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  • India, Singapore working to broaden digital cost hyperlink

    New Delhi: India and Singapore are set to broaden the scope of their digital cost hyperlink after they introduced the landmark linkage between India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow, in line with individuals conscious of the matter.

    The nations need to add extra banks to the digital funds hyperlink, increasing the variety of banks to 14 from the current six that may obtain remittances from Singapore.

    One of the 2 folks conscious of the event stated a minimum of eight Indian banks can be added to obtain remittances from Singapore, which might be a step up from the bilateral tie-up earlier this 12 months. In February, each nations introduced the funds platform linkage to ease the circulate of remittances.

    According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the six Indian banks collaborating within the scheme are Axis Bank, DBS Bank India, ICICI Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and State Bank of India.

    All six can obtain remittances from Singapore via the linkage. With the exception of Axis Bank and DBS Bank, the opposite 4 may also ship remittances via the linkage.

    Queries to the ministry of finance and NPCI didn’t elicit a response.

    “The linkage gives a handy (24/7), real-time, safe, and cost-effective means for purchasers of collaborating banks and non-bank monetary establishments (NFIs) to switch funds throughout borders. An Indian UPI person (who’s a participant within the linkage) will have the ability to ship cash to a person of Singapore’s PayNow member (who’s a participant within the UPI-PayNow linkage) utilizing the Singapore person’s cellular quantity or Virtual Payment Address (VPA),” reads the website of NPCI.

    “Conversely, a user of Singapore’s PayNow will be able to send money to an Indian UPI user using the Indian User UPI ID,” the web site stated.

    These strikes come within the backdrop of India’s bigger UPI export technique.

    Ritesh Shukla, the chief government officer of NPCI International Payments, instructed Mint that the variety of nations the place UPI is dwell is predicted to double inside the subsequent 12-18 months.

     

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    Updated: 18 Oct 2023, 09:52 PM IST

  • Indian-origin economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam sworn in as Singapore’s president

    Indian-origin Singapore-born economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam was on Thursday sworn in because the ninth president of the city-state.

    Tharman, 66, will serve a six-year time period. He succeeds President Halimah Yacob, Singapore’s first feminine president, whose time period ended on September 13.

    Tharman, who has served Singapore all his life in public service, was overwhelmingly endorsed by the city-state’s predominantly Chinese society.

    He served as a senior minister between 2019 and 2023; coordinating minister for social insurance policies between 2015 and 2023; and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore between 2011 and 2023. He additionally served as Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister from May 2011 to May 2019.

    Singapore, previously, has had two Indian-origin presidents.

    Sellapan Ramanathan, popularly referred to as S R Nathan, a Singaporean politician and civil servant of Tamil descent, served because the president of Singapore. In 2009, Nathan defeated Benjamin Sheares to develop into Singapore’s longest-serving president.

    Chengara Veetil Devan Nair, higher referred to as Devan Nair, served because the third president of Singapore from 1981 till his resignation in 1985. Born in 1923 in Malacca, Malaysia, Nair was the son of a rubber plantation clerk who was initially from Thalassery, Kerala.

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    Sudeep Lavania

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    Sep 14, 2023

  • India makes exception to rice export ban to assist strategic companion Singapore

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: India has made an exception to its rice export ban for the advantage of Singapore, which additionally occurs to be the very best investor in India. According to newest figures, Singapore is investing $17.2 billion in 2023 in numerous initiatives in India, together with the Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City undertaking.

    India had introduced a ban on rice exports on July 20 in a bid to manage improve in costs. A month later, they’ve determined to export rice to Singapore to assist it meet its meals safety necessities.

    “India and Singapore enjoy a very close strategic partnership, characterised by shared interests, close economic ties and strong people-to-people connections, the ministry said in a statement. In view of this special relationship, India has decided to allow export of rice to meet the food security requirements of Singapore. Formal orders in this regard will be issued shortly,” stated Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi.

    Nearly 90 per cent of rice produced on the earth is in Asia, and India is alleged to contribute almost 40 per cent of the overall rice exports globally. Singapore which has a excessive consumption of rice (statistics reveal it was almost 347,000 metric tonnes in 2017) relies upon largely on India, Thailand and Vietnam for imports. Their consumption is rising and based on Goldstein Research analyst the Singapore rice business is anticipated to develop at CAGR of 1.9 per cent by means of 2030.

