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SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY,
JUNE 17, 2022
MCI (P) 034/10/2021
INDIA MIGHT
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Protests by Muslims continue as
lawyers condemn state response
Thousands of Muslims marched in
Kolkata on Tuesday in a second week
of protests, while six prominent former
judges said a state government had
acted illegally by demolishing the
house of a Muslim activist.
Muslims across India are protesting
against anti-Islamic comments made by
two members of the Bharatiya Janata
Party. Clashes broke out between
Muslims and Hindus as well as
between protesters and the police in
several areas. At least 400 people have
been arrested.
In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath last week ordered the
demolition of illegal buildings of
people accused of involvement in riots.
Rahul Gandhi seeks a day’s break
after 30 hours of questioning
Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi
walked out of the Enforcement
Directorate offices in New Delhi after
over nine hours on the third
consecutive day of questioning for an
alleged money laundering case
involving the National Herald
newspaper.
He will be questioned again after a
day’s exemption – which he asked for.
Mr Gandhi was questioned for more
than 30 hours over the three days.
Sonia Gandhi hospitalised with
Covid-related issues
Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the president of
India’s main opposition Congress
party, was admitted to the Ganga Ram
Hospital in New Delhi “for
Covid-related issues” last Sunday. The
75-year-old had tested positive for
Covid-19 on June 2.
Congress general secretary Randeep
Surjewala tweeted: “She is stable and
will be kept at the hospital for
observation.”
Pawar declines Presidential
nomination
Top leaders of 17 opposition parties
attended a meeting on Wednesday in
New Delhi to discuss next month’s
Presidential polls.
Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopal
Krishna Gandhi and National
Conference president Farooq Abdullah
were named as possible nominees after
Sharad Pawar declined the offer to be
the consensus candidate.
Though the Nationalist Congress
Party president emerged as the
unanimous choice, he said he would
prefer to be in active politics.
China to grant visa to stranded
Indian professionals
China has announced plans to provide
visas to Indian professionals and their
families for the professionals to resume
working in China. This group of
Indians had to leave China after
Beijing imposed a blanket ban on
international visitors because of Covid.
China is also processing the visa
requests of thousands of Indian
students studying in Chinese
universities.
Tax ruling emboldens states
against Central government
Several states are pressuring the
Central government to extend a
programme to continue compensation
for losses from a goods and services
tax or risk a stalemate in attempts to
further simplify the structure.
It poses the biggest challenge yet to
the India’s most significant tax reform
in decades.
Finance ministers from the
opposition-led Kerala, West Bengal
and Chhattisgarh have said they would
raise the issue at a meeting of the GST
Council this month.
Two militants killed in Kashmir
Security forces in Kashmir killed two
militants on Wednesday, one of them
suspected of gunning down a bank
manager this month.
This was part of a stepped-up
counter-insurgency effort that has
triggered an exodus from the
Muslim-majority region.
At least 16 people – both Hindus
and Muslims – have been killed in
targeted attacks in Kashmir this year.
Police chief Vijay Kumar said troops
were tracking militants and had killed
eight in recent weeks.
Army personnel in Nagaland
charged with killing tribal workers
Police in Nagaland have charged 30
army soldiers for killing six tribal
labourers who were mistaken for
militants during an anti-insurgency
operation last year.
“Investigations revealed that the
operation team had not followed the
standard operating procedure and rules
of engagement,” said Nagaland police
chief T.J. Longkumer, adding that the
army personnel had resorted to
“disproportionate firing.”
The police probe was launched after
13 members of the region’s Konyak
tribe and one security trooper were
killed in December last year after
defence forces stationed in the border
state mistook the group of labourers
for militants entering from Myanmar
and opened fire.
Woman attacked in Bhopal for
objecting to lewd remarks
A woman in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,
underwent emergency surgery on her
face after she was attacked with a
paper-cutter for objecting to sexual
remarks last Sunday.
An altercation broke out between
her and three men over bike parking
outside a hotel. One of the men made
a lewd remark which made her angry
and she slapped him. The men then
attacked her with a paper-cutter.
