Tabla, 30 August 2013

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  • 26 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN CO MM U NITY SfJl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 042/11/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, AUGUST 30,2013
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  • Article, Illustration
    225 1  -  North, south, east or west. Every region in India has something flavourful Ankita Pandey Vallikappen THE curry is ubiquitous in Indian cuisine. No matter where you go in India the cool climes of the northern Himalayas or the breezy and coastal south, from Goa’s sandy beaches to Bengal’s
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    • 79 1 PM'S SPEECH TURNS SCIENTIST INTO A STAR PAGE 8 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep for $24 a year. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg View us at www.tabla.com.sg Ea Wwm Es,d198 m w/S/rQmr. Want To Know Gold Price Daily www.ajs.com.sg wan IT BIRAAME Singapore's Popular Jeweller 85, Serangoon Road, Singapore
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    • 16 1 THE INDIAN CO MM U NITY WISH LIST FOR INDIA’S NEW BANK CHIEF PAGES 12 13
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    • 28 1 potph Hrithik Roshan live at Singapore International Deepavali Shopping Festival 2013 September 18 to 22 Singapore Expo Hall 5B HU* DOCTOR WHO IS ALSO A DANCER PAGE 18
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 64 2 IN THE heart of Delhi, an intricate Mughal garden is being created, which is expected to rival New York’s Central Park. The project is being spearheaded by Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Renovations are now underway at Sunder Nursery. The creation
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      • 63 2 A 75-YEAR-OLD man in Bihar had a piece of betel nut stuck in his lungs for 28 years, which caused fits and excessive coughing. Mr Krishna Kant had been treated for tuberculosis, chest infection, pneumonia and epilepsy for the last two
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      • 74 2 TECH-FRIENDLY Karnataka plans to build five electronics clusters to attract investments, boost production and generate employment. There will be two greenfield electronics clusters at Devanahalli and Narsapur and three electronic systems design and manufacturing (ESDM) sectors at the electronics city and Peenya in Bangalore
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      • 80 2 THE Indian government has increased the pension of retired government staff over 80 years old by 20 per cent, after the All India Services Rules of 1958 were amended. The pension will rise every five years. Thus, on reaching the age of 85, it
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      • 56 2 INDIA is reportedly one of the countries with the lowest organ donation rates in the world. Since the Human Organ Transplantation Act was introduced 20 years earlier, figures show that only one in 10 lakhs of its 1.2 billion people donate their organs. The
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      • 65 2 THE Uttarakhand High Court has banned all construction within 200m of all rivers in the state. The court order, announced on Aug 26, comes two months after flash floods and landslides caused severe damage to property and killed thousands of people. In 2000,
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      • 76 2 FORMER India athlete Henry Rebello died at his home in Gurgaon on Aug 27 after a long illness. He was 84. Rebello, a triple jumper who represented India at the 1948 London Olympic Games, faded away after the Games and joined the Indian Air Force. He retired
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      • 55 2 INDIA marked the festival of Janmashtami, the birth of Lord Krishna, on Aug 28 with great fervour. It was a public holiday and temples and Hindu homes were decorated. Fairs and pageants were organised across the country and children dressed up as Lord Krishna (left) to take part
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    • 692 4 Some say it’s economics, others pin it on speculation Indo-Asian News Service WHAT’S fuelling the persistent fall in the value of the Indian rupee? The reasons, according to experts, are several. But most of them feel the bottom is yet to be tested. The rupee,
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    • 182 2 With up to 95%* funding for all our diplomas, it’s possible. trust SINGAPORE Cert No: EDU-2-2005 Validity: 20/05/2010 -19/05/2014 PSB Academy Reg. No. *****4825E 20-05-2010 to 19-05-2014 As one of Singapore’s top private education institutions, we have been making it possible for students since 1964. And now with up to
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    • 83 3 India’s largest real estate developer INVITES CHANNEL PARTNERS TO PARTICIPATED 0 0 %t/ THE LARGEST PRE-LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY. EVER Lodha Group India’s no. 1 real estate developer is announcing the last pre-market opportunity at the most successful real estate development in history A17 acre luxury development in the heart of Worli,
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    • 200 4 Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce Industry ESTABLISHED 1924 BE A MEMBER TODAY! Enjoy the following benefits and more... The Chamber’s members are entitled to a wide range of exclusive benefits which help them to establish important linkages with like-minded individuals and organisations as well as develop their businesses locally and
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    • 411 5 T Experience technology at its BGST! Discover the latest gadgets with us at BGST DENKI L s A WHAT IS Ultra High Definition boasts a pixel resolution four times higher than Full HD. When viewed from close distances through a 4K or UHD screen, superior image quality ensures that details
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  • SINGAPORE
    • singapore snippets
      • 105 6 / 7 AFTER collecting views from some 3,900 people through surveys, face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) found that out of the 3,700 who took part in LTA’s survey, more than 80 per cent agreed that the current practice of categorising cars according
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      • 121 6 / 7 CONTRARY to popular belief, many Singaporeans do not consider the accumulation of wealth to be among their top values it is actually one of the least significant. Instead, filial piety, as well as safety and security for their families, is tops for many here.
