A Singaporean Indian was on Friday sentenced to 24 months jail for molesting a 13-year-old boy at his home. S Subramaniam, 45, was found guilty last week after a six-day trial for sexually molesting the boy at his flat on December 23, 2011 in the suburb Yishun housing estate. Subraman...
An unemployed Singaporean man of Indian-origin has been jailed for nine months for attacking his wife with a knife and hitting her with a fan and a flask, a media report said today. SI George Raj, 42, was also fined Singaporean dollars 2,000 yesterday for criminal trespass and contrav...
A Sri Lankan maid working in Singapore was sentenced to 10 years in jail today for killing an Indian man in 2009. The High Court heard that 34-year old Tharmalingam Puwaneswary, a Sri Lankan national struck 32-year old Murugaiyan Selvam, a permanent resident of Singapore from India, o...
A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been sentenced to 22 months in jail by a Singapore court for a series of cheating and forgery cases. Suraj Kumar Sarabjeet admitted to 10 counts of cheating and forgery in a district court in this city-state on Friday, the Straits Times reported...
Singapore's second largest university has rejected an appeal to renew the tenure of an Indian-origin journalism Professor who is said to be critical of censorship in the city-state, a media report said on Tuesday. 47-year old Dr Cherian George joined Nanyang Technological University (...
The Singapore High Court will hear arguments from lawyers of an Indian national and a Malaysian on death row under a revised law that gives judges discretion to impose either death penalty or life imprisonment on certain categories of murder. Indian national Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Go...
A 25-year-old Indian-origin teacher in Singapore has been sentenced to one year in jail for having sex with an underage girl student. Aravind S Menon had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of consensual sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl between May and July 2009, report...
A top Bulgarian cleric on Sunday failed to sell his gold Rolex to pay the electricity bill of his cash-strapped church as there were no takers for the watch in the EU's poorest country. Metropolitan Nikolay of the southern city of Plovdiv decided to sell the watch late last month to p...
Three doctors of Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital where a medical student gang-raped in Delhi died of her injuries will, beginning today, depose before a special fast-track court hearing the case. The doctors, who will depose through video-conferencing, include the one who prepare...
Three doctors of Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital where a medical student gangraped in Delhi died of her injuries will, beginning Monday, depose before a special fast-track court hearing the case. The doctors, who will depose through video-conferencing, include the one who prepare...
The decision to fly the victim of a gang rape that outraged India for treatment in Singapore made little medical sense as the woman was so severely injured that her death was all but inevitable, doctors say. The government, on the back foot after furious street protests and stinging c...
Four Indian nationals were charged today by a Singapore court with the murder of a compatriot on New Year Day. Ramasami Rabinhood (25), Bose Muruganandham (32), Raja Arul (22) and Palanisamy Vijayakumar (26) were part of a group accused of murdering 24-year-old Boobalan Palanikumar. T...
As many as 260 passengers of a Singapore-bound Air India flight from Mumbai were stranded after the airline cancelled it citing non-availability of cockpit crew. The flight, which was scheduled to take-off at 0005 hours on Wednesday, is now expected to depart for its destination on We...
A 13-year-old boy, believed to be from India but attending school in Singapore, was arrested in Singapore after he allegedly threatened to plant bombs in a local casino resort, a media report said on Tuesday. The boy said in a Facebook post that the day he leaves Singapore, he is goin...
The 23-year-old medical student, whose savage gang-rape on a moving bus provoked outrage and protests through India, died early this morning in a hospital in Singapore after severe organ failure. Her parents were by her side. An Air India chartered plane carrying the body of 'Amanat' ...
The 23-year-old medical student whose savage gang-rape on a moving bus in Delhi triggered outrage and protests through India died in a hospital in Singapore at 4.45 local time (2.15 India time). Her parents were by her side. Amanat's body has been taken in a police van to the Singapor...
The condition of 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape survivor 'Amanat' (NOT her real name) remains "extremely critical", a day after she was admitted at the super speciality Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Hospital officials said today that the girl's condition was the same as last nig...
When the specially-equipped Canadian Regional Jet was finally air-borne with Amanat (NOT her real name) late on Wednesday night, it was the culmination of a series of well-coordinated moves by the government to offer better medical facilities to the 23-year-old medical student, whose ...
23-year-old Amanat (NOT her real name) is in "extremely critical" condition this evening, said top officials at the Singapore hospital where she was admitted early today after being flown out from Delhi on an air ambulance. "A multi-disciplinary team of specialists is taking care of h...
23-year-old Amanat (NOT her real name) is in "extremely critical" condition this evening, said top officials at the Singapore hospital where she was admitted early today after being flown out from Delhi on an air ambulance. "A multi-disciplinary team of specialists is taking care of h...
23-year-old Amanat (NOT her real name) is in "extremely critical" condition this evening, said top officials at the Singapore hospital where she was admitted early today after being flown out from Delhi on an air ambulance. "A multi-disciplinary team of specialists is taking care of h...
The 23-year-old gang-rape survivor has been admitted to a Singapore hospital and was stable, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Thursday. The young physiotherapist had been flown to Singapore for treatment late on Wednesday. "The girl reached Singapor...
The 23-year-old medical student, who has been fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital since she was raped by six men on a moving bus earlier this month, has reached Singapore for medical treatment. Her parents are travelling with her doctors on a highly-advanced air ambulance which ...
The 23-year-old medical student, who has been fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital since she was raped by six men on a moving bus earlier this month, has reached Singapore for medical treatment. Her parents are travelling with her doctors on a highly-advanced air ambulance which ...
The 23-year-old medical student, who has been fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital since she was raped by six men on a moving bus earlier this month, has been flown to Singapore for medical treatment. Her parents are travelling with her doctors on a highly-advanced air ambulance....
The 23-year-old medical student, who has been fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital since she was raped by six men on a moving bus earlier this month, has been flown to Singapore for medical treatment. Her parents are travelling with her doctors on a highly-advanced air ambulance....
The 23-year-old medical student, who has been fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital since she was raped by six men on a moving bus earlier this month, has been flown to Singapore for medical treatment. Her parents are travelling with her doctors on a highly-advanced air ambulance....
An Indian-origin student from Singapore, convicted twice of murdering his two flatmates in Sydney, has been acquitted by an Australian appeals court. Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Court of Criminal Appeal quashed former student Ram Puneet Tiwary's convictions for the September 200...
