Union Home Minister Amit Shah criticized the Congress party for allegedly disrespecting the national song Vande Mataram. He accused Sonia Gandhi of asking for the rendition to be stopped during an event. The Congress rejected these allegations, stating the full song was sung. Party leader Jairam Ramesh cited historical context for their stance on the song. The controversy follows recent legislation on national song disrespect.

A woman mistakenly discarded her mobile phone in the trash, but successfully retrieved it later thanks to a town council worker.Choa Chu Kang resident Carnis, 35, told AsiaOne that her mother was clearing out some unwanted kitchen items and had unknowingly wrapped her phone with a table cloth.Several minutes after the items were thrown down the rubbish chute, the woman realised her phone was missing.«She was worried if we couldn't find it or if it's not in usable condition...she'd lose important contacts and photo memories,» the content creator shared.Carnis said she found the incident «amusing», and laughed with her mother «that such things could happen».They tried searching for an estate worker below their block but did not see anyone. Carnis then called the town council for help, which sent a worker to open the chute.Told that they would have to find the phone themselves, Carnis and her mother even donned gloves in preparation. In a video posted to TikTok on Aug 12, the conservancy worker is seen pulling out the refuse chute bin as Carnis' mother stood beside.

The direct air link between the cities was suspended in December 2024 amid the situation in the Arab republic

According to Yury Slyusar, more than 150 UAVs were destroyed over three cities and nine districts in the region

Getai performer Raybe Oh, who was left with severe burns after dashing into a burning car to save her fiance in a 2021 accident, told 8world that she had wondered at the time if stopping her partner would make her seem like a «party pooper» who was «ruining everyone's fun».The former flight attendant's fiance, 29-year-old Jonathan Long Junwei, was driving a white BMW in the early hours of Feb 13, 2021, when the car skidded, slammed into a shophouse along Tanjong Pagar Road, and burst into flames.Oh dashed into the blaze to save Long, sustaining burns to 80 per cent of her body. A coroner's inquiry later revealed that Long had consumed alcohol before the fatal crash, which claimed the lives of five men.In February, Oh announced that she would be returning to the getai stage after five years, calling for public understanding during her comeback.Five months and over 30 getai performances later, she took to the stage again for the Seventh Lunar Month getai season in August, with over 20 more bookings confirmed.

A pair of livestreamers in Singapore has come under fire after launching into a vulgarity-laden rant directed at customers who apparently cancelled their order at 3am.The two members of the livestreaming team @vedawinfam, Winnie Heng and Vadalene Eng, were slammed for their response to customers who apparently wanted to return highly sought-after items after the livestream ended.An 11-minute screen recording of the scene was uploaded on the SgTea subreddit on Aug 14, where Eng says in Mandarin: «Do you know how many people couldn't buy it and left? Then you left it until later and cancelled?»Heng then refers to the viewers as «f******» twice before repeating «f*** you» to the camera four times.«I shouted until I had no voice left,» she adds.«I curse you from the bottom of my heart. From the bottom of Winnie Heng's heart,» she repeats forcefully, calling out three of the customers by their TikTok handle.Stepping back, she takes a sip of a drink and raises her hands as she «transfers» her «suay-ness» - Hokkien for unluckiness - to the customer.

In the middle of a friendly basketball game in Yishun, a player suddenly fell and went into cardiac arrest.As a crowd formed around the man, three off-duty nurses from the nearby Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) stepped in to assess the situation and perform first aid.Staff nurse Eroe Berbenzana, senior staff nurse Benson Salvador Li Hian and senior enrolled nurse Dioanes Barcelon Urcia received commendation from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) for their life-saving actions, said KTPH on Friday (Aug 14).According to the hospital, the trio was waiting to join the game at the basketball court near the Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre when the incident occurred.It initially appeared that the player had simply tripped.But when the nurses checked on the growing commotion, they purportedly realised that the man's body was stiffening. His face had turned blue, and he was gasping for air.«Eroe recognised it immediately: a heart attack — but when they checked for a pulse, there was nothing. The man was in cardiac arrest,» said KTPH.Timely and coordinated responseThe nurses immediately acted.

NEW YORK (AP): For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air. If their injuries aren’t too severe, victims can survive for a week or more, assuming the weather isn’t too hot or cold, experts say. Two days after a powerful deadly earthquake struck western Colombia, rescue teams are racing against the clock to search for survivors.

WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Cancer Support Group (MBCSG) is sounding the alarm over what it says is a disturbing pattern of cancer patients being dismissed, delayed and treated with little compassion at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) because of the stigma surrounding their illness. The advocacy group says patients have been turned away from emergency care, left waiting for hours or even days despite life-threatening conditions, and subjected to dismissive attitudes from some medical staff.

