NEW DELHI: Global airlines body IATA says India’s “tourist visas issued to nationals of China are no longer valid”. Top government officials said India is still giving business, employment, diplomatic and official visas to Chinese nationals.
India’s decision to keep Chinese tourists out also comes in the wake of Chinese reluctance to allow Indian students, more than 20,000 of them, to return to China after leaving that country because of Covid.
India’s decision to keep Chinese tourists out also comes in the wake of Chinese reluctance to allow Indian students, more than 20,000 of them, to return to China after leaving that country because of Covid.
They have been kept waiting even as Beijing allows students from Thailand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to return. External affairs minister S Jaishankar had taken up the issue with his counterpart Wang Yi during the latter’s visit to India last month but Beijing is yet to respond.
UK and Canada are among the countries whose citizens can’t fly to India on e-tourist visas but can come on regular paper visas issued by Indian missions in…
