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Announcing details of tighter rules for international students from India and elsewhere, British Home secretary Alan Johnson today said bogus students will find it difficult to gain entry and work in the UK illegally.
Facing an unprecedented increase in the number of student visa-seekers from north India, Britain has temporarily suspended accepting such applications as it suspects that there may be attempts to abuse the system.- A day after he was publicly chided by his senior minister S M Krishna, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said he has missed "brouhaha" on the issue but refused to add anything to his earlier comments.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Monday ticked off his junior minister Shashi Tharoor for publicly questioning new visa guidelines, saying if he had any "perceptions", those should be discussed within the "four walls" of the government.
Unfazed by reservations from nations like the US and UK, the Government appears to be in no mood to relent on the new visa rules for tourists, saying it would not like to compromise with the country's security interests.- Taking forward their economic ties, India and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant long-term, multiple entry visas to businesspersons to facilitate their frequent visits and decided to strengthen cooperation in fields like customs, science and technology and oil, gas and minerals.
- The government will take steps to stop misuse of business visas during employment process in the country, Union minister Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said.
Opening a new front in needling India, the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi has started the practice of stamping visas to some Kashmiris on a separate sheet of paper instead of passports, prompting the government to lodge a protest.- The government on Thursday extended the visa of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen for six months till February 16 next year as she plans to move out of the country because of security concerns.
- US has confirmed in a letter to Congresswoman Betty McCollum that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi will not be granted a visa to attend the World Gujarati Conference that is being held in New Jersey this weekend, the Coalition Against Genocide has said.
Indian doctors are once again suing the British government, this time accusing it of violating the spirit of a four-month-old court order by seeking to deny thousands the opportunity to live and work in Britain.
In a major policy change, Britain has decided to allow thousands of Indian professionals, who left the UK after being adversely affected by the November 2006 changes to immigration rules, to return and work here.
People entering the United Arab Emirates UAE will now have to pay a sum of Dh 500 (Rs 5,800) as visit visa fee, in line with a stricter visa regime being enforced by the gulf nation from August 2008.
The Reserve Bank of India will launch an IndiaPay credit card - an Indian version of the China UnionPay card - by the end of 2009.
The fate of thousands of Indian doctors, the backbone of Britain's state-run National Health Service, is to be decided at a ruling at the House of Lords on Wednesday over their work status.
The European Commission launched an anti-trust probe into payment card provider Visa Europe Ltd on Wednesday.- Visa Inc. raised $17.9 billion on Tuesday to complete the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in US history and help prop up the wobbly financial services industry.
