Indian citizens, without transit or regular Schengen visas, are unable to fly to the UK through European Union airlines like Lufthansa, KLM and Air France as they are stopped at the origin airports in India itself.As the UK is no longer part of the European Union, it has, post Brexit, made mandatory of for non-EU…Continue Reading
Five-time champions Mumbai Indians’ winless run in the tournament continued as they slumped to 12-run loss against Punjab Kings to suffer their fifth straight defeat in the ongoing IPL on Wednesday. Chasing 199, MI could only muster 186 for nine to suffer yet another defeat. Dewald Brevis top-scored for Mi with 49 off 25 balls,…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has informed the Supreme Court that while probing a money laundering case involving 80,000 Bitcoins, it found a well-planned conspiracy hatched by a Singapore-based firm owned by Indians who have footprints in United Arab Emirates and China. Appearing for the ED, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati informed a bench of…Continue Reading
Union Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, on Monday said the Centre was able to bring back around 16,000 Indians from the war-torn Ukraine so far and hope to evacuate the rest in days to come.Muraleedharan, who was in Kerala on a short trip, told the media that currently, around 3,000 Indians were…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: Around 93% of India’s population is living in areas where levels of hazardous particulate matter PM2.5 are worse than the World Health Organisation’s least stringent norms and air pollution reduces life expectancy in the country by 1.5 years (more than cancer), according to reports of US-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) released on Thursday.…Continue Reading
In the first Indian casualty in the war in Ukraine, a medical student from Karnataka was killed in shelling in Kharkiv city on Tuesday, even as the government said that all Indians have left Kyiv and roped in the Air Force to speed up the evacuation process.Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting, his…Continue Reading
India’s Foreign Secretary, Harsh V Shringla, told the media on Thursday that 4,000 Indians had fled Ukraine in the last few days while speaking about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We started the registration of Indian nationals…about a month ago…We found that 20,000 Indian nationals were there,” he added. He said the Ministry of External Affairs’ control…Continue Reading
An Air India flight from Ukraine landed at Delhi airport on Tuesday night. The flight AI 1946 comprised mostly of students. The Indian embassy in Kyiv had earlier asked students to temporarily leave the country amid the rising tensions in the region after President Putin said his regime would recognise two areas in eastern Ukraine…Continue Reading
The Minister of State (Home) Nityanand Rai, citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on Wednesday, said in a written reply at the Rajya Sabha that in the past three years over 25000 people across the country have ended their lives by suicide. The major reasons behind the suicides were unemployment and loan burden. The…Continue Reading
A family of four Indians, including a baby, froze to death as they were allegedly trying to cross the US-Canada border illegally in a sub-zero temperature. As per a report by The Indian Express, the family is believed to be from a small village in the Gandhinagar region, which is in the eastern state of…Continue Reading