Articles by Samhati Bhattacharjya

Singapore: 1 killed, 5 injured after car accident on Changi Coast Road

Singapore: Yacht catches fire at Sentosa Cove; 15 people taken to hospital

SCDF said the members of the in-house emergency response team managed the fire using three hosereels. Later, the SCDF officers extinguished the fire with the help of two waterjets.

Mar 23, 2018

Singapore: Changi becomes World's Best Airport for 6th consecutive year

The decision was based on 13.73 million customer nominations across more than 100 nationalities of air travellers.

Mar 22, 2018

Singapore passes new law allowing police to block electronic communications near attack sites

The latest move can block people from recording or sending information such as text, audio, photos or videos from places that are near those attack sites.

Mar 22, 2018

Singapore: 4 men arrested for fighting outside Jalan Besar nightclub

One of those 4 men was injured in the brawl and was taken Tan Tock Seng Hospital for medical treatment.

Mar 22, 2018

Singapore: Police arrests woman over serial rental scams in Toa Payoh

Singapore hotel booking scam: Police arrest man who cheated victims shell out S$3,000 each

If convicted of cheating, the suspect may be jailed for up to 10 years and a fine.

Mar 21, 2018

Singapore: MOE to replace manual balloting for Primary 1 registration by computerised process

The latest technological process of computerised balloting is currently used the Secondary 1 posting and Joint Admissions Exercise.

Mar 20, 2018

Singapore: Fire breaks out at scrap metal yard in Defu Industrial Estate

The firefighters extinguished the fire, which involved scrap metal, using two foam jets and a monitor mounted on a Red Rhino.

Mar 19, 2018

Singapore: Elderly skipping coach gets 25 years' jail for sexually abusing minor

The victim first met Yue after he was appointed as her primary school's skipping team in 2006.

Mar 19, 2018

Singapore: Facebook post offering free NTUC FairPrice vouchers is fake, confirms supermarket chain

The supermarket chain has filed a report with Singapore's cybersecurity authority SingCert and has also asked Facebook to take the page down.

Mar 17, 2018

Firefighter dubbed 'Snake whisperer' dies after king cobra bite in Malaysia [VIDEO]

Last year, the 33-year-old Malaysian firefighter reportedly ended up in a coma twice over snake bites.

Mar 17, 2018

Honolulu high-rise fire kills three, including mother and son

Singapore: 50 people evacuated after fire breaks out at Leedon Residence near Farrer Road

The firefighters put out the blaze with a waterjet, two compressed air foam backpacks and two hose reels in the condominium.

Mar 17, 2018

Singapore: Police arrest 16 women, 5 men for prostitution, gambling

Authorities will take action against operators of the public entertainment outlets that have been found to have contravened licensing conditions.

Mar 16, 2018

Singapore: Driver mistook exit; taxi stranded on Yishun temple steps

A video footage of the incident showed the blue taxi stuck on the temple steps.

Mar 16, 2018

Singapore: 3 men arrested for stealing cosmetics and selling them online

Singapore police say that if found guilty, the three men may face a jail sentence of up to seven years and can also be fined.

Mar 15, 2018

Singapore: Sales of new private home fall 61.5% in February due to Chinese New Year

Real estate agency ERA said that there were no major launches in February and "most buyers were not in the home buying mood".

Mar 15, 2018

Bollywood: Ashutosh Gowariker to make film on third Battle of Panipat

Ashutosh Gowariker has cast Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Kriti Sanon for the ambitious project, which is slated to release in December 2019.

Mar 14, 2018

Interested in cloud gazing? NASA invites citizen scientists for cloud observation challenge

NASA researchers use, and value, this citizen science cloud data because it helps to validate data from Earth-observing instruments.

Mar 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking vs Einstein: Why Nobel Prize remained elusive to the black-hole theorist?

Stephen Hawking, the famous cosmologist was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Mar 14, 2018

Singapore: President Halimah Yacob gives assent to Budget 2018

President Halimah believes that "Budget is an important planning process and a rallying call for Singaporeans to work together to strive for a better future."

Mar 14, 2018

Will 'Super Earth' with water 200 light years away be our next planet to live? [VIDEO]

Researchers reveal that they have to measure the radius of the K2-155 star as well as its temperature to confirm that its outermost star could have liquid water and habitable to humans.

Mar 13, 2018

Exoplanet

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