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.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over a plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to Ashish Mishra, son of union minister Ajay Mishra Teni, who had been arrested in connection with the death of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri district in October last year. Ashish Mishra had been […]
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday left for Punjab to attend the swearing-in ceremony of chief minister-designate Bhagwant Mann. Elaborate arrangements have been made for Mann’s oath-taking ceremony at Khatkar Kalan – ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district.”It’s a big day for […]
The White House said India taking up Russia’s offer of discounted crude oil would not be a violation of US sanctions, but appealing to all countries amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said ‘think about where you want to stand’. “But also think about where you want to stand when […]
Lending his support to the makers of the movie ‘The Kashmir files’, PM Narendra Modi today said that some people are running a conspiracy to discredit a “movie made on facts and research”. Addressing a meeting of BJP MPs after the party returned to power in four states, Modi said it is not an issue […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with Indian embassy officials involved in the evacuation mission to rescue Indian nationals under Operation Ganga. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with stakeholders involved in Operation Ganga earlier today. Operation Ganga successfully evacuated about 23,000 Indian citizens, as well as 147 foreign nationals belonging to 18 countries, from […]
About 45 per cent candidates who won the recent assembly polls in five states have declared criminal cases against themselves, poll-rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Tuesday.. The National Election Watch and Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 690 winning candidates in the assembly elections of […]
Congress presidents in Punjab, UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, where the party suffered setbacks are all set to put in their papers with Sonia Gandhi cracking the whip on Tuesday and asking for their resignations to enable reorganisation of the party. State unit chiefs Navjot Singh Sidhu (Punjab), Ganesh Godiyal (Uttarakhand), Girish Chodankar (Goa), Ajay […]
The Udupi Muslim girls whose petitions seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classrooms were dismissed by the Karnataka High Court said on Tuesday they will not go to college without hijab and fight the case legally till they get “justice”. They also claimed the verdict was ‘unconstitutional’.“We had approached the High Court seeking permission […]
Days after the Congress working committee meeting, the party’s senior leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday demanded that the ‘Gandhis should step aside from the leadership role and give a chance to someone else to lead the party’. Since the poll debacle of 2014 the Congress has lost elections continuously except on a few occasions, he […]