In a significant move, the Indian missions announced a plan to establish a new unified service centre under the Indian Consular Application Centre (ICAC) to enhance their consular services for Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The upcoming centre will open its doors in the second quarter of this year and will have … Read more
Representative image The Indian passport service portal will be down for four days due to technical maintenance, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said in a statement on Friday, October 18. The portal will be down from 4:30 pm Saudi time on Saturday, October 19, to 3:30 am on Monday, October 21. Passport services … Read more
Photo: @IndianEmbRiyadh/X Durgesh Bind, an Indian national, who has been stranded in the desert of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) travelled back to India on Friday night, August 23. This comes after the Indian Embassy in Riyadh alerted the Saudi authorities. The embassy, taking to X on Friday shared photos of Bind with officials and … Read more
Tel Aviv: The Indian embassy here on Friday advised all Indian nationals in Israel to stay vigilant and adhere to the safety protocols amid the cancellation of flights by multiple airlines as tension escalated in the region following the back-to-back assassination of two senior Hamas leaders and a top Hezbollah commander. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar seeking the Centre’s intervention in the Kuwait fire incident which claimed over 40 lives, including several Malayalees. Terming the incident as “utmost painful”, Vijayan condoled the loss of lives in the tragedy. In a brief message, he said that among … Read more
Photo: Erik Odiin/Unsplash The embassy of India in Doha has issued an advisory cautioning to Indian nationals planning to travel to Qatar to ensure their luggage does not contain any banned items. “The embassy of India keeps getting information about cases of Indians bringing unsolicited parcels while travelling from India to Qatar which are later … Read more
Tehran: In a diplomatic breakthrough, five of the Indian sailors on board an Israeli-linked vessel seized by Tehran were released on Thursday and have departed from Iran, the Indian embassy in Iran said. The Indian Embassy, while sharing details of their release, thanked the Iranian authorities for their close coordination with the Embassy and Indian … Read more
Photo: Screengrab/X Abu Dhabi: The Indian embassy in the UAE on Friday advised the inbound Indian passengers travelling to or transiting through Dubai International Airport to reschedule non-essential travel till operations normalise after the city witnessed unprecedented rains this week. The United Arab Emirates is trying to recover from the record-setting rains this week which … Read more
LUCKNOW: An employee of Indian embassy in Moscow, arrested in Lucknow on Jan 28, was allegedly honeytrapped and enticed with a sum of Rs 25 lakh to collaborate in a complex web of espionage and international intrigue orchestrated by Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence, investigators said on Tuesday.UP police‘s ATS, which took custody of 27-year-old … Read more
Durg: A woman from Chhattisgarh working in Oman has been accommodated in the Indian embassy shelter in Muscat after she requested repatriation to the country, a government official said on Tuesday. Notably, the husband of Dipika Jogi on Monday claimed in Durg that she was held captive by her employer in Oman. He also claimed … Read more
