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India raised the killing of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a hate attack in Kansas with US authorities in “very strong terms”, a top official said on Thursday, adding that the security of Indians and persons of Indian origin is a matter of serious concern for the Indian government. On a day the issue featured in a major way in Parliament and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh assured the Lok Sabha that the government is taking the issue very seriously, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said in a briefing that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was conveyed by US officials during his talks in Washington that the attack on Kuchibhotla and another Indian in the February 22 incident was an “individual case”. Baglay said that the Indian Consulate reached out to the fa...

PM Modi government on Sunday extended the deadline for applying for conversion of Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) card to Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards till June 30. “We have extended the deadline for PIO card conversions to OCI from 31 December 2016, until June 30, 2017 without any penalty,” PM Modi said at the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Bengaluru. “The Indian government is working to put in place procedures for making descendants of the indentured labour living in Fiji and other countries eligible for OCI cards. Starting with Mauritius, we are working to put in place procedures so that descendants of Girmitiyas could become eligible for OCI Cards. We remain committed to addressing similar difficulties of PIOs in Fiji, Reunion Islands, Suriname, Guyana and oth...

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Security of Indian citizens matter of serious concern for government: MEA

PM Modi extends deadline to convert PIO cards to OCI cards