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      • 119 6 / 7 MORE than 12,000 runners took part in The Straits Times’ inaugural Run in the Park at the Punggol Waterway Park on the morning of Aug 25. Entries for the event, a collaboration with the National Parks Board, was sold out two weeks after registration
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    • 187 6 / 7 We are together... the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) organised a National Day Observance ceremony on Aug 27. It brought together for the first time nine major Indian organisations as a first step to inter-racial harmony and to establish intra-racial understanding. The associations and
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    • 268 6 / 7 NEWLY-MINTED permanent residents will have to wait three years, as part of the Housing Board’s new swathe of policy measures which was announced on Aug 27 by National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan. Describing the waiting period as “fair”, he said it
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    • 126 6 / 7 ACTING Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing, 44, has been promoted to a full minister. Also four female politicians were promoted Minister of State for Health and Manpower Amy Khor was promoted to Senior Minister of State; Minister of State
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    • 96 6 / 7 Threads that bind... at the Singapore Hindu Centre’s Rakshabandhan this year on Aug 25, one of the highlights was the rakhi tying ceremony. Ambassador K. Kesavapany (extreme right) was the guest of honour at the event, which was organised in association with more than 30 Indian and
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    • 629 8  -  Bio scaffold inventor comes from a family of IITians ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg TWO things have happened since scientist Dr Margam Chandrasekaran’s research was mentioned by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally (NDR) speech. Dr Chandrasekaran’s mailbox has suddenly
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    • 427 11  -  The Bollywood actor will be at the September shopping festival to promote Krrish 3 JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg PREPARATIONS are well underway for the Singapore International Deepavali Shopping Festival (SIDS Fest), organised by tabla! and Tamil Murasu along with events company
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    • 1011 12 / 13  -  Singapore-based economists and business leaders on what they expect from new Reserve Bank governor to bail out India S.N. VENKAT tabla@sph.com.sg S.N. Venkat works with the Office of Postgraduate Professional Programmes at the Singapore Management University. THE Economist magazine’s Aug 24 cover pretty much sums up the
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    • 222 19 “People can ask for more work-life balance only if you have work.” National University of Singapore’s sociologist and former Nominated MP Paulin Straughan “Everybodydates these days. Like you get to know someone before you end up getting married, committing for a lifetime relationship. So dating is cool,
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    • 174 19 US$5.6 billion Loss suffered by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, due to the rupee’s slump 6.3% Fall in Singapore’s crime rate for the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year 0.48 Singapore’s current Gini ratio. The Gini ratio, between one
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    • 112 6 / 7 Li.'.,r mi SIFAS Festival Wj OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND DANCE 2014 Celebrating excellence in the performing arts We invite local and regional talents in music and dance to register for participation in the SIFAS festival to be held between 28th March and 13th April, 2014. For application forms, log
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  • EDUCATION
    • 544 9  -  Bank holds latest of its pan-Asia international education forums in Singapore ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg THE UBS bank held the last of its three pan-Asia international education forums in Singapore on Aug 25. The series had begun with a forum in Tokyo on Aug
