Singapore: Singapore has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines, making it the first country in Asia to take the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as it plans to inoculate its 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021. The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine landed in Singapore on Monday, The […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wooed global investors by showcasing the recent agriculture and labor reforms and faster-than-anticipated reflating of the economy and asserted that the government will do whatever it takes to make India the engine of global growth resurgence. Speaking to 20 top global investors, the Prime Minister said the ‘Self-Reliant India’ […]
Read MoreSingapore: Singapore will allow some foreign workers, who have largely been confined to dormitories since March due to the spread of the coronavirus, to visit recreation centres, as the country eases norms after low infection rates in the community. All foreign workers from the dormitory, who test negative for COVID-19, will be able to visit […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: A 19-year-old woman, who was brutally gang-raped in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district two weeks ago, died of her grievous injuries at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday morning, prompting outrage and angry protests. Recalling the horrors of the Nirbhaya case, the Dalit teen was allegedly sexually attacked by four men on […]
Read MoreSingapore: An Indian-origin lawyer, working at a law firm in Singapore, was on Monday sentenced to two years and three months’ in jail for collecting legal fees totalling more than SGD 31,000 from his company’s clients and transferring the money to his personal bank account. Zaminder Singh Gill, 57, who was legal associate at Hilborne Law […]
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