Tuesday, November 26
In a blow to people planning a trip to Canada, the country's visa will shift from the friendly US model -- long term multiple entry -- to the subjective Schengen system -- any duration, mostly short, which could be single or multiple entry. The Canadian Govt has amended its visa policy: "Guidance has been updated to indicate that multiple-entry visas issued to maximum validity are no longer considered to be the standard document. Officers may exercise their judgement in deciding whether to issue a single or multiple-entry visa, and in determining the validity period."This change, coupled with the prolonged visa processing times in India, has been a significant setback for Indians, especially considering the large diaspora in Canada.Travel Agents Federation of India VP Anil Kalsi told TOI:
In 74 days, Vice President Kamala Harris will leave office, with no concrete plans about what to do next or how to proceed as a private citizen for the first time since she was elected San Francisco's district attorney in 2003. Her friends, aides and political allies have said in the hours since her loss to former President Donald Trump that it is too soon to even contemplate, let alone plan, the next phase of her life, except to say that Harris, 60, will have plenty of options. Like the defeated presidential nominees who came before her, Harris is experiencing incredible political whiplash. On Tuesday morning, she was the leader of the Democratic Party and widely seen as its future. By Thursday, officials were privately saying they expected her to remain engaged but assumed the party woul
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is planning to amend the definition of piped natural gas (PNG) in its regulation, overriding objections from some city gas companies, according to people familiar with the matter.In 2018, the regulator expanded the definition of "piped natural gas" in its city gas licensing regulation to mean "natural gas transported through pipelines or cascades or any other permitted mode". This was done to give confidence to potential licensees that they could use cascades to fulfil their minimum work programme obligations since some licence areas were not well connected to the national gas grid, people said. PNGRB is now planning to remove "cascades or any other permitted mode" from the PNG's definition.Relying on the 2018 amendment, many city gas
