Tabla, 27 December 2013

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY SjSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MCI (P) 031/11/2013 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,2013
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    • 118 1 START-UP WHIZ KIDS PAGE 3 Christmas delights The festive season for Indians is a colourful affair as well as a culinary treat. In our Christmas special this week, we feature four Indians living here and their traditional recipes passed on to them by their mothers and grandmothers. The Christmas specialities
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    • 7 1 UTTARAKHAND’S VILLAGE OF WIDOWS PAGES 6 &7
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 141 2 THE Andhra Pradesh High Court on Dec 23 directed Telugu actor-producer Mohan Babu and actor-comedian Brahmanandam to return the Padma Shri awards within a week. This follows a petition filed by senior BJP leader N. Indraseena Reddy seeking direction to the central
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      • 124 2 TWO Indian sailors released by the Togo government on Dec 19 are back in India. Captain Sunil James (below) and third engineer Andi Vijayan were detained in July on charges of abetting piracy. Mr James’s family has been actively campaigning for his release
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      • 101 2 ONLY 2 per cent of India’s population is Christian but Christmas is widely celebrated in India. All over the country, especially in the towns and cities, Christmas decorations and lights are up. “Christmas is a time for rejoicing and celebrating. In today’s fast-paced life, residents of large
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      • 169 2 THE popular tourist resorts of Shimla and Srinagar are covered in a cloak of white. While Srinagar is used to snow this time of the year, it is not often that Shimla gets snowfall during Christmas. It has been more than 20 years since it
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      • 56 2 MUSIC maestro Illayaraja, 70, suffered a mild heart attack on Dec 23. “He was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai after he complained of chest pain at his residence. The doctors confirmed that it was a mild attack, but have ascertained that he is absolutely fine,”
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      • 69 2 PUNJAB’S chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has announced a new scheme that will provide cashless treatment to cancer patients. The treatment will be at 18 empanelled hospitals from January. Treatment will be financed from the chief minister’s Cancer Relief Fund and patients need not obtain prior sanction
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      • 83 2 MORE than 500 women are inmates in Gujarat’s jails but there are no female sepoys to handle them. Now for the first time in the history of the state, women candidates would be recruited to handle the female inmates in 26 jails across the state. This
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      • 80 2 COSTS have gone up and so the Tamil Nadu government announced a hike in the procurement price of milk but has decided not to pass on the burden to consumers. The government revised the procurement price by Rs3 both for cow and buffalo
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    • 699 5 Chance meeting with celeb author changed his life Indo-Asian News Service HE WAS a rickshaw puller and she was a celebrity author. There was no way Manoranjan Byapari (right) would have met Mahasweta Devi. But destiny willed otherwise. At a chance meeting, she asked him
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    • 728 6 / 7 India’s indigenouslydeveloped fighter gets first clearance Indo-Asian News Service PAVING the way for its induction into the Indian Air Force, the indigenously-designed fighter jet Tejas got initial operational clearance for flying by air force pilots on Dec 20. The jet will join the fleet after the
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    • 587 6 / 7 HUNDREDS of lives were lost when flood ravaged the mountainous villages of Uttarakhand in northern India last June. But one village was hit hard. Deoli-Bhanigram lost most of its menfolk rendering 34 women widows. Most of the men used to work around Kedarnath shrine to earn their
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 892 3  -  Six individuals from diverse backgrounds came together in Singapore to set up Homie.co, a web portal to search for roommates ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN ankitav@sph.com.sg IN TYPICAL Singapore style, their lunches are packed from local hawker centres. They follow a daily ritual of grabbing kopi late in the
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    • 333 8 “Not everyone must go to the top schools. Parents must recognise their kids’ strengths and talents, and pick schools where they can flourish.” Former Raffles Girls’ School principal Carmee Lim “If such cases can happen in the capital then these can happen anywhere. A feeling of unrest
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    • 209 8 $4.4 billion Amount invested by local firms in research and development last year higher than public sector expenditure of $2.8 billion 5.3% Economic growth forecast for India next year, according to the United Nations 4.3 km Length of the six-station Downtown Line 1 which passes through the Central
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    • 669 11  -  Tanjong Pagar’s elderly residents get movie treat, free saris and sarongs GAYATHRI PANICKER tabla@sph.com.sg SHORTLY after 6pm on Dec 22, about 100 eager elderly Indian residents gathered at the Bukit Merah View Square. They were there to enjoy a free screening of Saraswati Sabatham, a 1966 Tamil movie
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    • 210 11 EARLIER in the day, some 150 children from lower-income families who are members of the Tanglin-Cairnhill We Love Learning (WeLL) programme took part in a Christmas party organised at the Henderson Community Club by Tanglin-Cairnhill Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC). The party, funded by the
