Aug 08, 2018 08:01 AM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
News Live: Over 21,000 Indians overstayed visas in US last year, says a report
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EVM technology is foolproof: CEC Rawat
Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat said the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a foolproof technology and has not witnessed any malfunctioning in the past several years.
"The maximum failure rate of EVM is 0.5 per cent," Rawat said, delivering a lecture organised by the Dainik Bhaskar group.
Even this failure rate was because of initial glitches experienced in Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines which were introduced in 2017, he said.
Over 21,000 Indians overstayed visas in US last year: report
In the year 2017, more than 21,000 Indians who were supposed to leave the country at the end of their permissible limits overstayed their visas, as per the latest official report.
While the percentage of Indians overstaying and not leaving the US after the expiry of their visas is not very high compared to some other nations, but in sheer number India ranks among the top 10 countries whose citizens come to the US legally and continue to stay illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security in its latest annual report released today said that in 2017, more than 10.7 lakh Indians visited the United States on the popular B-1, B-2 visas, which is issued to those who come to the US for business, visit or tourism purposes.
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