Tabla, 30 January 2015

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  • 23 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY Sph A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 MCI (P) 025/11/2014
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    • 224 1 AXE BRAND UNIVERSAL OIL Available at all major pharmacies and medical halls ALL EYES ON AKSHARA HASSAN PAGE 19 GIVING LOCAL CULTURE SCENE A BOOST PAGE 3 YSA’S SG50 PROJECT ON SIKHS PAGE 9 TROUPE FROM INDIA FOR CHINGAY PAGE 7 They did it... members of Bir Khalsa Gatka Group,
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  • INDIA
    • Article, Illustration
      147 2 US PRESIDENT Barack Obama made history by being the first American president to visit India twice when he accepted India’s invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade on Jan 26. During his three-day trip, Mr Obama attended a dinner at the Rashtrapati Bhavan,
      PHOTOS: © AFP  -  147 words
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 79 2 SOUTHERN Railway earned a record revenue of Rs5.5 crores during the two-month Mandalam-Makaravilakku Sabarimala pilgrim season. Chengannur railway station topped the collection followed by Kottayam. Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sanghom national vice-president D. Vijayakumar, who was in charge of the Sanghom base camp for pilgrims
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      • 96 2 ON INDEPENDENCE Day, it is the chief minister of a state who unfurls India’s national flag but on Republic Day, convention is that the flag is hoisted by the state governor. The Bihar governor’s post has been lying vacant and West Bengal governor Kesri
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      • 93 2 SENDING a clear message that he will adopt a tough stance on corruption, Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao dropped his deputy T. Rajaiah on Jan 25 from his Cabinet and inducted Lok Sabha member Kadiam Srihari in his place. Mr Rajaiah, who was holding
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      • 100 2 AN ARMY colonel, who was named as one of the gallantry medal awardees on the eve of Republic Day, was killed in a fierce gun battle with militants in Kashmir on Jan 27. Colonel M.N. Rai, from Varanasi, was killed when he
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      • 69 2 INCONSIDERATE visitors to the 10-day annual flower show at Bengaluru’s Lalbagh Gardens turned the 240-acre gardens into a large rubbish bin. Officials said they had placed 400 dustbins all over the gardens for people to dispose of waste. Civic workers had a tough time clearing
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      • 153 2 TWO monkeys gave the Chennai airport authorities a hard time recently. They managed to enter the airport building on Jan 25 and were spotted in the departure hall of the domestic terminal. After much effort, one was captured on the same day but it was
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      • 130 2 LEGENDARY cartoonist R.K. Laxman (below), creator of the iconic Common Man, died in a private hospital in Mumbai on Jan 26. He was 94. He was renowned for his creation of the Common Man, which ran for many decades in The Times of India
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      1093 3  -  Chitra and Krishnakumar’s love for the arts inspired them to set up a non-profit group that aims to bring Indian art and cultural shows to the masses in Singapore MALAVIKA NATARAJ tabla@sph.com.sg SINCE their arrival on this island 17 years ago, Dr Chitra Krishnakumar and her husband M.
      PHOTOS: SOORYA SINGAPORE, LIJESH K.  -  1,093 words
    • 418 6  -  10,000 flock to Vinayagar Temple for its consecration ceremony WILSON SILAS DAVID wsilas@sph.com.sg Wilson Silas David is a journalist with Tamil Murasu. THE devotees and well-wishers started streaming in as early as 7am on Jan 26 to witness the Maha Kumbhabishegam (consecration ceremony) of the Sri Senpaga
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    • 356 7  -  This year’s parade will feature 19 international groups BHAVNA VASNANI bhavnav@sph.com.sg AS PART of Singapore’s 50th birthday celebrations, this year’s Chingay parade promises to be the biggest yet. More than 11,000 volunteers are expected to take part in the annual parade, with at least 1,100 expected
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    • 690 9 Publication to highlight Sikhs’ contributions to Singapore ALTHOUGH a minority here, the Sikhs in Singapore have punched well above their weight and, as a community, have contributed significantly to the island state’s development. You may have heard this statement many times. After all, throughout Singapore’s
      PHOTOS: YSA, FILE  -  690 words
    • 192 10 / 11 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called on Singaporeans to pick up their own litter so that Singapore can progress from being a “cleaned city to a truly clean city”. He singled out litterbugs who attended a music festival on Jan 24 and left
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    • singapore snippets
      • 117 10 / 11 A KEY benchmark interest rate here rose on Jan 28 after a surprise move by the central bank to ease its monetary policy. The three-month Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR), which is commonly used to set many floating-rate home loans, rose to 0.653 per cent,
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      • 120 10 / 11 THERE has been a significant drop in the number of people overstaying and crossing Singapore’s borders illegally, with numbers caught hitting a 14-year low. The 2,040 immigration offenders last year were almost a fifth fewer compared to 2013, according to statistics from the Immigration and Checkpoints
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      • 113 10 / 11 THE long-awaited 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital in Jurong East will open by July. The hospital was previously slated to open last December but faced construction delays. It will now open with 365 beds by July and ramp up capacity progressively to 700
