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digital SLR photography?

In a home environment, when taking a portrait using reading lights, how to achieve "studio like" turn out for portraints & still life? What equipments are essential to bring out proper lighting? Is it necessary to buy metering device, flash, transmitter, reflectors, etc?

Your best bet is to buy a cheap off camera flash and look at cheap wireless triggers. You can get a Yongnuo flash which is manually adjustable by power levels off eBay for about £40. A set of triggers, like RF-602's (1 transmitter + 1 receiver) will cost around £35. Buy a 5-in-1 reflector (£8) and you're good to go.
Whilst the continuous lighting solutions offered by others might be a tad cheaper, they're a pain to white balance and you'll quickly find out their limitations & end up with flash, particularly if you want to do a lot of this type of work. If you want to do location portraits for example, the hotshoe flash is the way to go for portability (batteries only, & lightweight).
You don't need to buy a light meter either at this stage.

I suggest you read Lighting 101 at the Strobist site (see right hand pane);

http://strobist.blogspot.com/

LOTS of information there on off camera lighting (principally hotshoe flashes)

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