CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be on leave from 19 to 31 December 2022. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be on leave from 19 to 31 December 2022. Mr Teo Chee Hean, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security, will be Acting Prime Minister throughout this period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under the constitution, the president must be non-partisan and elected by popular vote. The current president is Halimah Yacob, who took office on 14 September 2017 after running unopposed. She is the first female president in the country’s history.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Tamil: ; born 25 February 1957) is a Singaporean politician and economist who has served as Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister between 2011 and 2019, and as Senior Minister in the Cabinet since 2019.

Detailed explanation-4: -Currently, the government and the cabinet are led by Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong while President Halimah Yacob is the Head of State. Singapore is known as a City in a Garden and nearly 50 percent of the island is green space.