Ministry
of Home Affairs renames Visa on Arrival scheme to e-Tourist visa
Union
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has renamed Tourist Visa on Arrival-Electronic
Travel Authorization scheme (TVoA-ETA) to e-Tourist Visa with effect from 15 April
2015. With this ambiguities faced by foreign tourists especially by scheme’s
nomenclature VoA, presuming that they would be granted visa on arrival upon
landing will be removed. MHA move comes after some of Indian embassies had
requested to change the nomenclature of the scheme. A committee of officers
from the External Affairs Ministry, MHA and Bureau of Immigration also had
suggested renaming the scheme. Foreign tourists were confused with Visa on
Arrival (VoA) scheme as other countries allowed tourist to land and then get
visa.
FM
transmission of Vividh Bharati launched
The
popular ‘Vividh Bharati’ services of All India Radio (AIR) will now be
available to listeners in and around Delhi on mobile handsets with the launch
of FM transmission of the channel. Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun
Jaitley, who launched the FM transmission, also delivered a message to the
listeners of the channel, saying Vividh Bharati services would reach people
within a range of 60-65 km with much clarity at all times in all weather
conditions. Vividh Bharati offers a mix of film music, skits, short plays and
interactive programmes. It is known to have the largest collection of film and
non-film songs in the country. Mobile applications of all channels that are
livestreamed by AIR like Vividh Bharati, FM Gold, FM Rainbow, Urdu service and
several regional channels, will also be made available.
Retail
inflation drops to 3-month low of 5.17% in March
Easing
of food prices, mainly milk and vegetables, pulled down the March retail
inflation to 3-month low of 5.17 per cent. The retail inflation as measured by
Consumer Price Index was 5.37 per cent in February, and 5.19 per cent in
January. It was 8.25 per cent in March last year. To calculate the CPI, price
data are collected from selected towns by the field operations division of NSSO
and from selected villages by the Department of Posts.
BSF
launches nationwide tele-medicine programme for troops
Border
Security Force (BSF) launched nationwide satellite-based tele-medicine
programme for its troops. The programme will address medical and health-related
problems of its troops deployed in far-flung frontier areas and difficult
regions in the hinterland in case of an emergency or illness. It will be
operated and hosted from the BSF’s Kadamtala-based composite hospital in
Siliguri, West Bengal. The full-time team of doctors at hospital will be
connected with BSF posts along the Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangla frontiers. The
hospital has been equipped with required technology including satellite phones
and the VSAT platform to host the programme. BSF’s anti-Naxal operations units
in Chhattisgarh and Odisha will also be linked with the same facility.
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