New York: IT bellwether Infosys on Wednesday said the company and some of its employees are target of US probe related to its sponsorships of B1 business visas. Infosys had received a "subpoena" from a grand jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in May last year. The subpoena requires that Infosys provide to the jury certain documents and records related to the company's sponsorships...
09:49 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Addu: The Maldivian island of Addu is the latest exotic location for a meeting between the Indian and Pakistani leadership. Yet as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares to meet Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ahead of the SAARC summit, the challenge is no longer getting talks back on track, but making headway on the issues between them. Sources told CNN-IBN the two leaders hope to focus on the 26/11...
09:31 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: The US visa for intra-company transfers, known as 'blanket' L visa, will now be issued only from Chennai and not at four other places - New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. "Starting December 1, the US Consulate General in Chennai will be the US Mission to India s sole blanket L category visa acceptance and processing center ("blanket L visas are issued to managers, executives, or specialised knowledge...
06:13 PM, Nov 01, 2011
London: As part efforts to curb abuse of student visas, new restrictions announced by the David Cameron government on working while studying and bringing students' dependent to the UK have come into effect. Home Office research shows that the student visa route is often abused by people from India and other countries from outside the European Union for entry into the country for work rather than studies. The new restrictions...
08:49 PM, Jul 10, 2011
London: Newly discovered documents indicate that the British government concealed how often it administered so-called "virginity tests" to female immigrants from India hoping to enter the country in the 1970s on marriage visas. The documents, unearthed by legal researchers Marinella Marmo and Evan Smith from Australia's Flinders University, showed that the tests meant to prove that women coming into Britain to marry were virgins had been administered more than 80...
10:24 AM, May 10, 2011
Washington: Some al-Qaeda operatives used New Delhi-based global missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat to get visas and fund their travel to Pakistan and lived for a while in and around the Indian capital, secret US documents released by WikiLeaks say. At least three operatives of the banned terror group, including a Somalian financier and a Sudanese recruiter used Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), said to be one of the largest Muslim movement in...
05:15 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: There is some relief in sight for 690 Indian students - victims of the Tri Valley University. They can now apply for reinstatement of their visas making them eligible for other universities. The students have applied for reinstatement of their visas which will happen in about two weeks time. The students will now be eligible to apply in other US universities. The US government has been sensitised to...
07:24 AM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: India on Thursday described as "unacceptable" the issuing of stapled visas to residents of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh by China. "Issuing of stapled visas is unacceptable to India," Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters in New Delhi. He was responding to queries about the recent incident involving two sports persons from Arunachal Pradesh. The two athletes were prevented by immigration officials from boarding a flight...
08:49 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi: China on Thursday made it clear that it will not issue visas to any official from Arunachal Pradesh, over which it lays claims, and will continue to issue stapled visas to non-officials from that state. Speaking against the backdrop of reports that two Arunachal men have got stapled visas which was departure from past practice, an official in Chinese embassy, on the condition of anonymity, said there was...
06:22 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi: China remains adamant and will continue to issue stapled visas to Indians living in Kashmir. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to share his concerns on China's stance when he meets Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit later this week. India suspended military exchanges with China after it issued a stapled visa to Northern Army Commander Lt Gen BS Jaswal in July...
10:35 AM, Oct 27, 2010
Even as there was a slump for the most coveted US work visas in the past two years. ...
12:34 PM, Jul 08, 2010
![27 people with 'fake' visas detained at IGI]( "27 people with 'fake' visas detained at IGI")
Some of the detainees are of Bangladeshi origin while the others are from north India. ...
11:08 PM, Jul 06, 2010
Its a part of a scheme to boost tourism in the Himalayan nation, a senior government official said. ...
11:25 AM, May 13, 2010
If China does not budge on the issue of issuing stapled visas to Kashmiris, India too can take a tough stand. ...
09:35 AM, Apr 06, 2010
China has been issuing visas stapled to the passport for residents of Kashmir as it considers it to be a disputed area. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 03, 2010
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