    “Singapore is one of the largest investors in India, as a result India will do all it can to support them specially in this case as it is a question of their food security. Hence this exception of exports was made,” based on a supply.

    Meanwhile, India banned the export of non-basmati white rice to manage the rise in costs on July 20. This ban impacted almost 80 per cent of the exports. However, on Wednesday (August 30), the federal government determined to allow exports of non-basmati rice that have been trapped in ports. According to estimates, almost 150,000 tonnes of non-basmati rice will probably be launched from numerous ports for exports – most are stated to be heading for East African and West African nations.

    In addition, India imposed a 20 per cent obligation on parboiled rice till October 15.

    NEW DELHI: India has made an exception to its rice export ban for the advantage of Singapore, which additionally occurs to be the very best investor in India. According to newest figures, Singapore is investing $17.2 billion in 2023 in numerous initiatives in India, together with the Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City undertaking.

    India had introduced a ban on rice exports on July 20 in a bid to manage improve in costs. A month later, they’ve determined to export rice to Singapore to assist it meet its meals safety necessities.

    “India and Singapore enjoy a very close strategic partnership, characterised by shared interests, close economic ties and strong people-to-people connections, the ministry said in a statement. In view of this special relationship, India has decided to allow export of rice to meet the food security requirements of Singapore. Formal orders in this regard will be issued shortly,” stated Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Nearly 90 per cent of rice produced on the earth is in Asia, and India is alleged to contribute almost 40 per cent of the overall rice exports globally. Singapore which has a excessive consumption of rice (statistics reveal it was almost 347,000 metric tonnes in 2017) relies upon largely on India, Thailand and Vietnam for imports. Their consumption is rising and based on Goldstein Research analyst the Singapore rice business is anticipated to develop at CAGR of 1.9 per cent by means of 2030.

    “Singapore is one of the largest investors in India, as a result India will do all it can to support them specially in this case as it is a question of their food security. Hence this exception of exports was made,” based on a supply.

    Meanwhile, India banned the export of non-basmati white rice to manage the rise in costs on July 20. This ban impacted almost 80 per cent of the exports. However, on Wednesday (August 30), the federal government determined to allow exports of non-basmati rice that have been trapped in ports. According to estimates, almost 150,000 tonnes of non-basmati rice will probably be launched from numerous ports for exports – most are stated to be heading for East African and West African nations.

    In addition, India imposed a 20 per cent obligation on parboiled rice till October 15.

  • Indian-origin man in Singapore charged with homicide after resort brawl

    A 29-year-old Indian-origin man in Singapore was charged with homicide on Tuesday, after a brawl that broke out in a resort and leisure space resulted within the demise of an individual.

    Another six males have been charged with rioting with lethal weapons, and a seventh was given a cost of voluntarily inflicting damage with a harmful weapon, Channel News Asia reported.

    Asvain Pachan Pillai Sukumaran is accused of murdering Mohammad Isrrat Mohd Ismail on Sunday on the Concorde Hotel and Shopping Mall, The Straits Times reported.

    Asvain appeared in court docket on Tuesday through video-link. If convicted of homicide, Asvain will face the demise penalty, the report mentioned.

    The six males charged of rioting with a lethal weapon, if convicted, might be jailed for as much as 10 years and caned. The seventh particular person, if convicted of voluntarily inflicting damage with a harmful weapon, might be jailed for as much as seven years, fined or caned, or obtain any mixture of such punishments.

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    Aug 22, 2023

  • Indian-origin man will get 18-year detention, 12 lashes for intercourse assault of maid

    An Indian-origin male repeat intercourse offender was sentenced to 18 years of preventive detention and 12 strokes for the sexual assault of a maid in Singapore, a media report stated on Tuesday.

    Preventive detention is imposed on recalcitrant offenders so as to defend the folks from them.

    Mark Kalaivanan Tamilarasan, 44, had contested and was convicted of 4 costs of aggravated sexual assault, home trespass to commit sexual assault, outrage of modesty and impersonation of a public servant, reported Channel News Asia.

    Called a repeat intercourse offender, he had damaged right into a flat in July 2017 whereas intoxicated and attacked a maid who was ironing garments, earlier than sexually assaulting her.

    This was shortly after being launched from 16 years’ of jail for rape costs.

    Deputy Public Prosecutors Chew Xin Ying and Sheldon Lim had pushed for a most of 20 years’ preventive detention for Kalaivanan, after a report discovered him appropriate for such a punishment.

