Tabla, 25 March 2011

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    19 1 tabla! THE HEARTBHr?/ COMMU^-rY MICA (P) 046/03/2011 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MARCH 25,2011 S(Jl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Bihar bounces back
    1222 1  -  Economy is up, crime is down and NRIs are investing, thanks to good governance PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg IN THE early 1980s, economic analyst Ashish Bose coined the word Bimaru, an acronym for the Indian states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The economist, then working
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      133 1 GET YOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING SHELL STATIONS WHILE STOCKS LAST A.R. RULES SINGAPORE PAGES MICA A.R. RAHMAN RULES IN SINGAPORE PAGES 16 17 WORLD CUP CRICKET: UDRS SCORES PAGES 22 23 SONAKSHI’S OKAY WITH ‘OLDER MEN’ PAGES 14 15 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800
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      74 2 New Specialty Dishes From Queen’s Queen's Toncloor INDIAN CUISINE Hot Bowl In Chicken, Mutton Veg Variety, Chicken Patialla, Naan, Veg Non-Veg Pawa Many More Exciting Dishes To Try Set Lunch from 13.90++ (Huge Selection) American Express Cardholders 25% Off Lunch 10% Off Dinner Queen’s Tandoor Restaurant Your Closest Choice To
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      611 3 EXCEL-erating Performance in Maths Over the years, SINDA has implemented initiatives to support Indian students in their educational pursuits. The community continues to see improved performance in Maths at primary and secondary levels. We can do more to level up the performance of the Indian students. Reality Check Back To
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  • INDIA
    • PROPERTY PICKS
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        Lock icon Purchasing tenanted units
        583 4 DESPITE the Government’s cooling measures, some introduced last year and some this year, there is still a keen interest among property investors to park their dollars in residential units in Singapore. One option is to buy a unit that is already tenanted, which offers the investor an
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      Lock icon Delhi Metro pickpockets
      511 4 Watch out, they now look different from their Blueline bus days Indo-Asian News Service THE next time you travel on the Delhi Metro, you may want to give your co-passengers a closer look. Because the smart-ly-dressed, laptop-carrying young man standing next to you may not be the
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Rooted in trust
      809 6 / 7  -  biz matters: Atish J. Mody PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg ON A side shelf in Mr Atish J. Mody’s office, a small photograph of St Dominic Savio shares space with an image of Lord Ganesha and the awards he has received over the years. It is a reminder of
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      Lock icon Exchange rates as of March 24, 2011
      23 6 / 7 S I N G Rs35.43 US$0.79 A$0.78 ¤0.56 £0.48 RS44.78 A$0.98 ¤0.71 U S £0.61 S$1.26
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      Lock icon Tharman named head of key IMF body
      222 6 / 7 biz IT IS the first time an Asian is heading the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy advisory committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And Singapore’s finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 54, gained that honour when he was named by the
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      Lock icon Mission to India...
      145 6 / 7 Mission to India... the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) organised a business mission to India from March 15 to 18. The group (right), which was led by the US ambassador to Singapore David Adelman and included 15 Singapore-based executives of US firms, visited New
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    • biz notes
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        Lock icon Visa woes ease in Kolkata
        100 6 / 7 KOLKATA residents wanting to visit Singapore now need not send their passports to Delhi or visit the Singapore high commission in the Indian capital for their visas. They can now get it in Kolkata itself. According to The Times Of India, travellers from the city
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        Lock icon Honour for Jet Airways
        86 6 / 7 IN 1992, she made history when she became the first woman pilot to be hired by a private Indian airline Jet Airways. Earlier this month, Captain Sonica Chhabra was felicitated at a special event in Delhi by India’s civil aviation ministry for being the first Indian
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      608 6 / 7 ital Singapore rs of Th Cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke, are the world's largest killers, claiming an estimated 17.1 million lives a year. Contrary to popular belief that old age is a primary factor in cardiovascular diseases, people as young as those in their mid-30s are also affected.
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Set for a great meal
      587 8 / 9  -  The art of table setting will be on display at iwannagohome! AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg DINNER knife to the right, fork to the left and where does the soup bowl go? If you’re hosting a dinner in your home and want to impress your guests,
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      Lock icon Celebrating Navroz together...
