Tabla, 6 July 2012

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  • 49 1 tabla! T H E H E A R T B E A T O F T H E I N D I A N C O M M U N T Y ITY MICA (P) 062/03/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 SPH SINGAPORE P RESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • tabla! EXCLUSIVE
    • 1138 1  -  Shah Rukh Khan talks to tabla! about that IPL incident, brawling at Mumbai parties and his supposed mid-life crisis KA RISHMA UPADHYAY in Mumbai tabla@sph.com.sg THE image forever etched in public memory from the recent IPL season has been that of Shah Rukh Khan cartwheeling to
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 203 1 .6# A'AAY' SINGAPORE DUBAI •.■ABU DHABI FIRST BEST Middle Eastern Restaurant from Dubai Now in Singapore! Lavish setting Veggie friendly options. ANAR Restaurant, 26 Sentosa Gateway, The Wj Resorts World Sentosa, #01 -291, Singa| OpenTBaTTT JFSpffi 6-1 Oprf For reservations, call 6884 6989 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call
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    • 30 1 SIGN UP FOR THE INTEGRATION CUP GOLF 2012 PAGE 2 SHABBIR HASSANBHAI: BUSINESSMAN, DIPLOMAT, MENTOR, GRANDFATHER PAGE 6 HOW MUCH WATER DID IT TAKE TO MAKE YOUR JEANS? PAGE 10
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  • NEWS
    • 716 2  -  Join tabla! and Tamil Murasu for a day of integration over golf, music, fashion, food and drinks TAMILAVEL tamilv@sph.com.sg Tamilavel is a correspondent with Tamil Murasu THE day begins with golf... and winds down with a gala dinner that promises great entertainment. But throughout the day there
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 40 2 tahla! MURASU INTEGRATION CUP 2012 Presented by XUBS Official Apparel Equipment Sponsor Hole-In-One Sponsor 1^ 1HOU5 GOLFlHOUSE Sponsors Audi Modern" Montessori International (LONDON) International Group Partners //inisia PARK HOTEL GROUP Wilson Staff TLroJufloo Colour* of Lift. Co-organized by Golf Digest
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    • 213 3 tabla' TAMIL^JMURASU INTEGRATION CUP 2012 Presented by UBS Forge new friendships over a round of golf. Receive a fabulous goodie bag and win attractive prizes. And attend a gala dinner too with your spouse or partner. Sign up for the inaugural Integration Cup 2012, brought to you by tabla! and
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  • INDIA
    • 557 4 / 5 WHEN Mr Surjeet Singh went missing from Phidde village in Ferozepur district, his daughter Parminder was 12 and his son Kulwinder only two years old. That was 30 years ago, in 1982. On June 29, when he was released by the Pakistani authorities
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    • 687 4 / 5 They will be part of the security team that protects the state’s chief minister and his son who is deputy CM WHEN the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi put together a team of women commandos to guard him during his heyday, it became a talking point the
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  • Page 4 / 5 Advertisements
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  • BUSINESS
    • 1128 6 / 7  -  biz matters: Shabbir Hassanbhai (director, Indo Straits Trading Company) PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg A LARGE world map hangs in the boardroom of the Indo Straits Trading Company. The wooden topographical map, which was made in England, is a gift from Mr Zee Chin, a former partner of
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    • biz notes
      • 87 6 / 7 GUJARAT’S principal secretary for water supply H.K. Dash told the Press Trust of India that International Enterprise (IE) Singapore will lead a delegation to Vibrant Gujarat 2013 which will be held from Jan 11 to 13. Mr Dash, who was in Singapore as
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      • 80 6 / 7 STARTING Sept 27, Tiger Airways will add Hyderabad to its Indian destinations from Singapore, with flights on five days of the week. Said Tiger Airways Singapore managing director Stewart Adams: “We are excited at the prospect of growing our paw print in the region. India’s
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      • 98 6 / 7 AFTER 58 days, Air India pilots called off their strike on July 3. This was after the Delhi High Court asked them to join duty within 48 hours and the management to sympathetically consider their grievances. The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) said that as directed
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    • tabla! biz
      • 342 6 / 7 WHEN will he unleash the “animal spirit” to revive India’s economy? This is the question uppermost on most minds watching the country’s economic graph. India’s prime minister knows well that time is running out and this is his last chance. He has taken over the
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      • 162 6 / 7  -  Azhagiya Pandiyan THE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) lost two senior people in quick succession. CEO Hernaikh Singh, who had been in the post since 2009, and senior manager Nirman Singh, who had been with SICCI for six years, resigned last week. Their
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      • 121 6 / 7 IHH Healthcare, owned by Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, saw its $2.6 billion share offering on July 3 being oversubsribed heavily. IHH is offering up to 2.235 billion shares at an indicative offer price of RM$2.85 or S$1.18 per share to cornerstone investors, institutional investors
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      • 6 6 / 7 RS43.44 US$0.78 A$0.76 ¤0.63 £0.50
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      • 13 6 / 7 Exchange rates as of July 5, 2012 RS55.02 A$0.97 ¤0.79 £0.64 S$1.26
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  • Page 6 / 7 Advertisements
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 286 8 / 9 TRAVEL early and get a discount on your train fare. From Aug 6, those who end their journey before 7.45am at designated stations in the city, including Bugis, City Hall and Dhoby Ghaut, will enjoy a 50-cent discount on their fare, up from 30 cents currently.
