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India revises OCI rules: What applicants need to know about stricter compliance, wider eligibility & moreIndia has revised its OCI program with expanded eligibility, now including fifth and sixth-generation Indian-origin Tamils in Sri Lanka. Th...
Qatar halts a visa service for Pakistanis after tightening of visa rules by Saudi Arabia and UAEQatar has suspended its visa-on-arrival facility for Pakistani nationals, requiring travelers to obtain visas in advance due to regional te...
Atlys releases travel access report ranking 50 international destinations for Indian travellersA new report by Atlys ranks international destinations for Indian travelers, highlighting practical accessibility beyond passport power. As...
Police verification for passports must be completed within four weeks: Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court has mandated that police verification reports for passport applications must be completed within four weeks, empha...
Taxpayer to pay only Rs 33,000 income tax after selling a house for Rs 70 lakh; ITAT Mumbai ruling explainedA taxpayer successfully challenged the income tax department's LTCG calculation, winning in ITAT Mumbai. The tribunal ruled that indexation...
Still No REAL ID? These 5 states offer alternative travel IDs after May 7 — Here’s what you can useAs the REAL ID travellers standard becomes the new norm for domestic air travel, it is crucial for passengers to confirm their documentatio...
Pakistan unable to issue new passports, runs out of lamination paperA scarcity of lamination paper, which is imported from France, has halted new passport issuance in Pakistan, affecting students and thousan...
MEA introduces 'mPassport Police App' to expedite police verification of passport issuanceVerification using tablets will reduce the verification time from 15 days to five days, effectively reducing the passport issuance timeline...
Processing over 20,000 applications daily: VFS Global COO on the current visa backlogA sharp revival in post-Omicron demand for international travel has led to massive delays in visa processing — right from seeking appointme...
TCS could roll out chip based e-passports by the end of 2022TCS will refresh existing facilities and systems (including hardware), build new solutions for the issuance of e-passports and improve the ...
Crypto firms write to FM on tax woes; GitHub bottleneck in Bulli Bai caseWith less than a month to go before FM Nirmala Sitharaman unveils the Union Budget, a grouping of tech firms that includes all the major cr...
OCI card holders no longer required to carry old passports for India travel; diaspora welcomes moveThe Indian government has relaxed the second provisions since last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The timeline has been extended mul...
You can make digital transactions but cannot transfer money using RBI's newly launched PPIUnlike the PPIs that are available now, the new instrument can only be used for making retail payments. You cannot use it to transfer funds...
Anti-profiteering clause in GST is transitory, will act as deterrent: Revenue secretary Hasmukh AdhiaNeed for anti-profiteering clause may happen only in cases of imperfect competition. In sectors that have competition market forces will no...
Union Budget 2017: Full speech of Finance Minister Arun JaitleyFinance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Modi government's post-demonetisation Budget on Wednesday. Here is the full speech of the Finance M...
Passport seva project boosts passport issue in BengalThe Passport Seva Project in West Bengal, the programme of the Ministry of External Affairs, has shown a positive outcome in passport servi...