NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's stand on a plea to permit the mother of a woman from Kerala, who is facing the death penalty in Yemenfor the murder of a national, to travel to the country to save her daughter from gallows. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The...
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NEW DELHI: Indian visitors to San Francisco are among the first to return to pre-Covid levels as Air India’s nonstops launched to the Golden Gate city in 2015 have given a massive push to desi footfalls there. The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) currently gets 17 Air India nonstops from India weekly, next to New York’s 21. Had United not suspended its 14 weekly flights to SFO, the airport...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday raised questions regarding the last-minute request from real estate mogul Gopal Ansal, who had been convicted in a case related to evidence tampering during the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire trial. He sought permission to travel abroad, but the court insisted on allowing the state an opportunity to respond before making a decision.Gopal Ansal informed the court...
THANE: Citizens are likely to be pampered this festive season as keeping in mind the approaching polls, netas and political parties are pulling out all stops to ensure they shower their prospective voters with festive goodies, including free travel to native places, ritual kits and cash prizes for household Ganpati decorations.The Shiv Sena, led by chief minister Eknath Shinde, has hired nearly 1,500...
Even as thousands of Indians face over year-long delays in getting interview dates for B-1 & B-2 US visitor visas, and in some cases for H-1B and L-1 work permit visas, a trend has emerged of using the ‘third country’ option to schedule interviews much faster. Some travel industry experts believe that this has opened a new post-pandemic tourism trend, with those Indians, who can afford it,...
The extensive travel and the ongoing excitement in the USA leading up to the Oscars, seem to have taken their collective toll on maverick music maker MM Keeravani. He is now down with Covid.“All the travel and excitement have caught up with me. I am down with COVID and under medication and complete bedrest,” Keeravani tells us.He looks back at all the excitement leading up to the Oscars with...