Tabla, 9 January 2009

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    21 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 171/09/2008 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 2009 J* SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon AKSHAY IS BOLLYWOOD’S KINNG MIDAS
    9 1 PHOTO: LEVI STRAUSS INDIA
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  • Article
    Lock icon SATYAM’S LIES
    270 1 HIS startling confession shocked even his competitors. It rocked the Bombay stock exchange, sending the market into a tailspin. Describing his deception in his letter to Satyam’s board of directors on Wednesday, the company’s founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju said it was like riding a tiger and not
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      70 1 get your copy of tabla! AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING THOSE AT SHELL PETROL STATIONS PAGE 14 HINDI 5 <8oo^, 9 2A oft ONE MORE LANGUAGE BARRIER DISMANTLED PAGE 8 S'PORE TO HOST ICC EVENT IN AUGUST PAGE 22 S’PORE EMPLOYEES PUT ON A BRAVE FRONT: PAGE 4 Get tabla! delivered
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon He is now bigger than the Tatas
      641 2 Bharti Group’s Mittal is No. 2, ahead of the Tatas in market capitalisation list E WAS brimming with ideas and had a H gung-ho spirit. Right out of university, young Sunil Bharti Mittal borrowed Rs20,000 from his father and set up a factory
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      Lock icon Lots happening in arts ‘Season’
      479 2  -  CHENNAI CHATTER Parvathi Nayar CHENNAI buzz is now focused on the ongoing “Season”, the fond term given to the annual artistic explosion that makes the city a haven for aficionados of Indian classical dance and music around the world. It’s a cornucopia of creative offerings,
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    • regional roundup
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        Lock icon MAHARASHTRA
        72 4 Hi-tech cameras at Mumbai station THE Railway Protection Force has set up 13 new hi-tech cameras at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to keep a 24-hour watch on all trains arriving at the station. With this, the number of cameras at the station goes up to 51. The additional cameras
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      • Article
        Lock icon TAMIL NADU
        79 4 State tops in poll violations IN A scathing comment on the conduct of political parties in Tamil Nadu, chief election commissioner N. Gopalaswamy said that the state ranked first in violating the model code of conduct for elections, and was worse than even UP and Bihar. The Times
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        Lock icon RAJASTHAN
        57 4 Missile base near border THE defence ministry is to set up a huge air force base near the border with Pakistan. DNA reported that the defence ministry is acquiring land in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts and that the air force will base the 300-km range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos
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        51 4 Punj Lloyd to build airport THE Punj Lloyd group will be developing a greenfield airport at Pakyong in Sikkim. It will be completed within the next two years, reported the Hindu. The Airports Authority of India gave the Rs264-crore contract to Punj Lloyd which also has a presence in
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        Lock icon ASSAM
        75 4 Chilly power to battle elephant menace TO KEEP marauding wild elephants at bay in certain parts of north—eastern India every year, the Defence Research and Development Organisation and the World Wide Fund for Nature are now working on a “vegetarian solution”. The Press Trust of India reported that in
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      Lock icon BRAVE FRONT, UNSURE FUTURE
      918 4  -  Satyam’s S’pore employees are not panicking, but IT industry is prepared for collateral damage PATRICK JONAS and SHEELA NARAYANAN careers patrickj@sph.com.sg sheela@sph.com.sg OUTSIDE the glitzy glass-panelled buildings in Changi Business Park, there is an air of shock and disappointment among the hundreds of Indians working in
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  • PERSONALITY
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      Lock icon Nestled in nicely
      924 6  -  tabla! talk with Patrick Jonas Shop. patrickj@sph.com.sg COFFEE or tea? This was the question posed to me as soon as I settled down on one of the comfortable chairs in the Narayanan household. As I hesitated, Mr Suresh Narayanan prompted: “Considering that this is a Nestle household,
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      215 7 Grand Flectrical fair 08/09 I 3rd Oct OB 25th Jan X>9 imp a®*r j 8 MAZDA 3 SP 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
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon One more language barrier comes down
      769 8  -  On Jan 10, a common curriculum will be introduced at the Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi and Gujarati language schools Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg THE thick grey plastic files and stacks of red rubber band-bound white photocopy paper that dot Mr Bhajan Singh’s (above) cramped sixth
