Tabla, 2 May 2014

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  • 21 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MCI (P) 031/11/2013 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MAY 2,2014
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  • 2091 1  -  How the Chettiars shaped the trading and banking scene here MALAVIKA NATARAJ tabla@sph.com.sg BESIDE the Singapore River, near the Asian Civilisations Museum, sits a man made of bronze, in front of a low table. He has a large ledger open in front of him, a cloth
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    • 97 1 CHILDREN, PARENTS GRADE SCHOOL PAGE 3 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 4 in J a is The lkf jd e a Dest companion and gift when you travel. Available at all major pharmacies and medical halls
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    • 8 1 WIRANA STRIKES GOLD IN OLD SHIPS PAGE 5
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    • 46 1 wee m Call 6241 4141 Min $50.00 Order. Prevailing GST Applies. www.bananaleafapolo.com www.facebook.com/TheBananaLeafApolo 40 THE BANANA LEAF A POLO Where dining is an art 54, Race Course Road, Singapore *****4 48, Serangoon Road, #01-32, Little India Arcade, Singapore *****9 OPENING HOMES TO STRANGERS PAGES 16 17
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 82 2 TWO parents have developed a mobile application called Link to bridge the communication gap between school managements and parents. This application, now used by 10 schools in Bangalore, gives parents personalised information on circulars, assignment submissions, homework, reminders, their child’s performance in school
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      • 85 2 THE European Union has temporarily restricted the import of Alphonso mangoes (above) and four vegetables from India, with effect from May 1. They cited finding pests in some consignments as the reason. As a result, there has been extra supplies of mangoes in
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      • 76 2 ARTIST, sculptor, writer and art critic Madathil Vasudevan, known as M.V. Devan, died at his residence in Aluva on April 29. The 86-year-old was honoured with the Raja Ravi Varma Award by the Kerala government in 2002. Noted for his unique style, he was made chairman of
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      • 87 2 ACCORDING to Chennai Corporation officials, the Integrated Cooum River Eco Restoration plan will start in a month’s time, right after the formation of the new government in Delhi. They will be working to desilt the river, beautify the river front, improve sewage and stormwater drain
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      • 83 2 A TRADITIONAL gold necklace encrusted with 24 gemstones and weighing 60g has been recovered from a well situated within the Guruvayur temple premises in Kerala. The necklace, which was used to adorn the deity of Guruvayurappan, had been missing since 1985. The loss of this
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      • 92 2 POLO, the 43-year-old Western Lowland gorilla (above) died at the Mysore zoo due to respiratory problems on April 26. Described as introverted and shy, he was born in 1973 and taken in by the Leipzig zoo in Germany. He was there till 1992, until he was
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      • 63 2 RAMESH Agrawal was among six environmental activists from around the world to win the top environment award, the Goldman Environmental Prize. He helped villagers in Chhattisgarh shut down a large coal mine in the area. Mr Agrawal, who ran a small Internet cafe in Raigarh,
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      • 45 2 BUDGET airline SpiceJet became the first in India to allow use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) during flights. Passengers are allowed to use PEDs in non-transmitting mode and only once the plane reaches an altitude of 10,000 feet.
