Tabla, 25 March 2016

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY SjSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MARCH 25,2016 MCI (P) 017/11/2015
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  • 1678 1  -  Are children losing social skills? VANDANA AGGARWAL tabla@sph.com.sg A CHILD may have hundreds of friends on Facebook and may be constantly connected to several of them on the phone, but as messaging takes over the lives of young people their ability to connect decreases. They find
    PHOTO: RAKESH KUMAR; PHOTOS COURTESY OF JUHI SHUKLA, GIIS, DR SANVEEN KANG-SADHNANI, PLAYEUM, MAYA SOHONIE  -  1,678 words
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    • 109 1 THE FUTURE IS NOW, SAYS TOP THINKER VIJAYGOVINDARAJAN PAGES 4 5 World Academy (Singapore) SINGAPORE'S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL STUDENTS •n u Why choose GEMS World Academy (Singapore)? International Educators: Committed and child-centred, our globally experienced teachers are the true difference Parent Engagement: Our parents are active partners with us
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 84 2 PEOPLE in Mangaluru can get tested and treated for malaria for free in a mobile malaria detection van, which was launched on a pilot basis by the department of health and family welfare. Those who are found to have malaria will be given the entire
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      • 95 2 KARNATAKA’S higher education department cancelled the chemistry exam on March 21 as its exam paper was leaked in some cities and towns. About 1.74 lakh students took the exam though a majority of them were unaware that their exam paper in English and Kannada
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      • 80 2 THE forest department in Pune will start eco-tourism at the Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary at the Supe village in Baramati. It has received a budget allocation of Rs34.61 lakhs to kick-start its plans for the first year. While India’s eco-tourism is largely focused on tigers,
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      • 84 2 AS MANY as 17 critical areas in and around Kolkata have been identified as “probable hot spots” for polluting the city, says a study. The report Living Dangerously by NGO Toxics Link identified Payarabagan, Maniktala, Topsia, Picnic Garden, Tangra-Tilja-la-Topsia, Rajabazaar, Mullickbazar, Taratola Industrial Estate,
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      • 63 2 THE Delhi government has approved free travel for people suffering from any disability, in air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned buses of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) as well as the cluster scheme. Out of 6,055 buses (4,555 DTC and 1,500 cluster buses), 1,275
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      • 116 2 ODISHA will be among the four states where the rotavirus vaccine will be introduced on March 26 under the central government’s routine immunisation programme for protecting children from diarrhoea, said an official. The vaccination programme will also be launched in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana
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      • 106 2 IN A marked departure from age-old tradition, over 1,000 widows took part in Holi celebrations at a temple in the holy town of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. In many parts of India, widows are barred from participating in Holi or any other festival
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      • 98 2 FIVE people were killed by wild elephants that went on a rampage through several villages in West Bengal (above). The state’s forest minister Benoy Krishna Burman said the victims were trampled after they threw stones to try to scare the elephants off. He said the
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  • NEWS
    • 1657 4 / 5  -  Professor Vijay Govindarajan is one of five Indians featured in a ranking of the world’s top 50 management thinkers. He speaks to tabla! about reverse innovation, his grandfather’s influence and his forthcoming book S.N. VENKAT HIS books have made it to the New York Times’ and
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF PROF VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN  -  1,657 words
    • 214 4 / 5 Early education: Rani Seethai Achi High School, Annamalai Nagar 1965. Higher education: Annamalai University, Bachelor of Commerce, 1969; Chartered Accountancy degree in India awarded the President’s Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide, 1974; Harvard University, MBA (with Distinction), 1976; Harvard University, DBA, 1978. Current position:
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    • tabla! reads
      • 683 10  -  ZAFAR ANJUM WILLIAM Shakespeare, lovingly known as the Bard, died 400 years ago but his reputation is as solid as ever. We Indians have a great affinity with Shakespeare. I bet that Shakespeare and Wordsworth are two household names for Indian readers of English literature. Famous
        PHOTOS: ZAFAR ANJUM, SRT, SHRUTI SINHA  -  683 words
      • 372 10 tabla@sph.com.sg UNTIL recently, I was not aware that a strong and vibrant Bihari community existed in Singapore. They even have a social organisation, Bijhar, that has members from the Indian provinces of Bihar and Jharkhand. Bijhar was registered in 2006 and boasts 150 members. One
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  • Page 4 / 5 Advertisements
    • 200 4 / 5 THE TIMES OF INDIA Presents REALTY INDIA EXPO 2016 SR. Q NH MARCH SAT 26th SUN 27th N SINGAPORE 10am 8pm Summit 1 Level 3 Suntec City Convention Center Showcasing a wide array of over 50 Reputed Builders Developers across India Avail professional advice on Real Estate from Builders and
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  • BUSINESS
    • 349 6 Retail bond pays 5.3 per cent annual interest, one of the highest returns in the bond market now ASPIAL Corporation is making its second foray into the retail bond market with an offering of up to $75 million four-year bonds. The bonds by the homegrown
      PHOTO: ASPIAL  -  349 words
    • biz notes
      • 167 6 INDIA’S leading English news channel TIMES NOW jointly held the Emerging India Forum 2016 on March 18 with the Confederation of Indian Industry and Singapore Business Federation. The event at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre saw industry leaders from various sectors talk
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      • 212 6 ENTREPRENUER Joy Alukkas (far right) was honoured with the Business Excellence Award 2016 at a gala event organised by the Indian Business Professionals Council (IBPC) in Dubai. The chairman and managing director of the Joyalukkas Group was presented with the award by UAE minister
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      • 130 6 REALTY India Expo 2016 brings together a wide range of the most reputed builders and developers across India. The exhibition, held on March 26 and 27, from 10am to 8pm at Suntec City Convention Centre, Level 3, will showcase pre-launch projects to ready-to-move-in properties
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      • 133 6 NINETY Indian Singaporean entrepreneurs were honoured at the first Singapore Indian Business Leaders Awards. The event, held on March 19, was organised by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It was attended by Mr S. Iswaran, Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry).