    However, on the final sentencing listening to in February, Kalaivanan’s uncle had requested to deal with the court docket, earlier than pleading in emotive language for the court docket to impose a gag order on his nephew’s id.

    He additionally claimed he had seen his nephew in jail and that he had proven regret.

    On account of this, Justice Pang Khang Chau ordered one other preventive detention suitability report back to be ready earlier than giving his sentence.

    The second report had the identical conclusions, and the prosecution maintained their place in asking for 20 years’ of preventive detention for Kalaivanan.

    They objected to the defence’s request for the sentence to be backdated to take into consideration Kalaivanan’s six years on remand, saying that preventive detention was totally different from remand.

    On Monday, Kalaivanan’s uncle requested once more to talk.

    Defence lawyer Foo Ho Chew stated his shopper was represented and something ought to be stated by means of authorized counsel.

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    Prateek Chakraborty

    Published On:

    Aug 8, 2023

  • Chinese origin Singaporean jailed and fined for assaulting Indian girl

    By Press Trust of India: A Chinese-origin man was given three months in jail on Monday for having racially insulted and kicked a 57-year-old Indian-origin girl within the chest in May 2021.

    Wong Xing Fong, 32, had attacked Madam Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai close to the Northvale condominium in Choa Chu Kang housing property on May 7, 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Ordering Wong to pay the sufferer SGD13.20 as compensation, District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan harassed that racial and spiritual hostility can have dire penalties in Singapore’s society.

    Before handing down the sentence on Monday, the Judge stated {that a} deterrent sentence is paramount on this case and famous that Wong dedicated the offences in a brazen method and had displayed a scarcity of regret.

    After a nine-day trial which began in January, Judge Shaiffudin convicted Wong in June of 1 rely every of assault and wounding the sufferer’s racial emotions. During the trial, Wong denied utilizing racial insults.

    The prosecution had requested for a sentence of between six and 9 months in jail, stressing the significance of neighborhood and racial concord in multi-racial Singapore.

    Nita testified on the primary day of the trial that on May 7, 2021, she was briskly strolling to Choa Chu Kang Stadium, the place she labored at a fast-food restaurant when she heard somebody shouting.

    She turned and noticed Wong and his fiancee Chua Yun Han, whom she didn’t know. The couple informed her to “mask up”, as her masks had been pulled down.

    Mask-wearing, because of Covid-19 unfold, was then obligatory however individuals collaborating in sports activities together with brisk strolling have been excused.

    Deputy Public Prosecutors Marcus Foo and Jonathan Lee stated of their submissions that Nita defined to the couple that she was brisk-walking, and gestured to indicate she was exercising and sweating.

    The prosecution stated, “The accused instead scolded the complainant (and verbally insulted her). To de-escalate the matter, the complainant responded: ‘God bless you.’

    “The accused, however, kicked the complainant in her chest area. He and (his fiancee) then jogged off,” The Straits Times reported the judgement, citing hearings from courtroom proceedings.

    Nita additionally testified in January that she would cry if she returned to the location of the assault.

    Her voice cracked on the time as she informed the decide, “(The incident) affects me emotionally… I feel sad and scared. Is it wrong to be Indian? I didn’t choose to be Indian… I wish this didn’t happen.

    “Till today, you (take) me to that road, I will cry. I was very scared.”

    During earlier proceedings, she additionally testified that an eyewitness helped her to her toes after the assault and utilized plaster to a wound on her left forearm.

    She made a police report that night.

    The prosecution stated the eyewitness, who was unrelated to both social gathering, testified that she noticed a person kicking Nita.

    During the trial, Wong claimed that the sufferer was sarcastic and aggressive, and had hurled vulgarities at him.

    He additionally claimed she spat at him and Chua, and he reacted by pushing her.

    While he accepted that he had used vulgarities, he denied they have been racial insults.

    For assaulting one other individual in a racially aggravated assault, an offender might be jailed for as much as 4 years and 6 months, and fined as much as SGD7,500.

  • India SaaS adopts ‘Act East coverage’ as companies discover Southeast Asia profitable

    The report additionally predicts that Indian SaaS firms will collectively attain $35 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and seize 8% of the worldwide SaaS market within the subsequent 5 years. 

    As SaaS companies more and more discover the product market match with clients in India, the business is now wanting on the neighbouring areas notably Southeast Asia for additional scale-up. The dimension of the SaaS market in Southeast Asia is projected to be $3.4 billion in 2027, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.73% from 2023-2027 making it profitable for Indian firms.

