Tabla, 8 April 2016

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY S|Sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, APRIL 8,2016 MCI (P) 017/11/2015
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 1 India’s batting sensation is country’s hottest sports star for advertisers with deals worth Rs100 crores and counting Plenty of appeal... Virat Kohli has a Rs6.5-crore contract with tyre-makers MRF. PHOTO: AFP
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 112 2 MUMBAI’S rail commuters are smiling with the arrival of the first air-conditioned train (below). The coaches, built at the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai, will have to undergo a number of tests and trial runs before starting regular service. An official of Mumbai’s Central
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      • 77 2 WHEN the second round of the odd-even experiment is held from April 15 and 30, the Delhi government plans to monitor air quality at 127 locations across the city. The state’s environment and forest minister Imran Hussain said a three-tier system will
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      • 82 2 THE Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has signed a memorandum with Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Group to supply electricity to rural homes in India. It involves building micro-grids and research and development to bring electricity to villages. The arrangement with ABB gives IIT students an opportunity
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      • 70 2 ENTRY tickets to the Taj Mahal and other historical monuments in Agra will now cost more. A foreign visitor to the Taj will now pay Rs1,000, up from Rs750, while domestic tourists will pay Rs40 a ticket, instead of Rs20.
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      • 77 2 A WEEK after imposing phase-wise prohibition, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced a complete ban on alcohol in all parts of the state. On April 1, the government banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in rural areas, while allowing Indian-made foreign liquor to be sold in
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      • 97 2 ONE hundred model schools in 14 districts of Odisha were inaugurated on April 5, with chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurating one such English-medium school at Sasan Ambagaon in his home constituency Hinjili. The schools will follow the Central Board of Secondary Education curriculum with English as
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      • 59 2 BEACHES in Goa will soon be Wi-Fi-enabled, said tourism minister Dilip Parulekar. The state, known for its beaches and nightlife, had tapped into a central government scheme worth Rs100 crores to ensure Internet service along the coastal hot spots. Under the scheme, closed-circuit television will
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      • 73 2 THE Delhi government will soon send 90 school principals to Cambridge University for a 10-day education leadership training exercise. It has allocated Rs102 crores for the international training of principals and teachers in the budget for the current financial year. Apart from Cambridge,
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      • 81 2 THE Karnataka government will set up a tech park for women at Harohalli, 40km from Bengaluru. The 300-acre park, which may be ready in November, will be set up by women women architects and contractors, among others. The state government’s commerce
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      • 72 2 THE Delhi police’s dog squad has doubled with the addition of 30 labrador retrievers brought from the Indian army’s Remount Veterinary Corps based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Twenty of the new dogs, which were inducted into the squad at a ceremony (above)
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      • 103 2 ONE of the guns used by famous wildlife conservationist Jim Corbett, known for hunting down animals who are man-eaters, is now on display at Chhoti Haldwani, also known as Corbett village, in Uttarakhand. On display at the Ramnagar auditorium, the century-old gun
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      • 125 2 ENVOYS of Australia, Britain, Iraq, and Ukraine presented their credentials to India’s president Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan on April 4. The new Australian high commissioner Harinder Kaur Sidhu (above) is of Indian origin and has been a senior official
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      • 79 2 THE Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has declared the rhesus monkey as vermin within Shimla’s municipal limits. Forest minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri said permission to cull them will be valid for six months in the municipal areas, excluding the forest areas. He