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      Lock icon Walking back to happiness
      375 9  -  Walkathon raises $55,000 for two organisations AYESHA KOHLI WITH all the talk of recessionary trends and tightening purses, it was indeed heartening to see the spirit of giving and resilience that was on display at Let’s Take A Walk 2008, an overnight endurance walkathon that was
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      374 10 “At the end of my first week, my body was sore, not counting the burns and occasional cuts on my hand. Mentally, it was also challenging.” Civil servant Tan Yong Soon who learnt to cook at the famous Le Cordon Bleu in Paris with his family during
      PHOTO: ONEINDIA.COM  -  374 words
    • Article
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      205 10 4 million Handphone users islandwide who will be able to receive a location-based advertising service offered by Singapore Press Holdings Rs 127 crores Amount Maharashtra will be spending to modernise the state police force 2.5 million Average number of visitors to the Taj Mahal in a year Rs
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      Lock icon Sikhs greet New Year with prayers
      87 11 ABOUT 4,000 Sikhs greeted 2009 in prayer at the Central Sikh Temple. This annual event is organised by the Sikh Sewakhs, the temple’s youth arm. Youth volunteer Rajeshpal Singh, 24, told tabla! he has noticed more young people attending the New Year’s Eve prayers.
      kirtan. PHOTO COURTESY OF RAJESHPAL SINGH  -  87 words
    • singapore news
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        Lock icon No compromise on education
        117 11 THREE of the country’s top political leaders have promised that no child will miss out on getting an education just because parents cannot afford to send them to school during this downturn. Speaking at separate bursary presentation ceremonies, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh
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      • Article
        Lock icon Growth forecast cut
        75 11 THE Government has downgraded its forecast for economic growth this year to between -2 and 1 per cent, from the previous tip of between -1 and 2 per cent. Between October and December last year the economy contracted 12.5 per cent over the previous three months the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Flyer boss quits
        83 11 IN A shock move, Singapore Flyer general manager Steven Yeo the public face of the attraction since the Dec 23 incident which left 173 people trapped on the giant observation wheel for six hours has resigned. He tendered his resignation on Jan 5 giving six months’ notice.
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      • Article
        Lock icon 3 S'poreans killed in blaze
        77 11 THREE Singaporeans died at the Santika Pub in Bangkok when a fire broke out inside soon after a New Year’s Eve countdown. Two of the men student Lu Weiye, 26, and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore officer (CAAS) Leslie Yeo, 40 were identified through DNA
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      Lock icon NUS team wins big in Vegas
      490 13  -  It bags 2nd prize at IT-driven poverty management contest SUJIT MATHEW IN STARK contrast to the luxurious Las Vegas venue, which was a surreal escape from reality, the competition challenged us to ponder on and envision creative solutions to address the real world issue
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  • EDUCATION
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      Lock icon Gotcha! I can test food quality
      532 12  -  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 week, NPS.) APARNA VENKATESH, Class 5 LIKE all
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  532 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
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        Lock icon Krishna Leela with a twist
        212 12 THE students of Class 2 at the Global Indian International School, East Coast campus, recently performed a unique version of Krishna Leela for their Annual Day Rhapsody II, 2008. This music and dance extravaganza depicting five stories from the life of Lord Krishna was a
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        Lock icon Our efforts to save trees
        121 12  -  SURABHI ATHALYE, Class 5A SO WHAT are we doing at GIIS to save trees? We have started using less paper and using both sides in every possible way. The art department has inspired us to make colourful dustbins, boxes and posters thus recycling in a
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      301 13 Celebrating years ofexcellence ‘i owe my IB Worldwide Topper position to the Global Indian International School Admissions open for International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, IGCSE (Cambridge) and CBSE for 2009-2010 session Ms. Apoorva Sachdev, GIIS student, Singapore holds the rare distinction of simultaneously topping the International Baccalaureate and the SAT 2
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      Lock icon Bollywood’s Kinng Midas?