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    • 339 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, DPS) ANANDITHA RAGHUNATH, IB Year 1 ON Aug 1, some of
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 131 10  -  KAVYA NAIR, Grade 2C ON JULY 23, Grade 2 students went to Sentosa’s Underwater World for our Outbound Trip. On arrival, we watched an amazing documentary on fishes and other sea creatures. I learnt interesting facts about them. Then we had a nice Indian supper and watched
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      • 258 10  -  SAARTHAK GUPTA, Grade 5B THE students of Grade 5 went to Kota Tinggi in Malaysia for our Outbound Trip. We were put into four groups The Royal Ten, The Curious Challengers, The Rip Jaw Phoenixes and The Fanged Doom. What I loved about the trip were
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    • 195 9 GIIS DELIVERS EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS Distinction or Merit secured by 100% GIIS students in IGCSE Class 10 Exams 2013 GIIS HALL OF FAME *?< v Kinjal Shah 11 A* Himmat Singh Mann Krithika Balasubramaniam Utkarsh Dutta 9A* 9A* 9A* -ax SL Malvika Nair Kuheli Das Gupta 8A* Rucha Deshpande 8A* Kriti
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    • 37 10 from NPS International School Tip ofthm W*mk: Encourage your child to keep a writer’s journal. You could add in your own responses, compliments or comments on his journal entries. S^NDA Singapore Indian Development Association 1800-295-4554 www.sinda.org.sg facebook.com/mysinda
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    • 107 11 DPS (Torch (Bearers in the Eiehf of Education... INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Business Fair At DPS Planting the seeds of the entrepreneurial spirit in young Dipsites ft Organising 'enterprise experiences' to foster the values of independent thinking, perseverance resourcefulness Admission open for Nursery to Grade 12 for the Academic Year 2013-2014 An
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    • 85 12 / 13 A 3 a Piuuoli expo The authentic, high-fashion exhibition from India Jewellery Garments Accessories Jamboree Fashion Walkabout Choose your look this festive season! Date 16th September 2013 Time 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm Venue Tandoor Restaurant in Holiday Inn Orchard Tickets: Buy online at www.jamboreesingapore.eventbrite.com or email enquiries@jamboree.sg for group
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    • 120 12 / 13 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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    • 86 12 / 13 An exotic collection of Indian products for all your Diwali celebrations Fashionable attire for men, women and children, costume and real jewelry, rangolis, diyas, puja thalis, shawls, home decorative accessories, bed and table linen, food, sweets, chaat, mehndi and more delights for everyone... Monday 2 Sept, 2013(10am to 7pm)& Tuesday
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    • 91 12 / 13 ScxiTjanped^cx Fri 27 Sun 29 Sep 2013 Drama Centre Theatre, xoo Victoria Street, Level 3, National Library Building, Singapore *****4 SAM ARP AN A THE ASIAN FESTIVAL OF CLASSICAL DANCE AN INTERNATIONAL ARTS PLATFORM WHERE SENSIBILITIES, SENSES AND THE SUBLIME COME ALIVE 5 PERFORMANCES OVER 3 DAYS FLAMENCO, BALLET, BHARATANATYAM,
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  • NEWS
    • Curry unites
      • 435 14 / 15 WHEN Ms Jatinderbel Kaur invited tabla! over for a Punjabi dinner, butter chicken was expected to be on the table. But, while there was chicken, the main Punjabi dish served was the Pakora Kadhi. “It’s one of our regular dishes at
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      • 456 14 / 15  -  JAMUNA SUNDARAJ SPICE, spice and more spice come to mind when it comes to Andhra Pradesh cuisine. It is reputedly one of the spiciest Indian cuisines and while the state and its capital city, Hyderabad, are also known for biryanis
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      • 451 14 / 15 WHEN Mrs Soundara Nayaki Vairavan told tabla! that she would be cooking a very authentic Chettinad curry called Vendakkai (okra) Mandi, we did not know what to expect. All we understood was that it had something to do with lady’s fingers or okras.
