Tabla, 18 December 2015

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY S|Sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18,2015 MCI (P) 017/11/2015
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  • Article, Illustration
    1413 1  -  India looked invincible against South Africa at home but how good will they be when they go overseas? HEMANT KENKRE in Mumbai Hemant Kenkre, a cricket analyst, is a former Bombay University opener who has captained the Cricket Club of India. tabla@sph.com.sg WHEN the national selection committee
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 97 2 A NEW night shelter, offering beds to lodgers, was opened on Dec 13 in Agra to ensure that the homeless can live comfortably. The shelter was set up near Subhash Park on MG Road by local voluntary agency Sri Nathji Nishulk Jal Sewa. The agency’s
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      • 84 2 THE Neyyar dam in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, will undergo a major renovation at a cost of Rs4.65 crores. The project, which will introduce infrastructure and recreational facilities, is aimed at giving a facelift to the destination to attract foreign and domestic tourists. A pavilion will
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      • 100 2 IN A bid to keep tabs on rising pollution levels, the Himachal Pradesh government has announced that 300 buses that are more than nine years old will be taken off the road. In addition, vehicles that are more than
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      • Article, Illustration
        96 2 TO MARK International Tea Day, representatives of the North Bengal Tea Producers Welfare Association served more than 1,500 cups of tea to passers-by in Siliguri on Dec 15 (above). This was also done to promote the local tea industry. The day was created in 2005 by
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      • 90 2 FOR the first time in Kerala, a team of doctors performed surgery on a 29-week foetus to widen the unborn baby’s heart valve. Its heart was accessed through the mother’s abdomen under ultrasound guidance, then a procedure to widen its heart valve
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      • 67 2 TAMIL superstar Rajinikanth opened his marriage hall Sri Raghavendra Mandapam in Kodambakkam, Chennai, to accommodate sanitary workers from various districts. These workers from Namakkal, Karur, Salem, Dharmapuri and Tirupur are helping to clean up the mess created by the recent floods in the city.
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      • 82 2 ACCORDING to a recent study by a travel information portal called HolidayIQ, Bandipur National Park is the most visited tiger reserve in India. A senior forest official at Bandipur attributed the popularity of the national park to “increased frequency of sightings” and
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      • 86 2 INDIA’S finance ministry has announced that it will be mandatory to provide the permanent account number (PAN) for all transactions above Rs2 lakhs for all payment modes from Jan 1 next year. The move is to reduce domestic black money flow and is a
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      • 100 2 A GLOBAL financial literacy survey by Standard Poor’s Ratings Services reported that 76 per cent of Indians do not understand key financial concepts such as inflation and interest rate. This is lower than the worldwide average. In addition, the survey also found
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      • 103 2 WITHIN the next three or four months, the Railways is planning to run all its trains from South Western Railway (SWR) on a mix of diesel and biofuel. The Chennai-Mysore Shatabdi Express (above) was the first train in the Bengaluru
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    • 977 4  -  Women farmers in Assam have taken to cultivating the nutritious food AZERA RAHMAN Women’s Feature Service MS AROTI Devi is observant, hardworking and quite astute. This resident of Assam’s Golaghat district shares: “Over the last few years, the rains have become quite erratic. Either we have incessant downpours
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  • BUSINESS
    • 408 3  -  India Demo Day in Singapore sees nine Indian companies pitch for funding AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg THE India Demo Day (IDD) is a platform designed to give Indian start-ups access to overseas markets and investors. IDD was organised by DLabs, a business incubator of the
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  • NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      892 6 Carbon credits equals right to pollute, so why not give right to eat with lipid credits, asks S.N. VENKAT in a lighter vein tabla@sph.com.sg HAVE tricosaphobia, fear of number 23. Why I 23 you may ask? The Health Promotion Board in Singapore says “a BMI value of 23
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    • 445 8 Tamil writer adds another feather to his cap THIS year’s S.E.A. Write Award was presented to Tamil writer J.M. Sali on Dec 14. He was presented with the award by Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana of Thailand at a function in Bangkok. The award is presented annually to
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    • 175 8  -  Amita Sarwal for the Dayawati Modi centenary year a special Dayawati Modi Centenary Stree Shakti Award was created. It was awarded to Ms Claire Chiang, senior vice-president of Banyan Tree Holdings, Singapore, on Dec 9. Another award, the Dayawati Modi Centenary Stree Shakti Samman was presented to Ms
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  • EDUCATION
