NRI reelected adviserto Singapore Prez
Singapore: Indian-origin civil servant JY Pillay was reappointed as the top adviser to Singapore’s President. 80-year-old Pillay was sworn-in and reappointed as the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Advisers (CPA) for a period of four years by Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam.
‘SEVEN die in Shebab attacks in Somalia’
Mogadishu: Six Somali soldiers and one civilian were killed in an attack by Shebab militants on a military checkpoint in Baidoa and in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, officials said. Six soldiers died when the Shebab, Al-Qaeda's main African affiliate, carried out a pre-dawn raid.