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    • Christmas delights
      • 480 12 / 13 FOR Christmas every year, Mrs Angela Christina Perumal and her family looked forward to relishing her mother’s signature dish, which she called Agnes’ Christmas Signature Recipe a chicken dish. It wasn’t just a dish loved by her family, but even by relatives and friends who visited them
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      • 467 12 / 13 Four Indians share their traditional recipes with ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN HONEY Jacob, 30, juggles her work and family life to perfection. The banker and mother of two daughters Mary, six, and Rita, two, isn’t just a finance woman par excellence but also supermum. She plans her daughters’ days
        PHOTOS: HONEY JACOB, ANGELA CHRISTINA PERUMAL, SUMAN MARY ABRAHAM, ANKITA PANDEY VALLIKAPPEN  -  467 words
      • 593 12 / 13 ONE of Mrs Suman Mary Abraham’s most cherished childhood memories is of her mother baking more than 10kg of Christmas fruit cake in her cranky oven, which only she could operate. These cakes were then given to neighbours, friends and family as a festive season ritual, which
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      • Article, Illustration
        561 12 / 13 WHAT began as a school project for 15-year-old Lavanya Saberwal (better known as Tia), soon turned into a full-fledged cookbook. The teenager, for whom baking has been a passion since 2011 when she was barely 13, has already sold 58 copies of her cookbook Bake-a-licious 47 to online
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    • singapore snippets
      • 160 14 / 15 SINGAPORE investment firm GIC is buying a large stake in a mega office complex in London’s main financial district, in what is believed to be its biggest property foray in Europe. GIC is acquiring private equity firm Blackstone’s 50 per cent interest in
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      • 136 14 / 15 WHEN one of Mr Selva Naidu’s clients was charged with negligent driving leading to a pedestrian’s death, the case did not go to trial first. Instead, the lawyer and the prosecution took it to mediation. Not only did mediation part of the Criminal Case
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      • 72 14 / 15 PRICIER accommodation and cars drove inflation to an eight-month high last month, sending the consumer price index up 2.6 per cent over the same month last year. The index in November was also well above the 2 per cent recorded in October. Apart from
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      • 107 14 / 15 A SECTION of road on Commonwealth Avenue West collapsed on Dec 23 morning while workers were laying underground electricity cables. The sinkhole, the fifth to be reported this year, appeared on the stretch after Dover MRT station and seemed to be as wide as one
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    • 453 14 / 15 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Committee of Inquiry investigating the Little India riot must first ascertain its cause before broader issues of whether social and population policies need to be re-thought can be addressed. One priority now is to
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    • 386 14 / 15 ANALYSTS expect next year to be a quiet one for the Housing Board resale market similar to 2013, which has seen the fewest deals in years. But they added that while activity will be slow in the first half, it should pick
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    • 105 14 / 15 Spreading cheer...Malls and Singapore’s shopping areas sparkled with lights of different shapes and sizes and Singapore residents opened their hearts and wallets to bring cheer to the less fortunate. At St Anne’s Church in Sengkang (top) on Christmas Eve, the new leader of the Catholic Church encouraged believers
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    • 245 14 / 15 CYCLISTS in Aljunied can now push their bicycles up and down using a new ramp on this overhead bridge near the area’s MRT station and park connector network (facing page). The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will monitor such ramps’ effectiveness and if successful, install them
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  • BUSINESS
    • 315 4 Demand in India shows no signs of slowdown Indo-Asian News Service THE World Bank and the International Monetary Fund may have written off gold as an investment option but the yellow metal shows no sign of losing its sheen in India. In 2013, not only did
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    • 443 4 THREE years ago, Singaporean Jerry Singh was inspired to set up a tea company here. Today, the four outlets of Chaitime are a popular hangout for many in Singapore. At Chaitime, tea is much more than a beverage. It is a perfect
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    • 168 4 JOYALUKKAS Group, which has a jewellery outlet in Singapore, has launched a 22-storey apartment complex in Cochin, Kerala. The project, with three and four bedrooms, is being built with “inspiration drawn from projects in Singapore and the Middle East”. The apartment project is called Gold Tower and
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    • biz notes
      • 87 4 SHAHNAZ Husain Group offers the unique benefit of an integrated system of salon care and product excellence. As a response to precise and individual requirements, the group offers wide and varied ranges, specially designed to provide ideal skin, hair and body care, not only for protection
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      • 41 4 INDIA’S national carrier plans to raise up to US$840 million by way of sale of its seven Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner planes, which it will then lease back, to pay off the bridge loans taken against these aircraft.
