A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi High Court, challenging the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Embassy of India in Oman over the publication of a Request for Proposals (RFP 2025). This proposal, issued on February 4, 2025, sought bids from service providers
The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi on Tuesday directed the jail authorities to allow Christian Michel James, an accused in the Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal case, to apply for his passport to fulfil his bail conditions.
Vanuatu Post reported that Prime Minister Jotham Napat directed the country's Citizenship Commission to cancel the Vanuatu passport issued to former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner, Lalit Modi following recent revelations in international media
As per a statement from Vantanu Prime Minister's Office, Napat said that two alerts from Indian authorities to the Interpol should have resulted in the cancellation of his application.
The court also directed Michel to surrender his passport. Since his passport has already expired, the court directed him to apply for a new passport with the British High Commission as per the prescribed rules. The court further said that he will provide his residential address in Delhi.
Responding to a question on Lalit Modi's acquisition of citizenship of Vanuatu, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that they are aware of his application for surrendering his passport in the High Commission of India in London and they are continuing to pursu
Christian Michel's lawyer, Advocate Aljo K Joseph, discusses the conditions imposed on Michel's bail, including surrendering his expired passport, applying for a new one, and seeking court permission to stay in India. A trial court hearing is set for today.
According to police, Dudwadkar and his accomplice, Rajesh Panchal, were involved in illegally facilitating the migration of 80 Indian citizens to countries such as Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Poland using forged travel documents.
According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Chinese authorities need people from areas they generally deem to be at high risk of online fraud or "illegal" emigration to provide extra documentation and receive approval from many government offices when applying for a passport.
In the press release on February 4, WUC mentioned that while Beijing maintains that the region has "normalized," evidence points to the opposite, and "mass surveillance, arbitrary restrictions, and the weaponisation of passports are part of a deliberate strategy to suppress Uyghur identity a
With the vision to provide transparent and time-bound citizen-centric services, Punjab Police on Tuesday introduced an improved system for passport verification which will allow citizens to receive pre-verification SMS and would also be able to submit feedback through Post-verification SMS,