Chennai: Youth in villages around Kudankulam, where people are agitating against the setting up of the nuclear power plant, are unable to take up jobs abroad as passports are being denied to them, it was alleged at a public hearing in Chennai on Monday. About a dozen villagers deposed at the public hearing on 'Kudankulam and State Supression of Democratic Rights, coming up with startling revelations on the harassment they...
08:32 AM, May 15, 2012
Beijing: China will soon start issuing a new type of passport that will contain an electronic chip to record the passport holder's personal information. According to the ministry of public security, the new passports will look similar to traditional ones but the electronic chip will contain the holder's name, date of birth, photo and fingerprints, Xinhua reported. Under preparation for three years, the new passports will be available from May...
11:31 AM, May 05, 2012
Beijing: China will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder's personal information. The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chip containing information like the cardholder's name, his date of birth, photograph and finger prints will be installed in them, a statement by Ministry of Public Security said on Friday. Under preparation for the past three...
10:06 AM, May 04, 2012
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04:33 PM, Apr 30, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad, on Tuesday, conducted a Passport Adalat in connection with Haj passport applications. Another adalat will be held on Wednesday too. Speaking at a press conference after handing over passports, K Srikar Reddy, regional passport officer, said, the Hyderabad Haj committee had made a total of 1,400 applications last week, of which 139 passports have been dispatched already last week and 264 more have been...
08:22 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Kochi: The Government is working on integrating Indian embassies and consulates with passport seva projects, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Monday. Integration of crime and criminal tracking system, emigration, visa, foreigners registration and tracking and e-migration would be linked, Krishna said. The ministry would also set up 16 mini Passport Seva Kendras in North East and other parts of the country, he said, after inaugurating 13 Passport Seva...
04:47 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Srinagar: Following the arrest of suspected terrorists in Delhi on Thursday, Kashmir's top cop said Lashkar-e-Taiba has begun using local boys, as its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces. Changing its strategy, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrilla outfit has been trying to engage local boys, holding passports, after its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces, a senior police official said in Srinagar on...
11:52 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood filmmaker Karim Morani, a 2G spectrum allocation case accused, on Tuesday returned to Delhi to face trial in a court after a gap of 10 days during, which he had gone abroad with the court's permission for treatment of his heart ailment. Special CBI Judge OP Saini had allowed Morani to travel to Thailand to get treatment for his heart ailment from January 16 to January 22....
09:01 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Toronto: A Canadian man who realised he forgot his passport as he approached the US border found a new way to gain entry - his iPad. Martin Reisch said Tuesday a slightly annoyed US border officer let him cross into the United States from Quebec after he presented a scanned copy of his passport on his Apple iPad. Reisch was a half hour from the border when he decided to...
01:49 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Uttarakhand High Court on Friday will pronounce its verdict on the petition of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's aide Balkrishna seeking quashing of an FIR lodged against him by CBI for allegedly using fake educational degrees for procuring a passport. The High Court had granted a stay on arrest of Balkrishna on July 29 after he moved the High Court. The CBI had registered a case against him on...
05:46 AM, Dec 02, 2011
HYDERABAD: To discourage mediators involvement and provide timely services in a transparent manner, the Regional Passport Office here has set up Passport Seva Kendras in the twin cities and at Vijayawada, Tirupati and Nizamabad. Speaking to mediamen here on Tuesday, regional passport officer K Srikar Reddy said the Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) would function shortly. The state capital will have three kendras, one each at Ameerpet, Tolichowki and Begumpet. These...
09:17 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Karachi: A suspected militant who blew himself up in southern Pakistan during a raid by security forces was carrying a US and a Pakistani passport, authorities said on Saturday. According to a statement by Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers, the dead man has been identified as Saeed Abdul Salam. He detonated an explosive device on Thursday when troops raided his apartment in the port city of Karachi. Post-mortem tests on Salam's body...
12:19 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Karachi: Pakistani authorities say a militant who blew himself up in southern Pakistan during a raid by security forces was carrying a US and a Pakistani passport. Statement by Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers said the dead man had been identified as Saeed Abdul Salam. The statement says he detonated an explosive device on Thursday when troops raided his apartment in the port city of Karachi. The US Embassy could not immediately...
10:56 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani should be provided a passport. "Some time back, we have heard from Geelani that he wants a passport. I have conveyed to the Centre that he should not be stopped. "Whosoever we can provide a passport, we should give him," Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. The Chief...
11:48 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Friday filed an application in a sessions court, seeking permission to arrest Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah, an associate of Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, in a fake passport case. Khan and Tapuriah are currently in judicial custody, after Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested them in a money laundering case. "We have sought permission to arrest Tapuriah," said chief public prosecutor Kalpana Chavan. In 2008,...
09:08 PM, Sep 02, 2011
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