A leisurely night stroll became traumatic for a family after their two-year-old daughter was bitten by a snake.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it received a call for assistance at 1 Empress Place, the address of the Asian Civilisations Museum, at about 10.25pm last Sunday (Oct 4).
A person was taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
The family are tourists from China, according to media reports. A family member said that they were walking on the footpath outside...
Reputable Bollywood character actor Nana Patekar – known for his fiery performances in Bollywood films and theatre – died on Thursday aged 75, local media reported.
Patekar was found unconscious at his home in the coastal state of Goa early on Thursday morning and doctors were unable to revive him, news agency ANI and other media reported.
He died of cardiac arrest, but it was unclear what triggered it, Shekhar Salkar, chief of the oncology department at the Manipal Hospital,...
India’s central bank hiked interest rates for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday as the Middle East conflict stokes inflation in Asia’s third-largest economy and batters a weakened rupee.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the benchmark repurchase rate, the level at which it lends to commercial banks, would be raised by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent after a unanimous vote by a six-member panel.
In doing so, the RBI shifted gears to join...
Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption body arrested ex-first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa on Wednesday over allegations that her charity misused donations collected for a children’s hospital.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government has revived long-dormant graft investigations involving members of the once-powerful Rajapaksa family, which dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly two decades.
The 73-year-old wife of former president Mahinda was remanded in custody until Tuesday by a Colombo magistrate.
She was arrested earlier in the day by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of...
From Oct 12, Covid-19 vaccines will be included in two national vaccination schedules, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said late on Wednesday.
The two bodies said those aged 60 years and above, medically vulnerable people aged six months and above and residents of aged care facilities should get the jabs.
Healthcare workers and those living or working with medically vulnerable people are also encouraged to get the vaccine to help protect those around them,...
