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After the US State Department started social media vetting on December 15, there is now no immediate approval or rejection of visa appeals and candidates are issued a 221(g) slip. Candidates are also being asked whether they made their social media accounts public and then the visa approval status is updated online. Users on Reddit…
The ministry of civil aviation on Tuesday directed senior officials to conduct on-ground inspections at major airports to assess the situation firsthand and review the challenges passengers are facing.This comes as the operational breakdown at IndiGo continues to cause chaos at airports around the country. ‘Will Set An Example’: IndiGo Faces Heat As Aviation Minister…
Image: Screengrab from video JAIPUR: A light-hearted moment has emerged from Chomu, Jaipur, amid reports of stress, pressure, and even deaths of BLOs engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work across India.A video from Chomu shows sub-divisional Officer (SDM) Dilip Singh Rathore dancing with BLOs and other officers. Watch: MPs Speak Out as SIR Row…
LUCKNOW: The Government Railway Police (GRP) in Etawah has booked train ticket examiner (TTE) Santosh Kumar for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after Arti Yadav, 30, wife of an Indian Navy chief petty officer, was found dead along the tracks between Samhon and Bharthana stations on November 26. According to the FIR, Arti had…
NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer Santosh Verma, state president of the Anusuchit Jati-Janjati Adhikari Karmachari Sangh (AJJAKS) in Madhya Pradesh, has drawn sharp criticism after a video of a remark he made at an event in Bhopal went viral, prompting demands for a police case and disciplinary action. Speaking on whether reservation should be granted…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Thursday appointed seven new secretary-rank officers, including the new heads for oil, telecom and agriculture ministries.A late evening order said that the appointments committee of cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decided to appoint Neeraj Mittal, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, as petroleum secretary, replacing Pankaj…
PATNA: Out of five IPS officers who contested this year’s assembly election, only one won. Anand Mishra, a former IPS officer who contested on a BJP ticket from Buxar, defeated Congress candidate Sanjay Kumar Tiwari (alias Munna Tiwari) by 28,533 votes. Mishra fetched 84,901 votes compared to Tiwari’s 56,548. A senior cop with three decades…
NEW DELHI: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a two-judge bench’s order directing Maharashtra to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising police officers belonging to Hindu and Muslim communities, to probe two crimes related to the 2023 communal riots in Akola. Appearing for Maharashtra, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told…
Immigration officers entered a pre-school in Chicago with arms while chasing a teacher, and teachers and students looked on.Immigration officers arrested a teacher early Wednesday at Rayito de Sol, a private preschool in Chicago, because she is an undocumented immigrant who had been caught and released at the border under Biden administration policies on June…
NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra govt has approached Supreme Court for a review of its direction for setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) “comprising senior police officials from both Hindu and Muslim communities” to probe two Akola riot-related offences – a murder and an assault – and said dividing the uniformed force on religious…