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      • 93 2 THE victim Sivakumari was sleeping at the construction site of her house in Chennai when a robber crept in and removed one of her gold ear studs. However, she woke up as he was trying to remove the other stud and
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      • 80 2 THE Supreme Court has ruled that a rape victim should be taken directly to a magistrate for the recording of statements within 24 hours of the crime. Currently the victim has to get the statement recorded at a police station first and
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    • Article, Illustration
      1272 3  -  Children and parents grade the teachers and facilities in some West Bengal schools resulting in improvements AJITHA MENON Women’s Feature Service CONVENTIONALLY, it is the teachers who mark children on their performance at school. But what happens when a school, its teachers, and facilities like mid-day meals and
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  • BUSINESS
    • Article, Illustration
      681 4 / 5  -  Wirana Shipping Corporation is sailing high buying and selling old ships for breaking GAYATHRI RAMESH pgaya@sph.com.sg THERE are very few in the ship recycling industry who go by the term cash buyer. A well-known name among them is Wirana Shipping Corporation, a Singa-pore-based firm founded in 1983
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  681 words
    • 350 4 / 5 AFTER four years at the helm, Mr R. Narayanamohan stepped down as chairman of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI)on April 24. At the 73rd annual general meeting of the Indian chamber, Dr R. Theyvendran was elected chairman of the board for 2014-2016
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    • biz notes
      • 72 4 / 5 IN A bid to attract more passengers, India’s national carrier Air India started an upgrade scheme for its economy class passengers on its domestic network from 43 stations. Passengers flying in economy class can upgrade to executive class at the airport on payment of a fixed
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      • 56 4 / 5 INDIA-BORN Rajeev Suri will become the new chief executive of Finnish telecommunications company Nokia. Mr Suri, 46, had been leading Nokia Solutions and Networks. He is credited with turning the unit around and last year it contributed most of the 12.7 billion euro ($17.58 billion) turnover
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      • 84 4 / 5 A TOTAL of 16,190 new businesses were formed in Singapore in the first three months of the year, up 14.4 per cent over the same period last year. Three quarters of these new businesses were formed with less than $10,000 in share capital, while about a
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      • 104 4 / 5 UNEMPLOYMENT in Singapore rose in the first quarter of the year, although there were fewer layoffs, according to preliminary figures released by the Manpower Ministry on April 30. The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate rose to 2.1 per cent in March 2014 from 1.8 per cent last December.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 503 6  -  India is the country of focus at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year GAYATHRI RAMESH pgaya@sph.com.sg INDIA has a rich collection of literature and this year, the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS), together with the National Book Trust of India, will be sharing
      PHOTOS: AFCC  -  503 words
    • innovation
      • Article, Illustration
        688 7  -  How students can go about fulfilling a research-led study path after getting a degree SEERAM RAMAKRISHNA tabla@sph.com.sg Prof Seeram Ramakrishna is the director of the Centre for Nanofibers Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore. T IS now common for youths to I dream of a scientific research-led
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    • 78 8 Kannadiga community gathering... it was an evening when more than 150 members of the Kannadiga community showcased their talent featuring songs, dances, musical instruments, a skit, a magic show, stand-up comedy and creative videos. The six-hour Singara Utsava-2014 at the Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium on April 26 also
      PHOTO: KANNADA SANGHA (SINGAPORE)  -  78 words
    • 357 8  -  Sonam Kalra’s concert held to celebrate Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary AMITA SARWAL tabla@sph.com.sg IN CELEBRATION of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary, the Ramakrishna Mission in Singapore presented Oneness Sonam Kalra the Sufi Gospel Project. The soul-stirring concert was held over two evenings on April
      PHOTOS: RAMAKRISHNA MISSION SPORE  -  357 words
    • 214 11 5,356 E-cigarettes were confiscated by Health Sciences Authority in 2013, almost three times the number seized the year before 32,000 Estimated number of visa applications for the Netherlands were received from across India in 2013 $30m Open Door Programme is being set up to help people with disabilities
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    • 374 11 “We want to empower people who want to volunteer for NS, like women, new citizens and permanent residents.” Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen “Playing for India should be the ultimate target for any budding player. On the contrary, I have seen youngsters putting more efforts for the
      PHOTOS: IANS, THE NEW PAPER  -  374 words
    • 173 14 / 15 JUDGE of Appeal V.K. Rajah will be leaving the Bench in June to become Singapore’s eighth attorney-general since independence. The 57-year-old will take over the role of public prosecutor from Mr Steven Chong, 56, when he completes his two-year term. Mr Chong will return