    Mint spoke to business leaders within the SaaS area to know the alternatives Southeast Asia has to supply and the businesses’ technique to achieve market dominance within the area. 

    India SaaS companies’ GTM technique

    “The success of Southeast Asian businesses in a wide range of industries from eCommerce to platform solutions and fintech have inspired a generation of local organisations to establish themselves as digital native businesses, which creates a strong demand for cloud solutions,” Praval Singh, VP – Marketing & Customer Experience at Zoho Corp mentioned.

    “Each market is exclusive, and due to this fact product localisation is a precedence. We give attention to making certain all our choices are totally operational in the principle languages used within the area. Most of Zoho’s high merchandise like Zoho CRM, Zoho Workplace, Zoho Mail, and so on., embody help for the principle Southeast Asian languages like Malay, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Filipino, Bahasa, Khmer, Lao, and Burmese,” he adds.

    The Indian SaaS heavyweight Zoho Corp has long championed the idea of “transnational localism” which it defines as a progress strategy the place the agency expands by establishing native roots whereas staying globally linked. The agency presently has a neighborhood workplace in Singapore and Jakarta. 

    Kapil Makhija, CEO of supply-chain primarily based SaaS tech platform Unicommerce says, “we have now enhanced our SaaS platform to handle among the most complex processes together with returns administration and managing alternate workflows amongst others and this wealth of expertise and studying immediately interprets into a bonus for us as we additional broaden into SEA.”

    Unicommerce has native places of work in 4 nations of Southeast Asia which incorporates Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia. 

    Also learn: India’s SaaS business bets on rural expertise for additional scale-up

    Southeast Asia’s tryst with India SaaS

    SaaS leaders say the response within the Southeast Asian nations for Indian tech choices has been extremely optimistic and enthusiastic. 

    “We are working with 20 firms in SEA. In a brief span, we have now achieved an annual run charge of 4 mn transactions (as of April ‘23) which reaffirms our perception within the immense potential of the area,” Kapil adds.

    Sparsh Gupta, CEO of Wingify says the company’s flagship VWO, a digital tech optimisation platform is witnessing solid response in the region. 

    “SEA contributes to around 14% of VWO’s overall business but this has been growing really fast. Since January 2021, VWO’s revenue from SEA has increased by almost 41%. So while VWO’s business has grown overall across regions, the rate at which SEA has grown for us is much higher,” he provides.

    Hiring traits and additional expansions

    “We are bullish on hiring native expertise and I feel every market has its distinctive challenges. Hiring expertise in Singapore is extraordinarily costly and it is aggressive contemplating the excessive demand for SaaS expertise. While hiring within the Philippines and Indonesia, we have now to look deeper to search out candidates with an in depth understanding of the SaaS ecosystem,” Unicommerce’s Kapil Makhija says. 

    SaaS players who are currently on a mission to gain a foothold in the thriving Southeast Asian market also find greater potential in other geographies. 

    “Just like Southeast Asia, the Middle East region has been undergoing significant digital transformation, countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain have been actively investing in diversifying their economies and promoting innovation-driven sectors,” Makhija provides.

    The Middle-eastern nations too have been implementing insurance policies and initiatives to advertise digital transformation, good cities and knowledge-based economies.

    Wingify then again is selectively hiring within the SEA area and eyes APAC and Latin America because the areas embrace digital transformation, anticipating a exceptional surge in demand for AB testing throughout numerous industries. 

     

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    Updated: 12 Jun 2023, 05:26 PM IST

  • Indian priest jailed for pawning temple jewellery worth $1.5 mn in Singapore

    By India Today World Desk: An Indian chief priest of Singapore’s Hindu temple was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday for misappropriating over 2 million Singapore Dollars ($1.5 million) of bijou repeatedly from a distinguished temple, consistent with media critiques.

    Kandasamy Senapathi was appointed as a priest at Sri Mariamman Temple by the Hindu Endowments Board inside the downtown Chinatown district from December 2013 until he resigned on March 30, 2020.

    He was found accountable of authorized breach of perception by dishonest misappropriation and two charges of remitting authorized proceedings abroad, with six totally different charges moreover thought-about all through the conviction, consistent with the critiques of Channel News Asia.

    Senapathi, an Indian nationwide, was caught all through the Covid-19 pandemic which disturbed the widespread audit timing and revealed the missing jewellery.