A St Thomas resident says he is preparing for a court battle after discovering that another individual is seeking to obtain title to a half-acre property he has occupied and maintained for more than 15 years under Jamaica’s adverse possession laws. Fearing reprisal, the man asked The Sunday Gleaner not to use his given name. Instead, we will call him John Duffus.

Inside Bellevue Hospital’s emergency room, privacy is little more than a partition. Three cubicles have been carved out of a small room, allowing doctors to interview patients and relatives while others sit just a few feet away. Every conversation competes with another. A relative describing a family crisis can be easily heard by a stranger waiting nearby. A patient discussing hallucinations or suicidal thoughts can find another family listening in. And, when the patient is manic or psychotic, there is no guarantee that even a partition will contain what happens next.

Retired real estate investor and shareholder in New Falmouth Resorts Limited Marcia Ann Chisholm has expressed strong disapproval of last week’s bulldozing of homes in Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, insisting that her late father would have opposed the move. New Falmouth Resorts Limited, a brokerage company now with “in removal” status, according to Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) records, is the legal owner of the 705-acre property now at the centre of national discourse.

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P Chidambaram proudly embraced Prime Minister Modi's 'dimagi naxal' label. Modi warned of ideological Naxals posing threats to the nation. Congress criticized the Prime Minister for targeting political opponents with such terms. The opposition parties also voiced their disapproval of the remarks. Modi stated that armed Naxalism is nearing its end.

Representatives from the Pentagon, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, as well as the US Navy and Air Force are taking part and are cooperating with Ukraine's NABU, SAPO, the police, and the prosecutor general’s office

According to Sergey Sobyanin, emergency specialists are working at the scene where drone debris fell

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that everyone involved in commercial shipping operations must bear legal and moral responsibility for clearing the aftermath in the region

Ivan Timofeyev, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, said that Turkey has maintained quite a close and long-time relationship with Ukraine in the military-technical sphere

Ukrainian farm exports have dwindled by approximately 60%

Earlier, Andrey Marochko said that Russian forces are on the offensive on a front of 10 kilometers near the town

Le 15 août, les fidèles catholiques célèbrent l’Assomption de la Vierge Marie, qui commémore sa montée au ciel. À Moorea, la paroisse Sainte-Famille de Haapiti a célébré ce samedi matin cette fête religieuse en présence de près de 200 fidèles.

A Jurong East resident died after a fire broke out in a flat in the early hours of Sunday (Aug 16).The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Facebook that it was alerted to the blaze at Block 339 Jurong East Avenue 1 at about 3.55am.The fire, which involved items in the living room of a unit on the third floor, caused black smoke to spread outside the house.Firefighters forcefully entered the flat and extinguished the flames with a water jet.A person who was found lying unresponsive in the living room was pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic.The deceased is believed to be a man in his 60s or 70s, reported Lianhe Zaobao.About 50 residents from the affected block were evacuated by the police and SCDF as a precaution.SCDF is investigating the cause of the fire.[[nid:742042]]lim.kewei@asiaone.com

SINGAPORE - Muhammad Ridhwaan Radzi's first lesson in investing came early in life at age 17, when he invested $1,000 in an Islamic fixed deposit with CIMB Bank.His interest in Islamic finance deepened as he began creating content, conducting research and organising community events on the subject in Singapore in 2023.«(I realised that) discussions around halal investing consistently drew the highest engagement, yet practical tools and access remained limited,» said Ridhwaan.This led him to start building RizqX in his final year at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he was pursuing a business degree specialising in international trade and a minor in entrepreneurship. He graduated in 2023.Ridhwaan, now 30, co-founded Rizqx with a partner he met during national service, who is now an Oxford PhD candidate specialising in AI and machine learning. Their investment platform is designed to give Muslims in South-east Asia access to halal, or syariah-compliant, investment opportunities that are often fragmented, under-publicised or difficult to evaluate.

A 27-year-old male van driver was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs after a four-vehicle accident in Bukit Panjang on Friday (Aug 14) night.The incident happened at about 8.55pm along Bukit Panjang Road towards Bukit Panjang Ring Road. Map showing where the accident took place. GRAPHIC: Google Maps, Telegram Visuals of the incident circulating on social media show a motorcycle sandwiched between a van and a red saloon car. The van is seen stopped in a position against the flow of traffic.Further back, another saloon car is seen stopped behind the three motor vehicles.