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    • 626 14 / 15 ACTING Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin and Acting Culture, Community and Youth Minister Lawrence Wong became full ministers from May 1. Mr Wong also moved up a notch to become Second Minister at the Ministry of Communications and Information, where he is currently its Senior Minister
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    • 94 14 / 15 Fun for the family... Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Defence Chan Chun Sing mingled with the families who attended the Family Day organised by People's Association's Narpani Pearavai and Mediacorp Oli 96.8FM. It was held at the Singapore Zoological Gardens on
      PHOTO: TAMIL MURASU  -  94 words
    • singapore snippets
      • 77 14 / 15 TWO Cabinet ministers were bestowed the Labour Movement’s top honour at the annual May Day Awards ceremony on May 29. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Health Minister Gan Kim Yong became the latest recipients of the National Trades Union Congress’ (NTUC)
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      • 105 14 / 15 MORE professionals who join unions may soon get help when they have problems with their employers, whether or not their companies are unionised or recognise their unions. Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin pointed at this possibility on April 29, when he
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      • 92 14 / 15 THE authorities in Singapore, the United States and Britain have issued warnings over a serious security hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. They are advising computer users to consider using other Web browsers until there is a fix. The bug, which came to
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      • 97 14 / 15 ABOUT 250 shopping malls and hotels will need to report waste and recycling data to the National Environment Agency from next year. They must state the weight of waste discarded and that channelled for reuse and recycling, broken down by type, such as
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      • 84 14 / 15 WEAK rental demand and tight loan curbs hammered private home resales again last month, deepening the gloom that has settled over the overall property market since the start of the year. The price slide picked up speed from January to last month, according to
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    • 1724 16 / 17  -  tabla! speaks to five Indians in Singapore who open their homes to strangers tourists from other parts of the world JAM UNA SUNDARAJ tabla@sph.com.sg HE MAY only be 27 but for the past seven years, Mr Ganesh App has hosted more than 100 guests, from 30 different
      PHOTOS: GANESH APP, ABHUNAV SHARMA, HIMANGI TEWARI, RAKESH KUMAR DEVALAPALLY  -  1,724 words
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    • 118 7 In association with M\vfa» aiiu 1 "-"'WriOn As Taught By S.N. Goenka 9 l Not even your worst enemy can harm you as much as your own mind, when it is defiled N Goenka. Vipassana Meditation is a simple, practical and universal method of cultivating peace and purity of mind.
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  • EDUCATION
    • 602 9  -  A.R. Rahman charms GIIS students with his modesty HARPREET KAUR tabla@sph.com.sg THE auditorium at the Queenstown Campus of Global Indian International School (GIIS) was buzzing with excitement. Some students were singing along to songs while others waited with bated breath. Occasionally a shriek would be
      PHOTO: GIIS  -  602 words
    • 334 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) RENITA PREMKUMAR, Class 12 IT WAS indeed a proud
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  334 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 266 10  -  AYUSH ANAND, Class 9 KARTIK SHAH, Class 7 ON FEB 12, six students from GIIS East Coast campus participated in the much awaited GIIS HiQ Science and Maths Quiz which was held at our sister school GIIS Queenstown campus. From GIIS East Coast, students of classes
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      • 183 10  -  RAKSHA AIYAPPAN, Class 7B OVER at our East Coast campus, there was a different kind of buzz. On March 1, 11 students of classes 7 and 8 from the campus participated in The History Bee and Bowl competition, organised by the International History Bowl and Bee foundation.
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    • 323 9 www.gnssingapore.org \LLA> 4 J- The interactive rapport shared H with teachers J at GIIS is m beneficial in understanding and clearing my concepts. Rucha Deshpande IGCSE Class 10 2013 topper with 8A*s IB Year 1, GIIS Queenstown Campus (2014 Testimonial) The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) hones young minds through
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    • 62 10 S^NDA Singapore Indian Development Association 1800-295-4554 www.sinda.org.sg (j facebook.com/mysinda O 1 a a a positive learning environment at home is essential. Parents quarrelling, loud music or distracting television programmes can have adverse effects on your child’s progress. Try to avoid such situations and ensure that the home is a place
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  • Page 14 / 15 Miscellaneous
    • 36 14 / 15 Ttwew|"0|;*****717 1 •i From 1st May Daily 1 Show iWi r s' E3J5 V Arjun Kapoor Alia Bhatt m I71TE1 Prithviroj Jukumoron Janani Iyer (Malayaiam) for all show times and online bookings today logon to www.in-movienetwork.com
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 574 18  -  Kerala Ayurveda Centre offers a wide range of therapies GAYATHRI RAMESH pgaya@sph.com.sg WHEN you are feeling stressed and want to relax, what do you do? I decided to head down to Little India to try something which has been around since ancient times ayurvedic therapy.