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    In 2014, keys and combination numbers for the protected inside the temple’s holy sanctum had been handed to Senapathi, which contained 255 gadgets of gold jewellery owned by the temple, with a information value of about SGD 1.1 million.

    Senapathi started pawning gadgets of bijou in 2016, taking them to pawn retailers and later redeeming them by using money he obtained from pawning totally different gadgets of temple jewellery.

    In 2016, Senapathi pawned 66 gadgets of gold jewellery from the temple on 172 occasions, the report acknowledged.

    He continued this observe between 2016 and 2020, redeeming the entire jewellery and returning it to the temple sooner than the audit was scheduled. Once the audit was completed, he would pawn the jewellery as soon as extra to return the borrowed money.

    Senapathi acquired SGD 2,328,760 from pawn retailers between 2016 to 2020, of which he remitted about SGD 141,000 to India and deposited the remaining amount into his checking account.

    In March 2020, on the highest of the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore, the audit was delayed on account of “circuit breaker” measures forbidding non-essential train in Singapore.

    Later all through the June 2020 audit, Senapathi misled members of the temple finance group that he did not have the essential factor to the protected and acknowledged he had seemingly forgotten the essential factor in India whereas visiting family.

    However, when the employees member insisted that the audit be executed, Senapathi finally confessed that he had taken the jewellery for pawning.

    Later, the entire jewellery was returned to the temple, and the temple suffered no loss, the prosecutor acknowledged.

    A police report was filed in direction of the temple priest by a member of the temple committee.

    According to the prosecutor, Senapathi had resigned after the incident. A seven-year jail sentence was moreover demanded by the prosecutor for pointing to the extreme pawn value of the jewellery involved.

    Senapathi, nonetheless, in his defence, acknowledged that he wanted to help a great pal enhance funds for many cancers and to help colleges and temples in India.

    While asserting the choice, the select acknowledged he could not ignore that the case involved about SGD 2 million, a giant amount and higher than any earlier associated circumstances.

    In an announcement following the listening to, the Hindu Endowments Board (HEB) acknowledged it had commissioned a gold audit after the incident at its 4 temples – Sri Mariamman, Sri Srinivasa Perumal, Sri Sivan and Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman.

    The audit confirmed that each one jewellery was adequately accounted for. An skilled goldsmith moreover licensed that the jewellery Senapathi had returned was real.

    “HEB has further tightened its governance and internal controls to ensure its charitable assets remain protected,” the report quoted the board as saying.

    (With inputs from PTI.)

  • India, Singapore to make info, expertise enchancment key pillar of strategic partnership

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: India and Singapore on Monday agreed to create alternate options for lifelong learning, developing a future-ready workforce, and making info and expertise enchancment a key pillar of strategic partnership.

    This was talked about by the three-day go to of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to Singapore. The minister moreover harassed on learning from top-of-the-line practices of Singapore, collaborating and customising them to fulfill Indian needs.

    Pradhan is on a three-day go to to Singapore and held conferences with quite a few key ministers to strengthen present ties and uncover the chance of widening the scope of bilateral engagement in coaching and expertise enchancment. 

    “Pradhan had a constructive meeting with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Finance, Singapore, Lawrence Wong on strengthening the existing cooperation between India and Singapore with a focus on deepening engagements in skill development,” based mostly on a assertion issued by the Ministry of Education

    “During the meeting it was agreed to work together, aiming to create opportunities for lifelong learning, building a future-ready workforce, and making knowledge and skill development a key pillar of strategic partnership,” the assertion talked about.

    Pradhan talked about the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which significantly focuses on providing early publicity to vocational coaching in heart colleges, guaranteeing market relevance of teaching along with developing the potential of the institutions to supply technical and vocational coaching.

    He extra talked about the work in path of integrating the talents {{qualifications}} framework with the higher coaching qualification framework and investing in creating short-term and long-term teaching purposes to supply skilling, re-skilling and upskilling alternate options.

    Pradhan moreover had an insightful dialogue with Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong. They had “fruitful conversations on strengthening” expertise enchancment and vocational teaching linkages by all mechanisms for making a seamless construction for skilling and lifelong learning.

    Building on the outcomes of the G20 Future of Work workshop in Bhubaneswar, as well as they talked about strategies by which India can leverage the expertise and knowledge of Singapore for addressing widespread challenges and transforming the Indian experience ecosystem.

    Both the ministers agreed to advance mutual priorities in skilling, create new alternate options for lifelong learning and collaborate collectively for the advantage of our nations along with completely different rising economies, the assertion talked about.

