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As many as 500 migrant maids working in Singapore fell victim to scams last year, an increase of 18 per cent from the 423 cases of duping reported in 2022, according to Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam.

Most of the domestic workers in Singapore come from India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asian countries.

The Madhya Pradesh-based woman who had faked her kidnapping here allegedly to raise Rs 30 lakh did so to go to Russia for medical education, police said on Wednesday.

Kavya Dhakad’s confession about the motive behind her fake abduction came during the police interrogation after she and her friend Harshit were brought here from Indore on Wednesday for questioning in the case, they said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that deliveries of Russian oil to India are steadily high, with no payment issues encountered, the state-owned news agency TASS reported.”Russian oil supplies to India are maintained at a steadily high level; no problems arise with determining means of payment for oil exported by Russia,” Maria Zakharova, the official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said at a briefing on Wednesday (Local Time).