Tabla, 11 February 2011

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    23 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 026/03/2010 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011 S|5l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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    Lock icon PRIME TIME
    1734 1  -  As more Indian expats enter Singapore’s property market, the attention is focused on the prime districts MALAVIKA NATARAJ Additional reporting by Sheela Narayanan AFTER four years of renting, Ms Amareen Shami is ready to buy her own home in Singapore. However, the homemaker, who moved here from Dubai
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      55 1 THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY DELHI’S 18-MINUTE AIRPORT METRO PAGE 4 GET YOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING SHELL STATIONS WHILE STOCKS LAST NIKON’S CHINESE NEW YEAR SNAPSHOTS PAGE 9 NAMES PLAY THE NUMBERS GAME PAGE 16 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Punjabi men in spotlight
      647 2 Holiday marriages and illegal immigration are the focus THE regional passport officer of Jalandhar says that around 15,000 girls from Punjab’s Doaba region it comprises the Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala districts were duped by their non-resident Indian (NRI) husbands during the last few years. And news
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      Lock icon All aboard the airport express
      589 4 Tripto Indira Gandhi International Airport from New Delhi takes just 18 minutes with new metro line INDIA has understood the importance of modernising its airports but the same priority has not been given to ensuring easy access to its airports from city centres. Delhi is
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      348 3 You can StarHub m mera />ehla pehla pyaar r llScolors viacoMi m 0' v NY E«T ■ri %3 Entertainment Television i 127 PLUS -Ch TOK n..wJ CHANN ONLY ON STARHUB TVIhe No.l Network. Hindi Rack Get the Hindi Pack and catch the hottest shows across 38 channels $51.36/month 3 Basic
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      320 5 S P Jain Center of Management Admissions Office invites you to the EMBA OPEN HOUSE t. r ENTREPRENEURSHIP CANNOT BE TAUGHT BUT CAN BE LEARNT 99 Entrepreneurship is one of the major drivers of any growing economy. It creates opportunities, wealth and more importantly, jobs for the masses. Being entrepreneurial
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Linking Indians globally
      100 6 / 7 THE first Indian website dedicated to Indian entrepreneurs worldwide set up by the Chamber of Global Indian Network, was launched at the Roof Top Garden of Mustafa’s new grand annexe shopping centre on Jan 29. The aim of the portal is to link Indian Singaporeans with other
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      Lock icon India retains top spot
      194 6 / 7 ASIA leads, with India at the top. If there was any doubt that India’s position as the world’s favourite back-office destination was getting eroded, it has been put to rest by AT Kearney’s latest survey. India, China and Malaysia occupy the top three slots in AT
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      Lock icon Exchange rates as of Feb 10, 2011
      23 6 / 7 S I N G Rs35.49 US$0.78 A$0.77 ¤0.57 £0.48 RS45.28 A$0.99 ¤0.72 U S £0.62 S$1.27
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        132 6 / 7 SINGAPORE used to be the most preferred destination among Indian tourists. Now other destinations are gaining ground. According to India Outbound Monitor, a survey by the Nielsen Company and Pacific Asia Travel Association, based on their most recent trips taken, the percentage of Indians visiting destinations such
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        Lock icon Fixed deposit rates rise
        174 6 / 7 NOW is a good time to park money in banks in India. While loans have become costlier due to interest rates going up, almost all the banks have also started paying more interest on fixed deposits. Lakshmi Vilas Bank has raised its interest rate to 10.1
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        Lock icon DBS celebrates rabbit year
        107 6 / 7 THE new year looks bright for DBS Group Holdings CEO Piyush Gupta and his bank. Just days before the Year of the Rabbit was ushered in, DBS opened its 12th branch in India in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. The bank, allowed only 12 branches in India so
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        Lock icon IIM-A may set up Singapore campus
        110 6 / 7 The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), may have an international campus in Dubai or Singapore or both, by 2013. A senior faculty member from the institute told Business Standard the matter is under consideration. Director of IIM-A Samir Barua said the institute so
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      Lock icon India GDP to hit 8.6% this year
