New Delhi: The visa-on-arrival facility for senior citizens of Pakistan, which was put on hold by India following heightened tensions along the Line of Control (LoC), has been restarted from March 31. The facility was put on hold hours before its operationalisation on January 15 after an Indian soldier was allegedly beheaded and another was brutally murdered by Pakistani army. The Wagah border is also now open for Pakistani senior...
07:02 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Washington: The US has reiterated that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is welcome to apply for a visa to America and that his application would be judged on its own merits. "There is no change (in US policy)...he (Modi) is welcome to apply. All visa decisions are made on a case by case basis, and I'm not going to prejudge it here," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. Her statement...
12:36 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Delhi BJP Vice-President Vijay Jolly on Tuesday claimed the meeting of US Congressmen with Narendra Modi was not sponsored and those spreading such rumours were "jealous" of the Gujarat Chief Minister. "The trip hasn't been sponsored by either BJP or Gujarat government. These rumours are being spread by our opposition parties which are feeling jealous that Modi's good governance mantra is admired by foreign countries also," Vijay Jolly, BJP's Overseas...
03:18 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The much sought H-1B visas could be decided through lottery in 2013, industry experts and officials feel, based on initial feedback from companies, as the US starts accepting applications from Monday. ...
12:53 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Claiming that H-1B visas lead to outsourcing of US jobs, an American professional body of engineers has opposed the move of expanding the most popular working visa among IT professionals. "The H-1B programme shouldn't be used to facilitate the transfer of high-paying jobs to other countries. If Congress wants a full US economic recovery, it shouldn't even think about expanding it," IEEE-USA President Marc Apter said. ...
08:32 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Organisers of the US delegation to India that met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had canvassed for participants in the trip at prices ranging from $3,000 to $16,000, said a media report. ...
09:57 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Gujarat Congress on Friday described Chief Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with a US delegation which included three Republican legislators as a marketing gimmick'. "This is nothing but a marketing gimmick by some global Public Relation firms to promote Modi," said state Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia on Friday. ...
07:49 PM, Mar 29, 2013
A US delegation of lawmakers and businessmen visited Gujarat and invited Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the US. However, this is not an official invite for the BJP leader. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday got an invitation to visit the US as a delegation comprising of some American Congressmen met him in Ahmedabad. The invitation is a shot in the arm for the BJP leader who has in the past been denied a visa by the US administration over his alleged involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots. ...
04:49 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Human remains stuffed in a suitcase and two bags were found from Hirakud Express on Tuesday in Visakhapatnam by Government Railway Police (GRP), an official said. "The remains were found stuffed in a suitcase and two bags which were found abandoned in S7 and S8 compartments of Hirakud Express which arrived here in the wee hours from Amritsar", said a GRP officer. ...
02:09 AM, Mar 27, 2013
A day after five Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a fiyadeen attack in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India on Thursday said it will not start group tourist visa facility for Pakistan nationals from Friday as it scheduled. ...
06:19 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The UK government on Tuesday opened its first ever Mobile Biometric Clinic (MBC) in Goa, which will save the locals from travelling to distant places like Mumbai to apply for visa to the country. ...
01:06 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Cricket Australia is lobbying authorities to fast-track the legspinner's application to make him available for the start of the Ashes in England in July. ...
05:46 PM, Mar 11, 2013
After suspending visa on arrival for Pakistani senior citizens, India may put on hold the proposed group visa facility to the nationals of that country in the wake of the unease in bilateral ties following the killing of two Indian soldiers along the LoC. ...
11:26 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The Navy on Saturday recovered the bodies of its two personnel including a pilot who had been missing after their chopper crashed off the Viskhapatnam harbour four days ago. The Chetak helicopter had crashed with four persons on board of which two were rescued while the two others had gone missing. ...
10:55 PM, Mar 09, 2013
America is facilitating enrolment of more Indian students and issuance of student visas went up by 50 per cent in 2012 as compared to the previous year. The country welcomed students particularly in high quality courses of mathematics, science and technology, Jonathan C Scott, Vice-Consul, Consular Section, US Embassy, New Delhi, said. ...
04:26 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Facing a shortage of labourers, Sri Lanka plans to grant work visas to Indians to harvest paddy in the country's north and east, a media report said on Sunday. "The government is helpless as our people are leaving the country to work as labourers in West Asia, Singapore, South Korea and Italy," Lankan Agricultural Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena was quoted as saying in the Sunday Times. ...
04:46 PM, Feb 24, 2013
An innovative system developed by two Indian post-doctoral mechanical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to transform the white-hot fracking industry is caught in a US visa limbo, according to a media report. ...
03:06 AM, Feb 20, 2013
The European Union and the United Kingdom may have had a rethink on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but the USA is certainly not warming up to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. ...
04:25 PM, Feb 19, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron continued his attempt to woo Indian students and businesses by offering new visa services for Indians. He said the United Kingdom will introduce same day visa services for Indian investors. ...
10:18 AM, Feb 19, 2013