      114 8 / 9 Celebrating Navroz together... for the first time, more than 400 members of the Parsi Zorastrian and Iranian communities came together to celebrate Navroz, the Parsi New Year. The event, at Orchard Hotel on March 19, was attended by President S.R. Nathan as guest of honour and Foreign
      PHOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  114 words
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      97 10 350,000 Delegates who attended events at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre last year. The city aims to become the convention capital of India 53Percentage of Indians doing graduate studies in the US who plan to return home after a few years of work. Only 8 per cent prefer
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      Lock icon IT’S ONLY WORDS
      283 10 “We come not as preachers, but more like cheerleaders.” Software billionaire Bill Gates on his visit to India with fellow billionaire Warren Buffett to encourage the super rich in India to be more philanthropic “I think flying economy class gets you down to reality.” –Wipro chairman Azim
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    • Article
      Lock icon New faces for upcoming election
      220 13 THE People’s Action Party (PAP) and its opposition parties have started introducing the new faces they will field in the upcoming General Election. The PAP is expected to send more than 20 fresh faces out to electoral battle, with half of them in their 20s
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    • singapore news
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        Lock icon More expats get local pay package
        129 13 GONE are the days when foreign employees come to Singapore and expect to enjoy the full benefits of a premium expatriate package, which included perks such as allowances for housing, schooling and club memberships. Increasingly, scores of foreign employees here are now seeing their
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        Lock icon Help to prepare for emergencies
        148 13 THE People’s Association’s new crisis preparedness scheme aims to get private-estate residents to help one another during emergencies. The Emergency Preparedness 123 initiative will be rolled out through neighbourhood committees (NCs). Out of 116 NCs, 52 have pledged to promote the programme in their private
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        Lock icon Ban on some food from Japan
        95 13 BAD news if you like food from Japan: Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has suspended the import of milk, milk products, fruit, vegetables, seafood and meat from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures. It took that decision after receiving information that the Japanese
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  • EDUCATION
    • Article
      Lock icon The science of Facebook and Twitter
      557 11 Teachers are using social networking tools to lure more students to the pure sciences Indo-Asian News Service SCIENCE is not all about ploughing through intimidating data, mugging equations and memorising incomprehensible formulas. It is also fun... and teachers from government schools in Uttar Pradesh
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      Lock icon We sang with A.R. Rahman
      334 12 SUDIP ROY, Class IB Yr 2 WHEN I found out I was going to be the host for the A.R. Rahman show in our school, I was thrilled! I did a lot of research on the music maestro and perfected my script. But nothing prepared
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
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        Lock icon Baskets of gold and bronze
        172 12 CAMILLA ROSHAL, Class 9 IGCSE B GAGAN ANANTHA KUMAR, Class 8A WE STARTED as a small group... but we trained hard. Practice sessions, held four times a week, were hectic with our coach pushing us to work harder each time. Yet none of us gave
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        Lock icon A baking good sale
        155 12 APARNA VENKATESH, Class 7A A BAKE sale always means yummy cookies, delicious pastries and jumpy jellies. But when the Bake Sale is organised by young students from Class 1 and 2, it becomes special. Especially since it was a charity bake sale, part of our school’s
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      266 11 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 Ustad Rashid Khan to perform here
      431 14 / 15  -  Sarita Alurkar-Sriram “THERE is now at least one person in sight who is an assurance for the future of Hindustani classical music”... that was how the late maestro Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi once responded to a question about the future of the tradition
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      Lock icon So what if I play Kamal Hassan’s wife?
      663 14 / 15 She’s 23, Kamal Hassan’s 56. But that doesn’t bother Sonakshi Sinha Indo-Asian News Services A BIG age gap between herself and her leading man seems to be par for the course for Sonakshi Sinha, daughter of former Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha. The
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      Lock icon RAHMAN RULES
      543 16 / 17  -  Some ‘Rahmaniacs’ watched three of his four performances SHEELA NARAYANAN tabla@sph.com.sg IF THERE were any doubts that A.R. Rahman might have overextended himself four concerts in four nights at the same venue is a challenge for anyone they were dumped into the Marina Bay last weekend. Ecstatic Rahmaniacs
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      297 18 FUTURE SPEAKS kamal kapoor Aries Chances of going on a long trip are high. Family life will be very pleasant. All in all a very good period with no major problems on the horizon. Taurus You will face many problems. Relationships will be troublesome. But things will take a turn
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  • RELAX
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      357 19 EARTH HOUR Join millions of people around the world in their fight against global climate change by switching off your lights for an hour at 8.30pm on March 26. NUS ARTS FESTIVAL A festival featuring 40 events with a great selection of traditional and contemporary Indian arts performances.