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    • 1205 4  -  Women are turning to masonry and construction in Assam AZERA PARVEEN RAHMAN Women’s Feature Service IT WAS raining typical weather in Assam. But the dull, grey skies could hardly dampen the spirits of the women who had been entrusted with the responsibility of building toilets in various homes
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  • NEWS
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      373 5  - ANUJ PURI Anuj Puri is chairman country head, JLL India. INDIA is already host to some of the largest global e-commerce players. The announcement that 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) will now be allowed in e-commerce is going to open the floodgates to a host of other players
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    • 321 5  -  ARVIND JAIN Arvind Jain is managing director of The Pride Group, a property development conglomerate. THE effect of Pune’s proposed new international airport will be twofold. In the first place, it will increase Pune’s viability as a business
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    • innovation
      • 650 7  -  DR. MICHAEL NETZLEY Michael Netzley, PhD, is the academic director, SMU Office of Executive Development. INNOVATION has achieved a cult-like status. In 2015, PwC reported that the top 1,000 companies globally spent a combined US$680 billion on R&D. That is no small sum. Walk
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      1299 12 / 13  -  HEMANT KENKRE in Mumbai tabla@sph.com.sg THERE is a touching story about Virat Kohli, team India’s newest cricketing superstar and youth icon. The year was 2006 and the youngster was batting on a chilly winter’s day with his team, Delhi, staring at a follow-on against Karnataka. Kohli being the
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    • 113 5 IFF INDIA PROPERTY FAIR SINGAPORE si evenbM clinic i Presents Bouquet of Residential and Commercial properties from India QUID Smart Property investments Delhi Noida Gurgaon Bengaluru Mumbai Pune Goa Ahmedabad Hyderabad Chennai Best Deals and Discounts offered in the Show Largest selection of developers from India Best Payment Plans Vist
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1114 6  -  British Indian, on foot from Wales to Australia, is joined by a Singapore resident from Woodlands to Sentosa GAUTAM JOSEPH tabla@sph.com.sg WHEN I meet Arjun Bhogal at Woodlands Checkpoint late at night on Good Friday, he is sporting a new Jesus beard. I tell him he looks
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    • 785 11  -  More than 250 volunteers have transcribed the Straits Settlements Records as part of the Citizen Archivist Project VANDANA AGGARWAL tabla@sph.com.sg EVERY day stories about leaking roofs, petty squabbles and rice and ghee rations may be mundane, but the Straits Settlements Records (SSR) are also a treasure trove of
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    • 216 11 THE Straits Settlements Records (SSR) have scattered references to an Indian convict named Kunnuck Mistree. When pieced together, there emerges an interesting story of a man convicted of larceny and sent to Bencoolen in 1818. He was moved to Singapore in 1825. Mistree was working
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    • singapore snippets
      • 123 14 / 15 A NEW programme that will protect children whose parents are undergoing divorce will be introduced by the Family Justice Courts (FJC) in the second half of the year, said Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon on April 6. The programme, called Parenting Coordination, will help
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      • 140 14 / 15 THERE were 14 major breakdowns on the MRT network last year an increase of 40 per cent from the previous year, the Land Transport Authority announced on its website on April 4. Meanwhile, the number of such breakdowns, each lasting more
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    • 316 14 / 15 A SPIRIT of enterprise and caring will see Singapore through the next 50 years, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said on April 6, at the end of the debate on the Government’s Budget for the new financial year. Rounding up the speeches made by 53
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    • 340 14 / 15  -  P. BALA P. Bala is a journalist with Tamil Murasu. CELEBRATING its 10th anniversary this year, the Tamil Language Festival was officially launched by Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S. Iswaran on April 2 at MediaCorp TV Theatre (above). Themed “Love Tamil,
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    • 188 14 / 15 THE number of new dengue fever cases has begun to rise again after falling last month. There were 378 recorded last week, 72 more than the previous seven days, according to figures from the National Environment Agency (NEA). Experts have warned that there could
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    • 161 14 / 15 THERE will be seven long weekends next year one more than this year with seven out of the 11 public holidays in Singapore falling on a Friday, Sunday or Monday. When a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a public holiday.
