Around 700 Indian students are stranded in Sumy amid intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops and India has been urging both sides to create a "humanitarian corridor" for their safe evacuation.
Accordingly, Air India will operate three flights between Delhi and Kyiv on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The flights to the Boryspil International Airport from India will be operated on February 22, 24 and 26.
Responding to an unstarred question of whether the government is considering a caste-based Census, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said, "Government of India has not enumerated caste wise population other than SCs and STs in Census since independence".
The citizenship certificates were given in the presence of BJP Member of Parliament Shankar Lalwani, former MLA Jitu Jirati and Collector Manish Singh.
The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship.
Seven migrants from Pakistan, including three couples, who have been living in Rajasthan, were on Friday granted Indian citizenship by Jaipur's District Collector Antar Singh Nehra in his office.
Sixty four people belonging to the Sindhi community of Pakistan and residing in Indore have finally received Indian citizenship certificates.
Few Sikh families who migrated from Afghanistan to India demand citizenship. Most of the families claim that they came to India in 1990s and since then they have to keep renewing their visas to stay in India.
Indian Navy Ship (INS) Airavat left Port of Male in Maldives for Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu) after embarkation of 198 Indian citizens.
INS Jalashwa has arrived in Maldives's Male on June 04. It will evacuate around 700 Indian Citizens on June 05 under Operation Samudra Setu and bring them back to Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin.
INS Jalashwa arrived in Male, Maldives for embarkation of Indian citizens on May 14.
Indians queued at Muscat International Airport to board the 2nd repatriation flight IX 350 to Chennai on May 12.
INS Jalashwa on Sunday brought back 698 repatriated Indian nationals from Maldives who had stuck due to lockdown. All stranded Indian nationals arrived at Cochin Port today.
India citizens reached airport in Bangladesh's Dhaka on May 9 to come back home. 'Vande Bharat Mission' evacuation operation has been launched to bring back stranded Indians from across the world.
India citizens arrived at airport in London on May 9 to come back home. Air India's first evacuation flight from London will be taking off for Mumbai today.
Another batch of 275 Indian citizens brought in from Iran has reached Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Mar 28.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy on February 15 said that there is not even a single word in Citizenship (Amendment) Act against Indian citizens and if there is anything against any countrymen then Government of India is ready
In response to a question seeking to know the time by which the government proposes to allow Indian delegates to visit Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy told the Lok Sabha that there are no restrictions on any Indian citizen to visit the Union Territory.
Half of Bangladesh's population will leave that country if Indian citizenship was promised to them, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Sunday.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said during the past six years 2,838 persons from Pakistan, 914 persons from Afghanistan and 172 persons from Bangladesh have been conferred Indian citizenship.
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