Tabla, 3 May 2013

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  • 28 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN CO MM U NITY IAN COMMUNITY S|Jl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 042/11/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MAY 3,2013
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  • Article, Illustration
    1058 1  -  For aesthetic or spiritual reasons, hair is dear to Indians. And it’s big business too ZAFAR ANJUM tabla@sph.com.sg Zafar Anjum is a Singapore-based journalist and writer. HAIR now, gone tomorrow. That’s the story of hair, in short, for most Indians. In between (one is telescoping time here), there
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    • 150 1 THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN SMU DON: THINK FRUGAL TO SUCCEED PAGE 4 IAN COMMUNITY Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep at $24 a year. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg View us at www.tabla.com.sg nSTWM.® 6010 Free Gift Otter on Pu^ase oi JeweWerv $600 |\nd Mo te O^evMaVidtrom K
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    • 15 1 INDIAN CO MM U NITY IAN COMMUNITY EDB DIRECTOR IS POSITIVE ABOUT INDIA PAGE 6
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    • 17 1 Available at all major pharmacies and medical halls SPELLING CHAMP IS ALSO A CHESS WHIZ PAGE 8
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 109 2 THE Delhi government hiked auto and taxi fares from May 2. This is the first revision in fares in three years. The decision to raise fares by nearly 30 per cent was taken keeping in mind the hike in gas prices
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      • 73 2 BOLLYWOOD star Chitrangada Singh, badminton player Jwala Gutta and Southern star Sundeep Kishan (right) have come together to support Gillette’s Soldier for Women campaign. At a function in Hyderabad recently, the trio shared instances of men exhibiting camaraderie, courage and integrity to stand
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      • 70 2 THE Gurgaon police has ordered city schools to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in school buses, after a rise in sexual crimes against children. There are more than 800 school buses registered in Gurgaon, a city bordering Delhi. Parents have often complained of teasing
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      • 77 2 THE Indian government has approved Rs11,000 crores for modernisation of its paramilitary forces. The Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Industrial Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, National Security Guard and Assam Rifles will benefit from the plan, which will be
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      • 79 2 MORE than 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in the north-eastern state of Mizoram, prompting the state government to restrict the sale of pork. Mizoram shares a border
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      • 80 2 KOLKATA metro authorities have deployed a task force of plain-clothes women police officers to protect women from harassment in the stations and also on trains. This force has been identifying and nabbing culprits found misbehaving with women. The authorities say that since their deployment, crimes
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      • 104 2 BOLLYWOOD actress Mala Sinha did not turn up for the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award ceremony in Mumbai recently. She was to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award, which is a lifetime achievement award for contributions to Indian cinema, but the 76-year-old actress refused to
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      • 100 2 A KERALA court has directed leaders of the BJP and the CPI(M)led Left Democratic Front (LDF) to pay Rs3,700 as compensation to a small-scale industrialist in Cochin, who was prevented from opening his establishment on a strike day in September 2011. The LDF
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      • 81 2 SAND artist Sudarsan Pattnaik (above) from Orissa has won the Moscow Choice Prize after he created a 12-foot sculpture of Hindu elephant god Ganesha. The world sand art championship 2013 was held at Moscow’s Kolomenskoe Museum Reserve from April 22 to 28. Pattnaik, 36,
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    • 91 3 mintasia Weekly Analysis of the Indian Economy and Markets O I STARTED MY FIRST BUSINESS AT THE AGE OF 18 0 I STUDIED AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 0 I HAVE A NET WORTH OF AROUND USD 11 BILLION WHO AM I? t WH r X WHEN IT COMES TO BUSINESS
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  • NEWS
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      591 4  -  The key to succeed in emerging markets is through sustainable innovations innovation RAJENDRA SRIVASTAVA tabla@sph.com.sg Professor Rajendra Srivastava is provost and deputy president of Singapore Management University. INNOVATION today is both overused and misinterpreted. Innovation is confused with invention. Invention means scientific discovery. Innovation is simply finding ways
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    • 799 14 / 15  -  DEEPIKA SHETTY deepikas@sph.com.sg THERE was a time when I had hair. So much of it that my arthritis-riddled mother’s fingers could not run a comb through it. There was a game we played. My sister and I. How long could
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    • 289 14 / 15 TODAY, hair is big business the world over. Both the young and the old in the West turn to hair extensions and hair additions. The young go for coloured extensions while middle-aged women opt for extensions to create a glamorous effect. According to approximate figures from
