Portugal's Temporary Residence Permit delays create travel challenges for foreignersPortugal faces immigration challenges. Foreigners encounter travel hurdles. Residence permit appointments are delayed. The D visa expires b...
24 Sep, 2025, 12.16 PM IST
Fed index of global supply-chain stress plummets to record lowThe Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to -1.71 in May from -1.35 the month before, marking the lowest level on record in data stretch...
07 Jun, 2023, 09.26 AM IST
The immigration queue in Canada is getting shorter, but only for someThe permanent residence inventory stood at 506,421 people as of November 3, compared to 505,562 as of October 3, and the the temporary resi...
11 Nov, 2022, 09.43 AM IST
UK PM Liz Truss's 'first conference speech': Greenpeace protesters interrupt before leader gets standing ovation. This is what happenedUK PM Liz Truss gave her first conference speech after the annual Tory gathering. Protestors interrupted her and were escorted out of the r...
05 Oct, 2022, 10.02 PM IST
Jaishankar assures US administration of help in ironing out visa wrinklesHe further added, "To the people who are concerned about the visa issues, I would like to give the message that I understand their anxiety ...
29 Sep, 2022, 04.33 PM IST
Blinken commits to build back on backlog soon as wait time for US tourist visa hits 800 days"We had constraints from COVID about the number of people we could have in our embassies at any one time etc. We are now building back very...
28 Sep, 2022, 10.47 AM IST
Germany to recognise Covaxin for travel from June 1In a tweet, Lindner said, "Very happy that GER government just decided to recognize WHO-listed Covaxin for travels to GER, starting June 1!...
26 May, 2022, 03.29 PM IST
US unveils new move to cut 9.5 million-case backlog and expedite your work permitThe United States has announced the expansion of its "premium processing" service to include applicants for an Employment Authorization Doc...
30 Mar, 2022, 09.51 AM IST
Centre extends door-to-door vaccination campaign till December 31Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level virtual meeting with states and UTs to review COVID-19 public health response me...
30 Nov, 2021, 03.53 PM IST
A fifth of Covid-19 deaths listed in Kerala on appeal of familiesIn August, the state reported about 27% of India's Covid-19 deaths, a big jump from previous months. In September, it accounted for about 4...
19 Nov, 2021, 07.16 AM IST
South Delhi civic body issued over 20,000 death certificates in April-June amid Covid second waveAs compared to April, the number of death certificates is about 204% higher in May because of the COVID-19 second wave. While the figure in...
21 Jul, 2021, 08.01 PM IST
Covid death recount: Late reporting is not peculiar to India aloneIn June three states — Maharashtra, Bihar and Goa — reported around 8,000 fatalities not recorded earlier, pushing up the death count.
12 Jun, 2021, 07.56 AM IST
Indian-American frontline healthcare professionals in Green Card backlog hold protest at US CapitolThe protesters said that the fairness bill removes country caps and allots green cards as a first come first serve basis. It passed in the ...
13 Apr, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
Ind-Ra: Subsidy clearance a game changer for fertiliser cos, outlook upped to "positive"The change in outlook is driven by expectations of a meaningful improvement in credit metrics owing to the additional cash inflows of pendi...
22 Mar, 2021, 04.44 PM IST
Covid-19: Sebi extends certain compliance timelines for trading, clearing membersAs per the norms, KYC (Know Your Customer) application form and supporting documents of clients need to be uploaded on a system of KRA (KYC...
31 Dec, 2020, 07.48 PM IST
BEML puts in place 'catch-up' plan to make up for production backlog due to COVID impactIn addition to loss of revenue, due to distressed cash flow operations, inflows from customers have stopped or slowed down significantly wh...
04 Oct, 2020, 04.12 PM IST
Arunachal Pradesh to outsource Covid-19 testing to decrease backlogThe decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet on Friday in which it was also agreed upon to procure adequate consumables especia...
29 May, 2020, 06.46 PM IST