Separate passport for minorsNEW DELHI: Minors will henceforth need separate passports and will not be able to have their names endorsed on their parents' passport, the Ministry of External Affairs announced here on Saturday.A press release issued by the Ministry did not say when the old practice would be discontinued, but said the fee for issuing a passport to a minor would be Rs 200 and that minors would also be granted an `Emigration Clearance Not Required' endorsement if their parents' were similarly cleared.The order to issue separate passports has been introduced after most foreign missions recently decided to issue visas to minors only if they are in possession of separate passports, the release said.CPI men murderedVIJAYWADA: Two Communist Party of India activists were axed to death allegedly by a group of 15 Telugu Desam supporters at Challapalli town in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. According to police, factional enmity was reported to be the cause ofthe attack.Pak bunker destroyedSRINAGAR: Indian troops destroyed a Pakistani bunker, wounding three soldiers in retaliatory action in Kargil sector of Frontier region of Ladakh on Thursday, a Defence Ministry spokesman said. He said Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at forward Indian positions in Kargil sector.Cow commissionVARANASI: A cow service commission to protect the animal by stopping its slaughter is on the anvil in Uttar Pradesh. State Chief Minister Kalyan Singh told a seminar here that a final decision in this regard would be taken at the Cabinet meeting on November 4.
