Carter died on Sunday, December 29, aged 100. He was the longest-lived President in US history.
Author: Press Trust of India
Indian mission in Singapore to open condolence book for residents to pay tribute to Manmohan Singh
Singh, who was India’s prime minister for 10 years from 2004 to 2014, died in New Delhi on Thursday night. He was 92.
China approves Brahmaputra dam in Tibet, on a scale to surpass Three Gorges Dam, with security concerns for India
The dam is to be built at a huge gorge in the Himalayan reaches where the Brahmaputra river makes a huge U-turn to flow into Arunachal Pradesh in India and then to Bangladesh.
The total investment in the dam could exceed 1 trillion yuan (USD 137 billion), which would dwarf any other single infrastructure project on the planet, including China’s own Three Gorges Dam, regarded as the largest in the world, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
Renowned Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa passes away at 86 in the US
Her novel Ice Candy Man — later adapted into the critically acclaimed film Earth by Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta — captured the horrors of the 1947 partition, a period Sidhwa personally witnessed as a child.
Indian rupee falls 10 paise, hit record low of 85.25 against USD in early trade
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened weak at 85.23 and slipped further to hit a life-time low of 85.25 against the greenback in initial deals, registering a loss of 10 paise against its previous closing level.
Legendary Indian litterateur M T Vasudevan Nair dies at 91
Popularly known as M T, he had been undergoing treatment for over a month due to illness. The writer was admitted to the hospital in the early morning of December 16, following respiratory complications.
Syria’s instability poses terrorism threat to Southeast Asia, warns Singapore’s security agency
Instability in Syria following former president Bashar al-Assad’s fall may have spillover effects on Southeast Asia and Singapore, the city-state’s Internal Security Department (ISD) said on Monday, December 23.
Singapore to crack down on foreign political influence after LinkedIn job listings raise concerns
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) told The Straits Times on Tuesday, December 24, that it will not tolerate foreign political agendas on Singapore’s soil.
Sheikh Hasina’s son accuses Yunus-led Bangladesh interim government of political witch hunt
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several former Cabinet ministers, advisers, and military and civil officials for “crimes against humanity and genocide”.
India: ED investigates Canadian colleges in multi-country human trafficking operation
The investigation is linked to the death of a four-member Indian family, hailing from Dingucha village of Gujarat. The four died of extreme cold while trying to illegally cross the Canada-US border on January 19, 2022.
