Tabla, 10 October 2008

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  • 19 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 171/09/2008 WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 2008 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS
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    • 171 1 NANO’S ROAD TO GUJARAT PAGE 8 ROHIT BRIJNATH SPEAKS TO ANILKUMBLE PAGE 47 PAGES 4 5 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch us online at www.tabla.com.sg "The goal to Early Childhood Education should be to cultivate the child's own natural desire to learn." Dr
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  • INDIA
    • 862 1  -  Behind the glamour lies a desire to set up a school and teach children DEEPIKA SHETTY a deepika@sph.com.sg Deepika Shetty is a correspondent with The Straits Times, Life! IF THE camera hadn’t chosen Shah Rukh Khan, chances are he would have become a teacher. “My
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    • 862 1  -  Behind the glamour lies a desire to set up a school and teach children DEEPIKA SHETTY a deepika@sph.com.sg Deepika Shetty is a correspondent with The Straits Times, Life! IF THE camera hadn’t chosen Shah Rukh Khan, chances are he would have become a teacher. “My
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    • 393 2 You and tabla! the heartbeat of the Indian community INDIANS have been coming to these shores ever since Sir Stamford Raffles first set foot in Singapore in 1819. But at no time has the influx been as eye-opening as in recent years. This little red dot which we hope you
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    • 600 2 Indian-American Neel Kashkari is the man overseeing the US$700 billion rescue fund YOU don’t need to be a rocket scientist to make profits if you sell stocks when the market is high and buy them when it is low. But if you think a
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      1288 4  -  tabla! examines the global brand empire that is Shah Rukh Khan Sheela Narayanan SRK: THE FAMILY MAN DESPITE his several onscreen personas, Shah Rukh’s image as a happily married family man who has built a secular household with his Hindu wife Gauri and their two children Aryan and
      Suhana. PHOTO: IANS; PHOTO: AFP; success. PHOTO: IANS; Shah Rukh. PHOTO: AFP  -  1,288 words
    • 363 6 Sold out concert in memory of his father LONG before the Mittals and the IT czars became the icons of India to the outside world, there was Zubin Mehta. In an age when India was the land of the snakes and elephants, Mehta, along with
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      655 8 Driven out of West Bengal, Tata’s budget car has found a welcome parking spot in Gujarat LIKE the eligible Non-Resi-dent Indian on a short holiday to find a bride, the Tatas rushed around India looking for a site to relocate its Nano project. And, like proud, wealthy Indian
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    • 306 8 Indo-Asian News Service CARS may be getting cheaper in India, but people may find it harder to buy them. Car sales by the Indian automobile industry have been hit hard by the squeeze on retail financing as banks have stopped hardselling car
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    • 426 9  -  DELHI DURBAR Ravi Velloor Ravi Velloor ELHI-WALLAHS may be excused ior havD ing an inordinate urge to hum ‘Love is in the air.’ First, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sent titters across the country and jitters within his Congress party, for gushing to George Bush that
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    • 114 9 MAY I check your coconut? That’s the apologetic request some devotees are getting as they enter temples these days, ahead of Diwali. The recent bomb blasts have placed security high on the agenda in many parts of Delhi. Take South Delhi’s Shakti Peeth
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    • 872 10  -  It shrugged off the Asian financial crisis of 1997. But the shockwaves of the sub-prime crisis are making the Indian economy shiver RAVI VELLOOR quarter year.” velloor@sph.com.sg HE signs of a slowing Indian T economy are everywhere. Mall owners willing to waive rents for
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    • 595 11  -  Aravind Adiga could win Booker next week DEEPIKA SHETTY deepikas@sph.com.sg Deepika Shetty is a correspondent with The Straits Times, Life! WHEN all five judges of an award as prestigious as the Man Booker Prize for fiction agree on a book that must be on
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    • 192 11 THE WHITE TIGER By Aravind Adiga Atlantic Books/Paperback/321 pages/S$32.95 with GST/Borders ADIGA is a Mumbai-based writer and journalist. He was born in Chennai in 1974. He did his schooling in India and Australia before going on to study English literature at Columbia University, New York, and
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    • regional roundup
      • 140 12 English lessons for waiters, cabbies Beijing showed the way during the Olympics. The Chinese city managed to train hundreds of people in the service industry to speak English. New Delhi plans to do something similar. According to a plan being drawn up by the Union tourism ministry, the city’s
