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India goes to the polls on April 11
India will hold a general election in seven stages starting on April 11, the election commission said on Sunday (March 10), in what will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise. The voting will end on May 19 and the counting begin on May 23. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was quick to urge people to vote…
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President Halimah Yacob presents LISHA awards to 5 sportswomen
Singapore President Halimah Yacob presented awards to five outstanding sportswomen at the International Women’s Day organised by the Little India Shopkeepers and Heritage Association (LISHA) Women’s Wing last night (Saturday, March 9). The awards went to Singapore women’s cricket team captain GK Diviya, cricketer Samantha Ashwini Singham, 24, who also plays for Singapore; squash player…
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India says air strike not an act of war
India called the air strike early this morning (February 26) on a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp located deep on Pakistani soil a “non-military pre-emptive action”. .In the first official briefing by a top Indian bureaucrat – Foreign Secretary VK Gokhale – it was made clear that India carried out the air strike to pre-empt further terrorist…
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Modi holds Cabinet committee meeting after air strike on terror camp
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security at his official residence in New Delhi following an Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist camp in Pakistan early this morning (February 26). Twelve Mirage 2000 jets crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and dropped 1,000 kg bombs destroying…
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Indian Air Force attacks terror camps in Pak-occupied Kashmir
Indian Air Force jets today (February 26) crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and attacked Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, destroying them completely, ANI reported quoting IAF sources. The air strike was in retaliation for the February 14 terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama in Kashmir for which JeM claimed responsibility. Forty…
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50 Writers Shortlisted For Singapore Literature Prize, Register For Free To Attend Awards Ceremony
Fifty authors are on the shortlist announced by the Singapore Book Council on June 19.
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India Plans To Prevent NRI Men From Abandoning Their Wives
The proposed measures include confiscation of an absconding NRI husband’s share of joint property.
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