Washington: The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the US has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings.
The order, which is effective immediately, came from a senior official at US Customs and Border Protection, David J Murphy. It was circulated Thursday, one day after the Obama administration acknowledged that a student from Kazakhstan accused of hiding evidence for one of the Boston bombing suspects was allowed to return to the US in January without a valid student visa.
The student visa for Azamat Tazhayakov had been terminated when he arrived in New York on January 20. But the border agent in the airport did not have access to the information in the Homeland Security Department's Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, called SEVIS.
Tazhayakov was a friend and classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Tazhayakov left the US in December and returned January 20. But in early January, his student-visa status was terminated because he was academically dismissed from the university....
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10:59 AM, May 04, 2013
London: For the first time in 48 years, London's iconic Big Ben will fall silent on Wednesday as a mark of respect for 'Iron lady' Margaret Thatcher's funeral. The former Conservative Prime Minister died of a stroke in London on Monday aged 87. She will be given a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral. It is the first time that the bells of Big...
01:17 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Chicago: Far-flung family members, co-workers and friends frantically used social media, cellphones and even a "people finder" website on Monday to try to learn the fate of participants and spectators at the Boston Marathon, where two people were killed and dozens injured after a pair of bombs exploded near the finish line of one of the world's great marathons. The search was made more difficult because heavy cellphone use caused...
05:20 AM, Apr 16, 2013
London: Plans to create a mega library-cum-museum and training centre in memory of Margaret Thatcher are being devised in the lead up to the funeral of the former British premier on Wednesday. Supporters of the 'Iron Lady', who died of a stroke aged 87 last week, aim to raise around 15 million pounds in private funds towards the library and museum to celebrate her legacy. The project is being promoted...
07:49 PM, Apr 14, 2013
London: The trial of two Sikh men and a woman accused of attacking 1984 Operation Blue Star hero Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar in London has been adjourned till May 20 as the judge was busy with another case. Mandeep Singh Sandhu, 34, Dilbagh Singh, 36, and Harjit Kaur, 38, will remain in custody until the next court appearance. They have pleaded not guilty to the charge of "unlawful wounding...
08:18 PM, Apr 12, 2013
London: Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper published in Britain. Starting Saturday, it will also be bound to record every British website, e-book, online newsletter and blog in a bid to preserve the nation's "digital memory." As if that's...
12:32 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Known for its history, especially battle of the Mahabharata, Haryana's Kurukshetra district has scored a first in technology among all other districts in the country. Kurukshetra has become the first district to launch the Village Integrated Monitoring Software (VIMS) to bring transparency to development works being undertaken at the village level. ...
02:58 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Almost 100 firefighters battled a blaze earlier on Tuesday that engulfed Newington Library at London's Southwark. 15 fire engines spent hours putting out the fire, while no injuries have been reported so far. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013
When was the last time you visited a library, browsed through the hundreds of titles, and finally borrowed a book that evoked your interest? Online libraries that promise to offer nearly the same experience have caught the readers' fancy and are rekindling a lost love. ...
08:45 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Online libraries that promise to offer nearly the same experience have caught the readers' fancy and are rekindling a lost love. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A reading chair reclines at a comfortable angle. Spectacles lie within arm's reach. Old teak consoles with black marble tops line the room, which is dominated by book-crammed cupboards. Old frescoes of Hindu gods accentuate the sacred emotion of reading and growing with each book. An old hookah and an ebony-and-ivory chess board add to the personal sense of the space. Thakur Amar Singh could have just left his library...
05:45 PM, Mar 07, 2013
National Archives has lived up to the expectations of President Pranab Mukherjee by getting a 200-year-old historical book presented to the then British Viceroy Lord George Curzon in 1904 restored in good condition for Rashtrapati Bhavan library. ...
09:03 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A 38-year-old Sikh woman has been charged in connection with the attack on the 1984 Operation Blue Star hero KS Brar in London in September, 2012, taking to four the number of people accused in the case. ...
11:21 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Celebrated photographer Jagdish Mali, who was reportedly spotted walking in a "disoriented" state in a city suburb recently, has rubbished reports saying he is not suffering from any mental problem and is perfectly fine. Small-time actress Mink Brar, who was a participant in the recently concluded reality show 'Bigg Boss', had reportedly spotted him roaming in semi-nude condition in the suburban Andheri recently. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 23, 2013
One of the three Sikh men charged with attacking Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar in London, pleaded guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to the hero of the 1984 Operation Blue Star, as the accused were on Friday remanded in custody to stand trial from April 2. Barjinder Singh Sangha, 33, pleaded guilty to the charge of "unlawful wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm" at the hearing in...
08:38 AM, Jan 19, 2013
Ailing ace photographer Jagdish Mali, who was seen walking in a semi-nude condition in a city suburb, needs help, actor Salman Khan says. According to sources, Jagdish is diabetic and relies on insulin injections to stay fit. When he forgets his insulin shot, he gets disoriented. ...
02:29 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The news of well known photographer Jagdish Mali being rescued from the streets of Mumbai sent shock waves in the film industry. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Briefing the media at an informal interface in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday, Mukherjee said the library was big enough for "anybody to spend five years reading". ...
06:48 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam suggested that all families should have a small library in their homes with a minimum of 10 books to encourage the reading habit in children. ...
06:30 PM, Jan 14, 2013
More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google. ...
10:53 AM, Dec 19, 2012