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    • 255 8 / 9 Towards a sustainable future... at events that were part of the Singapore International Water Week, World Cities Summit and the inaugural CleanEnviro Summit, world leaders discussed ideas to plan and keep cities liveable and sustainable. The meetings, held at the Marina Bay Sands convention centre this
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  255 words
    • 293 8 / 9 THE massive MRT service disruptions on Dec 15 and 17 last year could have been avoided if adequate maintenance measures and checks had been carried out. And while SMRT’s response focused on train safety and operations, it should have been on the well-being of passengers in stalled
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    • singapore snippets
      • 128 8 / 9 WORKERS in Singapore may have received a more generous pay increase last year, but many of them did not feel much richer for it. That’s because high inflation eroded most of the wage bump, according to the Manpower Ministry’s latest annual report on
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      • 119 8 / 9 WITH declining birth rates, the number of young men enlisted for national service (NS) in 2025 will be 25 per cent lower than the number today but the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will still be able to do more with less, Defence Minister Ng Eng
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      • 102 8 / 9 ONE of Singapore’s pioneer ministers, Mr Yong Nyuk Lin (left), has died. He had been warded in Singapore General Hospital for medical problems related to old age before his death. He was 94. His death marks the passing of another member of the old
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      • 118 8 / 9 MORE customers will be connected to the national fibre broadband network each week from next month. The Government is introducing a new service quality framework that stipulates, among other things, the maximum time a customer should have to wait to get his fibre broadband installed.
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    • 172 8 / 9  -  Elavarasi Mahendran LITTLE Zainab Faizah was not the only one who got praise from Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam. She came in first in an oratorical competition organised by the United Indian Muslim Association. Speaking to the Muslim community at the Social Integration and Emergency Preparedness exhibition on
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    • LOOKING GOOD
      • 357 8 / 9  -  Dr Komathy Rajaratnam THERE is a lot of medical “information” out there and many people tend to believe whatever they read, especially on the Internet, these days. However, there are some medical questions that are better answered by doctors... and that’s what this column will do this
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    • technology
      • 668 10  -  Your water bill will not tell you that GURDEV SINGH Dr Gurdev Singh is head of water technology at the Environmental Water Technology Centre of Innovation in Ngee Ann Polytechnic WHEN we talk about water consumption, we immediately think about
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    • 93 22 Rs2.46 Drop in price of a litre of petrol in India as of June 29 70,000 People visited the Gardens by the Bay in the first two days of its opening Rs34 crores Gross box office takings on the opening weekend of The Amazing Spider-Man in India, released
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    • Article, Illustration
      260 22 “Reverse the climate of pessimism... revive the animal spirit in the country’s economy.” Indian PM Manmohan Singh to his finance officials “There is a negative connotation. When you are tattooed, people look at you like you are a punk kid or a druggie. It’s funny since our
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    • 111 11 Read RE REWARDED Select any of these gifts when you subscribe to Tamil Murasu at $185.70* Subscribe now at 6388 3838 or email circs@sph.com.sg. Promotion ends 26 Aug 2012. A i EC Electrolux Iff siiih i Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner Z2300 (worth $79) Philips SE1711 Dect Phone (worth $69) 0 LG
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  • EDUCATION
    • 355 12 Fee increases will kick in next January and will come with hike in miscellaneous fees for all students SINGAPORE’S Ministry of Education (MOE) will be revising the school fees for permanent residents (PRs) and foreigners in Government and Government-aided schools from January 2013.
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    • 359 13  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of three Indian schools here to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, DPS) SRISHTI SARKAR, Class 10 IGCSE TEAM NPSI sure revealed
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 176 13  -  SHREYA SEN, Class 10 IGCSE THE mufti day theme for this semester was Movie Day In and, for the first time, the IB Year 2 students were driving the day’s activities as part of their CAS (Creative, Action, Service) project. On June 8, students came to
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      • 153 13  -  SACHI WAGH, Class 5C THE students of Classes 3 to 5 had an Inter House Spelling Bee. After competing with six other students from our house, Smrithi Prakash from 5A and I were selected from Class 5 to represent our house, the Pioneers. Soon the
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      • 142 13  -  SHIVANI SHINDE, Class 10 IGCSE THE Inter House Cultural Competition is a series of contests that take place annually at NPS International School. This year, it kicked off with the talent show for the Primary Years. Everyone got a chance to show off their talent
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 320 12 "As a parent you want the best for your child, so you try different schools. I am happy I moved my son to GIIS." Ms Khushi Arora, Parent of Kavan, Class 5, GIIS East Coast Campus (2012 Testimonial) i rrtn After trying other international schools in Singapore, Ms Khushi Arora
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 449 14 / 15 “I have been a Shah Rukh fan since my teens. It started with his first few movies but I loved him in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the everlasting love story of Raj and Simran. I had a magical moment in 2008 at the Zee Carnival
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    • 136 16 / 17 Karishma Upadhyay SHAH Rukh will be seen on the big screen next in Yash Chopra’s untitled project. The romance that marks Chopra’s return as a director is being shot in London currently. The actor will then move on to Rohit Shetty’s Chennai Express. “It is a very
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    • 520 16 / 17 His business acumen is as good as his acting REMOVE the garb of the showman and you can see Shah Rukh Khan in a different avatar. The Bollywood superstar possesses a sharp business brain that is unmatched in Indian film circles. Not surprising since he holds
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    • 370 16 / 17  -  SURENDAR KAUR SHAH Rukh’s movies are a must-watch for my family in the theatre. After which we wait for the DVD to be released and immediately purchase it for viewing at home... many times. So, you could say I am a die-hard SRK fan.
