCATION
    • 415 15 New institutes, new courses in industrial design to boost the country’s ability to meet global needs Indo-Asian News Service INDIA produces thousands of engineers and management graduates every year but not much attention had been paid in the past to areas like industrial
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    • 367 16 MONISHA JAIN MIRA GANESH, Class 10B TEAMS of students at GIIS schools in Singapore focused on identifying real world problems and arriving at workable solutions to these problems at the annual Real World Challenges convention at our school, GIIS East Coast Campus. The two of
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 223 16 CHANAKYA KALYANARAMAN, Class 4E HARSHALYA PANDEY, Class 4B QUALITY circle programmes are an important part of our school activities and we use them to improve various areas of our school. This year, our team we were called the Transformers had noticed people having trouble
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      • 262 16 PALAK SHARMA, Class 8A I RECENTLY represented my school, GIIS Queenstown Campus, in the Athletics Conference of Singapore International Schools (ACSIS) badminton tournament for Under-14 girls and boys. The tournament provided a wonderful opportunity for us to interact with badminton players from different international schools
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    • 221 15 Ms Nirmala Narendra Nath Parent of Anirudh Narendra Nath K2, GIIS Queenstown Campus in the Global Montessori Plus Programme. The Global Montessori Plus Programme is a proven, innovative model for Kindergarten education, incorporating the best of Montessori practices and pre-school education to learning. The pioneering programme is offered by the
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 793 18  -  The Don is back and Shah Rukh Khan says he enjoys his ‘grey’ role KRUTIKA BEHRAWALA Bollywood News Service AFTER playing the good robot G.One, Shah Rukh Khan is playing the bad guy again in Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2: The Chase Continues. And anticipation is so
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    • 255 18 Indo-Asian News Service AS THE Bollywood marketing machinery gets more sophisticated, more action films are extending their branding into video and social media games. Shah Rukh Khan’s new film Don 2 has been turned into a video game and director Farhan Akhtar says this
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    • 417 19  -  Suthasini Rajenderan has come a long way from belting out karaoke favourites in her parents’ living room SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg DON’T ask Miss Suthasini Rajenderan what she plans on doing next. She has yet to come down to earth from cloud nine after winning the local
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 50 19 GVvEXCLUSIVE THE KING IS M 9 J v Kffl w J m m wjf\ mj*' i 'l K "•> >?>■' r ,T; PRODUCED BV RITESH SIDHWANI, SHAH RUKH FARHAN AKHTAR music SHANKAR EHSAAN LOY lyrics JAVED AKHTAR cinematography JASON WEST PG Some Violence In Hindi English with English Subtitles !H
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  • RELAX
    • 374 20 / 21 EXHIBITION GPhotographs featuring Sikh heritage by Sondeep Shankar. Free admission. When: Dec 24 to 26, 10am Where: Central Sikh Temple, Level 3, 2 Towner Road Contact: 6299-3855 GImages of Vishnu and Vishnu worship from the National Museum and other collections are on show. Organised by the Indian Heritage
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    • 56 20 / 21 TEMPLE OPENING After extensive renovation work, the Central Sikh Temple celebrates its official reopening with four days of Anhad kirtan featuring Chaman Jeet Singh Lal, Bhai Amrik Singh Zakmi and Bhai Naranjan Singh. Admission is free. When: Dec 23 to 26, 6.30pm Where: Central Sikh
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  • Page 20 / 21 Miscellaneous
    • 222 20 / 21 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Rajadhi Raja 3.30pm SONY ENT: Sainik 4pm STAR PLUS: Rann 9pm VASANTHAM: Aatukkara Alamelu Mn VTV: Veppam Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Annakill 2.30pm COLORS: Love Story 2050 3pm STAR GOLD: Stanley Ka Dabba 3pm ZEE TV: Akleche Kaande 3.30pm SONY ENT: Hathkadi 4pm VASANTHAM: Double Dhamaal
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    • 318 20 / 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Attack, as with snowballs 5 Gather 10 Load a hold 14 It smells 15 “Abracadabra” stuff 16 Last word in church 17 Wrinkly Jamaican fruit 18 Covered by waves 19 Tender-hearted 20 Bring in the crop 21 Toddler’s third set of wheels? 23 Actor Pesci 25 “The
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    • 239 20 / 21 QUIZ DEREK O’BRIEN 1. In the Harry Potter books, Fawkes is the pet phoenix of… a) Sirius Black b) Rubeus Hagrid c) Albus Dumbledore 2. Which Spanish football club’s home ground is the Santiago Bernabeu? a) Real Madrid b) AC Milan c) Inter Milan 3. Which part of the human
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    • 77 20 / 21 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 The Charminar is a massive arch built
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 282 22 FUTURE SPEAKS KAMAL KAPOOR Aries Married life will be smooth, with only a few minor problems. Maintain harmonious relations with your spouse who will be able to help you a lot in your professional life. Taurus Postpone new and important ventures till circumstances become more favourable to you. Gemini You
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    • 30 22 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz sudoku 1. Albus Dumbledore 2. Real Madrid 3. Wind pipe 4. Universal Ruler 5. Confuse the predators 6. Russia 7. Chopstick 8. Collar 9. Telephone 10. Scrabble
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  • SPORTS
    • 808 23  -  Singapore referee’s red-card decision draws Afghan wrath SURESH NAIR tabla@sph.com.sg EVEN as champagne corks popped beautifully for India football coach Savio Medeira after his team won the South Asian Football Federation championship on Dec 11, frightful fireworks rained on Singapore referee Sukhbir Singh. For Medeira, it
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    • 821 24  -  India’s fortunes rest on Zaheer and Ishant columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg ON THE fingers that wrap themselves around a new ball, or indeed on the ankles, shins, hamstrings and other allied muscles of the owners of those fingers, could well reside India’s chances in Australia. The
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