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Singapore sees rare travel delays as tech problem hits immigration checkpoints

A technical glitch in the automated immigration lanes caused chaos in Singapore airport, with snaking queues and disgruntled passengers. However normalcy return by 1:30 Friday afternoon.

India’s UPI & Singapore’s PayNow launch a real-time link for cross-border payments

This is the first such for the South Asian nation that is the world's biggest recipient of remittances. Transfer of funds will now be possible using just mobile phones.

Xi Jinping’s politics is driving China’s wealthy out of the country–with cash

Chinese citizens are looking for ways to relocate abroad rather than just move their assets. But Xi Jinping’s tactic to exert ‘ethnonationalist power’ won't be easy to escape.

Singapore has a model for turning sewage into safe drinking water

The Changi Water Reclamation Plant forms the core of the system, with a capacity to treat up to 900 million litres daily – equal to water held by 350 Olympic swimming pools.

Singapore seeks to prevent court challenges to laws & policies on marriage in constitution

The government filed bills in parliament on Thursday to decriminalise sex between men, & to amend the constitution to prevent court challenges to laws & policies concerning marriage.

New Era of Blockchain leadership: Rex Teo being made EXCO at Blockchain Association of Singapore

Rex Teo, an entrepreneur with a keen interest in the blockchain and crypto space, is a self-learnt coder, and believes blockchain will be the face of new technology in coming years.

Not majority-minority, Sri Lanka crisis a result of corruption, Rajapaksa family’s greed

RBI has recently liberalised rupee trade mechanism to facilitate ease of foreign exchange outflow. This facility can be extended to Sri Lanka.

‘May cause enmity between communities,’ says Singapore as it bans ‘The Kashmir Files’

Hit Bollywood film is assessed as ‘beyond’ classification in Singapore; Opposition takes a dig.

Singapore ‘most fatigued’, Mexico & Brazil don’t get much sleep either, UK bedmaker’s study finds

Researchers looked at several aspects — from working hours per year to average screen time per day — to obtain the results and provide a 'fatigue score'.

In Naya MEA, why Jaishankar’s cool quotient and India’s muscular foreign policy are similar

Modi’s ambitious identification of national interest with himself is so complete, it would be silly to be surprised over the politicisation of India’s foreign policy.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.