September 2, 2023 2:21 PM

Indian-origin economist Shanmugaratnam wins the Presidential election in Singapore

Indian-origin Economist and Former Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has registered a landslide victory in Singapore's Presidential election. The results were announced at past midnight on Friday. The Minister won over 70 percent of votes in the country's first contested presidential polls since 2011. Sixty-six-year-old Tharman Shanmugaratnam had served as Singapore's Deputy prime minister from 2011 to 2019. He joined politics in 2001. He has also worked in the public sector ...