Planning to travel to India for an emergency, a family function, or a wedding while on an H-1B or H-4 visa? An immigration attorney has warned visa holders to think twice before booking their tickets.

Visa applicants are facing long and uncertain waits in India after expanded social media vetting began on December 15.

Describing the censor certification delay for Vijay starrer Jana Nayagan' as "deliberate", TVK state legal wing joint coordinator R Chakravarthi on Friday said any appeal will only anger the people of Tamil Nadu.

"If CBFC appeals again, it confirms political intent to stall; this will only anger Tamil Nadu people against the Union government," he said.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday described West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a "tigress", saying the TMC chief is "very brave" and will not surrender.

Mufti was reacting to the Thursday's ED searches at the office of the political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a major hub of defence manufacturing, with investments of over Rs 34,000 crore already made across six nodes of the state's defence corridor, marking a decisive shift towards India's self-reliance in weapons and ammunition production.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has claimed that the India-US trade deal didn't happen because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call US President Donald Trump.

Speaking at All-In Podcast, Lutnick said, "I had set the whole deal up. But let's be clear, it's his (Trump's) deal. He is the closer. He does it.

Vodafone Idea on Friday confirmed in an exchange filing that its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) have indeed been frozen by the government and the firm will begin paying a maximum of ₹124 crore a year over next six years beginning March this year to March 2031.

The telco will also pay ₹100 crore annually, from March 2032 to March 2035.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government in relation to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking strict enforcement of e-rickshaw regulations in the national capital, Bar and Bench reported.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia was hearing a petition filed by Manish Parashar against the Delhi government, its Transport Department, Delhi Traffic Police and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

India's finance ministry plans to scrap five-year-old restrictions on Chinese firms bidding for government contracts, two sources said, as New Delhi seeks to revive commercial ties in an environment of eased diplomatic and border tensions.

The curbs, imposed in 2020 after a deadly clash between the countries' troops, required Chinese bidders to register with an Indian government committee and obtain political and security clearances.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that ED officials were attempting to seize TMC's hard disks, internal documents and sensitive organisational data during a search operation at the residence of I-PAC chief Prateek Jain here.

She described the raid at the residence of Jain as politically motivated and unconstitutional.

India's markets regulator has accused a Bank of America (BofA) unit of violating its insider trading rules and breaking internal "Chinese walls" in connection with a 2024 share sale, a notice showed.

The notice followed a Securities ‍and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) investigation into the conduct ​of the bank's domestic securities unit in managing a March 2024 stock sale of Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management (ABSL AMC).

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