Job creation a priority for Brazilian president
August 11th, 2012 - 1:30 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 11 (IANS) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to put job creation as a priority for her government, especially ensuring jobs for the underprivileged.Rousseff Friday made ... Read more...
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Passport offices to work on weekend
June 28th, 2012 - 11:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) With the surging demand for passports and glitches in online applications, the external affairs ministry Thursday announced that passport offices will remain open this weekend ... Read more...
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Weekend passport melas in 7 cities (Lead)
June 22nd, 2012 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Amid reports of delays in online applications for passports and the growing logjam, the external affairs ministry Friday announced that passport offices in seven cities ... Read more...
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Passport offices to remain open this weekend
June 22nd, 2012 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Amid reports of delays in online applications of passports and the growing logjam, the external affairs ministry Friday announced that passport offices in Delhi, Ghaziabad, ... Read more...
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‘External affairs ministry’s budget, staff insufficient’
May 8th, 2012 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) A parliamentary panel has expressed its concern at "serious under-resourcing" of the ministry of external affairs (MEA), saying its staff and budget were not commensurate ... Read more...
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Passport Seva Kendra opens in Guwahati
April 17th, 2012 - 8:08 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 17 (IANS) A passport service centre opened in the city Tuesday to handle the growing number of applications from the northeastern region.The Passport Seva Kendra, set up by ... Read more...
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Indian missions in US outsource passport services
April 6th, 2012 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 6 (IANS) The Indian embassy and its consulates in other parts of the country have, like many missions in other parts of the world, outsourced passport related services.Outsourcing ... Read more...
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Krishna opens new ITO passport office in Delhi
February 23rd, 2012 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Thursday inaugurated the new passport office here, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for processing nearly a thousand applications per day.The sprawling ... Read more...
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Don’t worry, passport office at ITO by mid-January
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) With the shutdown of the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in south Delhi creating anxiety among residents here, the RPO Friday assured that a new centre ... Read more...
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Krishna calls for fast-tracking passport delivery
November 29th, 2011 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Amid unending complaints about delays in issuing passports, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday urged officers develop a "good working relationship" with police so as ... Read more...
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U.S. Ambassador Ford pulled from Syria due to threats
October 24th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The U.S. government has decided to pull Ambassador Robert Ford from Syria as a result of 'credible threats' made against him, officials said on Monday morning.Ford, who ... Read more...
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Appointments for passport services in Karnataka hastened
September 14th, 2011 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 14 (IANS) Appointments for availing passport services in Karnataka will be given within 30 hours from next week with a view to reducing delays and clearing the mounting ... Read more...
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Air tickets, passports for Indian students in Kyrgyzstan (Lead)
June 16th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) The Indian government has offered one-way ticket and passport services to Indian students wishing to come back home from strife-torn Kyrgyzstan, an external affairs ministry official said ... Read more...
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S M Krishna opens passport service centres
May 28th, 2010 - 7:52 pm ICT by ANI
Bangalore, May 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said on Friday that the inauguration of passport seva centres marks the culmination of a long and arduous process of changing a ... Read more...
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Krishna launches Passport Seva Project in Bangalore (Lead)
May 28th, 2010 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 28 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday formally launched the Passport Seva Project, an ambitious e-governance programme that aims to drastically reduce the time taken to obtain a passport.
"Today's ... Read more...
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Krishna launches Passport Seva Project
May 28th, 2010 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 28 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday launched the Passport Seva Project which aims for a complete makeover of passport services in the country.
"Today marks a red letter day ... Read more...
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E-passport to revolutionise passport services in the country
May 27th, 2010 - 8:12 pm ICT by ANI
By Sandhya SharmaNew Delhi, May 27 (ANI): Passport services in the country are going in for a revolution, with the government ensuring that it should not remain a cumbersome exercise for public ... Read more...
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Passport office staff demonstrate against outsourcing
March 2nd, 2010 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Employees of passport offices across the country Tuesday demonstrated for an hour during the lunch break, protesting against the government's move to involve a private firm ... Read more...
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‘Passport Seva’ project delayed - Friday the 13th jinx?
November 12th, 2009 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
By Devirupa Mitra
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Indian government's ambitious 'Passport Seva' project, which seeks to give out passports in three days, has missed another deadline -- Friday, the 13th ... Read more...
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TCS to open 6 passport offices in October
September 4th, 2009 - 9:14 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): Six offices across India in October to provide passport services will be opened by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).In the first phase of this 100 billion ... Read more...
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TCS to open 6 passport offices in October
September 4th, 2009 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Sep 4 (IANS) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will open six offices across India in October to provide passport services, a company official has said. The much-delayed Passport Seva Project is expected ... Read more...
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Indian mission outsources consular services in Singapore
February 5th, 2009 - 9:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) In a move that will ease processing of travel and visa documents for inbound tourists from Singapore and boost tourism and trade ties between both the countries, ... Read more...
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Tata Consultancy, government pact on new passport service (Second Lead)
October 13th, 2008 - 8:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) A new passport in three days - that's the dream being peddled by the external affairs ministry and software giant Tata Consultancy Services as they Monday announced ... Read more...
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Tata Consultancy, government sign passport services pact (Lead)
October 13th, 2008 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Monday signed a contract with the government to start the Passport Seva project, a public-private initiative to improve passport services in ... Read more...
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Tata Consultancy, government sign passport services pact
October 13th, 2008 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Monday signed a contract with the government to start the Passport Seva project, a public-private initiative to improve passport services in ... Read more...
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Tata Consultancy, government to sign passport project deal Monday
October 10th, 2008 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will Monday sign a contract for starting the Passport Seva project, a public-private initiative to improve passport services in India.The formal ... Read more...
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Pilot passport project to be launched in two cities
August 17th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
By Devirupa Mitra
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will launch a pilot project for the ambitious Passport Seva Project - a public-private initiative to improve passport services ... Read more...
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U.S. passport office workers snoop into the files of the famous
July 4th, 2008 - 10:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 4 (ANI): An internal State Department investigation has found that employees have accessed the passport information files of dozens of well-known Americans an "excessive" number of times and that ... Read more...
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Indian missions in UAE outsource passport, visa services
April 6th, 2008 - 8:46 pm ICT by admin
Dubai, April 6 (IANS) The Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi and the consulate in Dubai have become the first Indian missions in the Gulf to outsource the process of collecting passport and ... Read more...
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