Bengaluru: The city Central Crime Branch Police (CCB) has conducted raids and inspection at the residences of foreign nationals residing in the city illegally, despite their visas having expired.
Raids were held at Bengaluru’s Banaswadi, Subbaiahnapalya, Shivaji Nagar and Ramamurthy Nagar acting on a tip-off about some foreign nationals residing despite their passports and visas getting expired.
Visas and passports of various foreign nationals, including those from Africa, who are staying illegally, have been confiscated, informed the police.
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According to the CCB, some foreigners arriving in the city on student and business visas are staying illegally without returning to their countries and are involved in drug trafficking and other criminal activities.
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Bangkok (PTI): Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu squandered a one-game advantage to go down fighting to top seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open tournament here on Friday.
Sindhu lost 21-19, 18-21, 15-21 to world number three Yamaguchi in the women's singles quarterfinal match that lasted just over one hour in the USD 500,000 Super 500 tournament.
The two-time Olympic medallist and sixth seed Sindhu had reached the quarterfinals after beating Denmark's Amalie Schulz 21-13, 21-15 on Thursday.
Lakshya Sen, the 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, and the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will feature in the men's singles and men's doubles quarterfinals respectively later in the day.
