The Indian community in Singapore has progressed significantly, with national figures showing improvement in areas such as median household income and education, said Minister for Home Affairs and Law K Shanmugam. Based on Singapore’s population census, he noted that among those aged 25 and above, 41 per cent had degrees in 2020, up from 16.5 […]
Continue ReadingLions have long been symbols of royalty across the world. In India, kings sat on lion thrones (simha-asana), and Durga, the patron goddess of royal households, is shown riding into battle on a lion. Uniquely, in our country, lions are also linked with ascetics and their guardian goddesses. Both kings and ascetic were called shardula, a […]
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It has been over a decade since I last visited Singapore, though it never takes me long to get reacquainted with its 19th-century, pastel-painted shophouses, 21st-century retail and art scene, open-air hawker centres and street food markets. But what is predictable about Singapore is how unpredictable it often is. Most recently, the city-state launched a […]
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In May, avid traveller Sunu Mathew and her friends had taken a seven-night cruise from Barcelona and sailed to Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, La Spezia, Civitavecchia and Naples. Three months later, Sunu still cannot stop talking about the cruise aboard the Symphony of the Seas that took them to ports in Spain, France and Italy. The cruising […]
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In May, avid traveller Sunu Mathew and her friends had taken a seven-night cruise from Barcelona and sailed to Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, La Spezia, Civitavecchia and Naples. Three months later, Sunu still cannot stop talking about the cruise aboard the Symphony of the Seas that took them to ports in Spain, France and Italy. The cruising […]
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Singaporean chef Hawker Chan | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Michelin star restaurants immediately conjure up the image of opulent restaurants with fine dining and highly trained chefs. But in 2016, when Hawker Chan Hon Meng received a star for his stall at Chinatown Complex Food Centre in Singapore, it changed his fate and encouraged hawkers […]
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Cashless transactions: A customer paying through UPI to avoid cash transactions at a medical store in Visakhapatnam | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak On Tuesday, the cross-border connectivity between India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow was launched. UPI is a popular mobile payment service which allows instant credit transfer from one bank account to […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong witness the launch of cross-border connectivity between the UPI of India and PayNow of Singapore via video conferencing. | Photo Credit: ANI India’s Unified Payments Interface — better known as UPI — and Singapore’s PayNow were officially connected on Tuesday, allow for a “real-time payment linkage”. […]
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The diary is dog-eared and gravy-stained, fraying at the edges, its pages sepia. The old grandfather clock in the foyer stands sentinel over the Burma teak staircase that creaks with the weight of history. A page from Umayal Palaniappan’s diary | Photo Credit: R RAVINDRAN Umayal Palaniappan leafs through the diary, strangely yearless, drawing attention […]
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