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    • 247 14 / 15 ISS turns 70... the Sikh community has contributed much to Singapore and the Sikh women have made great strides and excelled in many walks of life, said Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law Indranee Rajah at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Istri Sat Sang
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    • 341 16 “You see some (cash surge) not just in the state going to elections, but also in the neighbouring states. There is something... we need to understand it better.” Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, adding that cash in people’s hands has currently gone up by more
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    • 145 16 4.6 million Travellers passed through Changi Airport in February $6.2 billion Amount of economic loss reported in India last year due to man-made and natural disasters 4,500km Length of a new submarine cable linking Perth and Singapore, which will be completed by 2018 40% Of women surveyed in
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  • EDUCATION
    • Article, Illustration
      540 8 Group of 20 young Singaporeans say they benefited more from voluntary work in India BEFORE the group of 20 left for India’s Punjab state in December, the leader of the trip, Mr Satwant Singh, told the members several times that they were not going there to be “champions”
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    • 359 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, GIIS) ROSHAN RAJU, Class 11 A Level THE little ones
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOT
      • 388 9  -  AMISH I BAG ATI, Class 10 IGCSE ON FEB 26, the DPS Literary Society conducted a Literary Quiz for students of Classes 9 ICSE, 10 IGCSE and 11 A Level. The event was organised by Literary Society captain Prasha Maithani of Class 12 A Level, assisted
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    • 512 10  -  AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg DHARMENDRA Ganesh has a dream to pursue his Master of Physiotherapy Practice in La Trobe University in Melbourne next year and become a certified physiotherapist by 2018. But in order to do his master’s at that university, he needs to take an
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    • 468 10  -  AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg ON APRIL 16, GEMS World Academy (Singapore) will open its doors to welcome parents and their children who want to know more about the international school. The school in Yishun, which began operations in Singapore in September 2014, prepares students
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    • 151 8 www.giissingapore.org Modern teaching methods used at the school are unique and designed to equip the children for the requirements of f the 21 st century. Ms Ambili Suresh Parent of Eshana (Class 4) GIIS Balestier Campus, Singapore (2016 Testimonial) Hm 135 Pi fv The CBSE-/' programme provides rich and comprehensive
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    • 39 14 / 15 The Singapore Sikh Community Celebrates Vesakhi The Birth of the Khalsa -1699 Mon 11 th Apr-6:00pm to Wed 13 th Apr 9:30pm Central Sikh Temple, 2 Towner Road, Singapore Tel *****855 V W, 0) E o o CD CD < <
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    • 40 16 7^ie&eett& RAMAYANA Beyond the Stories @Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple 16-22 April 2016, 7.30 9.00pm By Siddheshvari Deviji Senior Disciple of Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj Free Admission Please Register Online V V V w* i ■X Call 9721 3663 (Rajesh) www.radhamadhavsatsang.org n
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 390 17 Two hours in the lives of two great poets EK MULAQAAT is about love between poets and a marriage of words. It is the story of two of India’s famous poets Sahir Ludhianvi and the legendary Punjabi author Amrita Pritam. It is also a heartwarming tale
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    • 419 17 THE eighth edition of Esplanade Theatres on the Bay’s A Tapestry of Sacred Music returns from April 15 to 17 with a largely free line-up of programmes featuring sacred music and arts from Singapore and around the world. One of the highlights of the three-day
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    • 626 18 But Indian-American boy is the star in The Jungle Book movie Indo-Asian News Service HE NEVER had starry dreams, but still found himself in showbiz amid the wilderness of an Indian jungle with The Jungle Book. Indian-American child actor Neel Sethi, who will be essaying
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    • 449 18 Indo-Asian News Service EVER since the news of his separation from his wife of 15 years emerged, Farhan Akhtar’s personal life has been surrounded by rumours of link-ups with his co-actors. The ac-tor-singer-filmmaker only laughs about it and says people sometimes confuse the
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    • mirch masala
      • 194 19 ACTOR Sushant Singh Rajput (right), who will be seen portraying Mahendra Singh Dhoni in his upcoming biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, says it was a “challenge” for him to play the Indian cricket captain as there was a “huge responsibility” on his shoulders. “It
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      • 135 19 SINGER Shalmali Kholgade (right), who began her Bollywood playback singing career with the song Pareshaan for the film Ishaqzaade in 2012, says: “I would love to act, and would love to do a very challenging role for which I have a very
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      • 154 19 LEGENDARY playback singer P. Susheela (below) has become the Guinness World Records title holder for the highest number of solo, duet and chorus-backed songs in over six Indian languages. In an official certificate presented by Guinness it was verified that she has
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      • 237 19 COSTUME designer and stylist Komal Shahani, who is working with Tamil superstar Vijay (below) for the third time in forthcoming Tamil actioner Theri, says the actor has rocked each of the three different avatars he has sported in the film.
