New Delhi: India has agreed for a bilateral cricket series with Pakistan after a long time when the two teams will play three ODIs and two Twenty20 internationals in December and January. The series has generated a lot of interest and several Pakistani fans are expected to arrive in India to watch the matches. But the Indian government and the BCCI are not willing to take any chances with the...
08:23 PM, Nov 22, 2012
London: Britain on Thursday relaxed immigration rules for foreign professionals, entering the country via the 'Intra-Company Transfer' (ICT) route. According to the changes to immigration rules included in a statement in the House of Commons by Home secretary Theresa May, the length of stay for professionals entering the ICT category has been extended from five years to nine years. The step has been taken in response to Indian and other...
07:30 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday confirmed Pakistan's ratification of a landmark visa agreement signed with India in September that will benefit several categories of travellers, including businessmen and senior citizens. Pakistan's cabinet had ratified the visa agreement on October 31. Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the objective of the agreement is to facilitate travellers of the two countries. Besides diplomatic, non-diplomatic and official visas, visitor visas will be...
12:31 AM, Nov 21, 2012
The Immigration Minister personally considered Fawad Ahmed's case to help him "stay, work and play cricket in Australia." ...
10:22 AM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: Any Pakistani cricket lover who wants to visit India to watch the upcoming limited over Indo-Pak cricket matches will have to have an Indian sponsor to get a visa as 12 Pakistani spectators had gone missing after the 2007 bilateral series. The Home Ministry has made it mandatory for each Pakistani cricket fan intending to witness the forthcoming cricket series beginning from December 25 to have a local...
02:52 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: India is attempting to liberalise visa procedures by adding nine countries to the the list of 11 nations whose citizens are entitled to the document on arrival, former southern star Chiranjeevi, who has been given independent charge of tourism as a minister of state, said on Friday. "We are trying to liberalize visa procedures by adding nine more countries to the existing 11 nations, visitors from which are...
10:25 AM, Nov 10, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Goods and passenger train movement on the Kirandul-Kothavalasa (KK) line was disrupted due to breaches and falling of boulders on the track at various sites due to heavy rains, officials said. Forty meters of rail track and seven meters depth of land underneath the track at Boddavara near Srungavarapukota on the KK line was damaged due to heavy downpour during the last few days. The track restoration work is...
12:43 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: The US, which refused visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the 2002 post-Godhra riots, on Tuesday said he was free to apply for it now and the system will take its course, a statement that comes days within the UK ended its boycott of the state. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake also maintained that his country has "very good"...
09:35 PM, Oct 30, 2012
Visakhapatnam: An orphanage director was on Sunday arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl inmate, police said. Swami Poornananda (52) was apprehended under section section 376 (punishment for rape) of the IPC after the victim lodged a complaint against him, they said. The accused is head of the city-based Swami Gnananda Ashram which houses an orphanage and old-age home. He was picked up from the Ashram premises along with a...
11:59 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Washington: US would handle the visa application of the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as per the country's immigration laws, a top US diplomat said. At the same time, the official said, US supports the business interests of American companies in Gujarat. "Well, I mean, the question has often arisen about, Mr Modi's potential application for visas, for example, to come to the US. And you know, the truth is...
09:11 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said bauxite mining would not be allowed at any cost in the Visakhapatnam agency area to protect the interests of tribals. He said this following reports that some private companies had shown interest in mining bauxite there. However, local villagers and tribals are opposing the proposed move. While talking to reporters at Paderu village in Visakhapatnam, Ramesh said along with the...
07:54 AM, Oct 08, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna talks on a range of issues from Pakistan and its position on Kashmir at the UN to the recent proposal to increase the fee for US visa by the Obama administration. ...
03:57 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Wellington: New Zealand revoked an entry visa for former heavyweight boxing champion and convicted rapist Mike Tyson on Wednesday after a charity going to benefit from his visit dropped its support. Tyson, 46, who served three years of a six-year US jail sentence for rape in 1992, had been due to take part in an event in November, but needed a dispensation under New Zealand immigration laws because of his...
12:01 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New York: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has conveyed India's concerns to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the US visa fee hike and discussed a host of regional and global issues, including ways of advancing bilateral cooperation over Afghanistan. Krishna held a 45-minute meeting with Clinton on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session on Monday. Krishna and Clinton "held a positive discussion on a broad range...
06:14 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Washington: In a proposal that will hit Indian IT companies the most, US software giant Microsoft Corporation has suggested a whopping fee of $10,000 (over Rs 5 lakh) for a new category of H-1B visas and $15,000 (more than Rs 7.5 lakh) for permanent residency or Green Card. This could raise a huge $5 billion over a decade, it said. Both the new categories of H-1B and Green Cards, according...
03:10 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New York: The issue of US visa fee hike, which has hurt several Indian IT firms, is expected to come up for discussion when External Affairs Minister SM Krishna meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York on Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. India has "consistently" taken up the issue of the visa fee hike with the US and the issue will figure...
05:17 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Security has been tightened and 25,000 policemen have been deployed across Mumbai. The BSF and SRPF have also stepped in. ...
05:23 PM, Sep 29, 2012
It is the last day of Ganesh Utsav on Saturday and people across India, especially Mumbai, are all set for the immersion of Ganesh idols. Several street processions will be taken out in Mumbai on Saturday, with the police saying that over 90,000 idols will be immersed at 84 different spots. Security has been tightened and 25,000 policemen have been deployed across Mumbai. The BSF and SRPF have also stepped ...
02:16 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Hyderabad: There is extra security in Hyderabad on the occasion of Ganpati visarjan on Saturday. The police is alert given that the procession is happening a day before a massive Telangana rally on Sunday. The DGP has appealed to the Ganesh Pandal organisers to wrap up the immersion by Saturday midnight keeping in mind Sunday's Telangana march. This comes after the Andhra Pradesh Government gave its approval for a massive...
10:33 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Mumbai: It is the last day of Ganesh Utsav on Saturday and people across India, especially Mumbai, are all set for the immersion of Ganesh idols. Several street processions will be taken out in Mumbai on Saturday, with the police saying that over 90,000 idols will be immersed at 84 different spots. Security has been tightened and 25,000 policemen have been deployed across Mumbai. The BSF and SRPF have also...
07:54 AM, Sep 29, 2012