      828 14 Akshay Kumar’s excellent year at year the box office marks his entry into the superstar club THESE days Akshay Kumar’s middle name is King Midas. Everything he touches seems to be box-office gold. In the movie business where numbers mean everything, from the number of “packs” in
      up (below). PHOTOS: WARNER BROS, LEVI STRAUSS INDIA  -  828 words
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      Lock icon The only man in my life is...
      499 15  -  Sorry, guys, it’s her dad. Ghajini girl Asin is not desperate for love or marriage yet MAULI SINGH marriage.Bollywood News Service KOLLYWOOD transplant Asin Thottumkal, 23, speaks about men, relationships and being single. Do you feel heroines have come of age in Bollywood?
      marriage.Bollywood News Service; PHOTOS: BNS  -  499 words
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      Lock icon From Harman to Hurman
      471 15  -  MAULI SINGH Bollywood News Service WILL a change in the spelling of his name change Harman Baweja’s fortunes? Following the debacle of his debut film, Love Story 2050, he’s back as Hurman S. Baweja. Let’s hope it works for his next movie, Ajitpal Mangat’s cricket-cen-tric Victory.
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      Lock icon A long shot at Oscar?
      685 16 A made-in-India English-Hindi slum love story has Hollywood critics waxing lyrical Indo-Asian News Service IT IS a dark horse at the Hollywood awards game but the praise heaped on Slumdog Millionaire is going off the charts. The Hollywood film with an all-Indian cast including Anil
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  • RELAX
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      72 18/19 2ND BLOOD DONATION DRIVE The Leadership Club of SP Jain Centre Of Management Singapore, in partnership with the Singapore Red Cross Society is holding their 2nd Blood Donation Drive. If you plan on donating blood, carry your NRIC or Passport (EP, WP and Student Pass
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      675 18/19 UTRAAN 2009 Go down to the West Coast Park this Sunday and try to get your kite as high as you can. Other fun activities are also planned by the Singapore Gujarati Society, which is organising the kite flying festival. When: Jan 12, 10am to 4pm Where: West
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      Lock icon LAUGHTER YOGA
      58 18/19 You’ve heard of Hot Yoga, now there is laughter yoga. Every Tuesday evening at the HortPark, work out your lungs with a blend of tension-releasing laughter and breathing exercises. Each weekly session will not be longer than 20 minutes. When: Till June 30, 6.30pm Where: HortPark Bamboo Labyrinth,
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
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          Lock icon HUM HAIN RAHI PYAR KE
          70 18/19 4.30pm SONY ENT Rahul’s (Amir Khan) sister and brother-in-law have died. So he has to look after their three kids, Sunny, Muni and Vicky. They are hell. One day the kids sneak out to the fair and they meet Vayjanti (Juhi Chawla). Vayjanti has run
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        • Article
          Lock icon Malabar Wedding
          74 18/19 9.30pm VASANTHAM (Malayalam) Manukuttan (Indrajith) and his friends have always been doing such things with others. Everyone knows and understands that they themselves will be at the receiving end of this quaint tradition when their turn comes for getting married. Manukuttan too knew this. When he finally gets
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          52 18/19 Mn vry Story is about a young man (Nanda) who comes from a village to Chennai and loses his memory in an accident. He is nursed by a doctor (Uma) who slowly falls in love with him. In the meantime the man is trying to find his identity. Another
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      • saturday
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          Lock icon CHORI CHORI CHUPKE CHUPKE
          62 18/19 4 pm VASANTHAM CHUPKE CHUPKE Raj Malhotra (Salman Khan) and Priya (Rani Mukherjee) are married. When Priya miscarries and becomes infertile, the couple look for a surrogate mother to bear Raj’s child. Madhubala aka Madhu (Preity Zinta) is a prostitute who agrees to have Raj’s baby.
