The United States has revoked 85,000 visas across multiple categories this year, a senior State Department official said, describing the action as part of an intensified effort to protect American communities and enforce public-safety standards.

The mobile phone of a Chinese man who has been detained in Srinagar for violating visa norms and visiting strategic and sensitive areas in Ladakh and Kashmir without permission has been sent for forensic analysis.

It was not clear if he would stay in his rent-stabilised apartment in the borough of Queens. 

​It was not clear if he would stay in his rent-stabilised apartment in the borough of Queens.