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      • 575 14 / 15 WHENEVER Rajasthani cuisine is mentioned, one thinks of the Rajasthani thali (set meal), with its colourful array of spicy and unique dishes. And a dish that is commonly included in a typical Rajasthani thali is the Gatte Ki Sabzi a traditional
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 676 16  -  Singer Yesudas performs in sold-out show at Esplanade PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg ONE night in the early ’60s, my mother gathered my siblings and me and whisked us to the outskirts of my hometown Kollam, in Kerala. A rich man in the area had
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    • 282 17 SAMARPANA, the Asian festival of classical dance, has been providing a platform to upcoming dancers to showcase and hone their skills. It gives them the opportunity to perform in front of a big audience. This year Samarpana will showcase the talent of Singapore-based dancer
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    • 140 17 devotional song) which was followed by a series of entertaining dance performances by children from the Bijhar Society. Adults also joined in the fun. Husbands had to recognise their respective wives’ feet and then write their initials with henna on the women’s hands (left). The peppy Bollywood music
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    • 904 18  -  Dr Roshni Pillay is an established bharatanatyam dancer with solo performances under her belt JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg AFTER a day of seeing patients at her clinic, Dr Roshni Pillay goes home, trades her stethoscope for a pair of anklets and dances in her private
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  • RELAX
    • 457 20  -  Ankita Pandey Vallikappen INDIAN actress, director, producer and “Dream Girl” to many, Hema Malini (right) will be in Singapore to perform her famous Durga dance ballet on Sept 29. She will perform at the University Cultural Centre Hall of National University of Singapore. In
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    • 381 21 DANCES G Pratayaksha Divine Manifestations a bharatanatyam dance performance featuring homegrown talents aged from 25 to 53, including Indian dance instructors from primary and secondary schools and junior colleges. Tickets: $25 (adults), $15 (students) When: Aug 31, 7.15pm Where: Singapore Polytechnic Convention Centre Contact: 9246-7095 or e-mail mathanapriya@outlook.com
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    • 73 21 CONCERT Kaifi Aur Main is a celebration of renowned Urdu poet and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi’s life and works as seen through the eyes of his wife, noted theatre and film actress Shaukat Kaifi, and brought to life by daughter Shabana Azmi and son-in-law Javed
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    • Article, Illustration
      178 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which of these fruits contains a protein-digesting enzyme known as papain? a) Banana b) Cucumber c) Papaya 2. Which country is named after the tribe called the Angles? a) Iceland b) Armenia c) England 3. Which of these place names means “protected bay”? a) Mexico b)
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 432 20 FUTURE SPEAKS kamal kapoor Aries You should be pro-active and try to make provisions for sudden uncertainties. You may feel restless and be hit by wanderlust. Students may lose concentration for various reasons. Taurus You may feel the pressure of personal and official responsibilities, but planning ahead will relieve some
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    • 250 20 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Kanmani Unakaga 3.30pm SONY ENT: Hum Tum 4pm ASIANET: Gulumal 6pm SONY MAX: Koi... Mil Gaya 9pm VASANTHAM: Tik Tik Tik 9.30pm STAR GOLD: Lucky No Time For Love 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Chance Pe Dance Mn VTV: Vandhaan Vendraan Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Bommalattam 1pm STAR
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 321 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 One side of a debate 5 Goes back out 9 Up in the morning 14 Principal 15 Geometric calculation 16 It’s a fact 17 Tends to a sprain 18 Iranian coin 19 Flinch, as from pain 20 Louisiana dish 23 Sound of an epiphany 24 Bike tour
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    • 55 21 SUDOKU DID YOU KNOW The river Ganga is 2,510km long 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. GFor
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  • SPORTS
    • 356 23  -  ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg INDIA’S U-23 side rode on a superlative bowling performance by Baba Aparajit, who scalped three wickets, and opening batsman K.L. Rahul’s 93 not out to beat the Pakistan U-23 team comprehensively by nine wickets in the final of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      886 23  -  Young crop of Indian players emerge even as the game’s administration is in a mess columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg IHAVE long argued, often with hope rather than expectation, that there should be two Indian cricket teams; one that takes the field and the other that works off it
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