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      • 119 12 Airport’s crash landing ALL these years, the complaints were against the slow progress in building the new airport in Bangalore. Now, a few months after the airport in Devanhalli was thrown open, a joint state legislature committee has given the airport the thumbs down... even before it has submitted
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      • 124 12 Rajinikanth’s fans want politics next Rajinikanth’s fans want politics next Fans of the Tamil film star Rajinikanth launched a political party in Coimbatore in a bid to force him to enter the political arena. The fans released a flag and announced the party’s name as Desiya Dravida Makkal
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      • 171 12 Rave party busted Rave party busted The children of two Bollywood stars were among 231 people detained by the Mumbai police after they busted a rave party earlier this week. News reports have it that actor Shakti Kapoor’s son and Aditya Pancholi’s daughter were detained and eight alleged drug
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    • 111 13 All work comes to a halt as people rejoice A Durga Puja pandal built in the shape of the Eiffel Tower (right) is lit up in Ranchi. In Kolkata some even made a model of the Nano at one of the pandals. (Below) An image
      Goddess Durga at a pandal in PHOTOS: AFP, AP, REUTERS  -  111 words

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    • 161 1 NANO’S ROAD TO GUJARAT PAGE 8 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch us online at www.tabla.com.sg "The goal to Early Childhood Education should be to cultivate the child's own natural desire to learn." Dr Maria Montessori(l870-I952) To us at The Modern Montessori International Group,
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    • 10 1 ANILKUMBLE SPEAKS TO ROHIT BRIJNATH PAGE 47 PAGES 4 5
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    • 246 7 Grand Flectrical fair 08/09 I 3rd Oct OB 25th Jan X>9 imp This year s Grand Electrical Fair pampers you with an irresistible line-up of the most sought-after home and entertainment innovations. From now till 25th January 09, shop at Best Denki and you could WIN the Mazda3 SP 1.6L
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    • 28 8 STAY IN TUNE WITH THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY tabla! Get 52 copies of tabla! delivered to your doorstep for just $28. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg
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    • 101 9 Custom made diamond necklace, perfect for the season's "I must be invited" wedding The Indo-West polki earrings, the conversation starter for gossip filled Diwali parties Prepare Yourself from Diwall to December The fiery cocktail ring, when less says more The rose gold and white agate pendant for the year's final
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    • 92 13 BACK/NECK PAIN Common Problem Many Causes f > v COMMON CAUSES Disc Prolapse I Herniation Lumbar Pelvic Strain Muscular Weakness Facet Joint Problems Many other causes TREATMENT OPTIONS Spinal Decompression Therapy Interferential I Shortwave I LASER Core Stabilising Muscle Exercises Manual Therapy Mobilization Various treatment options ALL OPTIONS AVAILABLE UNDER
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  • PERSONALITY
    • 912 14  -  tabla! talk with Patrick Jonas WITH his oval-shaped glasses and salt-and-pepper beard, Mr Piyush Gupta has a professorial demeanour about him. But the avid book lover is a top-level banker. He is the CEO of Citibank for South East Asia Pacific. He did, however, come
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 345 16 “He wanted to play with a free mind against Australia and now he can do that.” Chairman of selectors Krishnamachari Srikkanth after Saurav Ganguly announced his retirement. “There is a bad M and a good M and we have made the transition.” Ratan Tata referring to Mamata
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    • 180 16 900,000 Number of Indians who die annually of tobacco-related diseases. 16 billion Amount richest Indian Lakshmi Mittal lost in the last four months due to plunging stock markets. US$5 billion Figure Indian biotechnology sector is expected to touch by 2010, according to a report by industry chamber CII
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    • 578 18 And they’re staying longer and spending more. Who cares about the global slowdown? Indo-Asian News Service 00D news for Singapore‘s hotel managers, restaurant and shop owners. Despite rising air travel costs, Indians have retained their spot among the top five nationalities to visit Singapore and, thanks
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    • 539 20 Singapore air charter firm eyes 120 cities Indo-Asian News Service SINGAPORE-BASED air charter operator Bjets, which has begun operations in India, is now looking at tie-ups with international carriers. According to a top company official it wants to provide feeder services to smaller cities in India.