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    • 174 5 TAKE OFF TO 8 DESTINATIONS IN INDIA WITH SILKAIR'S GREAT FARE DEALS. The Regional Wing of Singapore Airlines Kolkata Visakhapatnam Hyderabad Bangalore Coimbatore Kochi Thiruvananthapuram All-in return fare from 438 Hyderabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram Scan to discover j 0 th er attractive fares > Chennai V Singapore All-in return fare from
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  • BUSINESS
    • 977 6 / 7  -  biz matters: Lee Eng Keat (International Director, Asia Pacific, EDB) PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph. com.sg IF A foreign investor were to visit the office of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), this in itself is a good way to attract him to this country. Perched on the
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    • biz notes
      • 107 6 / 7 INDIA’S national airline Air India is pulling out all stops to attract travellers from Singapore to various Indian cities during the summer holidays. It is offering very attractive fares and a 40kg baggage allowance to those flying to Mumbai and Chennai. Return fares to Chennai start
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      • 71 6 / 7 INDIAN Overseas Bank (IOB) is looking at raising funds through the issue of a medium-term note, rights/public issue and from the Indian government to fund its growth this fiscal year. It is also going for a new banking software solution. Said the bank’s chairman and managing director
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      • 69 6 / 7 ON THE last day of April, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm, Reliance Jio Infocomm, announced that it has joined a consortium of telecom companies to build an 8,000km submarine cable system to link Malaysia and Singapore with the Middle East. Earlier, on April 24, the company signed an
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      • 97 6 / 7 ACCORDING to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2012, Singapore is second just behind the US in terms of entrepreneurial activity among 25 selected innovation-driven economies in the world. The study carried out by Nanyang Technological University is part of a wider global study led by GEM,
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    • 107 6 / 7 WITH the Singapore dollar commanding an attractive exchange rate, many Indians are looking at investing in properties in India. A series of mini roadshows on May 4 and 5, organised by De Ideaz under the banner of HDFC’s India Homes Gallery, offer investors a good opportunity to
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    • Article, Illustration
      214 6 / 7 India’s largest life insurer starts serving Singapore residents LIFE Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has extended its footprint to Singapore with the island nation becoming the 13th country where LIC will have a presence. The newly opened subsidiary company of LIC here is called Life Insurance Corporation
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    • 9 6 / 7 S I N G RS43.53 US$0.81 A$0.79 ¤0.61 £0.52
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    • 14 6 / 7 U S RS53.70 A$0.97 ¤0.76 £0.64 S$1.23 Exchange rates as of May 2, 2013
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 625 8  -  National spelling champion Ashvin Sivakumar is also a chess whiz and is the No. 1 under-12 chess player in Singapore ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg ASHVIN Sivakumar, 12, became Singapore’s spelling champion after winning the RHB-The Straits Times National Spelling Championship on April 27, beating 30
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    • singapore snippets
      • 220 12 / 13 ERP rates at five gantries to rise by 1 IF YOU are a motorist who travels along the Central Expressway during the morning peak period, note that Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) will be back up to $5 from May 6. This means you’ll be travelling along one of the two
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      • 139 12 / 13 A MASS protest on May 1, touted as a sequel to the Population White Paper protest, had speakers going beyond the hot-button topics of foreigners and population, and gunning for issues such as the wage gap and workers’ rights. The speakers were mostly
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      • 188 12 / 13 WHEN the Land Transport Authority (LTA) updates its mobile app, pedestrians and cyclists will know the exact routes to get from one place to another without once getting drenched in the rain or even having to use busy, potentially hazardous roads. For
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    • 417 12 / 13 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that Singapore should take a practical approach towards re-employing older workers, “so that as many as possible can continue working for as long as possible”. Speaking at the annual May Day Rally on May 1, Mr Lee
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    • 173 12 / 13 BETWEEN 2008 and 2011, the number of citizens and permanent residents in Singapore’s science industry fell by 200, according to the latest annual national surveys. But the number of foreign researchers, engineers, technicians and support staff shot up by 4,551 in the same
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    • 238 12 / 13 Temple consecration... about 12,000 devotees crowded the Darma Muneeswaran Temple on May 1 to witness its consecration. All Hindu temples undergo renovations and repairs every 12 years, and the temple and its deities have to be re-consecrated through a Maha Kumbhabishegam ceremony, which literally means the pouring of
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    • Article, Illustration
      98 12 / 13 Family fun... Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam greeting families at the Narpani-Vasantham Family Day Carnival on April 28 at Universal Studios Singapore. Called A Day Full Of Joy And Bliss, the annual event was jointly organised by the People’s Association Indian Activity Executive Committees Council and MediaCorp’s Vasantham.
