The benchmark STI has risen more than 3 per cent this month, with blue chip stocks leading the charge. Analysts expect the post-Brexit rebound to continue and lead the local bourse to test the 3,000-point level.
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Indian Muslim women beaten by vigilantes on suspicion of carrying beef
New Delhi – Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence in many parts of the Hindu-majority country, police said Wednesday.
The meat the women were carrying has since turned out to be buffalo, but police in Madhya Pradesh state said they were attacked on Tuesday at a busy station, apparently after a group of vigilantes raised suspicions.
Video footage broadcast on local television channels showed a group of women slapping, kicking and punching the two as a large crowd gathered.
The two women were subsequently arrested on suspicion of carrying beef. Tests found it was actually buffalo, and they now face the lesser charge of carrying commercial quantities of meat without a licence.
Cows are revered by Hindus and slaughtering them is illegal in most Indian states.
Several states also bar the sale and possession of beef, and there has been a recent upsurge in attacks by vigilantes from the Hindu right on people suspected of killing cows.
“We had prior information and had deputed force to arrest them but unfortunately some people attacked them,” said Manoj Sharma, district police chief of Mandsaur where the incident occurred.
None of the people who attacked the two women had been arrested for the assault, Sharma said.
It comes days after a group of low-caste Hindu men were beaten by vigilantes in the western state of Gujarat on suspicion of killing a cow – a charge they denied.
The men said they were taking the dead cow to be skinned – a task commonly given to low-caste villagers in India, where the animals roam freely.
Opposition parties raised the latest attack in parliament on Wednesday and demanded the government act against vigilante groups.
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Ex-Traffic Police clerk given 18 weeks' jail, fined for corruption
Khatijah A Manap divulged contact details of people involved in traffic accidents to an employee of a law firm and received at least S$2,500 in bribes in return.
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Downtown Line ridership more than triples after opening of 2nd phase
The number of commuters who use the Downtown Line (DTL) has more than tripled since the line’s second stage (DTL2) opened in December last year.
In a statement on Wednesday (July 27), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said that average daily ridership on the DTL on weekdays more than tripled from 83,000 in October 2015 to more than 250,000 in mid-July 2016.
Since the DTL2 opened, there has also been an increase of about 60 per cent in the average number of journeys on public transport (comprising DTL2 and public buses) to and from towns along the DTL corridor.
“It is likely that more commuters have shifted from driving to taking the DTL,” LTA noted, adding that more commuters along the North-South Line and North East Line are also transferring to the DTL to reach the city.
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The DTL is Singapore’s fifth MRT line. At present, it connects Bukit Panjang in the West to Bugis in central Singapore. The third and final stretch of the Downtown Line will open next year, and connect commuters to areas in the East such as Kallang Bahru, Bedok and Tampines.
At the same time, the DTL has reduced passenger loads on other MRT lines. Ridership on the North-South Line from Bukit Batok to Jurong East, and along the East-West Line between Jurong East and Clementi, has decreased by up to 10 per cent during the morning peak hours, LTA revealed.
According to the authority, more commuters living along the DTL corridor have switched from using buses to trains for their daily commute, resulting in up to 6 per cent improvements in the speeds of bus services plying those areas.
Conversely, feeder bus services bringing commuters to DTL stations, such as Services 920 and 922 in Bukit Panjang, have experienced increased riderships.
To meet the increased demand, LTA said that it has introduced new or extended but services to connect commuters to the MRT stations.
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