Articles by Adrita Biswas

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye

2 former South Korean ministers jailed over artist blacklist during Park Geun-hye's presidency

The ruling resulted in harsher punishments for former chief of staff Kim Ki-choon and former culture minister and presidential secretary for political affairs Cho Yoon-sun.

Jan 23, 2018

Singapore: 3 people arrested for drug-related offences after being pulled over for tinted windows

Three people were arrested for traffic and drug-related offenses in Bushan on the morning of Monday, January 22.

Jan 23, 2018

Singapore crime

Why do websites crash during major sales? Latest to join ranks is SpiceJet

The SpiceJet website has reported a crash hours after announcing its Great Republic Day sale, joining ranks of Flipkart and Amazon who have experienced the same.

Jan 22, 2018

Venomous Brazilian spider found in supermarket bananas; bite causes hours-long erection in men

A man in West Midlands was taken aback when a brownish spider which he dismissed as a regular one turned out to be a venomous Brazilian wandering spider.

Jan 22, 2018

Scientists stunned by solar cells that generate 3 times more energy, reduce fossil fuel consumption

A team of researchers at Stanford University has discovered how nanotechnology can be made useful in creating crystalline silicon (c-Si) thin film solar cells which will reduce cost of energy production and store more solar energy.

Jan 22, 2018

HSA warns public against potent western medications after illegal products lead consumers to ICU

Singapore has recently seen a surge of illegal and undeclared medicines which are sending people to the ICU and causing adverse reactions such as chemical burns.

Jan 22, 2018

Singapore: 3 wild birds caught cruelly in gruesome glue traps in Toa Payoh

Three wild birds were stuck in glue traps on Saturday morning at a housing estate in Toa Payoh.

Jan 22, 2018

Singapore Health: Committee formed to set benchmark fees for medical procedures

A 13-member committee has been set up by the Ministry of Health to look into fee benchmarks for medical services and procedure in Singapore.

Jan 22, 2018

Domestic helpers rally in support of an Indonesian maid who was tortured by her employers

Singapore: CDE extends helping hand to unpaid, tortured and molested domestic workers

Singapore is working hard to make the lives of maids and domestic helps better and to ensure that they do not face exploitation at the hands of ruthless employers.

Jan 22, 2018

Global warming linked to mental health, causes depression and anxiety in people

Researchers have found that changing global temperature reduces mental health in human beings, leading to stress, anxiety and depression.

Jan 20, 2018

Depression

Singapore: 2 men arrested on 5 counts of cheating with fake gold

Preliminary investigation shows that both men are believed to be involved in at least five similar cases, said the police.

Jan 19, 2018

Singapore crime

Pope hopes Trump re-thinks DACA decision on immigrant children

Pope arrives in Peru on 3-day visit, fulfils dreams of Chile couple by marrying them mid-air

Pope Francis has arrived in Peru for a three-day visit for official and apostolic reasons. On his way, he fulfilled dreams of flight-attendant couple from Chile of having a Catholic wedding.

Jan 19, 2018

Singapore: Several school authorities warn parents about kidnapping threat

An international school in Bukit Batok has issued warnings to students about a stranger who offered a lift to one of its students.

Jan 18, 2018

Breakthrough in Lou Gehrig's disease cure: Scientists use CRISPR tool to disable faulty gene

Scientists at UC Berkeley have succeeded in editing with the CRISPR-Cas9 tool a defective gene that causes Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans.

Jan 8, 2018

Nasa

Singapore starts new facility to detect biological, nuclear substances at ports

Singapore will not tolerate religious radicals: Shanmugam

Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam has warned against religious preachers who he said are propagating radical thoughts and divisive teachings in Singapore.

Jan 8, 2018

Game of Thrones has been inspired by this Medieval script and it is ready to reveal more secrets

A team of scientists is trying to decipher the 15th-century Canterbury manuscript, which gives details about the War of the Roses on which Game of Thrones is based.

Jan 6, 2018

NASA's Curiosity rover finds strange structures on Mars; Can they be fossils?

NASA's Mars Rover has captured images of the surface of the Red Planet with stick-like structures which look remarkably like fossils discovered on Earth.

Jan 6, 2018

Nasa

Oxygen depletion in oceans causing dead zones, marine animals face suffocation and death

The 'deoxygenation' of oceans has increased manifold in the last 50 years, leading to marine organisms being suffocated and dying.

Jan 6, 2018

440-million-year-old fossil reveals humans might share ancestors with sharks

An ancient shark fossil has given rise to the possibility that human beings and sharks might have descended from a common ancestor.

Jan 5, 2018

Mini model of universe discovered near Mexico volcano: Testimony to ancient rituals [PHOTOS]

A stone shrine on the foothills of a volcano in Mexico seems to bear a miniature model of the universe according to the encient Mesoamerican and Aztec legends.

Jan 5, 2018

Archaeology

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