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(17 Mar) - Two days after the gang-rape case of a Swiss woman here shook the nation, the Madhya Pradesh police on Sunday arrested six accused and recovered the mobile and the laptop robbed from the victim and her husband. "We have arrested six accused persons who raped the Swiss woman and recovered her mobile," SM Afzal, IG,... 

Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen in Parliament: "The F-35 will be the vanguard of next-generation fighter aircraft in operation" (18 Mar) - ...In the period 2008–12 Asia and Oceania accounted for almost half (47 per cent) of global imports of major conventional weapons. The top five importers of major conventional weapons... 

Singapore NODX fell 30.6% (18 Mar) - Singapore's exports plunged far more than expected in February from a year earlier, hurt by a sharp drop in shipments of pharmaceuticals and oil rigs in the Lunar New Year holiday lull. "This time around, the weakness in exports was due to non-electronics," said Barclays economist Leong...