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    • 171 19 $30,000 Annual fees to study at Singapore’s newest medical school, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine 11,500 Cyclists hit the streets for the OCBC Singapore’s 42km Challenge, held from April 26 to 28 1 crore Vendors across India will be issued vending certificates under the Street Vendors (Protection
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    • 397 19 “Size zero is passe. Women are fit today. Look at the actresses! Even with children, they look amazing.” Designer Manish Malhotra “Previously, public perception was as Jack Neo put it in his movie I Not Stupid ‘It’s The End’. But we have transformed the image to a
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    • 96 8 <4 tt m m m KALA TARANG invites you to folic M ues from India celebrating the myriad colours of Indian craft folk paintings w Gallery The Arts House I Old Parliament Lane, Singapore *****9 16 th (Thu) to 18 th (Sat) May 2013 II am to 7pm (Sat till
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  • EDUCATION
    • 542 9 Her success in exams depends on it EXAM time can be stressful for students and is often even more stressful for parents. With the primary and secondary school exams now on, it is no wonder that both parents and children are feeling the heat.
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    • 352 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, GIIS) IMTHIAZ HUSSAIN, Class 7C THE much-awaited SST (Social Studies)
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 250 10  -  AISHWARYA SIVARAMAN, Class 7A THE students of Class 7 were greatly excited at the prospect of exploring South America, thanks to a variety of activities that had been planned for the SST (Social Studies) Week. All the participating teams were named after important geographical features of the
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      • 202 10  -  ABHISHEK BEHERA, Class 6B OUR class, which had thoroughly enjoyed studying about Africa in our geography lessons, was excited to learn that the SST (Social Studies) Week activities would have an African theme. We had recently studied about the bushmen of the Kalahari desert who practise the
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    • 338 9 ‘xtra-curricular levelopment lelps its itudents ultiv lutlo mm. subir (Left) and Sudip Roy (Right) 1 of Socian>ciences, Singapore Management University jIIS Queenstown Campus students rom 2009-2011 (2013 Testimonial) Global Indian International School's focus on providing a strong academic foundation and holistic development makes it a preferred choice amongst parents and
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    • 44 10 CAMPUS chatter from DPS International School Tip of the Week: Keep a "log book" or record of needs to be accomplished in each study section. Your child can look over it later and be impressed with them! ure Indian Development Association 1-295-4554 www.smda.org.sg facebook.com/mysinda
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    • 77 11 Shiv Ling Visarjan 5th May 2013 11am onwards &q Shiv Ling Hanumanji Deity Prayer 4th to 12th May 2013 8am 6.30pm daily Chariot Procession 8th May 2013 7pm onwards is Shiv Ling Hanumanji Deity Inauguration Ceremony 12th May 2013 7.30am onwards Guest of Honour Mr K Shanmugam (Minister for Foreign
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    • 103 12 / 13 OVERWEIGHT? Who else wants to lose 5 kg in 7 days? X 1 Why diets, pills fitness fads won't work Discover why diets don't work and what DOES work Learn about nutrition and exercise that suits your body Strengthen and maintain your motivation Design a personal action plan for lasting
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    • 238 12 / 13 Are t you[desti ned to be Singapore's next^inging mi'm Singapore's leading singing talent hunt, Global Indian Stars 2013 is back!! A competitive music contest open to all singing talents in Singapore Global Indian Stars 2013 identifies the best talent among youth! The competition brings on stage talented performers from all
