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India restores 5-year e-tourist visa to nationals of 156 countries

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India restores 5-year e-tourist visa, suspended since March 2020, to nationals of 156 countries with immediate effect. Govt restores regular (paper) tourist visa with 5-year validity issued to nationals of all countries: Officials.*Long duration (10 years) regular tourist visa restored for USA, Japan nationals: Officials.

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US monitoring rise in ‘rights abuses’ in India, says Antony Blinken

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The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the Asian nation’s rights record. “We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) […]