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    • Article, Illustration
      167 16 / 17 BOLLYWOOD bigwigs were kept busy for almost a week attending the various ceremonies related to the wedding of one of their fellow stars, who is also the daughter of a star couple of yesteryear. Hema Malini’s and Dharmendra’s daughter Esha Deol married Mumbai businessman Bharat Takhtani (the couple
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  • RELAX
    • Article, Illustration
      509 18 / 19 FOOD FESTIVAL The highlight of Seafood Mela 2012, a month-long food festival in Little India, will be an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most fish head curries served at one dinner: In keeping with the year, 2,012 fish heads are expected to be eaten
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    • 44 18 / 19 DANCE Ghun- groo, an evening with kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj (left) and his troupe. Tickets: By invitation only When: July 8, 7pm Where: School of the Arts Drama Theatre Contact: 6536-0509 or log on to www.templeoffine- offine- arts.org
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    • Article, Illustration
      270 18 / 19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. The Nobel Foundation awards its prizes on Dec 10 because it is... a) Sweden’s Independence Day b) Alfred Nobel’s death anniversary c) The birthday of Sweden’s first king 2. Who partnered Leander Paes in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon 2012? a) Lukas Dlouhy b) Radek Stepanek
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  • Page 18 / 19 Advertisements
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    • 152 18 / 19 IT’S BACK! OPENS 12™ JULY (THURSDAY) BIG DISCOUNTS I BEST BARGAINS I! GREAT PRICES III -THE GREAT INDIA EXHIBITION SALE Visit to W it'\ a Bollywood free trip y>fT Highlights Daily stand-up comedy hosting by BRIAN LUNE OLI 96.8 FM Dj’s LIVE hosting on 12&13th July, 3-6 pm BHANGRA performance
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
    • 273 18 / 19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries This is a quiet, relaxed time, but avoid overindulgence in food and drinks. There could be some small financial losses, so be careful not to overspend. Taurus Not a good time to start long-term projects. You may get heavy responsibilities, but correct execution means you will get
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    • 174 18 / 19 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 4.30pm ASIANET: Payyans 5pm STAR PLUS: Blue 9pm VASANTHAM: Anbukku Naan Adimai 9.30pm STAR GOLD: Golmaal 3 Mn VTV: Yuvan Yuvathi Saturday Noon ASIANET: Shakespeare M.A. 1pm VASANTHAM: Ulagam Suttrum Valiba 3.30pm SONY ENT: Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta 4pm COLORS: Hello Brother 4pm VASANTHAM: Force
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    • 333 18 / 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Where some dye for a living 6 Poetry showdown 10 Tap-on-the shoulder alternative 14 2002 Olympics venue 15 Husband of mama 16 Legendary entertainer Horne 17 “American Idol” contestant Clay 18 Dark clouds, to some 19 Actor who married Shirley Temple 20 Brazil has the world’s largest
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    • 50 18 / 19 SUDOKU G For solutions, turn to page 23. Now, now, don’t cheat 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 uniquedigits going across and down over the large grid.
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 300 20 Salary $5,000.... Rent $2,500.... Hardly makesisense...!! Whatever be your salary, paying a rental of $2,500 to $3,500 pm is on the higher side. Only way to avoid this is by buying a house. As a first time buyer you may have several queries; what type of house to buy, how
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  • FOOD
    • 697 21  -  If you like your food spicy and tasty, head to Casa Bom Vento in Joo Chiat SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg YOU can tell when expatriates go native; they start craving for local food. And I experienced it first hand recently when my Aussie hubby who hails from Melbourne, a
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
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      608 23 India’s women athletes rise to support Sania Mirza against AITA SANIA Mirza may or may not win much glory at the upcoming London Olympics but she has already garnered a lot of headlines even before the first ball has been served at the Games. Her outburst after being
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 39 23 crossword sudoku SOLUTIONS 1. Alfred Nobel’s death anniversary 2. Radek Stepanek 3. The inland taipan 4. South America 5. Decorated with stones, pearls and glass 6. Clocks 7. Rafflesia arnoldii 8. Dancing 9. Mohd Yousuf 10. Jai Hind quiz
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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