Some 84 student leaders from Asia are meeting in person and virtually at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) this week to discuss potential solutions to the region’s social inequality at the second Singapore Technologies Endowment Programme (STEP) Youth Regional Affairs Dia
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MEA launches Global Pravasi Rishta Portal to connect with Indian diaspora ahead of PBD 2021
Indian External Affairs Ministry yesterday launched the Global Pravasi Rishta portal and app to connect with the nearly 31.2-million strong Indian diaspora across the world.
Singapore to raise minimum legal age for tobacco to 21
Ministry of Health said raising the minimum legal age is part of Singapore’s ongoing efforts to reduce smoking prevalence.
Society is at the centre of business: TCS’s Girish Ramachandran
Girish Ramachandran, President of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia Pacific quoted the late Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, “Society is at the centre of business,” in Connected to India’s @Work interview at TCS’s APAC headquarters in Singapore. Jamsetji words laid the foundations-of-philanthro
Singapore commits another SGD84 million to support aviation sector
CAAS will help at-risk and under-employed aviation workers to enhance their employability and acquire skills to move to other jobs within the sector.
India, UK to finalise post-Brexit trade deals early in 2021, claim officials
Post-Brexit, India and UK may finalise trade agreements in areas like pharmaceuticals, fintech, chemicals, defence manufacturing, petroleum and food products by 2021, as the two countries are keen on early harvest deals while continuing negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA), of
Kamala Harris to get COVID-19 vaccine shot
United States Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff will receive the COVID-19 vaccine today in Washington DC, the Biden transition team confirmed.
Indian economy set to overtake UK by 2025, become world’s third largest by 2030: Report
India, despite being one of the worst affected countries due to coronavirus, will become the world’s fifth-largest economy by 2025 and the third-largest by 2030, a United Kingdom-based think tank has said.
#covid19, #GE2020 Singapore’s most popular hashtags on Twitter in 2020
Microblogging site Twitter in its annual trends report revealed that #covid19 and #GE2020 were the top hashtags of the year in Singapore.
Sikh charities in the UK provide food to truckers stranded at France border
France is one of over 50 countries, including India and Singapore, that has banned travellers from the UK after the discovery of a new, and possibly more contagious, strain of the novel coronavirus.
