Tabla, 4 January 2013

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 042/11/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 4,2013 SjSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 111 1 DELHI GANG RAPE: RESPECT FOR WOMEN IS A RIGHT PAGE 2 future ~fhankful community n a difference banSs beginnings o C □SRETF^S 16 youncj hopes for 11 ic New Year IV\GI 1? 15 audience 5"T SUCCESS awareness happy Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch
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    • 8 1 HOT FOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN PAGES 4 5
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  • NEWS
    • 422 2  -  Two vigils held here for the young Delhi woman JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg ABOUT 200 people gathered at Hong Lim Park on Jan 2 for a candlelight vigil to honour the student who died after being brutally raped in New Delhi last month. It was
      PHOTO: JAMUNA SUNDARAJ  -  422 words
    • 436 2  -  Jamuna Sundaraj THERE are not enough words in the English dictionary or in any language for that matter to express my anger and sadness when I learnt about the Delhi rape case. Were the men not taught to respect women? Did they not have women in their
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    • innovation
      • 637 11  -  NTU’s hybrid microgrid pushes frontiers of electrical engineering LALIT KUMAR GOEL tabla@sph.com.sg MOST Singaporeans don’t have to think much about electricity. We plug in a computer and it powers up; we flip a switch and the lights come on. Did you know that it has been
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    • 47 2 Admissions Open ww—r7T <y. \3 7 O IS/Von^esson happy new Q'V'f |i] 3, Hu Ching Road, Taman Jurong, Singapore *****1 phone: 6265 2342 0-yW?* Hotline: 9040 5969 YEAR 2P13 Y f, v a. cdki International School CPE registered Foreign System School Affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi, Mia.
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  • INDIA
    • Article, Illustration
      830 3 An Indian woman and her 17,000ft Foundation are helping children in remote schools in Ladakh’s mountains Indo-Asian News Service Fascinated by the accounts of trekking undertaken by her husband in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, its vast open spaces, sub-zero temperatures and stark beauty, infotech professional
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    • 1412 4 / 5  -  Indian government and aid organisation ensures children in Delhi’s anganwadis are served hot, clean food PAMELA PHILIPOSE Women’s Feature Service WOMEN in aprons, with their heads covered, stir the bubbling cauldrons with their giant ladles. Kadhi is on the menu, and the turmer-ic-laced, savoury concoction made of
      Women’s Feature Service; PHOTOS: WFS  -  1,412 words


  • SINGAPORE
    • 776 6 / 7 But S’pore’s success not only defined by economic terms says PM PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong cautioned Singaporeans to expect slower growth in 2013 when he revealed the year’s final Gross Domestic Product growth figure on Dec 31 in his annual New Year message. The economy grew
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    • 135 6 / 7 Welcome 2013... Despite the heavy showers, thousands of people across Singapore greeted the new year at the stroke of midnight on Jan 1. At the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown 2013, the largest party on the island, about 260,000 people turned up. The party jointly organised by the Esplanade
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  135 words
    • 275 6 / 7 TWO clinics which provide medical screenings for foreign workers are under investigation by the Ministry of Health. The ministry was following a tip-off that the clinics were allegedly not following proper procedures when examining the workers. The clinics screen the workers before they are allowed to
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    • singapore snippets
      • 135 6 / 7 AN INDIAN international student was arrested after allegedly making an online threat to bomb Marina Bay Sands. In his invective-ridden post on the social media site, Facebook, the 13-year-old said that the day he leaves Singapore, he is going to take “a big
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      • 119 6 / 7 TAXI operators have issued reminders to their drivers to heed new government rules on making more cabs available on the road. These standards issued by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) took effect on Jan 1, and require cab companies to put out at least
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      • 62 6 / 7 LATEST flash estimates of the Resale Price Index from the Housing and Development Board (HDB) released on Jan 2 showed that resale flat prices grew at their strongest pace in five quarters to reach a historical high. Prices rose 2.5 per cent to
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      • 123 6 / 7 A FIGHT between two groups of men on New Year’s Day ended in a death. Four Indian nationals Ramasami Rabinhood, 25, Raja Arul, 22, Bose Muruganandham, 32, and Palanisamy Vijayakumar, 26 have been charged with the murder of fellow countrymen Mr Boobalan Palanikumar, 24.
