Tag: Foreigners

E-visas and payment cards for foreigners in Russia on the cards

Foreign tourists may have a chance to apply for an electronic visa to enter Russia and receive a payment card in 2023, Tatyana Sharshavitskaya, head of the Russian Department of Tourism Development of the Ministry of Economic Development, said.

March 12, 2023

Foreigners can own 100% of renewable energy projects – DOJ

Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro and ocean or tidal energy are considered kinetic energy, or energy in motion, while potential energy refers to energy at rest.

October 3, 2022

Centre approves continuation of foreigners’ registration tracking scheme

The project has a global outreach and seeks to interlink and optimise functions relating to immigration, visa issuance, registration of foreigners and tracking of their movements in India by covering 192 Indian Missions across the globe, 108 Immigration Check Posts (ICPs) in India, 12 Foreigners Regional Registration Officers (FRROs) and offices and more than 700 Foreigners Registration Officers (FROs), Superintendents of Police (SPs)/Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) across the country.

February 25, 2022

India to grant tourist visa to foreigners coming by chartered flights from Oct 15

A Home Ministry official said that the government had been receiving representations from several state governments as well as various stakeholders in the tourism sector to start issuing tourist visas in order to allow foreign tourists to come to India.

October 8, 2021

Now Buddhist monks, foreigners living in UP can avail Covid vax

As per the guidelines, foreigners living in the state can register themselves with the help of their passports to book a slot. However, the service will not be provided to foreign tourists.

August 11, 2021

Tale of drugs, missing foreigners in Himachal’s mystic Kullu Valley

The police also succeeded in tracing 66 bighas under illicit cultivation with 15 lakh poppy plants in a remote Tikken sub-tehsil in the Chauhar Valley of Mandi district.

July 11, 2021

Foreigners create trouble for Varanasi cops amid lockdown

The SSP said that he has informed the concerned embassies and also the Ministry of External Affairs.

May 13, 2020

Tablighi Jamaatis who ‘sinned by spreading virus now claiming to be corona warriors’: Union minister

Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's remarks come after 10 members of Tablighi Jamaat, who attended its congregation and tested positive for COVID-19, have come forward and donated their plasma to treat severally-ill Coronavirus patients in Delhi.

April 28, 2020

101 ex-bureaucrats write to CMs expressing anguish over ‘harassment’ of Muslims amid COVID-19

The Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in March in Delhi's Nizamuddin has reportedly contributed to 30 per cent of the total Coronavirus cases in the country.

April 25, 2020

960 Tablighi foreigners from 41 countries blacklisted, visas cancelled by MHA; states told to take legal action

Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are among the 41 top countries from where these foreigners came from.

April 3, 2020

UP Police files cases against over 100 foreigners who attended Tablighi Jamaat activites for violating visa rules

Authorities across states on Thursday, have identified more than 6,000 people who attended the Nizamuddin Tablighi Jamaat congregation last month, the biggest coronavirus hotspot in the country.

April 2, 2020

Efforts on to evacuate 2,000 stranded tourists in Goa, says Travel and Tourism Association of Goa

Majority of the visitors held back in the coastal state are British, as tourists from various other countries have already flown out.

April 1, 2020

Nearly 300 foreigners who attended Nizamuddin event likely to be blacklisted for flouting visa rules

As per policy guidelines of Indian Visa issued by by the Government of India, preaching religious ideologies, making speeches in religious places, distribution of audio-visual display/ pamphlets pertaining to religious ideologies is not allowed.

March 31, 2020

‘Lost hope’ in NRC’s present form, list not ‘red-letter’ for Assamese society: Himanta Sarma

Indicating he has very little faith that the list would help get rid of foreigners, the minister said that he just wanted the NRC list publication process to pass off peacefully.

August 31, 2019

CISF to take over security of Victoria Memorial from mid January

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is likely to take over the security of Victoria Memorial from January 15 and deploy over a 100 personnel for its round the clock surveillance, an official said on Sunday. “CISF will take charge of the security from January 15 and we are constructing a barrack for the CISF...

January 8, 2018

Two foreigners among six arrested for sex racket in Gurugram

Haryana Police on Sunday said they have arrested six women, including two foreigners, and a man for operating a sex racket from a spa here. After a tip, the police on Saturday night raided the Auwa Thai spa centre in the Central Plaza Mall on Golf Course Road in Sector 53. The accused, including a...

December 10, 2017

Foreigners in ISL can learn from Indians: Ex-Kerala coach Phelan

Coach Terry Phelan feels that foreign footballers in the Indian Super League can learn a lot from Indian players.

November 22, 2017