        PHOTOS: JOYALUKKAS, COURTESY OF PURNIMA KAMATH  -  133 words

  • SINGAPORE
    • Face in the, Crowd
      • 944 7  -  Edmund Rajendra’s carpet business is not all about making profits PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg LONG before corporate social responsibility became a fashionable term, Mr Edmund Rajendra and his business partner Abdul Shukor have been mixing charity work with their business. The two run Eastern Carpets from a
        PHOTOS: TIMOTHY DAVID, COURTESY OF EDMUND RAJENDRA  -  944 words
    • 162 11 220 Number of beds at Farrer Park Hospital, which was officially opened on March 16 $120 billion Amount India plans to invest in the development of airport infrastructure and aviation navigation services over the next 10 years 1 in 3 Singaporeans suffer from moderate to severe sleep apnea
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    • 406 11 “There are measures in place but I again emphasise that unless you turn the entire city into a prison, it’s not going to be possible to counter every possible attack.” Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, noting the difficulty of dealing with terror threats “Connecting hearts. 100MW power
      PHOTO: © AFP, THE STRAITS TIMES  -  406 words
    • 96 14 / 15 Tree-planting to celebrate birthday... the Singapore Centre of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampura a global movement to realise your true self and serve others selflessly celebrated Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai’s 50th birthday by planting 50 trees. Pujya Gurudevshri (centre with watering can), spiritual leader and scholar of Jainism,
      PHOTO: SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA MISSION  -  96 words
    • 677 14 / 15 THE late Mr Lee Kuan Yew kept an eagle’s eye on every aspect of Singapore as prime minister, but knew he could not control everything personally and another leader would have to govern differently. Thus he gave the advice to build a team central to
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  677 words
    • singapore snippets
      • 174 14 / 15 LAWYER K. Muralidharan Pillai (right) is the People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate to defend Bukit Batok constituency at the by-election. The 48-year-old was part of the PAP team that nearly wrested Aljunied GRC back at the 2015 General Election. He was formally introduced by Deputy
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      • 128 14 / 15 A REVIEW of safety measures has been ordered by rail operator SMRT after a train pulling into Pasir Ris Station at 60kmh ran into two trainee technical staff, killing both of them on March 22. The Manpower Ministry and the police are
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      • 210 14 / 15 WATER levels in the Linggiu Reservoir in Johor which can supply up to 60 per cent of Singapore’s water needs are now at about 42 per cent. This is just above the historical low of 41 per cent in late 2015. Minister for the
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    • 901 16 72-year-old Uttam Kripalani revisits the place of his birth SIXTY-SEVEN years after he last visited Varanasi as a five-year-old, Mr Uttam Kripalani took a tour of the city, said to be one of the oldest cities in the world. It was in Varanasi that Mr Kripalani
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    • 659 17  -  SARITA ALURKAR-SRIRAM “IT’S not often that we witness an evocative natya performance, endowed with all the essential qualities required of an artiste. Meenakshi Srinivasan’s execution of nritta (pure dance), nritya (expressive dance) and natya (drama) were all in measured brilliance bringing credit to her guru Alarmel
      PHOTOS: SIFAS  -  659 words
    • 227 17 THE lack of physical activity in our daily life has further increased the number of our health problems but yoga can help to address this. You become unhealthy when you lose touch with the fundamentals. The whole process of yoga is to get in touch with
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  • EDUCATION
    • 526 8 Asian business schools advised to develop their own strategies instead at conference co-organised by SMU ASIAN business schools should not blindly follow the West. Instead, they must develop their own strategies that leverage the local context and prepare them to effectively compete with global players.