    • 371 9 GEMS World Academy (Singapore) is one of the first Asian schools to take part in new Google programme IMAGINE going on a field trip without having to plan for transport. It’s possible with the Google Expeditions Pioneer Programme, and GEMS World Academy (Singapore) is one of
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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, DPS) AKASH RAJESH ARYAN MOHAN, Grade 7C FOR the second year
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 186 10  -  MALLIKA MANKAD, SRIKA NAMBIAR PRACHI PATHAK, IB Year 1 ON DEC 4, IB Year 1 students held the Cultural Mela as a part of our Creativity, Action and Service work. We wanted to show the unity in a diverse India. Students organised many activities representing the cultural
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      • 238 10  -  AKSHITA MALIK, Grade 10 IGCSE C AFTER weeks of preparation, six NPSI students attended St Joseph’s Institution’s (SJI) third Modern United Nations (MUN) conference from Nov 13 to 15 at the SJI Bishan campus. They were among the 250 delegates there. From euthanasia to drug trafficking,
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 426 11  -  India Tourism on its efforts in Singapore AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg According to official statistics released by the Ministry of Tourism India, the country received 6.97 million foreign visitors in 2013 and its annual tourism growth rate was 5.9 per cent. This is in contrast to
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    • 579 11  -  AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg NINE years. That’s how long Spikey, the pet dog of Dr Bilveer Singh and Gurdial Kaur, had gone missing from their home in Kovan. But they were still hopeful they would find their then three-year-old dog as every time they saw
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    • singapore snippets
      • 92 14 / 15 A NEW scheme to help public rental households own a home again could allow them to receive another Housing Board concessionary loan. It could also let them buy two-room flexi flats on shorter leases, now offered only to elderly buyers. While the upcoming scheme will include
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      • 109 14 / 15 FIVE new City Direct bus services, linking the heartland directly to the Central Business District (CBD), will be launched from February next year. The new routes will operate from Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Clementi/Dover, Punggol and Yishun to the CBD during the morning peak hours,
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      • 68 14 / 15 TANGLIN Village, already a hip dining enclave, is getting another lifestyle quarter one that boasts well-known multi-label fashion store Dover Street Market. “Como Dempsey”, will house Dover Street Market, an edgy concept store conceived by Comme des Garcons’ Rei Kawakubo, and a specially conceptualised restaurant
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      • 93 14 / 15 TO MAKE the cleaners’ job easier, Nee Soon Town Council is trying out tricycles with attached bins. With the tricycles, the cleaners can cut back on labour and also save time on travelling between areas they clean. Mr Abu Repon (below in a Straits
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    • 335 14 / 15 JUST as more than 90 per cent of the Central Provident Fund’s (CPF) online services were restored on the evening of Dec 15, the CPF Board started working to take down a fake CPF website. In an e-mail to members, it warned of the imposter
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    • 192 14 / 15 20 young Singaporeans set off on a journey to help needy schoolchildren in Punjab on Dec 6. They are part of Young Sikh Association’s (YSA) 15th community service expedition to India called Project Khwaish XV. They will return on Dec 27. On Dec 3, YSA organised a send-off
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    • 198 14 / 15 DRAGGED down by low economic growth, the job market continued to show signs of weakening in the third quarter. Employment growth this year so far is at the lowest it has been since 2009, the Manpower Ministry’s latest labour report on Dec 15 showed. However,
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    • 143 14 / 15 Singapore's network of social service offices (SSOs) is complete, with the official opening of the 24th, SSO Taman Jurong, on Dec 15. SSOs will continue to evolve and integrate services to be more efficient, said Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin (right). SSO
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    • 214 14 / 15 A TOTAL of 361 dengue cases were reported last week, the highest weekly number recorded so far this year, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Dec 15. While higher weekly numbers have been recorded in the past two years, with a weekly high
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    • 166 14 / 15 INVESTMENT firm Temasek Holdings is set to acquire a 72 per cent stake in India’s Care Hospitals, media reports said on Dec 14. Care Hospitals, which has 16 hospitals serving nine cities across India, is the country’s fifth-largest private healthcare network. Temasek is
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    • 349 16 “Our Asian customers are generating wealth in the areas that they do well in and know best. And they want to put their money where their mouth is.” DBS’ head of consumer banking and wealth management Tan Su Shan “Every month or so we will be working
