India, Singapore to upgrade trade cooperation pact
Singapore, June 1: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that India and Singapore will soon upgrade their Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) following a bilateral summit with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong here.
"We are happy with the second review of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement," Modi said in a joint address to the media with Lee following the summit.
"Officials from both our countries will soon discuss how to upgrade this agreement," he said.
India and Singapore signed the CECA in 2005. Singapore is the first country with which India signed such a treaty.
On his part, Lee said that bilateral trade between India and Singapore has doubled S$25 billion since the CECA came into effect.
He also said that, as the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Singapore will work with India in the regional security architecture.
Modi arrived here on Wednesday on the third and final leg of his five-nation tour of southeast Asia.
This is his second visit to Singapore as Prime Minister.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