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      • 54 4 THE mutual fund arm of HDFC has acquired the schemes of Morgan Stanley Mutual Fund India. HDFC Mutual Fund’s chief executive officer Milind Barve, in a chat with Business Standard, declined to disclose the size of the acquisition but said it would bring in
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    • 19 4 RS48.72 US$0.78 A$0.88 ¤0.57 £0.48 RS61.80 A$1.12 ¤0.73 £0.61 S$1.26 Exchange rates as of Dec 26, 2013
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  • EDUCATION
    • 378 9 They should offer tech knowledge to keep pace with changing times, says IIT director Indo-Asian News Service STRESSING the need to rewrite textbooks so as to impart a deep knowledge of science, technology and society in the proper perspective, IIT-Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakrabarty said it was
      Indo-Asian News Service; PHOTO: CALCUTTA BUSINESS SCHOOL  -  378 words
    • 381 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) RICHA RAJADHYAX PARINAZ Class 8 BAVAADAM, THIS year, our school
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 232 10  -  AYUSH GARG, Class 3A VAISHNAVI KISHORE, Class 4D GIIS Balestier campus was the proud recipient of the Gold Award at the Friend of Singa (FOS) Award Ceremony 2013 held recently at the Star Performing Arts Centre. The guest of honour was Minister of State for Communications
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      • 177 10  -  SANSKRITI VERMA, Class 6A IN EVERYDAY life we hardly realise that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. We, the Primary students of GIIS Queenstown campus, realised this during Toys Buffet 2013 when
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    • 327 9 The IGCSE curriculum at GIIS is well-structured and balanced. My son has progressed not just in academics but also in sports cricket. B MMU Ms Malini Balakrishnan Parent of RishabTirupathi, Class 8 IGCSE, GIIS East Coast Campus (2013 Testimonial) Academics is at the forefront of our focus at GIIS in
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    • 40 10 from Global Indian International School Tip of th# W—k: Allow your child to set his own targets and goals and support all his efforts towards achieving them. Encourage him to aim high. SaNDA Singapore Indian Development Association 1800-295-4554 www.sinda.org.sg facebook.com/mysinda
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 854 16 But actor Abishek Bachchan has no cause for worry for now as his latest movie Dhoom 3 is a hit Indo-Asian News Service ACTOR-producer Abhishek Bachchan, whose career has witnessed several ups and downs in the last 13 years and who plays a supercop
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      • 183 17 MEGASTAR Amitabh Bachchan (right) was honoured with the Star of the Millennium award at the Big Star Entertainment Awards 2013. He says he was “embarrassed” when the audience stood for him as he received the award. The 71-year-old received the award for his
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      • 153 17 IN A gesture of magnanimity, Prabhu Dheva (right), who has been renting Sridevi’s apartment in Andheri because she moved to a bungalow, has offered the Kapoors their earlier residence back. Prabhu was truly upset that Sri and her family were inconvenienced because of
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      • 130 17 WITH the signing of a film each with Dev Benegal and Rohit Shetty, actress Kareena Kapoor (right) has embarked on a new phase in her career. She said she is now keen to create a balance in the kind of films she takes
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      • 163 17 JOHN Abraham is now officially the proud co-owner of Delhi Waveriders team. John was supposed to buy a 13 per cent stake in the team but he went ahead and bought the team on a 50-50 basis with the Wave Group. The
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      • 299 17 IT’S true that Madhuri Dixit took a break from acting following her marriage in 1999, but the dancing diva is back! She says it’s a myth that married women don’t get roles in the film industry. “I think married women always
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      • 228 17 DIRECTOR and producer Karan Johar, who is awaiting the release of Hindi romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee, is known for his love stories. But he now finds it very difficult to pen them down. “I actually find it very difficult to