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    • 569 22 Gujaratis here celebrate with three nights of song and dance THREE nights of fun. And each night there were eye-catching performances by the women and young girls. They were part of the Gujarati community in Singapore celebrating Navratri. The celebrations were hosted by the Singapore
      Indo-Asian News Service.; time during all three nights of the Navratri PHOTOS: SINGAPORE GUJARATI SOCIETY  -  569 words
    • 473 24  -  18 rare paintings on show at Suntec DEEPIKA SHETTY IN A sign of the rise and rise of contemporary Indian art, Anish Kapoor’s artwork Alba, made of stainless steel and paint, went under the hammer at Sotheby’s for US$1.4 million. Recognising the potential of Indian
      PHOTOS: ART ALIVE, ART SINGAPORE  -  473 words
    • 385 25 BlackBerry feels it could help India in its progress LACKBERRY will be a major tool B in India’s quest to become a developed nation by 2020, according to a top official of the company. “BlackBerry could be a great platform for India’s 2020 vision of development
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    • 596 21 Kalaa Utsavam Indian Festival of Arts 7-16 Nov 08 >a/ If Celebrate contemporary and traditional Indian performing arts with renowned and up-and-coming artists. K&iaa Utsavam INDIAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS 7-16 NOV 08 Pakistan Ghulam Ali in Concert Love, poetry and music by the king of ghazals r who has enchanted
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    • 283 22 K) KADEKA JAPAN www.kodeko.com.sg After mouths on the trellis, the premium mine yrapes houe ripened. This is jusi tint bujiMiAiMy. The precious grapes go into another painstaking process. From juicing to fermentation, and maturing to fruition of the prized wine, great attention is paid to the tiniest detail. And it
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    • 355 25 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. SINCE 1909 -r.-i' For th*n«yt g^cratJon Y n E H By the
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  • MOTORING
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      464 27  -  Carmakers get creative in these lean times LEE NIAN TJOE in Paris, France Lee Nian Tjoe is editor of Torque, a motoring monthly by SPH Magazines. THE automobile industry is under siege. On top of the economic woes, there’s increasing pressure to stretch the litre (thanks to ev-er-rising
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  • FITNESS
    • 261 28 HAVE you started snacking on those festive treats? Naughty, naughty! Okay, don’t fret. tabla!’s fitness page will help you work off those excess calories. To kick off this column, we asked Nidhi Banthia-Mehta, founder-chief creative officer of BollyBeatz, to show us some fitness moves... Bollywood
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  • 919 29 Knee replacement surgery and rehabilitation goes off without a hitch IF YOU observe Mr Mitta Narayan Kuppuswami’s confident strides today, you would never imagine that he could barely keep his legs straight just three years ago. The retired Indian national, who is 81 now, used
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  • EDUCATION
    • 242 30  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for the students of the three Indian schools here to play reporter and photographer (This page will be rotated among the schools, kicking off with Global Indian International School this
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 161 30  -  Radhika Kannan and Masha Chandrasekaran (Class 10) (Class 10) TO promote excellence in cricket, Global Indian Foundation formalised the first Singapore Inter-School International Tournament for International and Ministry of Education Schools in 2005. This event, called the Global Indian International School Cup or the GIIS
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      • 186 30 IT ISN’T every day that a VVIP visits a school and we were indeed lucky to have met Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, India’s former president when he inaugurated Global Indian International School’s third campus in Singapore, the Balestier Campus, on Aug 27. Witnessed
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    • 274 31 every year. Indo-Asian News Service IT is back to school for Somya and Shubham Giri. Last month the two were struck off the rolls by their south Delhi school as their parents could not afford to pay their school fees. Last Friday,
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    • 340 31 Indo-Asian News Service. ERALA is known to be India‘s most literK ate state, Here education is big business. Hardly anyone gives up an opportunity to start a school in the state as there is no shortage of students when the quality of education
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 428 32 Urmila Matondkar may be releasing two films this month: Karzzzz and EMI. But she’s still looking for her dream man Bollywood News Service AST year was relatively quiet for Urmila Matond—kar she only had one film in her kitty, SPEED. But she‘s back with a