She was rushed to nearby hospital
where the doctors conducted surgery
to treat her injuries.
The police arrested two of the men
while the third man was still at large.
New recruitment process for
personnel below officer rank
India’s military is overhauling its
recruitment process for personnel
below officer rank, aiming to deploy
fitter, younger troops on its front lines.
Defence officials also said that the new
recruits were put on shorter contracts
of up to four years.
India, which shares a heavily
militarised border with Pakistan and is
involved in a high-altitude Himalayan
stand-off with China, has one of the
world’s largest armed forces with some
1.38 million personnel.
Soldiers recruited by the army, navy
and air force typically enter the service
for a period of up to 17 years for the
lowest ranks.
Under the new system, men and
women between the ages of 17½ and
21 will be brought into the armed
forces for a maximum tenure of four
years.
One million people to be hired to
fill government vacancies
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
planning to hire a million people to fill
vacancies in government departments
in an attempt to tackle the labour
market crisis in the world’s
fastest-growing major economy.
The recruitment will be completed
in 18 months, Mr Modi’s office
tweeted on Tuesday following review
of human resource requirements in all
government departments and
ministries.
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Old bus repurposed into classroom for ‘learning through play’
A teacher engaging pupils in a class
activity inside an old public bus in
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
The re-modified bus is part of the
state government’s Education On
Wheels initiative, which benefits
about 1,600 students from
Government Lower Primary School
in Manacaud.
The bus from the Eenchakkal
depot of the Kerala State Road
Transport Corporation, which is
fitted with air-conditioning, was
bound for the scrapyard when the
school requested to repurpose it
into a classroom.
Colourful paintwork and
furniture, along with a garden right
outside the bus, are modelled on a
“learning through play” concept.
Kerala’s Minister for General
Education V. Sivankutty, who
inaugurated the “classroom on
wheels” on Monday, said the
well-equipped facility was an
answer to those who had made fun
of the proposal. “No one thought a
classroom would be possible in a
KSRTC bus,” he said.
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Indian emergency workers on Tuesday
rescued a 10-year-old boy, who has
hearing and speech impairments, from
a narrow well where he was trapped
for over four days.
Rahul Sahu fell down the 24m well
on Friday afternoon while playing in
the backyard of his house in Chhattis-
garh.
Earth movers and cranes were used
to help dig a tunnel next to the well
whose diameter was less than a metre
wide. Army soldiers and members of
India’s disaster response agency helped
in the operation.
Sahu “has been rescued safely be-
cause of everyone’s prayers and untir-
ing efforts of the rescue team,” state
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel
tweeted.
Mr Jeetendra Shukla, head of the
local district administration, said the
boy “was alive but weak” and was
“rushed to a super speciality hospital”
in the nearby district.
“A snake was seen in the same
borewell but the boy has shown exem-
plary bravery and stayed calm during
the operation,” he added.
Bad weather – and venomous
snakes and scorpions unearthed by the
dig – hampered rescue efforts, local
officials said.
During the rescue operation, a cam-
era was used to monitor the boy’s
condition and movements, according
to Janjgir district police chief Vijay
Agrawal. “Since the boy cannot speak
or hear, we faced a bigger challenge in
the rescue efforts,” he added.
An oxygen pipe fed Sahu fresh air,
a government spokesman said.
The tunnelling effort was slowed by
hard stone underneath the ground.
Uncovered wells are a common
feature of Indian farming villages and
are frequently implicated in fatal acci-
dents involving young children.
In 2019, a two-year-old was pulled
out dead from a well after a four-day
rescue effort in Punjab.
The same year, a 1
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-year-old child
was rescued in neighbouring Haryana
after being trapped for two days.
AFP
According to a new survey, as many as
8,000 high-net-worth individuals are
predicted to leave India this year,
making it one of the top-three coun-
tries to experience an exodus of the
wealthiest.
The key drivers for migration are
the desire for a higher standard of
living, better educational and health
facilities, and to get away from the
stringent tax residency rule and the
high rate of individual tax in India,
stated the Henley Global Citizens
Report 2022.