      376 6 / 7 biz INDIA’S finance minister is smiling. He is also not hiding his worries. Advance growth estimates released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) show that the Indian economy is likely to expand at its fastest pace in three years at 8.6 per cent
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      99 6 / 7 Enjoy Kati Rolls, Set meals Chaats! We do take-aways, home deliveries catering! Call us on +65 6298 1845 for more info now open: AT SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS St SOCIAL SCIENCES, #01-74. OPP. HOTEL RENDEZVOUS St PLAZA BY THE PARK, VALENTINE S DAY PROMOTION! PICK OUR $20 V-DAY
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      73 6 / 7 Nationa/ m. r //a n V'wr ES tH Hi H5 SB Hm c>*.< H® \^m H CompetttA 0^ (Sunili*. 13-19 June 2011 Here's your chance to shine! The search is on for new talents in classical Indian music! Grab this opportunity to showcase your talent on a national platform, and
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Gong xi, gong xi everywhere
      269 8 To the Istana, to the Istana, to visit the President... 1 6,562 people turned up at the Istana open house to visit President S.R. Nathan on the second day of the Chinese New Year (Feb 4). They were greeted by the President and Mrs Nathan
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      Lock icon Let’s celebrate
      116 9 Chinese New Year, with its fireworks and colourful decorations, is a great time for photography enthusiasts to perfect their technique MOMENTS Where: Fireworks going off at Marina Bay during the River Hongbao festivities Camera: Nikon D3, 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G VR ISO: 200, 3.4s, f22 Where: Good wishes from dancers
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      Lock icon LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
      231 10  -  Malavika Nataraj BUYING property anywhere in the world can be an exciting, yet confusing and stressful process. Every country has its own rules and Singapore is no different, especially with its various lease durations on the land used for housing. Some of it is freehold, others
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      327 12 “There is good prata out there and we have got to find it.” The Straits Times deputy news editor Tan Hsueh Yun, who was one of the three judges for the Singapore Hawker awards, Hawker Masters awards, on the contest not naming a winner in the prata
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      195 12 14,000 Misoprostol tablets (commonly known as abortion pills) seized from a Mumbai resident when he landed in the city on a Kingfisher flight from Singapore Rs5.1 crores Cost of Maybach 62 car launched in India by Mercedes-Benz 70% Drop in carbon monoxide emitted by Euro IV compliant cars
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      232 15 IN AN interview with Tamil Murasu Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education S. Iswaran spoke about the changes to the teaching of Mother Tongue Languages. The mother tongue language (MTL), in this case Tamil, should be made into a life-long
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        Lock icon A Budget to grow S’pore economy
        173 15 MANY Singaporeans are hoping for a bigger Budget hongbao this year and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on the first day of Chinese New Year: “I’m sure the Finance Minister will know what to do.” He said there was a need to especially
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        156 15 NOT only are youths spending too much time online, many are also addicted to online gaming. A media report quoted TOUCH Cyber Wellness Centre as saying it saw 71 such cases last year. That is a 40 per cent increase compared to 2009. Officials at
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        69 15 THE public has been invited to take part in a survey on how different road users perceive road-safety needs here. The survey, conducted by the research committee of the Singapore Road Safety Council (SRSC), can be accessed online at http://report.ssi-nus.net/rsc/ and will be
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      128 11 SIZE DOES Impression only THE TRIZ? 0 .N THE PROMISE OF SPACE Spacious 2+sfudy (1,345 sqft), 3 and 4-bedroom (1,550 -2,314 sqft) freehold condominium apartments set amidst verdant greenery off Holland Road. Come visit our new showflat at Ridgewood Close. Ulu Randan Road Randan Valley Holland Road i Holland Village
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  • EDUCATION
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      689 13  -  Academic excellence isn’t sufficient to live a full life, you need self esteem and to interact well with society G. BALASUBRAMANIAN tabla@sph.com.sg G. Balasubramanian is the former director (academics) of the Central Board of Secondary Education in Delhi and the chief academic officer of
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      426 14 CAMPUS chatter from Global Indian International School KEERATIKA LERTNAMWONGWAN, Class 10 IT WAS with some measure of excitement and nervousness that I logged on to the Munity East website. To my relief, my name was part of the list of reporters. To many people, it was insignificant.