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    • 375 6 / 7 EMPLOYMENT agents are exploring new options to ease the labour supply crunch while stepping up recruitment of foreign construction workers and maids from existing source countries. The Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) is hoping to start hiring maids from Cambodia, while ramping up recruitment in
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    • 97 6 / 7 Flash floods... heavy rain on Jan 2 caused flash floods in a few areas of Singapore. The national water agency PUB reported flash floods at Ang Mo Kio and Gambas Avenue. The flash flood at Ang Mo Kio subsided within 15 minutes. Traffic at Gambas Avenue was still
      PHOTO: REGIS EHRHARDT  -  97 words
    • 573 8  -  He works with parrots in his show and also entertains with fire-eating and ventriloquism JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg MAMBO is quite the performer and just like every other talented performer, Mambo has a routine before show time. He needs to have a dose of an anti-stress medication.
      PHOTO COURTESY OF S. CHANDRAN  -  573 words
    • 1574 12 / 13 Ashvari Ravintharan, 17 FOR 2013, I wish for world peace. I want the world to be a better place for everyone to live in. No more natural disasters, terrorism and war. I don't want to see people killing each other. I also wish for poverty and
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    • 149 21 14 lakh Record number of students registered for the 2013 Joint Engineering Entrance, formerly known as the All India Engineering Entrance Examination 4,595 Girls given Rs 3.90 crore education loan in Haryana 50 million Record number of passengers handled by Singapore Changi Airport in 2012 Rs10,000 crore To
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    • 282 21 “We tell new workers it is about making sure you can go home safely to your family at the end of the day.” Mr Md Zin Abdol Azis, a storekeeper for an industrial gas manufacturer, on workplace safety “We won’t spoon-feed the children, but will help them
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • EDUCATION
    • 344 9 THE Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Temasek Polytechnic (TP), to provide its trading software for research, development and academic use for students in the Diploma in Financial Business Informatics course. TP is the first polytechnic that SMX is collaborating
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    • 437 10  -  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, NPS) KEERTHANA KANDASWAMY, Class 9 KRITIKA BALASUBRAMANIAM, Class 10
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  437 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 233 10  -  ANAYA ANGAL, Class 4 GREENVILLE, our school’s environment team, was launched in April 2010 to enable the students of GIIS Balestier to actively participate in the various projects initiated by the National Environment Agency, Public Utilities Board and the community centres. The Greenville team aims
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      • 234 10  -  S.YOGARAJAN, Class 8 IGCSE AS AN active member of the school’s Greenlinks curriculum, I was selected to go to the Clean and Green Singapore Carnival 2012 on Nov 4 at Gardens By The Bay. The event was organised by the National Environmental Agency, Central Singapore
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 250 9 "My sons enjoy the best of academics and sports at GIIS, I am glad I made the right choice" Ms So Youn Kim Parent of Peter Seung Ju Lee, Class 4 and Joseph Seung Heon Lee, Class 2, GIIS Queenstown Campus students (2012 Testimonial) Global Indian International School's (GIIS) primary
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    • 98 11 In association with CRUISES Presents Mcbfll-E-bJoor with Worlfc F Amo vis QawwaI Brothers Witness the last of Sabri brothers Mahmood Ghaznavi Sabri with Son of Late Maqbool Sabri, Shumail Sabri Team singing famous qawwalis like Tajdar-e-haram, Khwaja ki deewani, Bhar de Jholi more Event Organized Promoted by: UT O THE
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 336 14 / 15 Hot Bollywood actors dish out their favourite fitness tips BOLLYWOOD NEWS SERVICE Hrithik Roshan (left): Staying fit is all about the right kind of diet and nutrition. Exercising is essential, but so is a proper diet and nutrition. Drink lots and lots of water; it flushes
