{"id":12130,"date":"2016-06-02T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:41:26","slug":"salma-agha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/salma-agha\/","title":{"rendered":"Salma Agha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Name the Pakistan-born singer and actress who recently got an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that will offer her multiple entries, multi-purpose life-long visa to visit India?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Salma Khan<br \/>\n(b) Salma Agha<br \/>\n(c) Jiya Khan<br \/>\n(d) Salman Qureshi<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.(b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 30 May 2016 Pakistan-born Bollywood singer and actress Salma Agha got an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that will offer her multiple entries, multi-purpose life-long visa to visit India and exemption from reporting to police.<\/li>\n<li>In her application Agha is said to have referred to her Indian roots in her maternal grandfather Jugal Kishore Mehra.<\/li>\n<li>Mehra was a noted actor and his wife and Salma&#8217;s grandmother, Anwari Begum, was a star singer in the 1930s and 1940s.<\/li>\n<li>It should be known that any person who is a child or a grand-child of citizen of another country, but was a citizen of India at the time of, or at any time after, the commencement of the Constitution (29 Jan 1950) or citizen of another country, but was eligible to become a citizen of India at the time of the commencement of the Constitution is eligible to get Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.<\/li>\n<li>Her first film was the \u201cNikaah\u201d for which she won the Filmfare Best Female Playback award in 1982 for her rendition &#8216;Dil ke armaan aansuon me beh gaye&#8217; in &#8216;Nikaah\u2019 from three nominations and was also nominated in the Best Actress category.<\/li>\n<li>It may be recalled that the Government of India in January 2016 granted citizenship of India to the Pakistan-born singer Adnan Sami.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/pakistanborn-singer-salma-agha-gets-oci-card\/article8668697.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/pakistanborn-singer-salma-agha-gets-oci-card\/article8668697.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mea.gov.in\/overseas-citizenship-of-india-scheme.htm#\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mea.gov.in\/overseas-citizenship-of-india-scheme.htm#<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/pakistani-singer-salma-agha-to-get-overseas-citizen-of-india-card-1413679http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/entertainment\/hindi\/bollywood\/news\/Salma-Agha-to-get-Overseas-Citizen-of-India-card\/articleshow\/52507089.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/pakistani-singer-salma-agha-to-get-overseas-citizen-of-india-card-1413679http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/entertainment\/hindi\/bollywood\/news\/Salma-Agha-to-get-Overseas-Citizen-of-India-card\/articleshow\/52507089.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the Pakistan-born singer and actress who recently got an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that will offer her multiple entries, multi-purpose life-long visa to visit India? (a) Salma Khan (b) Salma Agha (c) Jiya Khan (d) Salman Qureshi Ans.(b) Related facts: On 30 May 2016 Pakistan-born Bollywood singer and actress Salma Agha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}