New Delhi: Indian students who wish to work after their studies in the UK will now need to apply for a job with a licensed Tire 2 sponsor, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Human resource Development D Purandeswari said the Post-Study Work visa, which earlier allowed students to work in the UK for two years after they completed their...
12:17 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The last rites of 22-year-old K Sheshadri Rao, who was found murdered in Boston last week, took place on Wednesday in Bhubaneswar. Sheshadri's body arrived late on Tuesday night. Sheshadri's family claimed that he was attacked by a gang of youngsters a week before the murder and fear the same gang was responsible for his death. The inconsolable parents also claimed that police ignored earlier warnings and held...
11:08 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Boston Police investigating the murder of Indian student K Seshadri Rao at Allston neighbourhood of Boston University on Sunday said it had good leads in the case. 24-year-old K Seshadri Rao, who hailed from Odisha, was reportedly shot in the leg and head on April 19. Rao's killing was allegedly Boston's fourth slaying in the past one week and police officials said some of the killings may...
08:56 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: In a grim incident in the US, an Indian student of the Boston University was allegedly shot dead by unknown assailants in the Allston neighbourhood, which is a mile from the campus. The student, K Sheshadri Rao, hailed from Odisha. He was pursuing MBA at the university. The victim's father, K Sudhakar Rao said that Sheshadri was "dragged out" of his room allegedly by fellow students on Thursday...
07:06 AM, Apr 21, 2012
London: The United Kingdom may reconsider the cancellation of post-study visas for Indian students. It has just been a fortnight since the UK cancelled post-study visas. Senior British ministers are reported to have given out an assurance that they will consider post-study work for Indian students. The post-study work route, which was closed from April 6 is most likely to be made more flexible for Indian students. There was sharp...
04:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Bangalore: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said he would seek details of the British Government's decision to close from Friday a facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses were over as part of drive to cut migration. "I am seeing media reports. I have asked the High Commissioner to brief me on this",Krishna told reporters in Bangalore. Under the Tier 1...
05:51 PM, Apr 06, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron governments drive to cut migration, which may put-off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years here after the completion...
07:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Melbourne: An Indian student was sentenced to 14 months in jail for his involvement in a bribery scam under which the English test scores used for granting Australian permanent residency and visas were falsified. A local court in Perth on Monday sentenced Rajesh Kumar, who had pleaded guilty to 10 counts of bribery between November 2009 and June 2010. The court heard that Kumar became an intermediary in the scam...
10:51 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: Over 80 per cent of students in schools across the country are humiliated by teachers who tell them that they are not capable of learning, a study conducted by national child rights body has said. Even the "cruel practice" of giving electric shocks finds a mention in the yet-to-be released study on the practice of corporal punishment brought out by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...
10:44 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Dubai: Students of an Indian school in Bahrain will soon get the world's cheapest tablet computer 'Aakash', developed by India's Human Resources Development Ministry. Class 12 students of the Indian School Bahrain will get a tablet each soon, executive committee chairman of the school Abraham John has said. He said that about 600 Aakash laptops will be made available to the students. "Students will be able to enhance their knowledge,...
01:18 PM, Feb 21, 2012
London: Yet another Indian student has come under attack in Britain. Praveen Reddy, from Hyderabad, was a student of MBA at the London Business School. On Friday night, he was stabbed several times at a party he was attending in Newham, London, the Scotland Yard said. The boy is currently recuperating at the London Royal Hospital. Praveen suffered severe abdomen and chest injuries and is currently said to be in...
07:37 AM, Feb 12, 2012
As questions of safety arise for Indians, the British High Commissioner said that UK is a safe country. ...
09:31 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: An Indian student, Pravin Reddy, doing an MBA at the London Business School was stabbed on Friday in the London borough of Newham Scotland Yard on Saturday said. Eleven people have been arrested following the stabbing of the Indian student who was not named by the Scotland Yard. Pravin was admitted to the London Royal hospital with deep neck, abdomen & chest injuries. The family has been informed Pravin...
05:13 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Tezpur: Over 16 million children are not attending schools in the country and the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said. "Globalisation has led to much improvement in the field of education and the country is ready to compete with the rest of the world, but we cannot ignore the many children who are...
08:56 PM, Feb 10, 2012
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