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      512 33 Farhan Akhtar can sing, act, direct, produce... and he’s cute. But he says his wife’s okay with the female adulation Bollywood News Service DIRECTOR-producer-actor-sing-er-dialogue-writer-screen-play-writer-lyricist... one sure needs a lot of hypens when writing about Farhan Akhtar. But then, this is a man who says “one should push one’s
      Bollywood News Service; Arjun PHOTOS: BNS  -  512 words
    • mumbai masala We bring you the gupshup from Mumbai’s Tinseltown every week
      • 174 34 BOLLYWOOD’S hot in Eastern Europe. A Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, has found a rather interesting way to increase its sales. It is offering a Bollywood movie DVD every Saturday at a discounted price to its readers. As a result sales have gone up to 50,000, reported the
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        78 34 IT must be nice being the girlfriend of one of Bollywood‘s A-list stars. You get on all sorts of lists. Look at Katrina Kaif, Not only is her ca» reer going great, she is al—so the queen of polls. She was recently vot- ed as the Sexiest Asian
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      • 159 34 THE advertisements on India’s television channels may be advocating safe sex but the Indian Censor Board has other ideas. The board recently cut a scene from Atul Agnihotri’s upcoming film Hello where actress Gul Panag’s character asks her boyfriend played by Sharman Joshi if he is carrying
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      • 133 35 KANGANA Ranaut threw a fit over the publicity for Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming film, Fashion. She co-stars with Priyanka Chopra in this anticipated movie about the fashion industry. A billboard in Bandra publicizing the film only had Priyanka Chopra’s picture on it. Kangana who was in Las Vegas, was
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      • 52 35 SONAM Kapoor will reportedly be in her dad, Anil Kapoor’s next production. The yet-untitled film will be based on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, about a young woman’s misadventures as a matchmaker. Anil is apparently planning to make the film as a vehicle for Sonam after her
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      • 84 35 VETERAN actor Dilip Kumar who was hospitalised in New Delhi recently is now back in his Mum- bai home. His wife, former actress Saira Banu, said that the 86-year-old was “well now and recuperating steadily”. “It was high fever that came up with a urinary tract infection
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      • 156 35 MALLIKA Sherawat will not be shedding her clothes in her upcoming film. Instead she will be donning a snake-skin costume and putting on some heavy duty special effects make-up for her new role as a snake woman in Hisss. The Hindi-English film helmed by Hollywood director Jennifer Lynch,
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      • Article, Illustration
        154 35 AMITABH Bachchan may be having a run of bad luck with women directors. First it was Mira Nair’s Shantaram project 7 in which he would have co»starred with Johnny Depp that had to be dropped because of the writer’s strike. Now he has been dropped from a
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    • 392 37  -  Birthday girl is now strong enough to talk about her life SHEELA NARAYANAN REKHA, who turns 54 today, is finally ready to write a tell-all book. She told the Mumbai newspaper Daily News Analysis that she now has the strength to write about her life.
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    • 384 38 Has the former cricket ace been yorked by Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen? Indo–Asian News Service GUESS who’s making former Pakistan cricket captain and swing king Wasim Akram sway to her tunes nowadays? Bollywood actress and former beauty queen Sushmita Sen. Akram, who is currently
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  • RELAX
    • 114 40 ZEE CARNIVAL The lifestyle and entertainment carnival is back in Singapore, promising to be bigger and better. Other than Shah Rukh Khan as the headlining guest, the two-day show will feature an array of pavilions with a variety of exhibitors with great offers. You can
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      619 40 PREVIEW OF JEWELLERY Preview the new and very intriguing celebration collection from The Jewel Box that could be the perfect accompaniment through the season. When: Oct 17 and 18 from 11am to 7pm Where: Jewel Box, 25-04 Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road Contact: www.thejewelbox.com or 6733-4100 TASTES OF
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
        • 75 40 5.30pm STAR PLUS Starring: Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey Ranjeet Thadani (Rajat Kapoor), a music company executive, hurts his back the night he found a prize catch for a weekly bring-your-idiot talent dinner party hosted by him and his friends. He ends up spending the evening with
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        • 26 40 10pm STAR PLUS India’s biggest celebrity dance reality show returns for a fourth season, starting tonight. Karisma Kapoor is one of the judges.
