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The video was accompanied by an appeal to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. New Delhi: A video plea from an Indian worker allegedly trapped in Saudi Arabia has gone viral on social media, prompting diplomatic intervention from the Indian Embassy in Riyadh. The man, said to be from Handia in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, appears in the video visibly distressed and claiming that his employer -- identified only as "Kapil" -- has confiscated his passport and is threatening to kill hi ...Read More >
Chennai: Can a missing surname keep someone from flying? It did for former Tamil Nadu MLA Nizamudeen, who was stopped from boarding a Gulf Air flight at Moscow airport because his passport had only one name.According to the complaint, Nizamudeen, who is a practising advocate and former legislator, was due to attend a meeting in Dubai on Feb 10, 2023. Despite holding a valid UAE visa under the same single-name passport, he was not allowed to board a flight to Bahrain, which was to connect him to ...Read More >
New Delhi: As ties rebound, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney could visit India for the AI summit and talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February. The trip could push comprehensive economic and free trade partnership for which negotiations were suspended during the Justin Trudeau era. It has been learnt that Carney has been invited for the AI summit and he could also meet Modi for bilateral talks. India's high commissioner Dinesh Patnaik told Canada's leading English daily 'The Globe ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The Chennai North District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Gulf Air Airlines to pay a compensation of nearly Rs 1.4 lakhs with 9 per cent interest to a former Tamil Nadu MLA who was denied travel in a flight because he had no surname in the passport. The complainant, Nizamudeen, a Periamet resident, is a former Tamil Nadu MLA and a practising Madras High Court advocate. He had been using Gulf Air since 2000. On February 9, 2023, he was scheduled to travel on a Gulf ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Oct 24 (PTI) The family of a 21-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, who has been accused of causing a semi-truck crash that left three people dead in the US, on Friday rubbished claims that he was intoxicated while driving, saying he was an 'Amritdhari Sikh' (baptised Sikh). Jashanpreet Singh allegedly rammed his truck into slow-moving traffic in Southern California on Tuesday, Fox News reported on Wednesday. At least three people were killed and several others were injured in the ...Read More >
The US Consulate General in Chennai announced on Thursday, October 23, 2025, that it has reopened and restarted visa application processing. Only applicants with appointments scheduled for October 23 were allowed to attend, while those affected by the October 22 closure are being rescheduled and will receive new appointment details.The US Consulate General Chennai on Thursday announced that it will re-open and restart visa application processing services. In a post on X, the consulate said, "US ...Read More >
Chennai: The US Consulate General Chennai on Thursday announced that it will re-open and restart visa application processing services. In a post on X, the consulate said, "US Consulate General Chennai will re-open and restart visa application processing services on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Please note: Only applicants with appointments scheduled for October 23 may come in on that date." It added, "Applicants whose appointments were canceled due to visa service closures on October 22 are cur ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) Days after London-based scholar Francesca Orsini was deported from the IGI Airport over alleged violation of visa conditions, the Congress on Thursday said the decision to bar her from the country is not a matter of immigration formality but a "symptom of the Modi government's hostility towards independent, serious-thinking, professional scholarship". Orsini, a scholar of Hindi and professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), was deported Monda ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 23 (ANI): The US Consulate General Chennai on Thursday announced that it will re-open and restart visa application processing services. In a post on X, the consulate said, "US Consulate General Chennai will re-open and restart visa application processing services on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Please note: Only applicants with appointments scheduled for October 23 may come in on that date." Chennai/status/1981025439675302352" rel="noopener" target="_blank" ...Read More >
Professor Francesca Orsini, a scholar of Hindi, was deported from Delhi's IGI Airport. Sources stated she violated her tourist visa conditions. Orsini had been on a blacklist since March 2025. Her deportation has drawn criticism from historians Ramachandra Guha and Mukul Kesavan. They highlighted her contributions to Indian literature and questioned the government's actions. A professor associated with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London was deported fr ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed he held a conversation with Donald Trump on Wednesday. The US president stated they discussed trade as both countries negotiate a potential deal to mend strained relations. Bilateral ties deteriorated in August when Trump increased tariffs on Indian exports to the United States to 50%. US officials had accused India of financing Russia's war in Ukraine through purchases of discounted Moscow oil. Trump mentioned the phone call with Modi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: London-based academician and researcher Francesca Orsini was on Monday denied entry into India upon arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, as she "was blacklisted in March this year for having violated the conditions of her tourist visa by undertaking research during her previous visits", according to govt sources.Orsini, Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in London, is a literary historian worki ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a candid interview, Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh K. Patnaik, whose roots trace back to Odisha, raised alarm over the safety of Indian nationals living in Canada and questioned why even a diplomatic envoy like himself must be under security protection. In his comments to Canadian national broadcaster CTV, Patnaik stated, "Is Canada safe for Indians here? Is Canada safe for itself? Because Canada cannot look at this situation as an Indian problem. It's a Canadian proble ...Read More >
New Delhi: India and Brazil on Thursday agreed to deepen their economic engagement by expanding the scope of their Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) under the Mercosur framework. As a part of this effort, the two countries have set a new bilateral trade target of $20 billion by 2030, up from $12 billion in 2024. At the India-Brazil Business Dialogue in New Delhi, Brazil's Vice President and Minister for Development, Industry, Trade & Services, Geraldo Alckmin, said the two nations were "comple ...Read More >
An Air India flight from Italy's Milan to Delhi, that was supposed to fly on Friday, October 17, was cancelled due to a technical snag, spoiling Diwali plans of hundreds of passengers. According to Air India, all affected passengers of the flight AI138 have been provided hotel accommodations. As many as 256 passengers and 10 crew members were supposed to fly to India on that flight, however, they could not, according to a report by the Times of India. Air India said that alternative flights ha ...Read More >
