New Delhi, Government must take stern action against those guilty of providing visas to terror suspects David Headley and Tawaffur Rana. While Headley got a five-year visa, Rana managed a one-year visa and his wife a five-year multi-entry visa which provided them easy access to carry out their nefarious activities, and all this happened with the close connivance of Indian diplomats, who are now taking seeking shelter under a 2005 Home Ministry circular which says that no pre-verification checks are mandatory for those of Pakistani origin residing in the US and Canada.

New Delhi : Generosity of the Indian Consulate in Chicago appears to have facilitated the entry into India of Tahawwur Rana, arrested by the FBI in connection with a terror plot against India.

The police arrested the head priest of a Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam(TTD) run temple after he(the priest)disclosed on Friday that he had mortgaged ten pieces of gold and diamond jewelry belonging to the deity to a pawnbroker to raise money to pay back the loans incurred in the marriage of his two daughters.

Chicago: Simmering tensions between members of the Indian American community in Chicago and Indian Consul General Ashok Kumar Attri have come out in the open with prominent community members accusing the diplomat of dividing the community

Shimla (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh Wednesday demanded that Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh resign over the corruption charges filed against him.