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        • 64 40 7.30pm ZEE TV What happened on the night that Trishna was out on the streets and was rescued by Raj and Tanya? Where was Rajdeep? When his mother, Nupur, asks him if he and Trishna are having trouble, he denies it. What is going on? There
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      • saturday
        • 28 40 4.30pm SONY ENT Starring Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapur and Upen Patel This action crime thriller revolves around the the murder of a wealthy casino owner.
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        • 39 40 7pm ZEE TV Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra and Hema Malini A classic 1973 film about a young man Ratan (Amitabh) whose father commits suicide after stealing 20 lakhs from the bank he worked at for many years.
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        • 49 40 3 pm ZEE TV Starring Shah Rukh Khan. Catch this Shah Rukh retrospective in this masala comedy with SRK as the Baadshah, a small-time private detective hoping to make it big. But a case of mistaken identity gets him involved in a plot to kill a political figure.
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        • 24 40 10.30pm SONY ENT Starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol. Your favourite ‘jodi’ Raj and Simran are back on our screens.
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        • 63 40 8pm STAR PLUS The eight` years have seen many trials and tribulations, ups and downs, joys and sorrows, generation leaps, weddings, births, deaths and murders that gave viewers a daily dose of entertainment for years. Don’t forget to watch the finale of Kahaani Ghar Ghar
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        • 38 40 9.30pm ZEE TV Is Nahar really suffering from meningitis? He should get a second opinion from another doctor as Varun, the doctor, looks suspicious. And will Nahar be able to Saloni the truth about his illness?
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        • 70 40 11pm STAR PLUS Will Ranveer finally meet his phone-friend? Vasu comes to know that the friend is none other than Ragi. She tells Sadi off for revealing it. But she has made plans to make Ranveer realise the truth about Anamika’s identity. Sadi tells Vasu that
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      • tuesday
        • 60 40 2.30pm STAR PLUS Tragedy reigns this season. Did Prem really die in the blast? The commissioner asks Lallu to send someone to the hospital to identify Prem’s body. He sends Preet and Harman. The commissioner shows Prem’s wallet to them and brings them to
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        • 69 40 9.00pm ZEE TV Now that Piyush is exposed in front of the Walia’s family, what happens next. Who will marry Ganga now? Will Rishi step in to marry her? Pronita warns Meera that she has plans to expose her too but is waiting for the right moment. What
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        • 48 40 1 lam SONY ENT Starring Sridevi, Rahul Roy, Anupam Kher and Sanjay Dutt Based on the Hollywood film, Bangkok Hilton, Sridevi, plays a singer who gets involved in drug trafficking due to Rahul Malhotra’s (Rahul Roy) plot. The hero (Sanjay Dutt) gets her out of the mess.
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        • 65 40 PARRIVAAR KARTAVYA KI PARIKSHA 8.30pm ZEE TV Urvashi as usual lies to the family that when she was helping Shlok and Radha, she and Swapnil became intimate. That is how she became pregnant. She is also concerned about Princess’s future and her child. She wants to know what is in
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      • thursday
        • 51 40 11am SONY ENT Starring Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh. An oldie but a thrilling goodie about a woman Ruby who is killed and her body is thrown off the third floor of a building. The police are called in to investigate and assisted by Anil, who was Ruby’s
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        • 58 40 6.30pm ZEE TV Will Leeza be able to find Uma’s medical records with Lajjo’s help? Radha warns Lajjo not to get close to Uday or even enter his room as they will be marrying soon. Uday tells Abhay he can’t stop thinking about Leeza. Abhay tells him to
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        • 53 40  -  10pm ZEE TV Compiled by Surendar Kaur Compiled by Surendar Kaur Rohan’s mami gives poisoned kheer to Lakshmi. Rohan panics when Lakshmi falls unconscious. At the Garodia’s home, Kajri is worried about Jhumki’s behaviour towards her and Rasili. Rasili assures Kajri that Jhumki will soon be
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      213 41  -  DEREK ’O BRIEN 1. Which of these rivers derived its name from a Sanskrit term meaning 'elephant river'? a) Irrawaddy b) Narmada c) Godavari 2. In 18th century England, to teach which subject was the jigsaw puzzle invented? a) History b) Geography c) Maths 3. Which smelly animal is
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    • 352 42 DRONA Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon This film has been described as Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones with a good measure of Indian mythology thrown in. Young man Aditya, never knowing about his destiny to protect a precious secret the amrit churned by the gods.