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 564 16  -  Rithvik and Asha who play Pavitra Rishta onscreen couple are not saying JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg WHEN I told my friends and colleagues that I would be meeting Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi the two stars of Zee TV’s drama serial Pavitra Rishta their eyes opened wide
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    • Article, Illustration
      639 17 Madhuri one of my best co-stars, says Juhi Indo-Asian News Service ACTRESS Juhi Chawla, who is sharing the screen with her former arch-rival Madhuri Dixit for the first time in Gulaab Gang, calls the “dhak dhak” girl “one of my best co-stars” so far. The movie is
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    • 881 18  -  JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg IT WAS an opportunity he made well use of. While on a three-month internship with Hollywood’s Sonic Magic Studios, local film-maker Mohamed Yahssir made a film with a small team that included the post-production house’s maestros in film production. The internship was the 30-year-old’s
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  • RELAX
    • 149 20 ACTOR Shahid Kapoor (right) is soaking in the sun to get a tanned look for his upcoming movie Rambo Rajkumar. Even though he has donned a chocolate boy look in movies like Ishq Vishk, Vivah and Kismat Konnection, it was his chiselled body
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    • 415 21 PROPERTY HDFC’s India Homes Gallery showcases properties from leading Indian developers. Free admission. When: May 4 5, 10am to 8pm Where: Raffles Convention Centre, Wilberforce Bailey Room, Level 4, Fairmont Hotel, 80 Bras Basah Road Contact: 6536-7000 TALKS Dada J.P. Vaswani from the Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Pune,
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    • Article, Illustration
      176 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. In which country did the Mazurka dance originate? a) Spain b) Poland c) Germany 2. Which high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher? a) Pascal b) Cobol c) Fortran 3. Which part of the cinnamon tree is used to make cinnamon? a)
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    • 38 21 RACE Denim Midnight Race has an exciting programme with great prizes. Free admission. When: Till May 4, 7pm to midnight Where: Mustafa Shopping Centre, Exit 5 Contact: Log on to www. denimworld. com
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 644 20 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Rajadhi Raja 7pm ZEE CINEMA: Badhaai Ho Badhaai 9pm SONY MAX: Dil Bole Hadippa 9pm VASANTHAM: Bhagavathapuram Railway Gate Mn STAR GOLD: Rockstar Mn VTV: Maapillai Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Thedi Vantha Mappillai 1.30pm STAR PLUS: Salaam-E-Ishq2.30pm COLORS: Delhi 6 3.30pm SONY ENT: Kaho Naa... Pyaar
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 295 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 “Quo 6 Aussie hatchlings 10 Indian tourist site 14 Rope-making fibre 15 Sausage unit 16 Banana danger 17 Kentucky school 19 Jumping stick 20 Corpulent 21 One who’s seen combat 23 Bobby- (’40s teen) 26 Majestic soarer 27 Ipso 30 Philadelphia school 33 was saying 34 Military
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    • 45 21 SUDOKU The objectiveis 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. GFor solutions, turn to next page.
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  • SPORTS
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      877 23  -  Why are IPL teams winning more games at home? columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg AS WORLD cricket’s newest laboratory, the Indian Premier League (IPL), keeps throwing up observations it is up to those who play and who administer and, occasionally, to those who watch to come up with rational
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 98 24 LIC of India Extends Its Global Foot Print In Singapore LIC of India, launches its wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore Life Insurance Corporation(Singapore)Pte Ltd q United Kingdom O'. N v iff j ;-o •>:■< c'-' ‘VVf c y. ?c --ft l O V- V/ ‘-’1 .■•’'it t ;V£»<j.i.v. 4 Bahrain
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