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    • 419 9  -  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) RAKSHA AIYAPPAN VIGNESHWAR HARIHARAN, Class 9 IGCSE B AT GIIS East
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  419 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • Article, Illustration
        216 9  -  YOGARAJAN SIVAKUMAR, IB Year 1D I’M A GIIS Queenstown campus student who took part in the Green Corridor Run on March 6 (right). The 10.5km run was on a stretch of greenery that began at the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station and ended at the old Bukit
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      • 287 9  -  MANYA SHARMA, Class 5A A WARM farewell was organised by us, the students of Class 5, on Feb 24 for the graduating Class 6 students of GIIS Balestier campus. We planned various dances and entertainment. Our teachers were confident that we could handle the programme ourselves,
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  • Page 14 / 15 Miscellaneous
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  • FASHION
    • 687 18 It’s now ruthless and competitive, says designer Rohit Bal Indo-Asian News Service HIS ensembles draw on history, fantasy and folklore and are desired by discerning fashion aficionados around the globe. Ace designer Rohit Bal, who has completed 25 years in the industry, says the
      Indo-Asian News Service; PHOTOS: IANS  -  687 words

  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • mirch masala
      • 253 19 MALAYALAM film actress Shaalin Zoya (below), who makes her Tamil debut with upcoming movie Raja Manthiri, says she loves the language and wants to explore the industry to the fullest, but won’t sign projects in a hurry. “I love Tamil films, even
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      • 143 19 ACTRESS Taapsee Pannu (below) is happy to see Punjabi films tasting success on international shores, and hopes to become part of the industry soon. The Delhi-born actress, who belongs to a Punjabi family, wants to explore the Punjabi film industry. “Being from a Punjabi family,
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      • 200 19 ACTOR Sooraj Pancholi, who made his acting debut with superstar Salman Khan production Hero, says he wants to work with his mother, veteran actress Zarina Wahab, for his next film. The 25-year-old, who has been awarded the Best Debut Actor (male) at the
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      • 191 19 WRITER-PAINTER Neelima Kota (below) is confident that National Award-winning film-maker Vetrimaaran will do justice to the film adaptation of her book Shoes Of The Dead, which deals with farmer suicides. “I never thought my book would ever be made into
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      • 207 19 PHOTOS: IANS ACTRESS Neha Dhupia says as a celebrity she has always gravitated to issues close to her heart, adding that “a public face makes a very big difference”. The actress has joined hands with beauty brand Kiehl’s and Teach For India to
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  • RELAX
    • 544 20  -  AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg IN MUMBAI, his first job was that of teacher in an acting school. He worked with newcomers and realised that they were scared of acting. But renowned Indian actor Anupam Kher, who made his acting debut in the 1982 Hindi film Aagman, feels
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    • Article, Illustration
      434 21 CELEBRATION G Rang De Holi 2016. Tickets: $20 $10 (children) When: March 26, 11am to 7pm Where: WaveHouse, Sentosa Contact: 9220-3666 or log on to www.etickets.sg G Radha Madhav Satsang’s holi event themed Ho Ho Ho Ho Holi Hai 2016. When: March 26, 9am to 1pm Where: Berlayer
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    • 52 21 PROPERTY EXHIBITION Realty India Expo 2016 property exhibition featuring properties in India, organised by The Times Of India. Free admission. When: March 26 27, 10am to 8pm Where: Summit 1, Level 3 Suntec City Convention Centre Contact: 8411-1209 or log on to www. real tyindiaexpo
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    • Article, Illustration
      205 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which team did India beat in the final to win the 2016 Asia Cup? a) Pakistan b) Bangladesh c) Sri Lanka 2. Who hosted the 2016 Oscars? a) Eddie Murphy b) Kevin Hart c) Chris Rock 3. Carpenter, tailor and weaver are types of which insect?
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 329 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries Monitor your funds carefully and do not overspend. Do not display any negative feelings at home as they could disturb the harmonious atmosphere. Taurus You will discover new job opportunities and this will give you immense happiness. You will have a good amount of cash in hand
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    • 232 20 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 10am VASANTHAM: Thirudathe 12.30pm STAR PLUS: Bobby Jasoos 2pm VASANTHAM: Something Something Unakkum Enakkum 3pm LIFE OK: Rockstar 5pm VASANTHAM: Singh Is Bling 9pm SONY MAX: Katti Batti 9pm VTV: Sangamam 9.10pm STAR GOLD: Kya Kehna 9.30pm VASANTHAM: Pasanga 2 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Bose The Forgotten Hero
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 329 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Gymnasts’ protectors 5 Tidal flood 10 Jet-setters’ jets, once 14 In a berserk way 15 Having better skills 16 Frigid finish? 17 Indian royal 18 Meccan, e.g. 19 1997 role for Peter Fonda 20 Small quahog 23 He took two tablets 24 Birds’ lodgings 25 Like a
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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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  • 321 22 Indo-Asian News Service HOLI, the festival of colours, is here and as you enjoy yourself, be sure to protect yourself from the harsh colours and elements which are used during the celebrations. Here are some tips. G Cover as much of your
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 31 22 SOLUTIONS quiz sudoku crossword 1. Bangladesh 2. Chris Rock 3. Ant 4. Positioning 5. Tiramisu 6. Moves like Jagger 7. Leonardo da Vinci 8. Pakistan 9. A snake 10. Nelson Mandela
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  • SPORTS
    • star column
      • 815 23  -  They steal the show at this year’s T20 World Cup HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg IT WAS a good pitch at Mohali, not damp, not a raging turner, not a slow, spongy surface where the ball has a cup of tea before it reaches the batsman. No, it was
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