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    • 585 16 Indo-Asian News Service US-BASED Indian animator Avneet Kaur, who worked on Walt Disney’s movie Wreck-It Ralph as technical director, says they researched new ideas and explored innovative techniques to bring the creative vision of the characters and wonderful worlds of the film to life. Ms Kaur,
      Indo-Asian News Service; PHOTO: IANS  -  585 words


  • FOOD
    • Article, Illustration
      532 17  -  M.H. Abdul Majeed stall at Marine Terrace Market and Food Centre whips up oil-free appams JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg MY weighing scale recently gave me a reality check and I have been on the look-out for healthier food options since. But when it comes to Indian fare and its
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  • RELAX
    • 360 18 SONY MAX has a big line-up of films for 2013 just for Bollywood fans. In the new year, the channel will be screening newly released films such as Student Of The Year, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (below), Talaash (bottom), Raaz 3 and Jannat 2. And for those
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    • 386 19 BLOOD DONATION Singapore Sindhi Association holds community blood donation drive. Free admission. When: Jan 7, 9.30am to 3.30pm Where: Sindhu House, 795 Mountbatten Road Contact: 6345-7748 or log on to www.singaporesindhi.com.sg EXHIBITIONS G The New Paper Wedding Planner 2013 by CATS Classified will have more than 20 exhibitors
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    • 36 19 CONCERT The Sabri Brothers (left) will be performing popular Qawwali numbers in Mehfil-e-Noor. Tickets: $120, $90, $70, $50 $30 When: Jan 11, 7pm Where: NTUC Auditorium, 1 Marina Boulevard Contact: 8524-8656
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    • Article, Illustration
      182 19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which vegetable does the comic strip character Popeye love to eat? a) Tomato b) Spinach c) Potato 2. Where would you find ‘The Little Mermaid’ statue? a) Paris b) Copenhagen c) Amsterdam 3. Which bird appears on the flag of Zambia? a) Phoenix b) Buzzard c)
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 585 18 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 1.30pm VIJAY: Darling Darling Darling 4.30pm ASIANET: Vairam 7pm STAR GOLD: London Dreams 8.30pm SONY MAX: Chupke Chupke 9pm VASANTHAM: Kizhakkae Poghum Rayil 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Baazigar Mn VTV: Muthirai Saturday 1pm STAR PLUS: Sau Saal Cinema Ke 1pm VASANTHAM: Anbe Vaa 1.30pm VIJAY: Sattai 3pm ZEE
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 328 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Banks open them (Abbr.) 6 Cop after dealers 10 One of the Three B’s of classical music 14 Barton who founded the American Red Cross 15 Popular cookie since 1912 16 Start for “dynamic” or“nautical” 17 Far from safe 20 skin off my nose!” 21 Like a
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    • 65 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 first telegraph line in India between
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 27 20 SOLUTIONS quiz sudoku crossword 1. Spinach 2. Copenhagen 3. Fish eagle 4. Prison 5. Heart 6. Black hole 7. Caravan 8. Rudyard Kipling 9. Astronomy 10. USA
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 123 21 KERALA AYURVEDA CENTRE. KERALA AYURVEDA CENTRE 444 Serangoon Road Singapore *****6 (Opposite Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple) Tel: 6392 4158 Working Hours: 9am to 8pm. Closed On Mondays. Centre For Traditional Ayurvedic Treatments The fully equipped treatment centre offers facilities for Traditional Ayurvedic Treatments under the supervision of experienced Ayurvedic graduates
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  • SPORTS
    • 712 22 India’s Dipika Pallikal trains in Mumbai to avoid distractions Indo-Asian News Service WHEN she is not sweating it out on court, Dipika Pallikal, the first Indian to break into the top-10 of the world squash rankings, loves to chat on social networks. And she
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    • star column
      • 937 24  -  Greig and Jenkins took sports broadcasting to new heights HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg CHRISTOPHER Martin Jenkins and Tony Greig took different routes to becoming broadcasting icons. They couldn't have been more different even though, in a way, both found solace and an identity in cricket. CMJ was
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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