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      • 163 19 MIXED martial artist-turned-actress Ritika Singh (right) of Saala Khadoos fame thinks she resembles Ranveer Singh as they are both very feisty. “I like both Ranveer and Ranbir. But I think Ranveer and I are very similar, so if we work
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      • 228 19 THE team of forthcoming horror-thriller Jithan 2 (below), a sequel to 2005 film Jithan, experienced a supernatural presence when they were shooting at in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. The film’s director and producer Rahul shared his “eerie” experience. “All horror films come with good and bad
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  • RELAX
    • 430 20 Indo-Asian News Service DINING etiquette was never meant to take away from the joy of eating. But, if done right, you will get to enjoy your meal elegantly. Urbanista Image Consultancy director Sheena Agarwaal is here to help. G Respond to the invitation with a clear
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    • 412 21 CELEBRATION Vesakhi 2016 celebrations with prayers and other programmes. When: April 11, 6pm till April 13, 9.30pm Where: Central Sikh Temple, 2 Towner Road Contact: 6299-3855 BOOK Kitaab launches Ganga Jamuna, a novel by Sunita Lad Bhamray. Free admission. When: April 8, 6.30pm Where: BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak
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    • 28 21 SIFAS SIFAS Festival Of Indian Classical Music and Dance 2016. When: Till April 10, various timings Where: Esplanade Contact: Log on to www.sifas.org/festival
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    • Article, Illustration
      177 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. In which country are the Petronas Twin Towers situated? a) Japan b) Malaysia c) Brazil 2. Electrum is an alloy of gold and a) Magnesium b) Silver c) Iron 3. Which creature’s different species are mallard, eider and scoter? a) Duck b) Peacock c) Flamingo 4.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 521 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You will be kept busy as more work will be assigned to you. Beware of food poisoning and other digestive system-related issues. Taurus Postpone making major decisions related to your career and finances. There will be many disputes at home. Also, take care of your health. Gemini
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 303 21 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Loose garment with veiled eyeholes (Var.) 6 4-0 World Series win, e.g. 11 Act like a rabbit 14 Malarial fevers 15 Kind of pasta 16 Aussie bird 17 Job for one in a pasture 19 Salesperson, briefly 20 Board game components 21 Welsh canine 23 Sticks like
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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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  • 299 22 Indo-Asian News Service THE opening ceremony of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 will witness a host of Bollywood and international stars performing, including Ranveer Singh, Jacqueline Fernandes, Katrina Kaif and Yo Yo Honey Singh, along with American singer Chris Brown and musical
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 29 22 crossword SOLUTIONS quiz sudoku 1. Malaysia 2. Silver 3. Duck 4. Malaria 5. Tulip 6. File Transfer Protocol 7. 50 Cent 8. Jordan Spieth 9. Egypt 10. Tom Holt
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  • SPORTS
    • 96 23 West Indies create history winning men’s and women’s World T20 finals We won, we won... West Indies’ women’s cricket captain Stafanie Taylor (above) and men’s cricket captain Darren Sammy (above left) holding the World Cup after winning their finals in Kolkata. PHOTOS: AFP In a joyous mood...
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    • star column
      • 894 24  -  Tournament showed that T20 has room for traditionalists as well as innovative players HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg IN PART, due to the extraordinary flamboyance of these men from the Caribbean, and in equal part due to the skills on display, the World T20 cemented the format in the
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