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    • 193 16 $1.2 million Amount the NTUC FairPrice Foundation donated to the FairPrice Food Voucher scheme, which will help about 20,000 low-income households 194 Died in fatal two-wheeler accidents in Pune between Jan 1 and Oct 31 this year 100,000 Spectators caught the 2015 Asean Para Games in Singapore from
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 500 17 Comedian Johnny Lever says clean humour is appreciated over vulgar comedy Indo-Asian News Service RENDS come and go in the cinematic T world, but Clean humour and good comedy have reigned over “meaningless” entertainment over the years, says Bollywood’s beloved comedian and character actor Johnny Lever,
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    • 413 17 Indo-Asian News Service ACTRESS Priya Banerjee (left), Who reprises Juhi Chawla’s role in the t eponymous remake of the 1993 film Darr, says her role is quite different from the original character that it is based on. “This is a remake with
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    • mirch masala
      • 183 18 ACTOR-PRODUCER Anil Kapoor, who defies age with his suave style and physically-fit frame, says dressing well is an art. The 24 actor, who credits his mother with teaching him the value of being well-dressed, shared his sentiments in an interview on Colors
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      • 301 18 ACTOR Ravi Teja (right), Who goes by the sobriquet Mass Maharaja, swears by the title and says that as long as audiences accept him in his mass avatars, he doesn’t see the need to experiment. “It’s not that I haven’t experimented. But whenever I did, the
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      • 263 18 VETERAN actor Mithun Chakraborty has plans to direct a film in the future, says his son Mahaakshay (right), who might star in the movie. “Dad is not paying much attention to direction right now. He is busy with his TV shows and with
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      • 103 18 ACTRESS Amy Jackson (right), who was seen performing stunts in Akshay Kumar-starrer Singh Is Bling, says she’d love to do more action films. “I had so much fun working with Akshay, especially in the action scenes. I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts.
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      • 453 18 Indo-Asian News Service SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth (left), who turns 65 on Dec 12, has long been synonymous with style. From the way he flips his cigarette to his signature walk, the man is known for his inimitable and unparalleled style in his movies. His style statements, which have
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  • RELAX
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      509 20 Indo-Asian News Service PRUCE up your wardrobe with S stylish capes which can instantly add spunk to your Indian or Western attire. You may be slim or fat, tall or short but capes, which are currently a hit in the fashion and Bollywood circuit will make you stand
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    • 372 21 CONCERT GSaaz Aur Suroor a sufi and ghazal night with singer Qurat Aul Ain Balouch performing for the first time in Singapore. Presented by Global Citizen Forum. Tickets: $100 When: Dec 30, 8pm Where: The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green Contact: 9146-5761 GCarnival Media presents
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    • 47 21 PRAYERS Chennai flood (right) relief prayers for victims and survivors, organised by Ramakrishna Mission, Singapore and Singapore Indian Association. Free admission. When: Dec 19, 4 to 5pm Where: Sarada Hall, Ramakrishna Mission, 179 Bartley Road Contact: 9730-4065 or e-mail admin@ramakrishna. org. sg
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    • Article, Illustration
      177 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. More than 18,000 pieces of which metal was used to build the Eiffel Tower? a) Gold b) Iron c) Copper 2. Who played Lucia Sciarra in the 2015 film Spectre? a) Monica Bellucci b) Lea Seydoux c) Naomie Harris 3. Who wrote the narrative poem Divine
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 556 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries Look out for opportunities that may be on the horizon. Your path to success is blocked, even though you have been on the right track thus far. Taurus Make your dreams come true, by being courageous. You’ll be able to improve both your personal and working life
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 305 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Fleeting muscle problem 6 Place to get a massage 9 Exodus mountain 14 Speakers’ platforms 15 Dad on Malcolm In The Middle 16 Statement of belief 17 Join in a cause 18 Feel below par 19 Ape-like 20 Part of some finance deals 23 “Shop you drop”
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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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  • 269 22 Indo-Asian News Service ACTRESS and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty Kundra (right), known for her fit frame, says actresses weren’t too much into working out when she joined the glamour industry. “Nowadays everybody is fit, but when I joined the industry, it was rare to
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous

  • SPORTS
    • 823 23  -  Kohli should not let the unfair criticism get to him star column HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg ONE of the very few things I tell young cricketers, maybe because I don’t have too much more to tell them, is that no media person can ever stop them from
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