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
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        Lock icon Hard work is always an Asset
        165 14 AARUSHI KHANDELWAL, Class 7A THE Asset (Assessment of Scholastic Skills through Educational Testing) exams have always created butterflies in my stomach. They are the best way to find out how well we have understood the concepts which we learn in school, and so it
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        Lock icon Watching science in action
        236 14 ADIT RAO, Class 4B RAMYA NADIG, Class 5A THE terrace garden at our school looked so bright and attractive. Little did we know the amazing wonders it had in store for us. We were excited... there were many flowers, plants, leaves and even butterflies. The feeling
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      267 13 Get your copy of tabla! delivered to your doorstep every Friday for a year... for only $24 Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg I am very happy with the Global Montessori Plus Programme. From an early age there is emphasis on life skills children's ability to express themselves. Here, each child
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      Lock icon Shobha... Shobhaa, Devgan... Devgn, what’s in a name?
      1076 16  -  Well, plenty it seems, if you ask numerologists. But does it all add up? PADDY RANGAPPA tabla@sph.com.sg Paddy Rangappa has been living in Singapore for nine years and writes in his spare time, outside his marketing profession. IENJOY the simple pleasures of
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  • FITNESS
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      Lock icon Losing weight Bolly style
      446 17  -  Shaking your hips and swinging your arms is still a great way to exercise AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg FIRST off, a confession: When Bollywood dancing became quite the rage several years ago, I thought, like most fads, it would die out eventually. How wrong I was!
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  • RELAX
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      548 18 / 19 BLOOD DONATION DRIVES GThe Indians in Singapore group is organising the IIS Blood Donation Drive. When: Feb 19, 9am to 5pm Where: 900 South Woodland Drive, 05-07 Woodlands Civic Centre, Opposite Causeway Point Contact: 8313-1747 or e-mail meethales@gmail.com GThe Mountbatten Indian Activity Executive Committee is organising a blood
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
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      280 18 / 19 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Meendum Savithri 3pm STAR GOLD: Khichadi The Movie 3.30pm SONY ENT: Anwar 4pm STAR PLUS: Main Hoon Na 4pm COLORS: Lafengey Parindey 9pm VASANTHAM: Aval Oru Thodarkathai 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Say Salam India Mn VTV: Akku Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Manal Kayiru 2pm VIJAY: Maathiyosi 3pm
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      302 18 / 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Leg, e.g. 5 Rebuke, in a way 9 Lying port-to-starboard 14 Inclusive notation 15 ’50s audiophile’s purchase 16 circumstances beyond our control 17 Out-of-this-world org. 18 Waxy buildup sites 19 Bothered 20 Meadowlark Lemon, once 23 Seasonal trim 24 Debtor’s acknowledgment 25 Auction gesture 28 Syllables from
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      415 18 / 19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You will face some problems during the later part of the week. Taurus You will be full of enthusiasm and confidence.You will perform logically and methodically with good results. Gemini A period of unfruitful journeys and endeavours. The beginning of the week is fraught with failure and
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      89 18 / 19 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 art of navigation was born in
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      17 20 To place an ad in tabla! call Kalwant at 9171-4327 or Ajit at 9693-0266 or e-mail tabla@sph.com.sg
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      29 20 SOLUTIONS sudoku crossword quiz 1. Dr Zhivago 2. Japan 3. Red 4. Safety Pin 5. Charlton Heston 6. Curling 7. Furlong 8. Broccoli 9. Medicine 10. The Red Vineyard
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  • SPORTS
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      975 21  -  Deadly off-spin, brilliant close-in fielding, decent batting, captain, manager, umpire... Venkat did it all DR K.N. RAGHAVAN tabla@sph.com.sg Dr Raghavan is first secretary (commerce) at the Indian High Commission in Singapore and an international cricket umpire THERE remains very little that Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan has not achieved
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      Lock icon Survival of the fittest
      855 22  -  Injuries are taking atoll on teams even before the World Cup begins columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg I HOPE I am not the only one completely bewildered by the apparent correlation between too much cricket and the current status of injuries with various teams. As I see
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