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- India
Tablighi Jamaat case: SC says blacklisting shouldn’t influence future visa applications
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that future visa applications of persons, blacklisted during the 2020 Tablighi Jamaat congregation, held at the capital’s Nizamuddin Markaz, should be considered uninfluenced by the…
- Technology
Visa enters the world of NFTs, to help digital-first creators
Mumbai: Digital payments leader Visa on Wednesday launched a new programme to help creators such as digital-first artists, musicians, fashion designers, and filmmakers accelerate their small businesses through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Called…
- Technology
PayPal enables Ukrainian accounts to send, receive money
San Francisco: Payments company PayPal said that it is expanding its services for Ukrainian accounts and allowing them to send and receive money from friends and family. In a letter to the…
- Business
PayPal shuts down services in Russia
San Francisco: Payments company PayPal has announced that it is suspending its services in Russia in the wake of Ukraine invasion. Ukraine’s vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted a letter from PayPal…
- World
Biden welcomes decision by Visa, Mastercard to suspend services in Russia: White House
Washington: US President Joe Biden, during a conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, welcomed the decisions of Visa and Mastercard to suspend services in Russia, the White House said. Earlier, Zelenskyy said on Twitter…
- India
No visa required for Indian students to exit Romania by special flights: Embassy
Bucharest: The Indian embassy in Romania on Tuesday said that no visa is required for Indian students sheltered here to exit Bucharest by special flights. Taking to Twitter, the embassy has said…
- World
H1B visa registration for FY2023 to begin on March 1: USCIS
Washington: The registration for the much sought-after H1B visa for the fiscal year 2023 will begin from March 1 and the successful applicants will be randomly selected and notified online by March…
- Pakistan
Pakistan issues visa to Sika Khan to visit brother separated 74 years ago
New Delhi: The Pakistan High Commission in India has issued visa to an Indian senior citizen, allowing him to meet his family members in Pakistan, with whom he was separated 74 years…
- Sports
Novak Djokovic denied entry to Australia, has visa canceled
Brisbane: Novak Djokovic’s chance to play for a 10th Australian Open title was thrown into limbo Thursday when the country denied him entry and canceled his visa because he failed to meet the…
- World
Amid COVID-19 concerns, US expands interview waivers for H1B, L1 visas
Washington: Amid growing concerns of COVID-19 surge, the US on Thursday (local time) is temporarily dropping an in-person interview requirement for some work-visa categories – H-1B, L-1 and O-1. The State Department…
- Technology
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK
London: Due to high credit card transaction fees, tech giant Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK from 19th January. According to the BBC, it said the move was…
- Technology
Visa launches India’s 1st card ‘token’ service for online platforms
New Delhi: Digital payments firm Visa on Wednesday launched Card-on-File (CoF) tokenization services in India in line with the recently issued guidelines by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to secure customers’…
- Technology
Apple Pay, Visa vulnerabilities leave iPhone users open to payment fraud
London: Vulnerabilities in Apple Pay and Visa could enable hackers to bypass an iPhone’s Apple Pay lock screen and perform contactless payments, according to a new research. The researchers, from the University of…
- India
Pakistan, India issue diplomatic visas to each other after 28-month gap
New Delhi: Islamabad and New Delhi have issued assignment visas to each other’s diplomats after a gap of around 28 months as both sides are seeking to nomalise ties that have been on…
- Middle East
UAE temporarily suspends visa-on-arrival service for Indian passengers
Abu Dhabi: The UAE authorities have decided to temporarily suspend the visa-on-arrival facility for passengers who are arriving from or been in India in the past 14 days Etihad Airways said on…
