Saudi Arabia announces jail-term, fine for violating Umrah regulations
Riyadh : Citizens and expatriates who are found transporting, employing, sheltering or providing cover-up to any overstaying Umrah pilgrim will be imprisoned and fined, Director of Public Relations and Information Administration at the Directorate General of Passports (Jawazat) Brig. Gen. Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saad reiterated on Sunday.
During the launch of the Passport Department’s annual awareness campaign on the Umrah season, Saad said that expatriates violating Umrah regulations will be deported after serving imprisonment and paying fines.
The penalties are multiplied if the number of violators are more than one. The Umrah regulation awareness campaign will continue from Dec. 2, 2018 to June 18, 2019.
It aims to acquaint Umrah pilgrims coming from abroad with the Kingdom’s regulations, which do not allow them to overstay their visas.
The Jawazat has completed its preparations to serve Umrah pilgrims and has readied offices at international entry points.
Well-trained staff have been provided with sophisticated equipment to detect forged documents and fake photos on Umrah pilgrims’ official travel documents, Saad said.
Courtesy : saudigazette.com.sa
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Google releases special doodle for start of voting in Lok Sabha elections
New Delhi: Google has released its special doodle, with an image of a finger with the mark of the indelible ink substituting for the search engine's iconic logo, to mark the commencement of the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections for 2024 on Friday.
When clicked, the symbol of voting, which represents the Indian democratic electoral process, leads the user to the top stories related to Phase 1 of the general elections.
The first phase of the polling process began with voters in Tamil Nadu, which has 39 seats in the Lok Sabha, Uttarakhand (5 seats), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1) using their franchise on Friday.
In addition, voting was held for 12 seats in Rajasthan, eight in Uttar Pradesh, six in Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Assam and Maharashtra, four in Bihar, three in West Bengal, two in Manipur, and one seat each in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh.
