Saudi Arabia introduces 90-day health cover for overseas Hajj and Umrah pilgrimsSaudi Arabia has implemented a mandatory 90-day health insurance policy for overseas pilgrims undertaking Hajj and Umrah. This coverage, li...
20 Feb, 2026, 12.29 PM IST
MEA takes up matter of Neelam Shinde, US looking into formalities for early grant of visa for her familyThe Ministry of External Affairs is assisting with the urgent visa for Tanaji Shinde, whose daughter Neelam Shinde, an Indian student, is h...
27 Feb, 2025, 02.58 PM IST
Ukraine resumes e-Visa issuance for foreign nationals, including IndiansUkraine has resumed issuing electronic visas (e-Visas) for foreign nationals from 45 countries, including India, Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepa...
20 Feb, 2025, 02.30 PM IST
Indian Visa Application Centres in Bangladesh open limited slots for urgent medical and student visasDhaka and other major cities in Bangladesh have started providing limited appointment slots for urgent medical and student visas at Indian ...
02 Sep, 2024, 02.24 PM IST
Afghan crisis casts a shadow on medical tourism in IndiaOut of the total medical tourists coming from foreign countries to India for treatment, Afghans comprise about 8-9% of inflow. Afghans have...
19 Aug, 2021, 06.12 PM IST
Covid-19: Legislation introduced in Congress to give Green Card to 40,000 foreign nurses, doctorsThe legislation would send green cards to 25,000 nurses and 15,000 doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that states like Iowa ha...
23 May, 2020, 11.08 AM IST
Legislation introduced in US to give Green Cards to foreign nurses, doctorsThe legislation would send green cards to 25,000 nurses and 15,000 doctors.
09 May, 2020, 01.01 PM IST
UK urged to ease visa norms for overseas doctors in COVID-19 crisisThe British Medical Association (BMA), the key professional union for doctors in the UK, has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to take ...
16 Apr, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj assures medical visa to 4 Pakistani nationalsSwaraj also responded positively to requests for issuance of medical visas to three other Pakistani women.
25 Nov, 2017, 11.18 PM IST
13 medical visas issued to Pakistani nationalsThis follows a directive from external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, who has helped a number of critically ill patients get visas to visi...
19 Oct, 2017, 12.15 AM IST
India to grant medical visas to two Pakistanis: Sushma SwarajHeeding to a request by Uzair Humayun, a Lahore-based man, Swaraj said medical visa will be given to his daughter for an open-heart surgery...
07 Oct, 2017, 11.52 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj directs Indian HC to give visa to Pakistani patientSwaraj's direction to India's High Commission in Pakistan came yesterday after a woman, sought urgent intervention for a Pakistani requirin...
28 Jul, 2017, 12.37 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj directs Indian High Commission to give visa to Pakistani patientSwaraj's direction to India's High Commissioner in Pakistan Gautam Bambawale came after a woman -- Hijaab Asif -- sought the external affai...
28 Jul, 2017, 09.45 AM IST
No restrictions on medical visas to India except Pakistan: GovernmentIn a written reply, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said the government has issued more than a lakh of medical visas so fa...
26 Jul, 2017, 07.42 PM IST
Government implementing liberalised visa regime from April 1: Nirmala SitharamanIn a series of tweets, she said the Cabinet on November 30 last year approved various measures for such relaxation of rules which are being...
04 Apr, 2017, 04.52 PM IST
Foreign tourists with e-visa can stay up to 2 months in India: Rajnath SinghRajnath Singh said today that a new liberalised visa regime has been rolled out by the government beginning April 1 under which tourists co...
04 Apr, 2017, 04.48 PM IST
India eases visa norms to build economic muscleThe government said this is being done with a view to stimulating economic growth, increasing earnings from the export of services such as ...
01 Apr, 2017, 12.21 AM IST