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      • 158 17 FILMMAKER Prabhu Solomon, known for films such as Lee and Kumki, is facing the arc lights for the first time in a cameo role in upcoming Tamil drama Thavamindri Kidaitha Varama. “I’m only doing a cameo because the role has a very strong
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    • 470 18 KOLLYWOOD’S leading ladies are hitting the gym with a vengeance. While some are working out purely for health reasons, others sweat it out for their roles. Showbiz queens have to frequently reinvent themselves to stay in the reckoning. And the latest on this front is
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  • FOOD
    • 490 19  -  The no-fuss food is yummy, convenient and easy to make MONISH GUJRAL Indo-Asian News Service SIMPLICITY something so foreign in today’s gadget-friendly and complex world intertwined with our hectic urban lifestyle. Even in our eating habits, this urban complexity is leaving its mark. Restaurant menus are becoming
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    • 287 19 Ingredients 5 cups flour 1 tbsp baking powder 1 tsp salt Water for kneading 1 /4 cup oil 1 tbsp clarified butter 1 cup yellow split peas 1 tsp saffron powder 3 garlic cloves 1/2tsp jeera (cumin seeds) Method for dal puri 1. Sift the flour
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  • RELAX
    • 280 20 Indo-Asian News Service BOLLYWOOD actress Deepika Padukone (right) and comedian Kapil Sharma (above) have received Indian of the Year 2013 awards for their contribution to the entertainment industry. In an awards ceremony held in New Delhi on Dec 20, CNN-IBN honoured
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    • 455 21 KITE FESTIVAL Singapore Gujarati Association is organising a kite flying festival called Utraan 2014. There will be games like Bingo, Tug-of War, Futsal, singing and dancing, food and lots of prizes. Free admission. When: Jan 5, 10am to 4pm Where: West Coast Park, Car Park 3 Contact: 6396-0900
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    • 68 21 MARINA BAY SINGAPORE COUNTDOWN 2014 Pen your wishes on spheres at various stations around Singapore this month. The spheres will be set afloat on Marina Bay. Witness a breathtaking fireworks display, heralding the New Year. Co-present-ed by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and the Esplanade. Free
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    • Article, Illustration
      193 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which comic superhero is also known as “wall-crawler” and “web-head”? a) Spider-Man b) Superman c) Batman 2. Which country’s flag features stalks of sugarcane, a palm tree, bananas, and a white dove? a) Nepal b) Mauritius c) Fiji 3. B747, B777 and B787 are different categories
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    • 257 22 Indo-Asian News Service AFTER two successful years, Telly Calendar will have an international feel with 12 popular small-screen actresses, including Divyanka Tripathi and Pooja Gor, looking glamorous in Malaysia for the 2014 edition. The calendar, an initiative of Marinating Films, was shot at
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 591 20 FUTURE SPEAKS kamal kapoor Aries You should be careful this week. There may be several challenging situations in your personal and professional life. Taurus There may be financial uncertainty for some time. You should be more vigilant and proactive about future prospects. Gemini There may be success in some interviews
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 343 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Sandpapers 8 Figure out 11 Org. that approves medications 14 First word in many recipes 15 A lode off one’s mine? 16 Very long time 17 Caldwell classic 19 Race on foot 20 One of Pittsburgh’s three rivers 21 Feet in some meters 23 Reserved to a
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    • 67 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 uniquedigits going across and down over the large grid. DID YOU KNOW Gujarat gets its name from Gujara, the land of
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  • SPORTS
    • 885 23  -  For South Africa to be a great team it has to overcome fear of defeat columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg THE final moments of South Africa’s engrossing run chase against India were an illustration of the very best that Test cricket can offer. For four days India had, to
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