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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicVisa fraud

Topic: visa fraud

Fake guns, fake victims, real visa scam—FBI busts robbery script fit for Bollywood, arrests 12 Indians

FBI says group of Indian nationals staged dramatic liquor store 'robberies' in Massachusetts, with 'threats' & CCTV footage—only so clerks and store-owners could apply for visas as crime victims.

Ludhiana agent ‘settled’ 100 visa cases but bank shows no payouts—ED protests Punjab cops’ probe

After most FIRs against a Ludhiana-based agent were quashed on compromise, ED questioned how complainants were paid when no matching transactions appeared in his accounts. 

Australia tightens student visa checks, moves India to highest-risk category. What it means

The downgrade is the outcome of an intense review conducted by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs late last year.

French embassy visa fraud case: Under India’s 1st silver notice from Interpol, CBI to trace assets abroad

Agency files charge sheet against 8, including local law officer in embassy's visa dept. Officer allegedly lured applicants into paying huge sums of money to obtain Schengen visas.

Relief for Indian students facing deportation: Canada to issue temporary permits, probe ‘visa fraud’

New Delhi: International students who went to Canada to pursue education, and were not involved in visa fraud, will not be deported from the...

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.