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    • 121 41 SUDOKU 8 4 1 5 6 7 5 8 2 5 6 9 7 1 5 2 8 1 2 9 8 3 6 3 1 2 4 9 6 1 5 WHO AM I? Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle.A puzzle consists of 81 little boxes 9 down
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    • 554 42 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries This week you’d be having feelings of compassion/love towards your spouse/love and you’d wish to spend quality time with your family and friends. For career and financial gains this is a good week. Students should expect good results also. Taurus This is a week for action. Your
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    • 115 42 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz 1. Irrawaddy 2. Geography 3. Skunk 4. Macaroni 5. Vatican City 6. Vinegar 7. Arabian Sea 8. Gulmarg 9. King of Hearts 10. Baroda sudoku who am i? 8 4 2 1 7 5 9 3 6 1 7 5 6 3 9 4 2 8 3
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      99 44 You saw the fast cars, the crashes, the pit lane chaos. But here are some images from the F1 weekend that you may not have seen Shilpa Shetty was there... with her boyfriend Raj Kundra. C’mon guys, stop drooling. PHOTOS: PHOTOS: TAMILAVEL/ TAMIL MURASU MM Lee Kuan Yew
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    • 487 45  -  Local Cricket: Weekend Report (Oct 4 and 5) Hemant Kenkre IN a clash of the top two Division 1 teams, Lanka Lions 1 won a thriller against Kallang Colts 1 in the semi-final knock-out match that was played at the SCA ground, Kallang. Batting first
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    • 99 45 THE Singapore Cricket Association announced a 14-member squad for the annual Saudara Cup to be played at SCA Kallang ground from Oct 17 to 19. Chaminda Ruwan (above) will lead Singapore against neighbours Malaysia. The two teams meet in this annual fixture which was
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    • 755 46  -  He’s said he’s quitting, but don’t write him off yet. The man’s got a series to play STAR COLUMN HARSHA BHOGLE SOURAV Ganguly isn’t finished with the game yet; he has merely announced that he will retire a month from now. And so till he walks off the
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    • 781 47  -  ...you better pay attention. Because Anil Kumble is a man of few words. And he may not be around much longer FREEWHEELING Rohit Brijnath rohit@sph.com.sg Rohit Brijnath is a senior correspondent with The Straits Times. LL his liie Anil Kumble has Aattracted the worst analogies
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  • PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS SPECIAL
    • 1146 1  -  When the doors of PBD Singapore swing open, it isn't just the delegates that the Republic is welcoming... it is the entire business community of the Asia Pacific region PATRICK JONAS WHEN India looked East, it saw more than just a little red dot. To a resurgent
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    • 64 2 ‘Singapore has always seen itself as a gateway to India’ Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Balaji Sadasivan speaks exclusively to tabla! PHOTO: ARUN RAMU SICCI-DBS Singapore Indian Entrepreneur Awards Animal attraction Don’t miss the Singapore Zoo if you have a soft spot for animals. Food
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    • 108 2 Modern Montessori International (MMI) was set up in 1989 and currently has 32 centres in Singapore and more than 30 centres overseas (in the United Kingdom, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Nigeria and China). Armed with a mission to maintain the rich Montessori tradition
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    • 969 3 Interactive dialogue with MM Lee Kuan Yew is just one of the many sessions on offer Information from SICCI Thursday, October 9 7.30 to 10pm: Pre-Conference Welcome Reception-cum-Networking Venue: Pan Pacific Hotel Ballroom Hosted By: Mr Vayalar Ravi, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, India; Mr
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    • 996 4  -  That is how Senior Minister of State Balaji Sadasivan sees the Republic’s role in the link between India and the Asia Pacific region Pradeep Paul meeting. pradeep@sph.com.sg IN HIS capacity as Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Balaji Sadasivan has been very
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    • 422 5 Indians in Singapore have just good things to say about PBD being held in the Republic “The impressive scope of PBD Singapore and the high voltage participation of dignitaries, especially from the governments of both countries, present yet another opportunity to anchor India’s rising global profile.”
