India-Singapore
13th Exercise Bold Kurukshetra: Important Facts
The 13th edition of Exercise Bold Kurukshetra, a bilateral armour exercise between the armies of India and Singapore, was conducted from March 6 to 13, 2023, at Jodhpur Military Station, India. This joint exercise aimed to enhance cooperation, build a ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2023
Category: Defence Current Affairs
India-Singapore link Digital Payments UPI and PAYNOW
UPI is the mobile payment method in India. Similarly, PAYNOW is a mobile payment method in Singapore. The countries have planned to link these two mobile payment methods. The linking was done virtually inaugurated by the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2024 • International / World Current Affairs
Five to Seven Countries Sign Up for adopting India Stack
India Stack is the collection of Application Peripheral Interfaces launched by the Government of India. This includes BHIM, Digilocker, UPI, and several other applications. According to a recent report from the IT Ministry around seven countries are to join India ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: International / World Current Affairs
SIMBEX 2020: India-Singapore Naval Exercise
The Indian and Singapore Navy are to hold maritime exercise SIMBEX-20 in the Andaman Sea between November 23, 2020 and November 25, 2020. The exercise is being conducted between the countries since 1994. The exercise aims to enhance mutual inter-operability ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Letter of Intent exchanged between India and Singapore for Chandipur missile test range
During 4th India-Singapore Defence Ministers’ Dialogue which was co-chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Singapore counterpart Dr Ng Eng Hen, a letter of Intent was exchanged that paved the way for Singapore to conduct live firing of missiles ..
BHIM UPI goes global: Demonstrated at Singapore FinTech Festival
As a first step towards internationalization, a global pilot demo of BHIM UPI QR-based payments began on 13 November 2019 with a live transaction at merchant terminal at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2019. The Indian contingent with participation of 43 ..