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      • 156 10 / 11 THE haze may be upon Singapore yet again and earlier than usual. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) has been slowly inching upwards over the past couple of days. Readings since Jan 25 show that it has been hovering in the 60s and 70s range. As
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    • 256 10 / 11 A HIGH-LEVEL central agency will be set up to coordinate public and private-sector efforts to protect national systems, such as those in the energy and banking sectors, from the increasing threat of cyber attacks. The Cyber Security Agency (CSA), which operates from April, will
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    • 98 10 / 11 Chinatown will come alight on Jan 31 with 338 goat-shaped lanterns in anticipation of the Chinese New Year celebrations. Organised by the Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng Citizens Consultative Committee, this year’s street decor also features 1,500 gold coin lanterns. The festivities will include songs
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  98 words
    • 143 10 / 11 LOW pay and a long work week, with shift hours to boot. These are the main reasons for Singaporeans not filling a rising number of job vacancies here. The number of vacancies climbed 8.9 per cent to 67,400 in September last year,
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    • 138 10 / 11 over 200,000 gold coins have been won so far in the Malabar Gold Diamonds Festival, which ends its run on Feb 1. Mr Philip Myint Sein is one of the winners who walked away with 100 gold coins (above, receiving the coins from the company’s Singapore director of
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    • 75 10 / 11 A SERIES of talks conducted by Swami Mukundanada from Jan 26 to 30 received a good response. Over 500 people attended the first two days of his talks as he emphasised the quality of one’s internal dialogue as a key component to managing both one’s mind
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    • 379 15 DOES your knee hurt when you’re walking up and down the stairs or standing up from a sitting position? You may be suffering from knee osteoarthritis. Dr Christopher Goh, resident doctor at Inliven Center for Osteoarthritis Solutions, which provides non-surgical treatments for knee osteoarthritis, debunks five
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    • 403 16 “There is that Jekyll and Hyde in each of us and there is that one part in our personality we don’t want others to know about. Writers are basically liars. Fiction writers are anyway. Celebrated Indian writer Ruskin Bond, 80, on autobiographies ”Good air quality, solid infrastructure,
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    • 190 16 $250 million Set aside in a fund to match donations raised by the Community Chest and voluntary welfare organisations 17Out of 104 awardees for various Padma awards in India are foreigners, including non-resident Indians 14,989 Attendees at this year’s M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, an increase from last year’s
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  • NEWS
    • 281 4 / 5 Indo-Asian News Service MILITARY precision blended seamlessly with cultural diversity at India’s 66th Republic Day parade in Delhi on Jan 26 where US president Barack Obama was the chief guest. Heavy armour, marching contingents of the armed forces and the paramilitary and police forces interspersed with brass and
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    • 206 4 / 5 AROUND 600 Indian nationals and friends of India gathered at the High Commission of India’s grounds in Grange Road on Jan 26 morning. High commissioner of India Vijay Thakur Singh hoisted the Indian flag, which was followed by India’s national anthem. The high
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    • 1727 12 / 13  -  SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN THE first time Mr Nikhil Shukla (below) adjudicated a Guinness world record, two million people turned up. Standing on a makeshift dais just before dawn in January 2012, Mr Shukla gazed with bleary, incredulous eyes; he was 28, and he had never seen such a
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    • 410 12 / 13 SINGAPORE has seen more than its share of records being broken. Just this month, rangoli artist Vijya Mohan created an art installation of 739 plastic water pots or kundams which entered the Singapore Book of Records for the largest display of handpainted kundams. In
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  410 words
    • 619 14 The New York Times Magazine THERE are record-holders around India whom you might think of as Mr Nikhil Shukla’s wards, people he nudged towards the fulfilment of their aims. One of them is 24-year-old Harshvardhan Gupta, who lives with his parents on the north-west fringe of
      The New York Times Magazine  -  619 words

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  • EDUCATION
    • 345 8  -  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) RETHIKA SIVAKUMAR, Class 8C ON JAN 9, we at GIIS
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  345 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 236 8  -  VINITH KUMAR, ADHYA RAO, Class 6 Class 5 OUR school GIIS Queenstown campus took up the challenging task of creating awareness about the devastating effects of carbon emission. A student’s quality circle team of six students Riya Tripathi, Abhiraman and Adya Rao from Class 5, Srinjoy
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      • 155 8  -  AHAAN DHAR, Class 3 MY SCHOOL GIIS Balestier campus regularly arranges for interactive field trips as part of our education. This year we were taken to the Road Safety Community Park at East Coast Parkway. We were pleasantly surprised to see traffic wardens waiting to welcome
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    • 574 15 FIND YOUR INNER PEACE Discover the deep root of conflicts within you Learn a powerful meditation for freedom from past pain and hurt Find the "true you” that goes beyond limitations •MarriMi A unique meditation program designed by enlightened Paramahamsa Nithyananda master Liuefrom India uia teleconferencing r mr REGISTER AT:
