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Topic: Singapore

Multi-billion dollar firm Rippling co-founder’s bitter custody battle plays out in full public glare

Chennai boy Prasanna Sankar, now a tech entrepreneur based in Singapore, and wife Dhivya Sashidhar are embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody battle over their nine-year-old son.

How Singaporean scientist is correcting historic omission by creating genetic biobank for Asians

By 2027, Patrick Tan’s project in Singapore will create Asia’s first functional precision medicine system with the potential to fine-tune treatments and drug responses for Asians.

‘Exploring new initiatives’, Singapore President visits India, affirms defence relationship

President Shanmugaratnam said that both countries are on a new trajectory of a comprehensive strategic partnership, which was announced during PM Modi’s visit to Singapore last year.

Singapore’s president to visit India, discuss bilateral relations with counterpart

The state visit marks the beginning of India and Singapore's 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations.

Singapore scrambles 2 fighter jets to escort Air India Express flight after bomb threat

The Singapore-bound flight was guided by the F-15SG planes to less populated areas before landing safely at Changi Airport on Tuesday night.

Global media on India’s new tech partnerships & how a ‘bolder fiscal plan’ can power its jobs market

Reports also look at the dwindling demand for diesel consumption in India, and how ‘overtourism’ and climate change are impacting India’s hill stations.

India and Singapore sign key agreements during Modi’s visit, a look at what these are

The 2 signed agreements on semiconductors, health, skilling & digital security. New digital development pact will aim to strengthen cooperation between the two countries' digital economies.

PM Modi calls India-Singapore ministerial roundtable “path-breaking mechanism”

Singapore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Singapore is not just a partner nation but an inspiration for every developing nation. He called...

During Modi’s Singapore visit, India to lay emphasis on cooperation in semiconductor sector

Singapore contributes to around 10% of global semiconductor output and 5% of global wafer fabrication capacity. Its industry, though, is limited to ‘mature-node chips.’

Global media peeks into India’s trade ties, the Russian ‘secret’ & a semiconductor pact on the cards

Meanwhile, India’s support for ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina is leaving it in a bind, international reports say.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.