    He moreover visited Spectra Secondary School and interacted with school college students and lecturers to know additional regarding the teaching-learning setting, pedagogy, amongst completely different points. 

    NEW DELHI: India and Singapore on Monday agreed to create alternate options for lifelong learning, developing a future-ready workforce, and making info and expertise enchancment a key pillar of strategic partnership.

    This was talked about by the three-day go to of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to Singapore. The minister moreover harassed on learning from top-of-the-line practices of Singapore, collaborating and customising them to fulfill Indian needs.

    Pradhan is on a three-day go to to Singapore and held conferences with quite a few key ministers to strengthen present ties and uncover the chance of widening the scope of bilateral engagement in coaching and expertise enchancment. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “Pradhan had a constructive meeting with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Finance, Singapore, Lawrence Wong on strengthening the existing cooperation between India and Singapore with a focus on deepening engagements in skill development,” based mostly on a assertion issued by the Ministry of Education

    “During the meeting it was agreed to work together, aiming to create opportunities for lifelong learning, building a future-ready workforce, and making knowledge and skill development a key pillar of strategic partnership,” the assertion talked about.

    Pradhan talked about the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which significantly focuses on providing early publicity to vocational coaching in heart colleges, guaranteeing market relevance of teaching along with developing the potential of the institutions to supply technical and vocational coaching.

    He extra talked about the work in path of integrating the talents {{qualifications}} framework with the higher coaching qualification framework and investing in creating short-term and long-term teaching purposes to supply skilling, re-skilling and upskilling alternate options.

    Pradhan moreover had an insightful dialogue with Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong. They had “fruitful conversations on strengthening” expertise enchancment and vocational teaching linkages by all mechanisms for making a seamless construction for skilling and lifelong learning.

    Building on the outcomes of the G20 Future of Work workshop in Bhubaneswar, as well as they talked about strategies by which India can leverage the expertise and knowledge of Singapore for addressing widespread challenges and transforming the Indian experience ecosystem.

    Both the ministers agreed to advance mutual priorities in skilling, create new alternate options for lifelong learning and collaborate collectively for the advantage of our nations along with completely different rising economies, the assertion talked about.

    He moreover visited Spectra Secondary School and interacted with school college students and lecturers to know additional regarding the teaching-learning setting, pedagogy, amongst completely different points. 

  • Singapore hangs Indian-origin man over smuggling of 1 kg of cannabis

    By India Today World Desk: A 46-year-old Indian-origin man, convicted of a conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, was hanged in Singapore’s Changi Prison Complex on Wednesday, in response to authorities.

    The hanging occurred amid widespread calls by worldwide organisations, along with the United Nations Human Rights Office, asking the Singaporean authorities to “urgently reconsider” the execution.

    “Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, had his capital sentence carried out today at Changi Prison Complex,” a spokesperson for the Singapore Prisons Service instructed AFP.

    In 2017, Tangaraju was convicted of “abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic” 1,017.9 grams of cannabis, which is double the minimal amount needed for a lack of life sentence in Singapore. He was given a lack of life sentence in 2018, a name which was moreover upheld by the Court of Appeal.

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    On Monday, British billionaire Richard Branson, a member of the Geneva-based Global Commission on Drug Policy, wrote in his weblog that Tangaraju was “not anywhere near” the medicine when he was being arrested. He asserted that an innocent man could also be killed.

    The convict’s family has appealed for clemency and pushed for a retrial.

    On Tuesday, Singapore’s residence affairs ministry talked about, “Tangaraju’s guilt had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt”, in response to AFP.

    Two mobile phone numbers, which the prosecutors alleged belonged to him, have been used to coordinate the provision of the narcotics, in response to the ministry.

    Singapore has various the world’s strictest anti-drug authorized pointers. The city-state authorities asserts that the lack of life penalty acts as an environment friendly deterrent in opposition to drug trafficking.

    However, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR) disputed the Singaporean authorities’s argument.

    “The death penalty is still being used in a small number of countries, largely because of the myth that it deters crime,” the OHCHR talked about in a press launch on Tuesday.

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    Tangaraju’s hanging was the first in six months and twelfth normal since Singapore resumed executions in March 2022 after a distinct segment of over two years.

    Singapore’s neighbouring nation, Thailand, has already abolished capital punishment for drug smuggling and stress has been mounting on Singapore to adjust to go effectively with.