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Singapore’s Indian-origin ex-minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam wins presidential election

Singapore: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, registered a landslide victory in Singapore’s presidential election on Friday, winning over 70 per cent of votes in the country’s first contested presidential polls since 2011. The 66-year-old former senior minister bagged 70.4 per cent (1,746,427 votes) of the 2.48 million votes cast, while his Chinese-origin rivals Ng Kok…

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G20 summit: IAF deploying combat jets, anti-drone systems, surveillance equipment to secure make skies

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is deploying frontline fighter jets, radars, anti-drone systems and surface-to-air missiles as part of its elaborate efforts to secure the skies of Delhi and neighbouring regions for the G20 summit next week, military sources said on Friday. The IAF has already set up a dedicated Operations Direction Centre…

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Simultaneous polls: No-confidence motion coupled with ‘confidence motion’ to prevent premature dissolution of House, EC had said

New Delhi: If India adopts “one nation one poll” model, any vacancy caused by a collapse of the government — either at the Centre or state — would have to be filled by an alternative government for the remainder of the five-year term, the Election Commission had said. This can happen either by the opposition proving…

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Moody’s raises India’s growth forecast to 6.7 pc for 2023 on robust underlying economic momentum

New Delhi: Moody’s Investors Service on Friday raised India’s growth projection for 2023 calendar year to 6.7 per cent citing upside to growth performance helped up robust underlying economic momentum. In the Global Macro Outlook 2023-24 (August update), Moody’s said strong services expansion and capital expenditures have propelled India’s 7.8 per cent real GDP growth in…

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I.N.D.I.A. bloc resolves to fight LS polls together ‘as far as possible’

Mumbai: The I.N.D.I.A. bloc Friday resolved to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls together “as far as possible”, asserting that seat-sharing arrangements in states will be concluded at the earliest in a spirit of “give-and-take”. Amid speculation of early polls and the formation of a panel to explore the possibility of ‘one nation, one election’,…

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Chandrayaan’s detection of sulphur, other elements will help unveil Moon’s geological mysteries, say experts

New Delhi: What was known in theory has now been confirmed twice. The Chandrayaan-3 mission has authenticated the presence of sulphur on the lunar south pole region after on site tests, a historical first that could provide clues to the origins of the Moon and also have profound significance for space exploration, say scientists. On Thursday,…

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