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          57 18/19 4.30 pm SONY ENT Shankar (Shah Rukh Khan, below with Madhuri Dixit)) is the loyal right hand man of Raja, the rich local tyrant. When Raja sees the lovely Gauri (Madhuri Dixit), he sends her a marriage proposal, using Shankar’s photograph. Gauri sees the picture, and instantly falls in
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          75 18/19 9pm VASANTHAM PANDI Pandi (Larencce) does menial jobs in Dubai and saves and sends his earnings home to his family. Pandi falls in love with and marries Sneha, a cop’s daughter. When his family is in debt he goes to work abroad. However, on his return, he is shocked
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      • sunday
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          Lock icon KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI
          73 18/19 5.30pm SONY ENT HAI What happens when you realise you are in love with someone a little too late? That’s what happens first to Anjali (Kajol) and then to Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), who first falls in love with Tina (Rani Mukherjee) and marries her, and
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          Lock icon AZHAGANA NAATKAL
          68 18/19 Mn VTV NAATKAL With a child in her arms, Rambha goes to see Karthik and claims that he is the father of the child. She refuses to budge from there. As a result, the wedding that was to take place between Karthik and Mumtaj is cancelled. How Karthik
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      • monday
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          Lock icon KASME VAADE
          71 18/19 llam SONY ENT KASME VAADE Suman (Rakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother Raju (Randhir Kapoor). Amit teaches in college, but Raju is unemployed and a little bit spoiled by Amit and Suman’s pampering. Raju mixes
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          42 18/19 Mn VTV A young music troupe searches for a guru to train them for a Pop Carnival. They find Vikramaditya (Mohanlal), a great musician who has retired from music. The flashback tells the troupe’s discovery of the mystery behind the musician.
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      • tuesday
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          Lock icon GHUNGROO
          67 18/19 l lam SONY ENT GHUNGROO Produced by Prakash, Mehra is an emotional saga enacted in costume. Ram Sethi’s directorial debut was made in the true Prakash Mehra style, it tricks to maintain as much of the “darbari” touch as possible. Smita Patil excels in emotional roles though deficient in
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          Lock icon UNNAI KODU ENNAITHARUVEN
          58 18/19 5pm VTV Ajith has been brought up in the army barracks in Ooty, ever since his mother (Sukanya) handed him over as a baby to a brigadier (Nasser). Ajit grows up to be a patriotic youth and the best soldier in his class. He falls in love
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      • wednesday
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          130 18/19 11am SONY ENT KHEL For two dear friends, Dev Malaya (Sunil Shetty) and Rohan Poddar (Ajay Jadeja), life is hunky-dory until Saanjh Batra (Celina Jaitley) walks into their lives. Dev is love-struck, but Saanjh is awe-struck by Rohan’s simplistic philosophy of life. Meanwhile, Dev starts becoming possessive of Saanjh,
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          Lock icon ENGAL ANNA
          44 18/19  -  2pmVTV Compiled by Surendar Kaur Compiled by Surendar Kaur This 2004 comedy has Vijayakanth playing a bachelor Prabhakar who refuses to marry until his stepsister Parvati (Swarnamalya) settles down well in life. But Parvati’s friend Gowri (Namita) is in love with him.
