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Topic: visas

Pahalgam terror attack: India revokes all visas to Pakistani nationals, suspends issuing of new visas

Those with medical visas must leave India before 29 April, and others before 27 April. Pakistani nationals who entered via Attari border have to leave by 1 May.

Canada denies visa to former Pakistani intel officials, says ex-envoy. Usual tactic by western powers

Husain Haqqani highlights the case of a retired senior Pakistani defence official, whose visa was rejected on grounds of ‘suspected terrorism or human rights violation’.

India’s visa suspension may hit tourism sector hard, Canadians are already cancelling travel plans

Canada one of the largest source countries for foreign tourist arrivals in India. Govt’s decision to suspend visa services for Canadians came amid diplomatic row over Nijjar killing.

Young Punjabis fear Canada education unlikely now, immigration firms feel student visas won’t be hit

After India suspends visas for Canadians, students fear Ottawa will retaliate similarly. Many of them feel New Delhi could have handled situation better.

Afghan college students stage protest, urge India to extend visas and restart scholarships

Kumar Tuhin, director general (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, said no student would be forced to leave India against their wishes, adding scholarships issue will be resolved.

South Korea to issue around 30,000 visas for skilled workers amid staffing shortages in firms

With younger South Koreans reluctant to take up blue-collar jobs, the industrial and farming sectors of Asia's fourth-largest economy are struggling to fill vacancies.

China suspends short-term visas from Japan & South Korea over Covid-19 curbs

The issue of visas were suspended in retaliation against countries that required negative Covid-19 tests from Chinese travellers.

India to allow ‘asthi visarjan’ in Ganga for 426 Pakistani Hindus? Activists welcome ‘decision’

Modi govt will reportedly consider granting short visas to allow immersion of ashes of Pakistani Hindus in the Ganga. External Affairs Ministry has neither confirmed nor denied it.

Why Indian student numbers in UK have skyrocketed — graduate visa, pandemic backlog

The British High Commission granted 1.27 lakh student visas to Indians in the year ending September 2022, an increase of 273 per cent over the same period in 2019.

India’s NY consulate official tells woman ‘take your money & go’ in viral video, disciplined

In 24 November incident, official behaved ‘rudely’ with a woman & refused visa. Later, Consulate General issued visa ‘expeditiously’ and initiated disciplinary proceedings.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.