Air India Milan- Delhi Flight: Hundreds of passengers travelling from Milan to Delhi ahead of Diwali faced disruption after Air India flight AI138 was cancelled on Friday due to a technical problem. Many passengers, returning home for the festival, were informed that they would now be rebooked on flights operating on or after October 20, the day of Diwali. The NDTV report cited an Air India spokesperson as stating that, the cancellation was caused by "an extended technical requirement" on the a ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Hyderabad Zonal Office, on Friday conducted searches at five locations in the city targeting full-fledged money changers (FFMCs). The firms raided include Prism Forex Private Limited, Garuda Forex Services Private Limited, Sree Vimal Nath Forex Private Limited, Victory Forex and Travel Services Private Limited, and Digital Forex Private Limited. According to ED officials, the FFMCs and their managements were allegedly operating illegally without v ...Read More >
Education technology firm PhysicsWallah (PW) on Wednesday announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IDP Education India, the co-owner of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), to expand global learning opportunities for its students. Under this collaboration, PW students will gain access to the IELTS curriculum along with a range of support mechanisms, including awareness sessions, seminars, boot camps, and expert-led masterclasses. The partnershi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, met with Vice President CP Radhakrishnan in New Delhi on Thursday as part of his official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation between India and Brazil. After the meeting, Vice President office said that both leaders expressed optimism about strengthening trade and economic ties. The two leaders expressed optimism about strengthening trade and ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, met with Vice President CP Radhakrishnan in New Delhi on Thursday as part of his official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation between India and Brazil. After the meeting, Vice President office said that both leaders expressed optimism about strengthening trade and economic ties. "The two leaders expressed optimism about strengthening trade and ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's passport power slipped to the 85th rank out of 199 countries, losing its global mobility, according to a quarterly report of the 2025 Henley Passport Index released on Wednesday. The country previously stood at the 77th position in July. The quarterly report of the index, released by citizenship and residence consultancy firm Henley & Partners, assesses the strength of passports by determining how many destinations citizens can visit without obtaining a visa beforehand. Whi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to strengthen bilateral cooperation between India and Brazil. In a post on X, Randhir Jaiswal, the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said, Adding momentum to the India-Brazil Strategic Partnership. Adding momentum to the 🇮🇳-🇧🇷 Strategic Partnership. Mr. Geraldo Alckmin, Vice-President and Minister o ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to strengthen bilateral cooperation between India and Brazil. In a post on X, Randhir Jaiswal, the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said, "Adding momentum to the India-Brazil Strategic Partnership." The post also mentioned that Geraldo Alckmin has arrived in New Delhi, highlighting the visit as a st ...Read More >
Zubeen Garg Guwahati: Even as Singapore Police is conducting its own investigation into the death of Zubeen Garg, who drowned while swimming in the sea on Sept 19, the Assam Police SIT remains in a limbo -- still waiting for a formal response from the country to its request through the MHA, seeking crucial evidence under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT).On Sept 30, India invoked the MLAT with Singapore -- a bilateral agreement that enables cross-border evidence sharing -- seeking CCTV f ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 10 (UNI) Signalling the resumption of normal diplomatic ties with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, India today announced the upgradation of its technical mission in Kabul to the status of Embassy, two years after the Afghan Taliban overran Kabul. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, in his address to visiting Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, conveyed India's decision on upgradation of the Indian technical mission to full embassy status today. He also anno ...Read More >
But he said there were no plans to open up more visa routes to Indian workers or students. "The issue is not about visas," Sir Keir said. "It's about business to business engagement and investment and jobs and prosperity coming into the United Kingdom." The UK's trade deal with India was signed in July after years of negotiation. It will mean UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India, and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK as part of the multi-billion pound ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British counterpart Keir Starmer hailed the potential on Thursday of their months-old trade deal to transform commercial links, as London unveiled further Indian investment in Britain. Starmer is in the financial capital of Mumbai on a two-day visit to India, joined by more than 100 leaders from Britain's business, culture and university sectors, as he rushes to harvest the trade deal signed in July. The deal agreed to cut tariffs on go ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Oct 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hyderabad Police arrested a Nigerian for drug peddling and deported him to prevent him from indulging in undesirable activities detrimental to national security. Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) apprehended the Nigerian national, named Onuorah Solomon Chibueze, 46, who was found illegally overstaying in India. Y.V.S. Sudheendra, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Task Force/HNEW), said the Nigerian was deported on Thursday. The police investigation rev ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Customs officials seized hydroponic ganja worth 9.5 crores in the Chennai airport and arrested three passengers in two seperate incidents on Thursday. The customs received a tip-off that ganja is being smuggled into the country from Thailand at midnight. Following that, the officers were monitoring the passengers closely and, on suspicion, intercepted a male passenger, native of a north Indian state, who had visited Thailand on a tourist visa. The officers found the passenger was evasi ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A 46-year-old Nigerian national was deported to his country by the Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) on Thursday, October 9. According to the police, Onourah Solomon Chibueze worked as a heavy truck conductor in Cameroon for seven years. Due to insufficient earnings, he returned to Nigeria and started an optical business, but incurred losses. On August 14, 2014, Chibueze arrived in New Delhi on a medical visa, valid till September 23, 2014. He worked in a restaurant for t ...Read More >
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