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    • 122 16 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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  • FOOD
    • 670 17  -  North Indian cuisine for buffet-goers and a la carte diners at Bayview Tandoor LAWRENCE STEWEN tabla@sph.com.sg WITH its location at the Singapore Flyer, it’s expected that Bayview Tandoor would not only have a great view, but that it must provide a quality dining
      PHOTOS: LAWRENCE STEWEN  -  670 words
    • 148 17 Indo-Asian News Service THEY’RE the dabbawalas known for delivering tiffin lunches to over 20,000 across Mumbai every day. And he wanted to thank them for their services by delivering lunch to them instead. So on India’s Republic Day, chef Sanjeev Kapoor, who starred in
      Indo-Asian News Service; PHOTO: IANS  -  148 words
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      749 18 Nimrat Kaur is finding success through roles in The Lunchbox and Homeland Indo-Asian News Service NIMRAT Kaur’s understated performance in Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox left viewers gasping for more. Now that the film has been nominated for the prestigious British Academy Of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards,
      Indo-Asian News Service; PHOTO: IANS  -  749 words
    • 382 19  -  Actress Akshara Hassan is garnering attention ahead of her debut in upcoming film Shamitabh Compiled by Lawrence Stewen WITH famous actors Kamal Hassan and Sarika Thakur as parents, it’s no wonder Akshara Hassan (above) is generating buzz ahead of her debut in upcoming Hindi movie Shamitabh.
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  • RELAX
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      • 181 20 DONNING the producer’s hat comes with a high level of tension, says actor Aryan Rajesh (below), who has turned producer for his brother Allari Naresh’s forthcoming Telugu comedy Bandipotu. “As an actor, one’s job is to follow the instructions of
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      • 131 20 ACTRESS Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu (right) exchanged vows on Jan 25 in Mumbai. The wedding took place at their Khar residence in the presence of a registrar and family members like Soha’s brother Saif Ali Khan, sister-in-law Kareena Kapoor and mother Sharmila
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      • 195 20 PRODUCER A.M. Rathnam said he will team up with actor Ajith Kumar (top right) for the third time in a row as he awaits the release of their forthcoming Tamil emotional thriller Yennai Arindhaal. “My next film will also be with Ajith sir.
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    • 411 21 MUSIC G Vocal Traditions of India 2015 Hindustani (north Indian) classical music with maestro Pandit Venkatesh Kumar (India) and sisters Apoorva Gokhale and Pallavi Joshi (India) who will be performing as a duo (Gwalior gharana style). Tickets: $60 (includes both concerts) When: Feb 1, 5pm Where: Esplanade Recital
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    • 33 21 THAIPUSAM When: Feb 3 Where: Starting from Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, 397 Serangoon Road, and ending at Sri Thendayuthapani Temple, 15 Tank Road Contact: Log on to www.heb.gov.sg
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    • Article, Illustration
      177 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which comic-strip character's friends are Freckles, Peewee and Gloria? a) Archie b) Tintin c) Richie Rich 2. Marzipan is essentially the sweet yellow or white paste of ground… a) Cashewnut b) Almonds c) Chestnuts 3. Which city is served by the Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport?
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    • 23 21 The MacRitchie Reservoir is the oldest reservoir in Singapore. It was designed by John Turnbull Thomson and built in 1868.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 303 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries This is a time for winning new contacts and friends. You will shine in your job, so gaining incentives and perks will be possible. Taurus Involvement in spiritual activities will bring you happiness and relief. You will find this period exciting and fun-filled. Gemini You have to
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    • 248 20 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 3pm LIFE OK: Wanted 3.30pm SONY ENT: Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai 7pm ZEE CINEMA: Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon 9pm SONY MAX: Bhoothnath Returns 9.30pm VASANTHAM: Ullathai Alli Thaa Mn VTV: Nee Unnai Arinthaal Saturday 11.30am COLORS: Partner Noon STAR PLUS: Rockstar 1pm VASANTHAM: Kaviya Thalaivi 3pm
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 335 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Distort or buckle 5 Store away 10 Kind of report or tradition 14 Ingredient in lotions 15 Its walls withstand a lot of pressure 16 Lead-in for “trooper” or “sol” 17 Start rolling, at work 20 Magic act segment 21 Dutch Guiana, now 22 A woman of
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    • 40 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.
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    • 7 21 GFor solutions, turn to the next page.
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  • SPORTS
    • 902 23  -  Former farm girl is football role model to thousands of Indian teens SURESH NAIR tabla@sph.com.sg FROM a farm girl in a small north Indian village, she’s now setting footballing goals as an outstanding grassroots educator, set to score unprecedented sporting goals for India. Not only
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    • star column
      • 903 24  -  Batting him at No. 3 is the best India can do if it is to instil some fear in its opponents HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg A YEAR ago, if you were to look ahead to the World Cup, you could only be sure of two things; that M.S.
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