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      • thursday
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          Lock icon KAAL
          97 18/19 11am SONY ENT KAAL National Geographic appoints ace tiger expert Krish Thapar (John Abraham, below) and his wife Riya (Esha Deol) to find out about the mysterious deaths supposedly caused by man-eating tigers in the past two months. Meanwhile, Dev (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta) and their friends (Kushal
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      Lock icon QUIZ
      178 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. What do the okapis use to clear their eyes and eyelids? a) Their tongues b) Their legs c) Their ears 2. The country Suriname is in which continent? a) Asia b) South America c) North America 3. What is the name of Shri Krishna’s “chakra”? a)
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      Lock icon MOVIE THIS WEEK
      106 20 SILAMBATTAN Silambarasan, Kishore, Prabhu, Sana Khan, Sneha THIS movie is about ordinary, law-abiding Brahmin youth Vichchu morphing into a one-man vigilante army as a result of the violence unleashed by a politician who is attempting to corrupt the local youth by building a beer factory in the
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    • mirch masala
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        Lock icon PATEKAR’S A GOOD BAD GUY
        126 20 THERE is a shortage of good anti-heroes in Tamil movies and Bollywood actor Nana Patekar is the perfect person to fill the void if he chooses to continue working with Tamil directors and producers, a Malaysian film critic has said. Praising his role in Bommalaatam,
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      • Article
        Lock icon ABHI GETS PHYSICAL
        115 20 ABHISHEK Bachchan’s physical limits are being tested while shooting Mani Ratnam’s film Ravana. If Ratnam allowed Abhi to pamper his taste buds and put on weight while shooting Guru, the director is doing exactly the opposite on the set of which also opposite Ravana which also stars
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        Lock icon GLAMOROUS CHICA
        118 20 Amrita Rao (right) has gone from simpleton to glamorous chica! Having won hearts with her natural beauty in Vivaah, she is now sporting a more modern and contemporary look. Proof of that is the elegant short dress she wore to the recent music launch of Victory, in which
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  • Page 18/19 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      304 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Added benefit 5 Bridge decline 10 Straightarrow link 14 Side by side 15 Formal pronouncements 16 What today’s bid will be tomorrow? 17 Bogdanovich film (with “The”) 20 Long geological period 21 Working mum’s aid 22 Like some powerful voices 26 Works for 27 “My Beautiful Laundrette”
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      106 18/19 SUDOKU 7 4 8 8 9 1 3 4 4 7 4 2 1 7 5 3 1 9 2 8 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
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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
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      504 20 FUTURE SPEAKS KAMAL KAPOOR Aries Planetary positions favour you this week. You will be rewarded for your outstanding performance and your relations with your superiors will be cordial. You will grow stronger financially and your fame and reputation are upward bound. Taurus This is not a week when you will
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      114 20 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz 1. Their tongues 2. South America 3. Sudarshan 4. Tennis 5. Arabic 6. Bhutan 7. Spaghetti 8. Yellow Pages 9. Ashok Kumar 10. Happiness what am i? sudoku 2 7 4 6 3 8 5 9 1 8 9 5 2 7 1 3 4 6 1
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  • FOOD
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      Lock icon Fish head meal for $9
      399 21  -  SHEELA NARAYANAN range. sheela@sph.com.sg WHEN the economy crunches, so does the eating out budget. This is where banana leaf restaurant The Masala Hut comes in. Specialising in Chettinad cuisine, it hopes to appeal to the budget-conscious, especially in these rocky times. And to prove its
      tempting. PHOTOS: MASALA HUT  -  399 words
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      63 21 Get your copy of at 7-Eleven Now you can pick up your copy of tabla! at any of the 431 7-Eleven outlets islandwide, including the 61 at Shell stations. Just walk in and ask for a copy of tabla!. The newspaper is available from Friday morning and each store has
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon ICC event coming to S’pore
      625 22  -  Get ready to cheer WCL’s Division 6 teams in August Hemant Kenkre SINGAPORE has scored a breakthrough with the International Cricket Council (ICC). The world body has agreed to a proposal to allow Singapore to host the World Cricket League’s Division 6 in August this
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      Lock icon THE TRUE TEST
      795 23  -  A bad leading elbow, a broken left hand and bowlers reaching 140kmh... Graeme Smith displayed why Test cricket is in the pink of health star column Harsha Harsha Bhogle tabla@sph.com.sg NCE aga'm two rii O va‘s, wwth a histoi W of bad b‘ood between them, have shown
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