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    • 615 8 SICCI-DBS awards salute the sense of entrepreneurship among Singapore Indian businessmen THE SICCI-DBS Singapore Indian Entrepreneur Awards (SIEA) is presented annually by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce Industry (SICCI) to recognise outstanding Indian entrepreneurs. The awards also serve as motivation for budding Indian entrepreneurs.
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      335 8 Large Enterprise (Four finalists): Entrepreneur whose business/company gross yearly turnover is more than S$10 million. An applicant who is a Singapore Permanent Resident must have been doing business in Singapore for at least three years. The business/company must be registered in Singapore. Mr Mohamed Ismail Gafoor Company: P&N
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      366 9 Medium Enterprise (Five finalists): Entrepreneur whose business/company’s gross yearly turnover is S$10 million or less. An applicant who is a Singapore Permanent Resident must have been doing business in Singapore for at least three years. The business/company must be registered in Singapore. Mr Manokaran Chakarapani Company: Mano Equestrian
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      383 9 Young Entrepreneur (Five finalists): Young Entrepreneur (Start-ups). The applicant must not be more than 35 years of age and should have been with the business/company actively involved in the management of that business/company for anything between two and five years. Mr Amit Sujan Company: ITCAN Pte Ltd Nature
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    • 144 9 The applicants are evaluated on the following criteria: Leadership: In demonstrating the entrepreneurial spirit as well as strategising the future of the company and displaying a proven ability to realise these strategies. Entrepreneurial Resilience: In displaying fortitude, resilience and the ability to overcome adversity. Innovation:
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      • 130 10 A former boys’ school St Joseph’s Institution that was founded in 1852 by the La Salle Brothers, became the art museum in 1996. Today it houses one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary South-east Asian art. Use your free museum pass to get into the
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      • 82 10 A museum dedicated to the Straits Chinese community who share Chinese and Malay traditions. Operated by the Asian Civilisations Museum, the museum explores the main themes of Peranakan life in 10 permanent galleries which includes the elaborate 12-day Peranakan wedding and prominent Peranakans in Singapore’s history. Location:
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      • 118 10 Regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in Singapore, Empress Place dates back to 1854, when it served as a courthouse. Today the building houses a world-class museum and exhibition centre, featuring cultural and archaeological treasures from South, East and West Asia with two galleries dedicated
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      • 211 10 The National Museum is one of the oldest buildings on the island, dating back to 1887 when the republic was part of the British Straits Settlements. It was originally built by Colonel Sir H.E. McCullum as the Raffles library and museum. In 2003, the museum was
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        111 10 The dark holds many surprises... and more so at the Night Safari, where you can look at a one-horned rhinoceros in the eye or hear the howls of a pack of striped hyenas. The right next to the striped hyenas. wildlife park, which is right next to the
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      • 80 10 Situated on Sentosa Island the oceanarium showcases some 2,500 marine life from 250 species in an underwater journey through the 83-metre-long moving travelator with a tunnel housing stingrays, sharks, fishes stingrays, sharks, and other creatures of the ocean depths. Location: Sentosa Island (next to the Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa
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      • 83 10 Southeast Asia’s largest bird park, Jurong Bird Park is home to over 9,000 birds of 600 species from all over the world. The park has four aviaries, among which is the world's largest walk-in aviary with the tallest man-made waterfall for visitors to enjoy a close-up view of
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      • 106 10 It is a little hard to miss the latest addition to the Singapore skyline. The Singapore Flyer, the giant Ferris wheel that stands 165m from the ground or 42 storeys high with 28 air-conditioned capsules the size of small buses. It is about 30m taller than the London
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        90 10  -  Compiled by Sheela Narayanan Opened in 1973, the zoo is famous for Its open concept Where animals live in spacious environments simulating their natural habitats in over 28 hectares of rainforcst in the nonhcm part of the island. There are about 315 animal species at the zoo of
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    • 659 11 MALAY/ INDONESIAN Pagi Sore 88/90 Telok Ayer Street. Tel: 6225-6002 ‘From morning to evening,’ that’s what this popular restaurant means in the Indonesian language. It has several signature dishes, including the beef rendang; a slow simmered, spiced coconut beef in thick gravy and
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