      PHOTOS: KERALA AYURVEDA CENTRE  -  574 words
    • 405 18 Indo-Asian News Service WITH two episodes of his stand-up comedy show per week and an impending feature film debut looming, comic entertainer Kapil Sharma is currently going through the most hectic time of his life. And now he has a nutritionist accompanying
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    • 278 19 John Travolta rocks IIFA Weekend with impromptu ‘desi’ dance HOLLYWOOD actor John Travolta is so fond of Bollywood’s song and dance that he matched steps with Priyanka Chopra on Tune Maari Entriyaan without prior preparation and wowed the audience at the 15th edition of the International
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  • RELAX
    • mirch masala
      • 189 20 UPCOMING Tamil romantic-drama Kalar Kannadigal (below) has been shot entirely in Malaysia and its director Rahul Ravi says the place holds an important role in the film, which was recently wrapped up. “The story is about a Tamil band that goes to Malaysia and
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      • 148 20 DIRECTOR Muralidhar, who has roped in actress Avika Gor (right) in his upcoming yet-untitled romantic-comedy, says he was convinced to cast her as she has an innocence suitable for love 1 stories. “When I saw her debut film, I thought she was
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      • 171 20 ACE Telugu comedian M.S. Narayana (below), who will soon be seen playing the lead in spoof-comedy Crazywala about the Aam Aadmi Party, has another film titled Nawab Basha in a lead role lined up for release. He will be playing the title
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    • 382 21 CELEBRATIONS GTamil Cultural Festival organised by Woodlands IAEC. Tickets: $3 When: May 4, 9am to 12.30pm Where: Woodlands CC Theatrette, 1 Woodlands Street 81 Contact: 6368-9938 GIndian Cultural New Year Show 2014, with residents and children performing dances and songs. Tickets: $5 When: May 10, 6.30 to 9.30pm
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    • 34 21 AKSHAYA TRITIYA It is known as the day to invest in or buy gold, whatever the amount, for it is believed to bring luck and prosperity. When: May 2
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    • Article, Illustration
      193 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which painting by Leonardo da Vinci is found on the north wall of the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie? a) Mona Lisa b) The Last Supper c) Ginevra de’ Benci 2. By what name is a polygraph also known? a) Lie detector
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 533 20 FUTURE SPEAKS KAMAL KAPOOR Aries Adopt a flexible mind and this will guide you to maintain happiness in the family. There may be some digestion problems. Libra Physically you’re feeling in good shape and can improve your fitness and vitality, but consider your limits to avoid any injury. Taurus You
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 323 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Apology preceder 6 Leave It To Beaver smooth-talker 11 Understand, in hippie lingo 14 Narcotic from poppies 15 Dreamy and unaware 16 Elegiac poem 17 Lush tropical area 19 Zero, in soccer 20 Airport info, Informally 21 They’re often asked to look 22 Affirmative action 23 Fortified
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    • 47 21 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. GFor solutions, turn to the next page.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 28 22 SOLUTIONS quiz sudoku crossword 1. The Last Supper 2. Lie detector 3. Rubber 4. Danube 5. Pancreas 6. Athens 7. Charles Dickens 8. Chromium 9. Hockey 10. Robin
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  • SPORTS
    • star column
      • 804 23  -  Little known Pravin Tambe and Yuzvendra Chahal are shining bright HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg ONE is 43, rotund, muscular, a little clumsy; the other is 23, agile, so thin he could slip in through your keyhole. One grew up in a famed nursery of cricket, the other in
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