ASPIRING entrepreneurs Shivanu Shukla and Ashwin Singh had toyed with the idea of starting an Indian restaurant while they were working at consulting firm Frost & Sullivan in Shaw Towers, where many people throng to watch Bollywood movies. But as...
A motorcyclist died after he was run over by a container truck along Jalan Buroh at the junction of West Coast Highway on Thursday (Nov 24). The accident occurred at around 6.15pm and was captured on video. Road safety community...
Start-up nuTonomy has resumed trials of driverless cars after a traffic accident involving one of its vehicles on Oct 18. The company has improved its software system after an investigation into the accident, it said yesterday. One of nuTonomy's self-driving cars hit...
A FISH farm in Lim Chu Kang received a hungry visitor last Friday when a 3m-long crocodile wandered onto the grounds. The reptile, which was believed to have been searching for fish to eat, got stuck in a gap by...
SINGAPORE - Just nine days before she took her first Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) paper, Putri Lydia Hemamalini lost her father to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Despite the death of her 64-year-old father, who had suffered from the condition...
SINGAPORE - For his historic gold-medal feat at the Rio Olympic Games, swimmer Joseph Schooling received $1 million as part of the Singapore National Olympic Council's (SNOC) multi-million dollar awards programme (MAP) on Thursday (Nov 24). The 21-year-old will give...
From December, commuters will be allowed to carry their foldable bicycles and personal mobility devices (PMD) such as e-scooters onto buses and trains all day in a six-month trial. Currently, only bicycles with a length of 114cm, a height of...
SINGAPORE - A shipment of nine armoured vehicles belonging to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has been seized in Hong Kong. The Terrex Infantry Carrier Vehicles (ICVs) were discovered at Kwai Chung terminal during a routine inspection, The South China...
Two motorcyclists were injured after one was sent flying after getting hit by a vehicle and landed in the path of another rider on the PIE today (Nov 24). A video was posted on Roads.sg's Facebook page showing what happened. In...
An impressive 98.4 per cent of pupils who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year can go on to have a secondary school education. The record number exceeds slightly last year's already excellent performance of 98.3 per...
