Princeton University evacuated its sprawling campus in New Jersey on Tuesday after receiving a bomb threat to multiple buildings, the latest of threats that have disrupted schools, government buildings and air travel across the country the past two days.
"This is NOT a test. There has been a bomb threat to multiple unspecified campus buildings," the university tweeted about 10:30 am.
The threat came a week after Princeton's commencement, and a university spokesman said about 6,900 people were on campus, half of them university staff.
A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Texas from Los Angeles with 143 passengers aboard was forced to land in Phoenix on Monday after a telephoned bomb threat. Early on Tuesday, Richmond International Airport in Virginia was evacuated after a threatening phone call, but a sweep of the airport located no dangers, officials said....
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07:47 AM, Jun 12, 2013
The rush for admissions at the prestigious Delhi University began on Monday. From this year an undergraduate honour degree at Delhi University will take four years to complete rather than three years. The campus is divided over the four-year programme. ...
09:10 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Dr Poonam Sethi, head of the department of Commerce at Delhi University's Hindu College joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the admissions process in DU colleges for Commerce (Hons). Q. Ma'am, what will be the cut-off at Hindu and SRCC? Asked by: Sonal A. The cut offs in Hindu and SRCC are likely to be more than 95 percent. Q. Please tell us about the changes in the structure...
06:28 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan on Monday alleged one of its diplomats and his driver were assaulted by a group of people in New Delhi and called for an investigation into the matter by the Indian government. "This evening an unfortunate incident took place with a diplomat and official of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi in which both were assaulted by a group of people," the Foreign Office spokesman said...
10:37 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Dubai: BITS Pilani has acquired the infrastructure of its Dubai campus from its long term partner ETA LLC Group, ending a 12-year collaboration. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani made the announcement here, adding that all the statutory requirements for acquisition had been met. BITS had set up its only international branch in Dubai in 2000 in collaboration with ETA LLC Group. Under the agreement, the latter provided infrastructural...
04:00 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities on Tuesday. The inmates were selected after they were interviewed by companies at Tihar's Jail No 3. "All the 30 inmates with good character, who would be released in the next six months, were selected by 15 companies after they fulfilled certain criteria laid...
05:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Three Delhi Police personnel, including a constable and two head constables, were beaten up by two drunk men and five men dressed as advocates in two separate incidents in New Delhi, police said on Friday. In the first incident, a 58-year-old head constable was thrashed by five unidentified men dressed as advocates at around 10 am on Thursday at Tis Hazari Court campus. Head Constable Sumer was beaten...
05:10 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: A tantrik raped a woman after giving her some sedatives, police said on Wednesday. The accused was arrested and sent to judicial custody. The tantrik Hira Lal, 54, raped the 23-year-old woman in her house in Delhi's south campus area on Tuesday night on the pretext of freeing her family from being possessed by evil spirits. The accused send the victim's husband outside and raped her while she...
03:05 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The government on Tuesday rejected the demand of some states of extending RTE deadline on meeting infrastructure norms but asked them to act tough on schools which are lagging far behind in implementing them. Amid concerns over schools which have failed to meet the RTE obligations by the March 31, 2013 deadline, HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju said the states have the rights to decide on such schools as well...
04:30 AM, Apr 03, 2013
At least four hunters who had intruded the high-security thickly-forested campus of the National Defence Academy for killing wild animals were apprehended with their dogs on Sunday, an official said. ...
02:29 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology said police have issued an all clear after reports of a man in the university campus carrying a long rifle and body armour went unconfirmed. The university had been put on lockdown for a few hours. ...
10:26 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Saturday was put on lockdown after the university was informed by police that a person with a long rifle and body armor was holed up in the Main Group Building of the campus. The university posted the information on its website. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Shooting broke out between two people on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston on Tuesday and three people were injured, including one of the shooters, police said. ...
02:21 AM, Jan 23, 2013
For more than 300 years, Yale University has prided itself on training top students to question and analyze, to challenge and critique. Now, Yale is seeking to export those values by establishing the first foreign campus to bear its name, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is set to open this summer. The ambitious, multimillion-dollar project thrills many in the Yale community who say it will help the university...
05:43 PM, Dec 29, 2012
New York: Over 100 people have died and about two dozen injured in campus shootings across the US over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 33 lives, including that of two Indians, a study said. The shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Friday was America's second-deadliest campus shooting incident which left 28 dead including 20 children. On...
07:35 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Bangalore: With a challenging environment, and low visibility into client spend, Infosys has said that it will be deferring joining dates, and the management is also putting some cost saving measures in place, reports Shreya Roy of CNBC-TV18. Infy had decided that with its current business needs in mind it will defer its campus recruitment process. The company had initially made 27,000 campus offers, but now the company says that...
11:42 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Chandigarh: Cambridge University on Thursday said it was strengthening partnerships with Indian institutions, but was not looking to establish a campus in the country. "The University is not considering opening up a campus in India," Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewiczh, said. Ruling out a compromise on students intake from India, he said there was no possibility of inking tie-ups with undergraduate institutions in the country. However, projects have been taken up...
10:20 PM, Sep 06, 2012
California: Professional networking website LinkedIn plans to expand its California operation to a new campus in Sunnyvale. The Mountain View-based company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it has reached a deal to lease 580,000 square feet of space in the city. It plans to build a new campus there that could accommodate 2,900 workers. The campus is expected to open in July 2014. LinkedIn spokeswoman Erin O'Harra...
10:34 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Coimbatore: Incidents during the past week at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras) have left me bewildered and worried. Not because a photographer colleague was assaulted on the campus but more so the way the institutes administration is mishandling the development. As someone who loved following the highs and lows in the higher education sector for nearly a decade, I am rather concerned about the drift in the IIT...
02:56 PM, Aug 28, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc unveiled plans for a massive new campus annex in Menlo Park to be debsigned by Frank Gehry, the renowned architect who has won plaudits for metal-sheathed works like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. "I'm excited to work with Frank Gehry to design our new campus. The idea is to make the perfect engineering space: one giant...
12:56 PM, Aug 25, 2012