More young entrepreneurs are ex-
ploring global business and investment
prospects while demonstrating an ever-
increasing risk-appetite, according to
the report.
Reeling under the sanctions of the
West following the Ukraine war, Rus-
sia tops the list of countries in the
flight of high-net-worth individuals,
followed by China and India.
Hong Kong, which is increasingly
coming under the stringent control of
China, and war-torn Ukraine make up
the top five.
The Henley report also showed that
the number of US-dollar millionaires
and billionaires in India will grow by
80 per cent over the next 10 years,
while it will grow only by 20 per cent
in the US and 10 per cent in France,
Germany, Italy and the UK.
“General wealth projections for In-
dia are very strong. We expect the
population of HNWIs (high-net-worth
individuals) to rise by 80 per cent by
2031, which will make India one of
the world’s fastest-growing wealth mar-
kets during this period,” said New
World Wealth’s Head of Research An-
drew Amoils.
“This will be fuelled by especially
strong growth in the local financial
services, healthcare and technology
sectors.”
While the old industrialist base
remains intact in India, a new genera-
tion of techpreneurs is joining their
ranks, eager to diversify a portion of
their wealth in countries that provide a
majority of benefits and low tax rates,
reported The Economic Times.
The appeal of a higher standard of
living, including better educational and
health facilities for the family, also
continues to be a key driver, perhaps
even more so in the wake of Covid-19.
“Increasingly stringent tax resi-
dency rules (introduced in 2020 and
2021), with no relief in individual
taxation rates for HNWIs, coupled
with a desire for visa-free travel are
also consistent primary motivators for
alternative residence and citizenship,”
said Ms Bijal Ajinky, partner in direct
tax, private client and investment fund
practices at Khaitan & Co.
European Union countries and tradi-
tional favourites Dubai and Singapore
are gaining popularity among Indians,
reported The Telegraph.
While Singapore is a popular choice
for digital entrepreneurs and family
offices due to its robust legal system
and access to world-class financial
advisers, the Dubai Golden Visa has
emerged as a winner in some circles
due to its ease of acquisition and the
numerous options it provides.
However, the review of the migra-
tion trends of the world’s wealthiest in
2022, part of the report prepared by
investment advisory Henley & Part-
ners with wealth intelligence firm New
World Wealth, pointed out that the
loss of millionaires was “not a big
concern” for India because the coun-
try produced far more new million-
aires than it loses to migration.
“There is also a tendency of
wealthy people returning to India, and
once the country’s standard of living
improves, we expect wealthy people to
return in greater numbers,” it said.
According to the Henley Private
Wealth Migration Dashboard, the UAE
is predicted to draw the greatest net
inflow of HNWIs globally in 2022 (at
least 4,000).
Singapore is ranked third, behind
Australia (3,500), with net inflows of
2,800 predicted this year.
Israel is ranked fourth on the list,
with a score of 2500, followed by
Switzerland with a score of 2200, and
the United States with a score of
1500.
“We are also starting to receive
considerable interest from families
from across Asia who are looking to
make Singapore or the UAE their
established base. Countries that are
providing excellent infrastructure for
wealth preservation,” said Mr Nirbhay
Handa, group head of business devel-
opment at Henley & Partners.
“Challenges for Indians include
stringent exchange controls for making
remittances, inheritance taxes for over-
seas assets, and Indian residency rules
targeting statelessness.
“Indians are progressively turning
to legal and financial advisers for
nuanced advice on navigating these
obstacles through the use of private
trusts, holding entities, separate wills
for different jurisdictions, and so on.”
Others are looking to Europe, partic-
ularly Mediterranean countries like
Portugal, Malta, and Greece, because
they offer a gateway to the EU, a high
standard of living, and, in most cases,
a low physical residency requirement –
all of which are important to those
who want to keep their families or
businesses in India.
Indo-Asian News Service
Boy, 10, rescued from well after four days
Singapore is a popular choice among Indian digital entrepreneurs.
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