Himmatnagar: The police have registered a complaint against 2 couples for filing a false affidavit claiming that they had lost their passports. It was found by the Police that in reality, they had given the passports to a travel agent for illegal migration to the United States of America(USA). Nareshbhai Ghanshyambhai Patel, a resident of Rambagh Society in Himmatnagar, lodged a complaint at the division police station. He stated that the passports of six family members had gone missing while...Read More

Mehsana: Over a month after four members of a family from Mehsana district died while trying to cross into the US from Canada, the Mehsana police have lodged an FIR against three agents allegedly involved in the illegal immigration racket, an official said on Thursday. As per the FIR, the three agents allegedly took Rs 60 lakh from the kin of the deceased here and compelled the four victims to take a boat ride to cross the St Lawrence river on the US-Canada border amid turbulent weather, whic...Read More

Bavla: For the first time, Gujarat's famous kesar mangoes will be directly exported to the US, following approval by the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) of the Gujarat agro radiation processing facility in July of last year. Previously, kesar and alphonso mangoes from Gujarat were exported through Maharashtra. The new facility at Bavla near Ahmedabad, developed by Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation Ltd (GAIC), will enable farmers and exp...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former First Lady and Secretary of State of the United States of (US) and philanthropist Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) today as a part of her India visit and interacted with faculty, students, and larger IITGN community. She was joined by senior officials of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). During a town hall at the Institute titled “Insights from Her Journey”, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton emphasised the need to t...Read More

New Delhi: US President Joe Biden has extended an invitation to Prime Minister Modi for a state visit in the summer later this year. According to the news agency PTI, Prime Minister's office has accepted the invitation in principle, and both Indian and US officials are engaged in discussing mutually convenient dates. PM Modi has visited the US several times before, but this will be his first state visit, which includes a state dinner banquet and official public ceremonies that show the highes...Read More

Gandhinagar: State Monitoring Cell has nabbed the accused Bharat Patel from Gandhinagar who allegedly sent the family from Dingucha village in Kalol to Canada. The family members, four in total whom Bharat Patel had sent to Canada, died near the US border due to cold when trying to illegally enter the USA from Canada. The accused Bharat alias Boby Patel (age 47 years) allegedly runs an international network of illegal immigration in countries like the USA and Canada. He was absconding in the ...Read More

New Delhi:  The U.S. Mission in India has issued a record-breaking 82,000 student visas in 2022 to date.  Indian students received more U.S. student visas than any other country. The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and four Consulates in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai prioritized the processing of student visa applications from May to August to ensure that as many qualified students as possible made it to their programs of study in time for scheduled start dates. Charge d’Affaires P...Read More

Mumbai: Mr. Mike Hankey assumed the post of Consul General of the United States in Mumbai on August 07, 2022, succeeding former Consul General David J. Ranz. Immediately prior to coming to Mumbai, Consul General Hankey served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Amman; prior to that he headed the Palestinian Affairs Unit at the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. A career diplomat since 2001, Consul General Hankey’s previous assignments include postings in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen...Read More