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      Lock icon HOT PICK OF THE WEEK
      39 19 KAILASH IN CONCERT Catch singer and music director Kailash Kher (right) in concert. Tickets: $205, $155, $105, $75, $55, $35 When: March 25, 7pm Where: Suntec Rock Auditorium Contact: 6348-5555 or 9002-1963 (bulk booking)
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      340 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Scandinavian native 5 Neurotic worry 10 Cathedral projection 14 Night-stand jug 15 Tropical vine 16 Place to fish from 17 What the glazier took for relief? 19 Cajun vegetable 20 Muse of love poetry 21 Right-angle joints 22 Yegg’s thousands 23 Finds new tenants for 25 Water
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      208 19 QUIZ DEREK O’BRIEN 1. For which English football club does Cesc Fabregas play? a) Liverpool b) Chelsea c) Arsenal 2. Who among these was called the Iron Man Of India? a) Subhas Chandra Bose b) Vallabhbhai Patel c) Jawaharlal Nehru 3. Which popular comic-strip character’s role was played by Christopher
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      90 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 Ancient Indian doctor Sushruta is regarded as
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      30 20 SOLUTIONS 1. Arsenal 2. Vallabhbhai Patel 3. Superman 4. Karnataka 5. Sri Lanka 6. Kathryn Bigelow 7. United Nations 9. Albania 10. Bhimsen Joshi crossword sudoku Organisation 8. Skin quiz
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  • FOOD
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      Lock icon It’s a jungle in here
      387 21  -  Will Tarzan swing by for a taste of the food at this restaurant? AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg A MONKEY swinging from the ceiling, a peacock perched on a tree and a giraffe right by your side... things no one would expect in a restaurant. But
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      Lock icon How to pour the perfect glass of beer
      158 21  -  Ahnushka Kaur Riar RINSE the glass, let it drip dry, pour the beer in one go till the foam fills the glass to the brim and then remove the excess foam with a wet skimmer at an angle of 45 degrees. Sounds
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  • SPORTS
    • WORLD CUP SPECIAL
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        Lock icon Walker bats to the rescue
        629 22 / 23  -  Here’s some World Cup news with a twist tabla! cheeky singles HEMANT KENKRE in Mumbai BY NOW, regular readers of this column will need no introduction to Mr Chimanbhai Kutwalla or CK as he is better known in cricket circles. However, if you are reading
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        Lock icon What’s on this week
        37 22 / 23 March 25: Quarter-final 3: New Zealand v South Africa (Dhaka) March 26: Quarter-final 4: Sri Lanka v England (Colombo) March 29: Semi-final 1 (Colombo) March 30: Semi-final 2 (Mohali) April 2: Final (Mumbai)
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        Lock icon Tredwell sets up England win
        274 22 / 23  -  tabla! moment DR K.N. RAGHAVAN DR K.N. RAGHAVAN picks the turning point of the week’s action ENGLAND, the most unpredictable side in this World Cup, found an improbable hero in James Tredwell (inset) during their do-or-die group match against the West Indies on March 17.
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        Lock icon UDRS SCORES
        793 22 / 23  -  The umpire decision review has merits and drawbacks... but at least it is uniform columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg IT’S been a pretty good World Cup, you have to admit! Yes, we took a long time to arrive at the eight teams that most thought would make the quarter-finals;
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      171 24 THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS. Think Engineering to innovate the future. v N tr. s UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD W' MAKING KNOWLEDGE WORK Ranked 53rd in the U.K. (Times Good University Guide 20i0) Accredited by professional bodies in the U.K. Recognised by the signatories of the Washington Accord You are invited! Speaker:
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