Indian passports News
The Indian government has implemented a colour-coding system for passports, each serving a distinct purpose. (All Photos: Facebook/Pexels/Freepik)
V. Srinivas, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions said the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances has endeavoured to take this message forward by pioneering a number of administrative reforms in e-Governance.
To prevent the misuse of these misplaced passports, all the passports have been declared as ‘lost’ in the passport database.
Absconding diamond merchant Nirav Modi has been traced to Belgium by Indian intelligence agencies and his frequent travels, despite the revocation of his passport, have led the sleuths to unearth that of the six passports he held, two were active for quite some time.
Indian passports would now be printed in both Hindi and English.
A human trafficking racket busted in Delhi has revealed that fake Indian passports were used to traffic Rohingya Muslims.
Hand-written passports of Indian citizens are no longer valid from Wednesday as per government's directive.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation has announced that handwritten passports will be declared invalid on November 24, 2015.
The CBI raided the residence of the Chief Passport Officer in Verna village as part of a probe into the issuance of dual passports to a few individuals in Goa, an official said on Thursday.
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