The CBSE declared the Class X results on Thursday. This is the first set of results since the optional board rule came into effect. From this year onwards, grades will replace marks. ...
11:58 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Class X results on Thursday. This is the first set of results since the optional board rule came into effect. From this year onwards, grades will replace marks. While schools can get the entire results by giving their school code and email-id by registering in www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in, Students can call 24300699 (for Delhi subscribers) or 011 24300699...
10:39 AM, May 30, 2013
Melbourne: Australian prosecutors on Monday demanded life sentence for a 21-year-old man, who has pleaded guilty of raping and killing Indian student Tosha Thakkar in 2011 before stuffing her in a suitcase and dumping it in a canal. The Sydney based Supreme Court on Monday heard that accused, Daniel Stani-Reginald, who lived next door had been planning his "cold and calculated" crime well before he raped the 24-year-old Thakkar. Daniel...
05:59 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Providence: A body pulled from waters off a Providence park was that of a 22-year-old Brown University student missing since last month, the Rhode Island medical examiner's office said on Thursday. Sunil Tripathi was identified through a forensic dental exam, but a cause of death has not been determined, said Dara Chadwick, a spokeswoman for the state health department. Tripathi's family, of Bryn Mawr, Pa, said it was overcome with...
09:59 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Boston: Police in Rhode Island pulled a man's body from the Providence River and authorities said it is "very possible" it is that of Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who has been missing since mid-March. The body was recovered on Tuesday night behind the Wyndham Garden Providence Hotel at around 6 pm. The coach of Brown's rowing team, which practices in that area, saw the body floating in the water and...
06:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marathon terror attack. The social media and part of the mainstream media was abuzz with rumors that 22-year-old Sunil, who went missing on March 16 and they have still not been able to find him, was the "possible suspect" in...
11:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
London: A 25-year-old Indian student has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a British court for raping a TV star in her hotel room after a birthday party. Soby John, a porter, used another worker's key card to let himself in before attacking the woman celebrity as she slept after a night of heavy drinking with her friends. John, who admitted rape, will be deported to India after...
06:06 PM, Apr 17, 2013
The FBI has joined a search for 22-year-old Indian-American Sunil Tripathi, an undergraduate Brown University student who went missing on March 16. The police of Providence, Rhode Island, has launched a massive search operation to find Tripathi, while his friends have not only been doing their own search, putting up posters across the city, but also have launched a Facebook page to find him. ...
12:00 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Out to woo Indian businesses and students, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced his country would introduce same-day visa services for investors and said there would be no limit on the number of students from here studying there. ...
06:03 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The family of Indian student Souvik Pal, whose body was found in a canal near Manchester United Club's football ground in London on January 24, asked the government to prevail on Britain to expedite handing over their son's body and bear the cost of flying it back to India. ...
12:21 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The body of missing Indian student Souvik Pal has been found in a canal in Old Trafford in UK. 19-year old Souvik went missing on New Year's Eve and a search was on ever since. The cause of his death is yet to be determined as a post-mortem will be conducted later. ...
08:35 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Britain's stringent norms in student visa has resulted in decline of number of Indian students in higher education by nearly a quarter last year. Students from India coming to study at UK schools and universities fell by 23.5 per cent overall, including a 28 per cent drop at postgraduate level. ...
06:25 PM, Jan 12, 2013
A 19-year-old Indian student in Britain has been missing since New Year's Eve, prompting his father to issue an impassioned appeal to trace his son. ...
07:26 AM, Jan 09, 2013
A 24-year Indian student in Bonn was brutally attacked by Islamic extremists who slashed his tongue when he refused to convert, German police said on Thursday. ...
01:48 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Mumbai: Indian students have been consistently performing well in the various science Olympiads. CNN-IBN met the champions of the Astronomy Olympiad. Mounting a telescope is a child's play for the 18-year-olds who made India proud at the Astronomy Olympiad held in Rio De Janeiro in 2012. For 14 years in a row, India has always been in the top two at the Olympiad. Aniket Sule, Reader, Homi Bhabha Center of...
10:55 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Melbourne: A 21-year-old Australian man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a young Indian woman whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase in a Sydney canal in 2011. The body of Tosha Thakkar, 24, was found in the suitcase floating in a canal near the Parramatta River at Meadowbank in March 2011. Police say she had been raped and then strangled, a crime which drew a shocked and...
10:50 AM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Germany, a hub of quality scientific research and innovation, is keen to attract the brightest Indian minds for further studies and research and has as an incentive made it easier for students to stay over and work, the country's envoy has said. Another incentive for students is that German universities don't charge any fees. "In Germany you don't pay to study in the universities," Michael Steiner, Germany's envoy...
01:24 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Melbourne/New Delhi: Australia has decided to close down three vocational colleges for non-compliance of training standards, a move that will impact more than 500 Indian students enrolled in these institutes. However, Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese on Wednesday assured that Indian students affected by college closures will be protected. He was commenting on the move by Australia's vocational education regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), to shut...
10:03 PM, Oct 03, 2012
London: Britain on Thursday announced a new fund of two million pounds to help Indian and other non-EU students caught by the revocation of London Metropolitan University's licence to admit and teach international students. LMU's licence was revoked on August 29, throwing the academic future of over 350 Indian and over 2,250 other non-EU current students in disarray. After the licence revocation, they are required to apply for similar courses...
05:35 PM, Sep 13, 2012
London: Thousands of Indian and other non-EU students are facing an uncertain situation due to the possibility of a major university here losing its licence to admit overseas students as part of a crackdown on student visa abuse. The London Metropolitan University, which has offices in New Delhi and Chennai, is one of the major destinations for Indian students coming to the UK. The university's licence to admit non-EU was...
10:28 AM, Aug 29, 2012
